I am pretty sure that this song contains a reference to the WHY? song "By Torpedo or Crohn's." The WHY? lyric is
"only those evil live to see
their own likeness in stone
my brother said that" (Yoni Wolf referring to his brother Jonathan I guess)
It sounds far-fetched for Lorde to paraphrase WHY? but she did name-drop a Broken Social Scene song on "Ribs" so anything is possible. Girl knows her shit, and as soon as I heard this song I caught the reference. My interpretation is that she's seriously thinking about that quote and what it means to watch oneself get famous-- no literal statues yet, but you get the idea.
I am pretty sure that this song contains a reference to the WHY? song "By Torpedo or Crohn's." The WHY? lyric is
"only those evil live to see their own likeness in stone my brother said that" (Yoni Wolf referring to his brother Jonathan I guess)
It sounds far-fetched for Lorde to paraphrase WHY? but she did name-drop a Broken Social Scene song on "Ribs" so anything is possible. Girl knows her shit, and as soon as I heard this song I caught the reference. My interpretation is that she's seriously thinking about that quote and what it means to watch oneself get famous-- no literal statues yet, but you get the idea.