"No better" its another song from "pure heroine era" but you can't find in spotify, if you want check it out, is great. Also I love how you react to the albums. ♥♥♥
please listen to the MAGDALENE album by fka twigs. you were talking about song structure and she is the first artist i thought of. she is a musical genius
David Bowie himself declared Lorde as the future of music. He heard Pure Heroine and was blown away. After winning the Grammy Lorde herself commented that its amazing what you can do with a laptop and a bootleg copy of Pro Tools. This album is a testament to what you can do with minimal gear. Its a shame so many young artists think a automated drum track is all you need. Lorde takes it so far beyond what everyone else usually does with the gear they have. This is kind of a masterpiece and it was made by a 16 year old girl.
not denying her talent as a songwriter but she definitely didn’t produce pure heroin kn a laptop with a bootleg pro tools. She was definitely signed to a label and had a real producer
@@userjoao The Love Club, which was her first EP and is featured as bonus tracks on this album, certainly didn’t have major label backing. It was a free soundcloud EP.
@@davis6123she did have a producer (Joel Little) it was a deliberate decision to have a soft launch and to hold mystery about her as an artist. (Hard to achieve in NZ cause everyone knows everyone)
fun fact: the standard version of the album ends with "A world alone", so the first verse of the album is "Don't you think that is boring how people talk?" and the last one is "Let them talk", like so clever, because this album is her struggling with being famous and just wanting to make her music, without the fame and the people talking, without having to lose her youth. But by the end of the album she realise that people will talk, but that doesnt need to change who she is. Until this day she doesn't like being famous and she talks about that in Solar Power as well
time stamps tennis court 1:41 400 lux 5:26 royals 7:12 ribs 10:24 buzzcut season 14:18 team 19:48 glory and gore 23:49 still sane 28:43 white teeth teens 33:50 a world alone 36:55 bravado 40:51 million dollar bills 46:20 the love club 48:44 bitting down 52:38 swinging party 54:12 outro 57:57 his favourites 1:00:03
Ribs is really where Lorde did the most experimenting with production and song composition and its so goddamn genius. The way she controls your whole mood during the build up is master level.
When Pure Heroine was released in 2013, it influenced and changed pop music with its subject matter, tone, sparse electro beats and minimalism. She really doesn't get the credit she deserves in that regard.
One thing. Bjork. I like Lorde a lot more personally (the first 2 albums at least) but you can't listen to Lorde without givin respect to the original goat. Bjork was amazing with the vocal layers/harmonies, and minimalist beats. Straight up sounds like Lorde sometimes or vice versa. Edit: pure heroine is my all time favorite female artist album. That shit so👌👌👌mwua 👌😂
Seriously can’t believe she was SIXTEEN!! Such a fantastic album. My favorite sonically of the three. Royals, Ribs and Team are SUCH bops but I also love tennis court and the first bonus track and so many others lol
Ahh the nostalgia, she really embodied what it meant to be 16 during that time, as I was 15 almost, this album is honestly one of a kind and it brings such great a memory for me
This album for me is so conforting beacuse it describes exactly what is like being a teenager nowadays, with the internet, and the world problems, it definetly got me through high school LOL So glad you're diving into Lorde's discography
Omg Ribs 😍 I saw Lorde in 2014 and she gave the most beautiful speech before she sang this song. It made everyone cry. And she was younger than everyone in the crowd, only a teenager at the time. Such a special person and very special song. One of my favorite live music moments ever.
I saw Lorde in 2017, I cried so much during the performance of Ribs. That shit helped me so much in high school. Pure Heroine is a classic & really laid a great foundation for Lorde. Love her!
