I have never planned to blog about a song or movie, so I feel like I'm making an exception. I write about this because everyone in my house loves this song. And as songs sometimes do, I think her music breaks through the generation barrier.
It's hard not to thoroughly enjoy Lorde's music. At a whopping 17 years of age (same age as my girl), it's obvious from her lyrics that she's mature beyond her years and incredibly talented. And while I like her Royals song, I feel completely drawn in by her latest, Team.
I will not be so bold as to say I l know what Lorde was trying to say when she stringed her words together to make this song, but this piece screams adolescence to me. No one has avoided the challenges of growing up. The cliques, the differences, the physical awkwardness, trying desperately to fit in with a group you think you identify with. In Team, she sings of kids with braces (or grills) and pimples existing in a place and manner different from mainstream reality.
"This video was borne from a dream i had a few months ago about teenagers in their own world, a world with hierarchies and initiations, where the boy who was second in command had acne on his face, and so did the girl who was queen. i dreamt about this world being so different to anything anyone had ever seen, a dark world full of tropical plants and ruins and sweat. and of this world, i dreamt about tests that didn’t need to be passed in order to be allowed in: sometimes the person who loses is stronger."
If the mood strikes, check out this website:
It's hard not to thoroughly enjoy Lorde's music. At a whopping 17 years of age (same age as my girl), it's obvious from her lyrics that she's mature beyond her years and incredibly talented. And while I like her Royals song, I feel completely drawn in by her latest, Team.
I will not be so bold as to say I l know what Lorde was trying to say when she stringed her words together to make this song, but this piece screams adolescence to me. No one has avoided the challenges of growing up. The cliques, the differences, the physical awkwardness, trying desperately to fit in with a group you think you identify with. In Team, she sings of kids with braces (or grills) and pimples existing in a place and manner different from mainstream reality.
TEAM
Wait ‘til you’re announced
We’ve not yet lost all our graces
The hounds will stay in chains
Look upon your greatness
That you’ll send the call out
(Send the call out [15x])
Call all the ladies out
They’re in their finery
A hundred jewels on throats
A hundred jewels between teeth
Now bring my boys in
Their skin in craters like the moon
The moon we love like a brother, while he glows through the room
Dancin’ around the lies we tell
Dancin’ around big eyes as well
Even the comatose they don't dance and tell
[Chorus]
We live in cities you'll never see on screen
Not very pretty, but we sure know how to run things
Living in ruins of a palace within my dreams
And you know, we’re on each other’s team
I’m kind of over getting told to throw my hands up in the air
So there
So all the cups got broke
Shards beneath our feet
But it wasn't my fault
And everyone's competing
For a love they won't receive
'Cause what this palace wants is release
Shards beneath our feet
But it wasn't my fault
And everyone's competing
For a love they won't receive
'Cause what this palace wants is release
[Chorus]
We live in cities you'll never see on screen
Not very pretty, but we sure know how to run things
Living in ruins of a palace within my dreams
And you know, we’re on each other’s team
I’m kind of over getting told to throw my hands up in the air
So there
I’m kinda older than I was when I reveled without a care
So there
[Chorus]
We live in cities you'll never see on screen
Not very pretty, but we sure know how to run things
Living in ruins of a palace within my dreams
And you know, we’re on each other’s team
We’re on each other’s team
And you know, and you know, and you know
We’re on each other’s team
And you know, and you know, and you know
Lorde's FaceBook post when the song came out:
"This video was borne from a dream i had a few months ago about teenagers in their own world, a world with hierarchies and initiations, where the boy who was second in command had acne on his face, and so did the girl who was queen. i dreamt about this world being so different to anything anyone had ever seen, a dark world full of tropical plants and ruins and sweat. and of this world, i dreamt about tests that didn’t need to be passed in order to be allowed in: sometimes the person who loses is stronger."
If the mood strikes, check out this website:
