{"id":13235,"date":"2021-10-01T13:16:59","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T18:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/?p=13235"},"modified":"2021-10-30T14:54:50","modified_gmt":"2021-10-30T19:54:50","slug":"lord-oh-lorde-part-deux-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/2021\/10\/01\/lord-oh-lorde-part-deux-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Lord, Oh Lorde Part Deux (2)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13247 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Battan-LordeSolarPower-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Battan-LordeSolarPower-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Battan-LordeSolarPower-679x1024.jpg 679w, https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Battan-LordeSolarPower-768x1158.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Battan-LordeSolarPower-1019x1536.jpg 1019w, https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Battan-LordeSolarPower-1358x2048.jpg 1358w, https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Battan-LordeSolarPower-1200x1809.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Battan-LordeSolarPower.jpg 1698w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 199px) 85vw, 199px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here I am again with the next installment of analyzing the Solar Power album, by Lorde. I hope you&#8217;re finding your paths, and if it led you here, well you&#8217;re more than welcome to stay. Last week I mentioned how this is going to be my initial listen to the songs, and then I will put in my raw thoughts. Last post&#8217;s ending song was California, so we will continue from there. Again, feel free to listen along as you read my personal takes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>4.\u00a0 Stoned at the Nail Salon<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Lyrics<\/p>\n<div class=\"ujudUb\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Got a wishbone dryin&#8217; on the windowsill in my kitchen<br \/>Just in case I wake up and realize I&#8217;ve chosen wrong<br \/>I love this life that I have, the vine hangin&#8217; over the door<br \/>And the dog who comes when I call, but I wonder sometimes what I&#8217;m missin&#8217;<\/div>\n<div class=\"ujudUb\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Well, my hot blood&#8217;s been burnin&#8217; for so many summers now<br \/>It&#8217;s time to cool it down, wherever that leads<\/div>\n<div class=\"ujudUb\" style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8216;Cause all the beautiful girls, they will fade like the roses<br \/>And all the times they will change, it&#8217;ll all come around<br \/>I don&#8217;t know<br \/>Maybe I&#8217;m just stoned at the nail salon<br \/>Maybe I&#8217;m just stoned at the nail salon again<\/div>\n<div class=\"ujudUb\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Got a memory of waitin&#8217; in your bed wearin&#8217; only my earrings<br \/>We&#8217;d go dancin&#8217; all over the landmines under our town<br \/>But the sun has to rise, when it does, we&#8217;ll divide up the papers<br \/>Two former hell-raisers, I&#8217;m still crazy for you, babe<\/div>\n<div class=\"ujudUb\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Well, my hot blood&#8217;s been burnin&#8217; for so many summers now<br \/>It&#8217;s time to cool it down, wherever that leads<\/div>\n<div class=\"ujudUb\" style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8216;Cause all the music you loved at sixteen, you&#8217;ll grow out of<br \/>And all the times they will change, it&#8217;ll all come around<br \/>I don&#8217;t know<br \/>Maybe I&#8217;m just<br \/>Maybe I&#8217;m just stoned at the nail salon again<\/div>\n<div class=\"ujudUb\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Oh, make it good<br \/>Oh, make it good<br \/>I&#8217;d ride and I&#8217;d ride on the carousel<br \/>&#8216;Round and &#8217;round forever if I could<br \/>But it&#8217;s time to cool it down<br \/>Whatever that means<\/div>\n<div class=\"ujudUb WRZytc\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Spend all the evenings you can with the people who raised you<br \/>&#8216;Cause all the times they will change, it&#8217;ll all come around<br \/>I don&#8217;t know<br \/>Maybe I&#8217;m just stoned at the nail salon<br \/>Maybe I&#8217;m just stoned at the nail salon again<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Lorde - Stoned at the Nail Salon (Visualiser)\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/V_A20lBsBMM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Raw Thoughts:<\/div>\n<div>This one. As I was listening to it on Spotify getting ready to type, I was reading the little quotes from her about the song&#8217;s inspiration. Lorde was mentioning there about how this song came to her after the end of a tour. Usually during this time all these grand questions and worries of life begin to come at her. I think it comes across in the song very well.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>There is still the uncertainty at certain parts when she&#8217;ll sing something profound and then follow it with, &#8220;I don&#8217;t know.&#8221; It seems reminiscent of when someone younger, or even a child, wants to express their emotions but isn&#8217;t quite sure how their feelings will be taken. This doesn&#8217;t lessen the value of the lines in anyway. If anything it adds to the depth of growing up. There are all these ideas of what &#8220;grown up&#8221; should be. Sometimes disregarding age, we&#8217;re just lost and\/or confused. I do think this song is about that growing up moment when all the sudden realizations start hitting right in the feels.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>This one&#8217;s deep.