This album is such an incredible depiction of the coming of age experience. Outgrowing the chase of popularity and learning to accept your niche outside of the mainstream. The teen angst toward that mainstream: the exhausted pop culture, the overbearing news media, the soul-sucking mundanity of occupational pursuit. She juxtaposes these traditional institutions and authorities with a self-declaration of new rule, alluding to her rise to power and the dethroning of the current establishment. The opening track sets the tone with what seems to be an allusion to the tennis court oath of the French Revolution in which the representatives of the lower classes were locked out of Versailles. They congregated in the tennis court where they made a pact not to disband, but to continue meeting until a constitution had been written. The album reads like a revolution, with themes of ugliness, brutality, and comfort in nonconformity. It is a manifesto, a new constitution, written to those unrepresented by the culture. She escapes the monotony of modern life through visions of a greater destination- a hologram, a palace within her dreams, a world alone. In still sane, she questions if this pursuit of the throne makes her just as bad as the current “rulers”, half-heartedly convincing herself she’ll “stay good”. Beginning with “don’t you think it’s boring how people talk” and ending with “let them talk”, she comes to a mature acceptance with society and it’s schemes, understanding that she has her own place within it, with those who understand her message.
Well said, she really is an outlier in pop culture it's honestly refreshing to see. Her outsider view from what pop culture is from "all my fake friends and all of their noise, they complain about work, they're studyin business, i study the floor" to "i'm in a clique but i want out, it's not the same as when i was punched, in the old days there was enough" is cleverly hidden as a double entendre and it continues throughout the entire album. Honestly it's lyrical genius we haven't seen since eminem became famous.
Fun fact (and also the reason I think this album will transcend the era it was born in)) this is a coming of age album. In my opinion, THE quintessential coming of age album of coming to find your place in an industrialized and capitalistic society. The album starts with the lyrics "don't you think that it's boring how people talk" and we hear Lorde's perception of life and her personal world and growing as part of it. From her fears and concerns to dreams and triumphs. The album, at least the standard version, ends with A World Alone with the final lyrics being "let them talk." "Don't you think that it's boring how people talk" to "let them talk" shows a deeper empathy and wisdom to her and, by extension, today's youth. One of knowing better but doing what you see while trying to discover and come into a sense of self. Idk I could write a whole video essay about this album. Definitely in my top 5 tbh. Great video! Just found your channel and I'm digging it. Hitting the sub rn!
is so cool that this is the album you listened before solar power because she really comes back to a lot of the subjets she has spoken about in this one now in her new album, can wait to see what you think!
the songs on the "extended edition" are actually taken from the love club EP, which was released independently in 2012 on soundcloud and re-released under universal the following year. it's why her voice sounds younger and the subject matter is slightly different by comparison. it has since been removed from a lot of streaming services just because it was easier to ship out the pure heroine era as one body of work instead of two, but the original upload is still on soundcloud (and i believe you can still get the standalone EP on itunes).
I hope someday you listen to Florence and The Machine, all their albums are incredible, not only in sound but also the lyrics. I also remember you said you're a Gatsby fan and that reminded me that they made a song called "Over the love" for the movie, it's so great I can't even begin to explain, and Florence's voice is one of a kind
Great decision to react to this before Solar Power. This is more solid with the OG song list 1-10. A world alone ends with people are talking people are talking, let them talk and Tennis Court starts with don’t u think that it’s boring how people talk. This video makes me wanna re listen Pure Heroine and Love Club EP ToT. Swingin party is a cover 🙊
Fabulous review - Glad you got to indulge in Pure Perfection that is Pure Heroine. Enjoyed listening to your infectious review after so many years of being a Lorde fan and watching her grow - from a proud kiwi
just found out you channel a couple of days ago and i love your album reactions, you really give the attention to the entire work. I hardly recommend you to react to Aurora's works. It's gonna be life-changing I promise. She is my favourite artist and she's just unique and really special. I'd love to see you reacting to her art
To clear this up: The bonus tracks of the extended version are from The Love Club EP, which was Lorde's first EP. She wrote it at the age of 15 and released it on SoundCloud in November 2012. It contained the songs Bravado, Royals, Million Dollar Bills, The Love Club and Biting Down. Royals was obviously a huge success, was later released as a single and became part of the Pure Heroine tracklist. The EP was re-released as the US iTunes edition in September 2013, the same time Pure Heroine was released. On that edition, Royals was replaced by Swingin Party, a song by The Replacements, which Lorde covered as the B-side to her second single, Tennis Court.
I was singing the whole time. haha Never knew what a blast would be to see someone experience pure heroine for the first time. I had such a great time with you.
