At the outset of Lorde’s comeback breakup jam “Green Light,” she threatens an ex: “I know about what you did and I wanna scream the truth,” she sings, her droll voice flaring with rage. But she doesn’t scream—she doesn’t need to. Instead, she reckons with her power as a writer and a protagonist in her own story, dialing back the complex imagery of debut Pure Heroine to flex in a new way. That record explored the anxious teenage mindset that files experiences into memory while they're happening in real time. Here, she understands that songwriting for the masses is now part of her emotional processing (“I whisper things, the city sings ‘em back to you”) but wields her trademark nuance to bury this guy, betraying intimacy in every line. “She thinks you love the beach—you’re such a damn liar,” she snarls, spotlighting how tiny pretensions can feel as treacherous as full-blown betrayal, then multiplies her voice into a skittish falsetto chorus that mocks her ex’s fear of intensity: “Did it frighten you/How we kissed when we danced on the light-up floor?”
在绿灯这首歌里,她威胁前任,她唱到:“我知道你干了什么,我想大声尖叫出事实。”她古怪的声音里闪耀着愤怒。但是她没有尖叫出。取而代之的是,她写下这个故事,自己是这个故事的主人公,与首专纯粹女英雄里那种复杂的形象有异曲同工之处。女英雄那张专家探讨了青少年焦虑的情感真实经历。而这首歌,她懂得用写歌的方式来发泄自己的情绪“我小声地唱着这些事,整个城市听到了都会唱给你听”。“她以为你喜欢海滩,你真是个会说谎的人”她低吼着唱着这一句,庆幸自己能发觉到前任的背叛。然后她用轻佻的假声合唱嘲笑前任内心的心虚恐惧,“这让你感到害怕吗?我们曾经在闪亮的地板上跳舞接吻?”
The fear is not one she shares; instead, this rupture only enhances Lorde’s openness to possibility. “I hear sounds in my mind/Brand new sounds in my mind,” she sings coolly, as rapturous house piano soundtracks her search for the green light that’ll help her get over this relationship. To Lorde, raging synesthete, green equals transcendence. (She once explained that her early single “Tennis Court” was initially “the worst textured tan color” until a shift made it change to “all these incredible greens overnight!!!”) Different hues ripple through her catalog, but the euphoria of “Green Light” is a new look for this 20-year-old who first appeared as a shadowy teenaged mystic. She doles it out carefully, true to her inability to find closure. But when it hits, she’s radian
在绿灯这首歌里,她威胁前任,她唱到:“我知道你干了什么,我想大声尖叫出事实。”她古怪的声音里闪耀着愤怒。但是她没有尖叫出。取而代之的是,她写下这个故事,自己是这个故事的主人公,与首专纯粹女英雄里那种复杂的形象有异曲同工之处。女英雄那张专家探讨了青少年焦虑的情感真实经历。而这首歌,她懂得用写歌的方式来发泄自己的情绪“我小声地唱着这些事,整个城市听到了都会唱给你听”。“她以为你喜欢海滩,你真是个会说谎的人”她低吼着唱着这一句,庆幸自己能发觉到前任的背叛。然后她用轻佻的假声合唱嘲笑前任内心的心虚恐惧,“这让你感到害怕吗?我们曾经在闪亮的地板上跳舞接吻?”
The fear is not one she shares; instead, this rupture only enhances Lorde’s openness to possibility. “I hear sounds in my mind/Brand new sounds in my mind,” she sings coolly, as rapturous house piano soundtracks her search for the green light that’ll help her get over this relationship. To Lorde, raging synesthete, green equals transcendence. (She once explained that her early single “Tennis Court” was initially “the worst textured tan color” until a shift made it change to “all these incredible greens overnight!!!”) Different hues ripple through her catalog, but the euphoria of “Green Light” is a new look for this 20-year-old who first appeared as a shadowy teenaged mystic. She doles it out carefully, true to her inability to find closure. But when it hits, she’s radian