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>5. Fallen Fruit<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Lyrics<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"ujudUb\" style=\"text-align: center;\">To the ones who came before us<br \/>All the golden ones who were lifted on a wing<br \/>We had no idea the dreams we had were far too big<br \/>Far too big<\/div>\n<div class=\"ujudUb\" style=\"text-align: center;\">And we will walk together<br \/>Psychedelic garlands in our hair<br \/>Through the halls of splendor where the apple trees all grew<br \/>You&#8217;ll leave us dancing on the fallen fruit<br \/>The fallen fruit<br \/>The fallen fruit<br \/>The fallen fruit<\/div>\n<div class=\"ujudUb\" style=\"text-align: center;\">From the Nissan, to the Phantom, to the plane<br \/>We&#8217;ll disappear in the cover of the rain<br \/>Took the great minds and the vapers<br \/>And a pocketful of seed<br \/>It&#8217;s time for us to leave<\/div>\n<div class=\"ujudUb WRZytc\" style=\"text-align: center;\">And we will walk together<br \/>Psychedelic garlands in our hair<br \/>But how can I love what I know I am gonna lose?<br \/>Don&#8217;t make me choose<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Lorde - Fallen Fruit (Official Audio)\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/a6xNex64ZP4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>Raw Thoughts:<\/div>\n<div>I read the very little detail from Spotify from Lorde, and she said this song is about the environment and the parent generation.\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>I love how it begins with how the- I&#8217;ll refer to the newest generation as &#8220;us&#8221; and &#8220;our&#8221; because I am part of it- anyways, the way it describes our generation&#8217;s dreams as too big is great imagery. It could mean our dreams are too big because they expand beyond Earth&#8217;s lifetime.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>( Really though, all the song has great imagery and metaphors for the topic at hand. )\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Along with how she is blaming the past generations by saying how they took advantage of the apple trees, and now we are left &#8220;dancing on the fallen fruit.&#8221; As in, the trees no longer bare fruit due to the climate problems. It is all very environmental political without being overly rude I think. She is stating the problems and expressing her ideas, but still politely. That may be my own bias talking because I&#8217;m not the one being put on the spot in this song, but it&#8217;s an amazing message told in amazing chords and melodies.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>6. Secrets from a Girl (Who&#8217;s Seen it All)<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Lyrics<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Dancing with my girls, only having two drinks then leaving<br \/>It&#8217;s a funny thing, thought you&#8217;d never gain self control<br \/>Guess it&#8217;s been a while since you last said sorry<br \/>Crying in the dark at your best friends&#8217; parties<br \/>You&#8217;ve had enough, gotta turn the lights up, go home<br \/><br \/>Couldn&#8217;t wait to turn fifteen<br \/>Then you blink and it&#8217;s been ten years<br \/>Growing up a little at a time then all at once<br \/>Everybody wants the best for you<br \/>But you gotta want it for yourself<br \/>My love<br \/><br \/>You can take &#8217;em if you want &#8217;em, these are just<br \/>Secrets from a girl, who&#8217;s seen it all<br \/>Secrets from a girl, who&#8217;s seen it<br \/>Secrets from a girl<br \/>Secrets from a girl, who&#8217;s seen it<br \/>Secrets from a girl (Secrets from a girl)<br \/>Secrets from a girl, who&#8217;s seen it all<br \/><br \/>&#8216;Member all the hurt you would feel when you weren&#8217;t desired?<br \/>(Doing anything for more touch)<br \/>&#8216;Member what you thought was grief before you got the call?<br \/>Baby girl, no one&#8217;s gonna feel the pain for you<br \/>You&#8217;re gonna love again, so just try staying open<br \/>And when the time comes, you&#8217;ll fall<br \/>Yeah, when the time comes, you&#8217;ll fall<br \/><br \/>Your dreams and inner visions, all your mystical ambitions<br \/>They won&#8217;t let you down<br \/>Do your best to trust all the rays of light<br \/>Everybody wants the best for you<br \/>But you gotta want it for yourself<br \/>My love<br \/><br \/>Couldn&#8217;t wait to turn fifteen, then you just go<br \/>(Whoosh)<br \/>Secrets from a girl, who&#8217;s seen it all<br \/>Secrets from a girl, who&#8217;s seen it<br \/>Secrets from a girl<br \/>Secrets from a girl, who&#8217;s seen it<br \/>Secrets from a girl (Secrets from a girl)<br \/>Secrets from a girl, who&#8217;s seen it all<br \/><br \/>Welcome to Sadness<br \/>The temperature is unbearable until you face it<br \/>Thank you for flying with Strange Airlines<br \/>I will be your tour guide today<br \/>Your emotional baggage can be picked up at Carousel Number 2<br \/>Please be careful so that it doesn&#8217;t fall onto someone you love<br \/>When we&#8217;ve reached your final destination, I will leave you to it<br \/>You&#8217;ll be fine<br \/>I&#8217;m just gonna show you in, and you can stay as long as you need to get familiar with the feeling<br \/>And then when you&#8217;re ready, I&#8217;ll be outside, and we can go look at the sunrise by euphoria mixed with existential vertigo?