| Lorde – Tennis Court Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Wow. Thanks for the correction. I should've known I couldn't trust the newbie history teacher I have. | |
| Lorde – Tennis Court Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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@marisakregel. I think you're absolutely right about this song relating to the French Revolution and the Tennis Court meeting. I think in this song, Lorde plays the role of Marie Antoinette, who didn't really care about the lower class. When the lower classes revolted, she casually said "let them eat cake." Anyway, back to the song, "Baby, be the class clown, I'll be the beauty queen in tears It's a new art form showing people how little we care, yeah We're so happy even when we're smiling out of fear Let's go down to the tennis court and talk it up like, yeah, yeah" The class clown is the underage King Louis who didn't know what he was doing, resulting in him being a bit of a joke. Marie Antoinette was having a great time in her palace, not caring about anything at all. She was foreign and was only married to ally two countries, so why would she care about France? "Everything's cool when we're all in line for the throne But I know it's not forever, yeah" SPOILER ALERT: The royal family was guillotined, starting the Reign of Terror, so being on throne is "not forever." (Btw, I learned this stuff at school only a few weeks ago. If only I heard this song before the test.) |
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