6 minutes ago, YR. said:

current affairs might be the best song of all time

What are yall hearing that I'm not 

Broken Glass 

20 minutes ago, SUNSET BLVD said:

What are yall hearing that I'm not 

quality production 

Current Affairs best song yup yup. it goes from crying to cunting perfectly

 

36 minutes ago, SUNSET BLVD said:

What are yall hearing that I'm not 

Try

 

 

Guys this might be my favorite Lorde album of all time

I simply can't listen to "Shapeshifter", "Favourite Daughter", and "Broken Glass" and NOT cry (FOR REAL!!!!!!)

I didn't feel that way with Melodrama besides "Liability"

My rank changes every ******* time I hit play on this album. And watching reactions to it, with commentaries about it, made me even think about some lyrics more deeply, which became even more impressed. 

ALBUM OF THE ******* YEAR 

58 minutes ago, SUNSET BLVD said:

What are yall hearing that I'm not 

maybe your ***** is not good idk

keeps growing on me

4 hours ago, Kimi said:

When melodrama was released fandom hated it, same with solar power. ppl need some time.

I'm not sure I'd say that the fandom "hated it", but Melodrama came out at a time when most pop artists were chasing more of a Hip-hop or R&B influenced sound (this was mid 2010s when Ariana was black), a sound much closer to Pure Heroine than Melodrama, and the pre-release singles were hated by many, although quite a lot of people came around when the album was released. The good reviews helped.

 

Now everyone seems to claim that it was universally loved at the time of release, but these are the 6 albums that Grammy pop voters preferred in the 2017/2018 season.

 

 

But people will still claim she needs to make another Melodrama.

I tried curating a playlist to incorporate some of her other songs into the album as a playlist and I can't listen to any of her other music now!!! 

 

8 hours ago, Kimi said:

Best album of all time? Perhaps. Washed every other indie pop girlie? No doubt.

Speak your truth sis!!!! 

I really liked this on first listen but it just keeps on growing 

2 hours ago, SUNSET BLVD said:

What are yall hearing that I'm not 

Personally i think it's one of her best vocal moments and the production is flawless to me. I'm a sucker for sad bops though. The second verse is lowkey perfection to me regardless of the controversy 

rotating between shapeshifter, current affairs, clearblue and david with headphones on the train after a night out… this is life changing

 

5 hours ago, Bad_vocal_technique said:

Imagine saying this is a skip

 

 

 

Oh she performed?  

how is there no general Glastonbury thread 

 

ot: she's sound interesting

Surprised people weren't talking much about her whiteboard... I love-hate when artists do this. Like you better release them, Miss Lady! 

 

I assume River is the 12th one considered before being cut; I hope she releases at least that one.

Edited June 29, 20251 yr by ahauntingnearu

If She Could See Me Now is great 

Man of The Year sounds amazing on the context of the album 

 

LETS HEAR IT FOR THE MAN OF THE YEAR

LETS HEAR IT FOR THE MAN OF THE YEAR

Here are the official album lyrics:

 

Spoiler

HAMMER
------

There's a heat in the pavement
My mercury's raising
Don't know if it's love or if it's ovulation
When you're holding a hammer, everything looks like a nail
The mist from the fountain is kissing my neck
The liquid crystal is in my grip
Anyone with a snake tongue, I'll show em the chambers of my heart

Now I know you don't deal much in love and affection
But I really do think there could be a connection
I burn and I sing and I scheme and I dance
Some days I'm a woman, some days I'm a man

I mighta been born again
I'm ready to feel like I don't have the answers
There's peace in the madness over our heads
Let it carry me up, up, up, up up

Today I'll go to Canal Street, they're piercing my ears
I'm making a wish when the needle goes in
Take an aura picture, read it and tell me who I am (Show me who I am)

Now I know you don't deal much in love and affection
But I really do think you can make an exception
It's a beautiful life, so why play truant?
I jerk tears and they pay me to do it

I mighta been born again
I'm ready to feel like I don't have the answers
There's peace in the madness, over our heads
Let it carry me up, up, up, up, up

Let it break me down til I'm just a breath
Til I'm just a voice living in your head
It's a ****** up world, been to hell and back
But I've sent you a postcard from the edge


WHAT WAS THAT
-------------

A place in the city
A chair and a bed
I cover up all the mirrors
Can't see myself yet
I wear smoke like a wedding veil
Make a meal I won't eat
Step out into the street
Alone in a sea, it comes over me

Oh, I'm missing you
Yeah, I'm missing you
And all the things we used to do

MDMA in the back garden, blow our pupils up
We kissed for hours straight, well baby, what was that?
I remember saying then, this is the best cigarette of my life, well I want you just like that
Indio haze, we're in a sandstorm and it knocks me out
I didn't know then that you'd never be enough
Since I was seventeen I gave you everything
Now we wake from a dream, well baby, what was that?

