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| Lorde – Tennis Court Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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No one seems to have argued this yet, so I'll give it a crack. The line,
"It's a new art form showing people how little we care, yeah"
is a comment on hipsterism, whose dominant characteristic is ironic criticism.
Others have described it better than I have, so I'll let them do the speaking:
Rob Horning's April 2009 article "The Death of the Hipster" in PopMatters, he states that the hipster might be the "embodiment of postmodernism as a spent force, revealing what happens when pastiche and irony exhaust themselves as aesthetics." In a New York Times editorial, Mark Grief states that the much-cited difficulty in analyzing the term stems from the fact that any attempt to do so provokes universal anxiety, since it "calls everyone's bluff". |
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| Lorde – Royals Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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Interesting theory. With an average house price around NZ$800-1 million, Devonport (the suburb Lorde was raised in) is a particularly sought after and pricey piece of Auckland real estate (while noting that New Zealand isn't exactly the luxury depicted in many modern music videos). So, I still don't know why she's not proud of her neighbourhood, but it sure isn't because it's a ghetto.
Source on the house prices: http://www.wheretoliveinauckland.co.nz/Flash/WTL_book_4pg.html |
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| Lorde – Tennis Court Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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I agree. In my experience, country clubs don't exist as a concept in little ol' New Zealand (not a criticism - I'm a Kiwi myself). It's more likely to refer to either the generic "place teenagers can get away from adults", but I prefer MarisaKregel's explanation of the revolutionary French Tennis Court Oath: extensive meaningful debate leading to something tangible. I gather she's reasonably well read, so that's not as implausible as it might sound for an interpretation.
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| Lorde – Tennis Court Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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Great insight. I now know more about the 'Serment du jeu de paume' than I'm sure I'll ever need to know! |
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| Joanna Newsom – Emily Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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And Annelise: I don't think I've ever quite read so many supportive/positive comments on the interweb. Thank you; it makes for enjoyable reading! |
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| Joanna Newsom – Emily Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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Simply amazing. As a Kiwi currently living in Germany I find the distance theme, with her sister a sometime resident of New Zealand, curiously familiar. I first heard this on a student radio station back in NZ, and it perpetually reminds me of home. |
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