so y'all are saying it would be better if she leaned into it and was earnest about this goopery
― bon ivermectin (Murgatroid), Friday, 20 August 2021 21:42 (two years ago) link
absolutely not
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Friday, 20 August 2021 22:00 (two years ago) link
Even if it’s ironic, going after instragramming goopers seems lazy. The world is a target-rich environment for satire and disdain, many of whom are way worse than hot girls.
― DJI, Friday, 20 August 2021 23:01 (two years ago) link
Pandemic pop has really sucked.
― piscesx, Friday, 20 August 2021 23:06 (two years ago) link
my daughter reckons it's a fake-out and she's going to drop something deep and dark soon
― assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 20 August 2021 23:18 (two years ago) link
glad the kids are keeping the secret second album conspiracies going
― ufo, Friday, 20 August 2021 23:23 (two years ago) link
Even if it’s ironic, going after instagramming goopers seems lazy. The world is a target-rich environment for satire and disdain, many of whom are way worse than hot girls.
Yeah, she's satirizing something that really doesn't need satirizing, and doing it in a way that feels both heavy-handed and inadequate (she says it's an indictment of white people co-opting indigenous traditions, but the song barely touches on that.) I feel like this is Lorde's "57 Channels and Nothin' On." Like, oh no, I'm a rich person living in a bubble and I can't think of anything to write about, so here, let me "satirize" a bunch of tired pop culture shit that everyone already knows is dumb.
Also I keep getting stuck on the fact that mood rings are children's toys; is there some expensive Goop version of a mood ring that I don't know about?
― Lily Dale, Friday, 20 August 2021 23:49 (two years ago) link
What's confusing is that "Mood Ring" was clearly satirical, but the earlier two songs (which had the same sound/vibe/theme) didn't seem to be? Idk - I haven't listened to the rest of the album and probably won't.
― Shallot Shortage 2021 (morrisp), Friday, 20 August 2021 23:54 (two years ago) link
there was an element of it to "solar power", just not as directly
― ufo, Friday, 20 August 2021 23:58 (two years ago) link
oh no, I'm a rich person living in a bubble and I can't think of anything to write about
This is half of pop music now.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Saturday, 21 August 2021 02:26 (two years ago) link
that's not really anything new either
― ufo, Saturday, 21 August 2021 03:10 (two years ago) link
there was an element of it to "solar power", just not as directly― ufo, Friday, 20 August 2021 23:58 (yesterday) link
― ufo, Friday, 20 August 2021 23:58 (yesterday) link
idk she intro’d it with… ‘There’s someone I want you to meet. Her feet are bare at all times. She’s sexy, playful, feral, and free. She’s a modern girl in a deadstock bikini, in touch with her past and her future, vibrating at the highest level when summer comes around. Her skin is glowing, her lovers are many. I’m completely obsessed with her, and soon you will be too. ‘
― just sayin, Saturday, 21 August 2021 07:08 (two years ago) link
yeah that just goes to show how muddled it is lol
the stuff that read to me that way in "solar power" was "i'm kinda like a prettier jesus" and the whole video
― ufo, Saturday, 21 August 2021 07:15 (two years ago) link
I thought the “prettier Jesus” thing was her paying tribute to a fan meme
― Shallot Shortage 2021 (morrisp), Saturday, 21 August 2021 14:18 (two years ago) link
just made my own Solar Power sequence:
Leader of a New RegimeThe PathSolar PowerSecrets from a Girl (Who's Seen It All)CaliforniaMood RingFallen FruitDominoesBig StarStoned at the Nail SalonThe Man With The AxeOceanic Feeling
― winters (josh), Saturday, 28 August 2021 04:12 (two years ago) link
actually, I'd probably make "Stoned" a hidden track at the end of "Oceanic Feeling"
― winters (josh), Saturday, 28 August 2021 04:22 (two years ago) link
New EP in... maori !
― AlXTC from Paris, Thursday, 9 September 2021 13:17 (two years ago) link
Indeed, and this article about it is a must read
https://thespinoff.co.nz/atea/09-09-2021/lorde-interview-maori-lyrics-solar-power/
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 9 September 2021 19:10 (two years ago) link
and this one - https://www.thebigidea.nz/stories/tokenism-in-full-force-my-take-on-lordes-album
― just sayin, Saturday, 11 September 2021 03:11 (two years ago) link
Lorde just told the crowd at the Anthem that she swam??? In the Potomac??? To get a feel for D.C???? The crowd is in SHAMBLES— natalie escobar 🎷🐛 (@_NatalieEscobar) August 30, 2022
Possibly one of the wildest things I’ve heard of being said on a stage here.
― Chris L, Tuesday, 30 August 2022 13:58 (one year ago) link
LOL I love her pic.twitter.com/TtmpuQ2DaS— Jimmy (@jimmyeppley) August 30, 2022
― peace, man, Tuesday, 30 August 2022 14:16 (one year ago) link
Maybe next time she wants to appreciate the local waterways, someone could take her around the Anacostia Community Boathouse.
― peace, man, Tuesday, 30 August 2022 14:19 (one year ago) link
lol
In between songs, the singer reminisced about the themes of each of her three albums, noting that Pure Heroine “was about not being a teenager,” Melodrama “was about a boy,” and Solar Power is “about the climate.”
― just sayin, Saturday, 17 September 2022 21:44 (one year ago) link