What was that?
Baby, what was that?

Do you know you're still with me
When I'm out with my friends?
I stare at their painted faces
They talk current affairs
You had to know this was happening
You weren't feeling my heat
When I'm in the blue light down at Baby's All Right, I face reality

I try (I try) to let (to let) whatever has to pass through me pass through
But this is staying a while, I know
It might not let me go

When I'm in the blue light, I can make it alright


SHAPESHIFTER
------------

Chewing gum
I know
Don't hide the sour taste that's in my throat
But the voice in my head says, Do you have the stones?
When you get close enough
I'll let down my braids and you'll climb up
In my room we can do anything you want

Everyone that I've slept with,
All the pairs of hands, I'm reckless
If I'm fine without it, why can't I stop?
Everything I want speeding up my pulse
I don't sleep, don't dream at all
Give em nothing personal
So I'm not affected

I've been the ice, I've been the flame
I've been the prize, the ball and chain
I've been the dice, the Magic 8
So I'm not affected
I've been the siren, been the saint
I've been the fruit that leaves a stain
I've been up on the pedestal
But tonight I just want to fall

Mirror mirror
On his shirt
I see a hot mess in an antique skirt
But the voice in my head says, Don't let him leave alone
I become her again
Visions of a teenage innocence
How'd I shift shape like that?

Everyone that I've slept with,
All the metal that I've messaged
If I'm fine without it, why can't I stop?
Everything I want speeding up my pulse
I don't sleep, don't dream at all
Give em nothing personal
So I'm not affected

I'll kick you out and pull you in
Swear that you were just a friend
And when it's all over again
Say I'm not affected


MAN OF THE YEAR
---------------

Gliding through on my bike
Gliding through
Like new from my recent ego death
Sirens sing over night
Violent sweet music
You met me at a really strange time in my life

Take my knife and I cut the cord
My babe can't believe I've become someone else
Someone more like myself

Who's gon love me like this?
Who could give me lightness?
Let it flow down to me
Love me like this
Now I'm broken open?

Now I go bout my day
Riding it like a wave
Playing it any way I want
Swish mouthwash, jerk off
Days go by in a haze
Stay up and sleep late

Who's gon love me like this?
Who could give me lightness?
Way he flow down through me
Love me like this
Now I'm broken open
Let's hear it for the man of the year
Hear it for the man of the year

How I hope that I'm remembered, my
Gold chain, my shoulders, my face in the light
I didn't think he'd appear
Let's hear it for the man of the year
Hear it for the man of the year
Hear it for the man of the year


FAVOURITE DAUGHTER
------------------

I was a singer
You were my fan
When no one gave a damn
It was you in the dark
Scared of your anger
In love with your whim
Some notes I don't hit
But I don't give up

Now every day the plane takes off
And every night the room fills up with
People who are convinced I'm not
Just some kid faking it for your love

Cause I'm an actress, all of the medals I won for ya
Breaking my back just to be your favourite daughter
Everywhere I run, I'm always running to you
Breaking my back just hoping you'll say I'm a star

You had a brother
I look like him
You told us as kids
He died of a broken heart
And for every door you open
There's a room I can't go in
I break in, I still can't find you

Now that every day the plane takes off
And every night the room fills up
I tell myself that soon we'll talk
Then I sing every word just to ya

Cause I'm an actress, all of the medals I won for ya
Panic attack just to be your favourite daughter
Everywhere I run, I'm always running to you
Breaking my back to carry the weight of your heart

But I keep dancing til I get sick
Why'd you have to dream so big?
Why did no one listen when you hit the notes from your heart?

I'm a good actress, look at the medals I won for ya
So you could imagine being their favourite daughter
Everywhere I run, I'm always running to you
Breaking my back just to be as brave as my mother


CURRENT AFFAIRS
---------------

Knew when I felt it hit
Stood in the park under the eclipse
It was only a field trip til it cooled my blood
That's how it tends to start
You're in the light, then you're in the dark
Then someone throws a flare
You tasted my underwear
I knew we were ******

My bed is on fire
Mama, I'm so scared
Don't know how to come back
Once I get out on the edge
He spit in my mouth like
He's saying a prayer
And now I'm crying on the phone
Swearing nothing's wrong
Blame it on current affairs

All alone in my room
Watching the tape of their honeymoon
On the boat, it was pure and true
Then the film came out
Hope that we can ignore
Voices we hear through the open door
Would you dive to the ocean floor
Just to take my pearl?