When i first heard this album it was 1. Tennis Court and 10. A World Alone was the last track. An album starting with "Dont you think that it's boring how people talk?" and the album ends with "Let them talk." I was so like WHOAAAA and this album having her best song (for me): Ribs like Ribs just sound so lonely and so nostalgic and so reminiscent of a time when I was younger and I didnt know better. Hoping for better days not knowing those were the better days. I was just like, well damn.
Songs 11-14 & Royals were originally released on an EP called 'The Love Club'. Then Royals took off worldwide, so really it HAD to be included on her debut album. Later they re-released the album as a 'Deluxe' version so they could include the previously released EP songs that most outside of NZ hadn't heard.
Hey I recently listened to bad lands for the first time after being blown away by manic and making it the soundtrack of my life for 3 months straight . I wasn't impressed by it 😕. Idk the first few tracks seemed like wanna be lorde songs but less deep. Am I missing something? I really really don't understand how halsey blew up with that as a debut album. Genuinely can you give context to that album .
@@tantheta2184 The album is a concept album where her mind is expanded as this world called the Badlands. The songs all fit a central theme and the lyricism really speaks to me! It might not be for everyone but Badlands is my favorite out of all of Halseys albums ❤️
@@Vmapireslay I really wanna like the album . I love halsey and MANIC is literally one of my favorite albums of all time. But the minimalist production just feels like a pure heroine wanna be and new Americana is so hollow and colors annoy me. Anyway is there anything I should know before going into hopeless fountain kingdom?
@@tantheta2184 HFK is also a concept album loosely based on Romeo and Juliet. It’s a stellar album with more complex production than Badlands. Has a lot of hit singles on the album that you’ve probably heard before,
@@tantheta2184 i really think badlands was just one of those things where you "had to be there." the hype building up to it was insane, it was probably one of my most anticipated albums ever! it was my favorite album for so long and i guess you can partly blame that on the era where halsey, troye sivan and like twenty one pilots were really popular. like the other person said it was a concept album that everybody was looking forward to. badlands now still holds up in my opinion but i know that definitely relies on nostalgia!
The extra last songs after A World Alone are from Lorde's initial EP called "The Love Club". It was added onto Pure Heroine in the extended version. Swinging Party was the only completely new song.
lux is a measurement of light. 400 lux is the light measured from Earth during sunrise/sunset. wouldn't you say that the synth that swells the whole track sounds a little bit like the sunrise? me too!!
i would LOVE if u broke down the lyrics to this album and talked about it on a podcast or something because i struggle sometimes with her lyrics to understand the full meaning
The standard edition of the album starts with Tennis Court and ends with A World Alone. Tennis Court starts with "don't you think that it's boring how people talk" and A World Alone ends with "let em talk".
i think the chorus on bravado is her bravado. "oh it's a switch flip; it's a moon eclipse; it's in your bloodstream; it's a collision of atoms." you know the kinda stuff teenagers say to impress people
'let's go down to the tennis court and talk it up like yeah yeah' sounds like rich people talk casually about important things 'Explosions on TV and all the girls with heads inside a dream, so now we live beside the pool where everything is good' similarly
11 to 15 are pre releases to the Album they were in the love club EP. not all of them but most. Not sure about Bravado I think it was a standalone pre album release. Was never sure why it never made it onto the album as like you its one of my favourites. Also Swinging party is a cover by the replacements.
the big word on glory and gore was 'free': secretly you love this, do you even wanna go -free- ? let me in the ring, ill show you what that big word means
Interesting fact of Pure Heroine she starts with "isn't it boring how people talk" on Tennis courts, and ends it with "let them talk" on the last track World alone
Love your reaction. In my opinion pure heroine production is a million times better than melodrama. For one it’s minimalistic and unique indie sounding , melodramas electronic sound sounded like many other peoples projects when she dropped it - tho there were some good point. But I just see PH as perfect body of work, nothing wrong. I also like how cohesive and themed pure heroine is. That’s why pure heroine is one if not my favorite album of all time. The writing is natural and not forced at all.
