| Lorde – Tennis Court Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| It's about putting on faces to act like they fit in with the lifestyle of people that go to country clubs and play tennis (typical WASPy rich people), but in actuality, they're masking their emotions with joyful faces - "we're so happy, even when we're smiling out of fear" in order to promote the idea that their day-to-day is something to be admired and desired, i.e., pretending to be have direction and purpose in their ritzy lives, but in reality, they have no idea what the fuck they're doing. | |
| Lorde – Royals Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Weird to think that she had barely any plays before Royals went big. I think this song is about trying to fit in with the 'glamorous' lifestyle, but knowing that it's all a sham, that everything is a veneer, and all of the trappings of that life are something she doesn't want to attain, and she's sometimes insecure about living her life at the wrong address, but she's proud of her roots. |
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| The Postal Service – Nothing Better Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Well. Replying nearly 9 years later... This feels odd, as though I've stepped into a time machine or something. It makes me think exactly what you said. The girl is trying to state that she sees beyond all of the rose, puffy-paint, lovey-doveyness of the relationship. She sees beyond the beauty and attraction and chemistry and is telling him that being with him means she can't overlook all of the times that she's felt like leaving him. That his memory of her is comprised of gaps... and those gaps are all of the times that their relationship went wrong. I think neither of them are wrong or anything in any way. It's a song to illustrate the sheer beauty of interpreting love in different ways. What is a functional, deep, soulmate-like love for one human being is torture and confinement to another. This is my second favorite The Postal Service song. Possibly it may become my first.. We'll see. Obligatory note to illustrate that this is my favorite "band" int he universe. Something about The Postal Service makes me feel alright. The music makes me feel okay for having feelings. Okay for feeling awkward. Their music is so unbelievably fragile and delicate that it's breathtaking. And with that digression, I must remind whoever is reading this that the parent comment and my comment are 9 YEARS APART. WHOOOA. |
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