Cause my bed is on fire
Mama, I'm so scared
Were you ever like this
Once you went out on the edge?
He spit in my mouth like
He's saying a prayer
But now I'm crying on the phone
Swearing nothing's wrong
Blame it on current affairs
But now I'm high enough to know
Yeah, I think he's gon(e,) blame it on current affairs


CLEARBLUE
---------

After the ecstasy, testing for pregnancy, praying in MP3
I'm scared to let you see into the whole machine, leave it all on the field
Your metal detector hits my precious treasure
I'm nobody's daughter, yeah baby, I'm free, I'm free
Free, I'm free

But deep in my matter, you're changing my patterns, your helix is right through me
Bars on my windows, you bust em wide open til clearness is all I see
I'll try letting the answer be part of the dance as I trip and I stumble, yeah baby, I'm free, I'm free
I'm free

Lips round your halo, you asked where I came from, I lied and then I came clean
There's broken blood in me, it passed through my mother from her mother down to me
I feel you answer, my hips moving faster
I rode you til I cried
How's it feel
Being this alive?

Oh, where did it go?
Wish I'd kept the Clearblue
I'd remember how it feels to be so
Bare in the throes
Oh, I wish I'd kept the Clearblue
I'd remember how it feels to be


GRWM
----

Soap
Washing him off my chest
Keeping it light, not overthinking it
Jumping from stone to stone in the riverbed, I guess

Maybe you finally know who you wanna be
A grown woman in a baby tee
A grown woman
Girl's a grown woman

Wide hips
Tooth chipped
'96
Skin scarred
Looking forward
Wide hips
Soft lips
My mama's trauma
Since '96, been looking for a grown woman

Pink galaxy left undressed
2009 me'd be so impressed
Back when the stolen spirits went straight to the head

Maybe you finally know who you wanna be
A grown woman in a baby tee


BROKEN GLASS
------------

Mystique is dead
Last year was bad
I let myself get
Sucked in by arithmetic
Felt great to strip
New waist to hip
I hate to admit
Just how much I paid for it

Did I cry myself to sleep about that?
Cheat about that?
Rot teeth about that?
Did I sweat hours a week about that?
Compete about that?
Lose my freak about that?
All of the above

I wanna punch the mirror
To make her see that this won't last
It might be months of bad luck
But what if it's just broken glass?
Spent my summer getting lost in math
Making weight took all I had
Won't outrun her if you don't hit back
It's just broken glass

I'm scared to quit
Loosen my grip
It's tough to admit
Just how much I get from it

When I cry myself to sleep about that
Cheat about that
Get in too deep about that
When I sweat hours a week about that
Compete about that
Let her treat me like that
I think that it's love

Broken glass
(Keep the faith)
Broken glass
(Same mistakes)
Broken glass
(Just a phase)
Broken glass
(Just a phase)


IF SHE COULD SEE ME NOW
-----------------------

In the city I hear the voices
Of the ancients
They're calling for us
Hear their horses running up Prince Street
Cause I'm a mystic, I swim in waters
That would drown so many other *******
Got me lifted, feeling so gifted

In the gym, I'm exorcising
All my demons, make em keep riding
Yesterday, I lifted your body weight
I pick a song and I listen to it
Til it's just a piece of music
And everything else falls away

Baby
Whenever you'd break me I'd watch it happen, like an angel looking down
It made me a woman, being hurt like that
I can feel, don't need fantasy
Oh God, if she could see me now

Hope you find another starlet
Another camera, another red carpet
As for me, I'm going back to the clay
You can tell them I went crazy
If that's what this is, then I guess I'll take it:
I bring the pain out the synthesiser
The bodies move like there's spirits inside em


DAVID
-----

O, dark day
Was I just someone to dominate?
Worthy opponent, flint to my blade, now we're playing with shadows
At the Sunset Tower, you said open your mouth
I did

And what came spilling out that day was the truth
If I'd had virginity, I would have given that too

Why do we run to the ones we do?
I don't belong to anyone

O, dark day
Was I just young blood to get on tape?
Cause you dimed me out when it got hard
Uppercut to the throat, I was off guard
Pure heroine mistaken for featherweight

But what came spilling out that day was the truth
And once I could sing again, I swore I'd never let myself sing again for you

Said wWhy do we run to the ones we do?
I don't belong to anyone
I made you God cause it was all that I knew how to do
But I don't belong to anyone

Am I ever gon love again?
Am I ever gon love again?
Am I ever gon love again?
(Tell it to the rock doves, sing it to the fountain, til you understand)
Tell it to em

 

4 hours ago, SUNSET BLVD said:

What are yall hearing that I'm not 

(Girl, your ***** good, it grip me good a me fi tell you)

 

clearblue is one of the few interesting songs on this album, oh you (few) tasteless heathens 

 

I was pleasantly surprised that "GRWM" was an abbreviation for "grown woman".... I had been most intrigued by that song title in the tracklist, too