<br \/>Cool<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Lorde - Secrets from a Girl (Who&#039;s Seen it All) \/ (Official Audio)\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LNIP_e66bUE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>Raw Thoughts:\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Wow. This one hit me a little differently. It is almost hard for me to analyze it because right now I&#8217;m so in my head emotionally about what secrets Lorde just let me in on. Although, I think that&#8217;s good writing! It&#8217;s thought provoking and kept me engaged from the lines.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>The song does a great job of following the album&#8217;s theme of journey and getting older. There are so many shifts of mindsets throughout after she has learned &#8220;the secrets.&#8221; It&#8217;s a lot of meaningful messages too, in my opinion. All the messages are things that seem obvious, but while in a teenage mindset&#8230; just aren&#8217;t. Although I am not a girl, I still just felt a certain type of way when I heard &#8220;the secrets.&#8221;\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>I think this song should be a part of the education system for teens. If this song was heard across the masses then so many heartbreaks might be prevented. We could elevate as a society. Just an idea \u2665<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>7. The Man with the Axe<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Lyrics<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"ujudUb\" style=\"text-align: center;\">If I had to break it down<br \/>I&#8217;d say it&#8217;s the way you love to dance<br \/>Moving the furniture when my back is turned<br \/>A flick of the lights and the world falls away<br \/>And your office job, and your silver hair<br \/>But our shapes in the dark are the reason I&#8217;ve stayed for all these years<\/div>\n<div class=\"ujudUb\" style=\"text-align: center;\">I thought I was a genius<br \/>But now I&#8217;m twenty two<br \/>And it&#8217;s starting to feel like all I know how to do is<br \/>Put on a suit and take it away<br \/>With my fistful of tunes that it&#8217;s painful to play<br \/>Fingernail worlds, like favorite seashells<br \/>They fill up my nights and then they float away<\/div>\n<div class=\"ujudUb\" style=\"text-align: center;\">I&#8217;ve got hundreds of gowns, I&#8217;ve got paintings in frames<br \/>And a throat that fills with panic every festival day<br \/>Dutifully falling apart for the princess of Norway<\/div>\n<div class=\"ujudUb\" style=\"text-align: center;\">But you with your doll&#8217;s lashes, your infinite T-shirts<br \/>I should&#8217;ve known when your favorite record<br \/>Was the same as my father&#8217;s, you&#8217;d take me down<\/div>\n<div class=\"ujudUb\" style=\"text-align: center;\">I guess I&#8217;ll always be this way<br \/>Swallowed up by the words and halfway to space<br \/>But there by the fire, you offered your hand<br \/>And as I took it, I loved you, the boy with the plan<\/div>\n<div class=\"ujudUb\" style=\"text-align: center;\">You felled me clean as a pine<br \/>The man with the axe<br \/>And the light in his eyes<\/div>\n<div class=\"ujudUb WRZytc\" style=\"text-align: center;\">We&#8217;ve been through so many hard times<br \/>I&#8217;m writing a love song<br \/>For you, baby<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Lorde - The Man with the Axe (Official Audio)\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WGOiwQ7Be1c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Raw Thoughts:<\/div>\n<div>This is definitely the ballad of the album.\u00a0 My primary thoughts were how this love song correlated with the rest of the album. I suppose this is showing her personal life, so we as an audience understand her own personal growth. I feel like with the other songs we only got glimpses, but in ways that also helped us. This song seems a lot more personalized and specific.\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>It seems like a mood for love that is young, or at least it still has that giddy feeling of young love.\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>A metaphor I thought was very clever, &#8220;But our shapes in the dark are the reason I&#8217;ve stayed for all these years.&#8221; She had a way of using the figurative language to tell so much without saying it. I love the illusiveness. It almost in ways keeps the full experience her&#8217;s. This song is so revealing yet not at all at the same time. That&#8217;s an amazing trait for a piece of writing to have. It&#8217;s hard to explain.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>I really enjoyed this segment of analyzing Lorde&#8217;s magnificent new album, Solar Power. Diving in to the journey of listening to an album about a journey is very cool. I feel like as Lorde is revealing, yet more of her life, I&#8217;m <em>still<\/em> growing along with her. It&#8217;s so rad.\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Well that&#8217;s all for this post, but I want you all to keep learning helpful secrets and maybe&#8230;don&#8217;t eat <em>all<\/em> the fallen fruit \ud83d\ude09<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here I am again with the next installment of analyzing the Solar Power album, by Lorde. I hope you&#8217;re finding your paths, and if it led you here, well you&#8217;re more than welcome to stay. Last week I mentioned how this is going to be my initial listen to the songs, and then I will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/2021\/10\/01\/lord-oh-lorde-part-deux-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lord, Oh Lorde Part Deux (2)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[285,283,274,282,284],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13235"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13235"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13277,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13235\/revisions\/13277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}