#pure heroine 10th anniversary

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Happy Pure Heroine day to all those who celebrate 🥳🥳

I genuinely love this album so fucking much OH MY GOD, I could go for hours and hours about it so here’s some posting/rambling about it for it’s 10th birthday!!

I was 8 when this album first came out and “Royals” was my shit. I loved whenever they played it on the radio and knew all the words. When Covid happened and I was in my sophomore year of high school (16 y.o. For everybody not in the states) I listened to all of Pure Heroine and Melodrama to have something new to listen to in art class and I fell IN LOVE HOLY SHIT. On my first listen through, my favorite song was “Buzzcut Season” but after listening on repeat it’s solidly “A World Alone” and “400 Lux” is my go-to shower song :^)

SONG ANALYSIS

Here’s some explanations for each of the songs (at least in my interpretation) for all of y’all that are wondering about the album’s thematic content:

Tennis Court: Referring to both a literal tennis court as well as Lorde’s reflection on her rising fame. Ella has said in interviews that the song doesn’t have a definite meaning but I like to think of it as a bit of a reference to the tennis court oath of the French Revolution: When all those in the third estate swore that they would not disband until there was a written constitution in France. With the way the song talks about staying together in the face of change it makes sense both in a historical context as well as in an adolescent one

400 Lux :A song about young love and an unspoken crush. The idea of wanting to waste time with someone you love. This is the most “I am a teenager doing things” song of this album and I love it so much. Talking about sneaking out, lying in the street, drinking orange juice, and talking in the car but having so many things left unsaid ex. “And I like you” I just love this song so so much! Fun fact: the beat in the back sounds like the ticking of a clock, referencing the first line, “We’re never done with killing time”

Royals: AAAA I LOVE THIS SONG SO FUCKING MUCH (*´∀｀*) Essentially talking about how Ella doesn’t view herself as a “traditional” celebrity in a sense, not indulging in typical materialistic affairs ex. Blood stains, ball gowns, trashing the hotel rooms. As well as how she isn’t viewed as a celebrity in her home country of New Zealand, allowing her to establish her persona of a down to earth, brooding girl, ahead of her time

Ribs: PEAK SONGWRITING <333. About Ella’s first house party and the quiet aftermath of it, there’s such a sense of fear and fragility that permeates the entire song. So much emphasis is placed in the idea that this excess, this partying, cannot cure the bittersweet horror of growing up. There is a yearning for childhood and simpler times “Sharing beds like little kids/ laughing till our ribs get tough/ but that will never be enough” but also the understanding that you will never relive them but also transform those actions as you age

Buzzcut Season: Ella’s reflection on her teenage years in New Zealand. Paired with “Team” this very much so seems like the escapist aspect of being an adolescent, trying to shy away from the uncomfortable aspects of your life “Explosions on TV/ upon the news they try to tell us all that we will lose” in favor of peace, “now we live beside the pool where everything is good/I’ll never go home again”

Team : A meditation on teenage life in New Zealand once More, though with a bit more of a realistic tone paired with the sharp wit shown in “Royals.” Ella revels in the life she lives in, “We live in cities you’ll never see on screen/Not very pretty but we sure know how to run free.” There is love in the little things, such as the imperfections of the teenage body “A hundred jewels between teeth/[boys with] skin in craters like the moon” can refer to teenagers having braces/retainers and acne. The camaraderie from “Tennis Court” is present here as well, with the idea that Ella and her friends will stick together, not needing the glamour and excess talked about in “Royals”

Glory and Gore : A song about the violence of being a teenager, though done in a satirical Hunger Games-esque way. To me this song very much so refers to the clan-like mentalities a lot of teens have when developing their friend groups or being evolved in cliques

Still Sane: Fame critiques? On my Pure Heroine album? More likely than you think. In this song Lorde speaks a lot about her inner fear of becoming famous, knowing the high standards she has to live up to from both herself and the public. Being an elder Gen Z Ella would have definitely witnessed the breakdown/bad girl eras of numerous female celebrities and would be advised not to reenact any of their meltdowns, “I won’t be her tripping over on stage” as well as having to keep in mind how her public perception will influence her career, "Only bad people live to see their likeness set in stone." There is also a hidden melancholy as well, when she first began to rise to fame Lorde was only 17, and this greatly isolated her from her peers, referenced in lines like "All work and no play keeps me on the new shit/ All work and no play lonely on that new shit." With the reference to The Shining's, "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" can also allow the listener to infer that Lorde's work as a musician is taking away her carefree teenage years.

White Teeth Teens: Another commentary on teenage life and cliques! Huzzah! This song is pretty straight forward, at least to me. There is an inherent juxtaposition with the subject of the song and the title; White teeth are the epitome of health and perfection, clean and perfect and coveted, while the actions referred to in the song such as drinking and smoking will damage the teeth. Lorde rejects this hypocrisy of said teens through being herself authentically, though she does admit throughout the song that she could understand the appeal of being a white teeth teen.

A World Alone: The end to the album proper. This song gets sooo many bitches it’s so good. AWA refers to all the main themes and symbols Ella refers to throughout the album: day and night, bruises, teenage life, social cliques and their superficiality, teenage solidarity, and teenage romance. In this song Ella has fully matured in a sense, going from the beginning of the album where she states “Don’t you think that it’s boring how people talk?” To “the people are talking, let them talk” Lorde once more notices the shallowness of those around her “All the double-edged people and their schemes/ They make a mess then go home and get clean” though she doesn’t let them bother her, finding comfort in her true friends “You’re my best friend and we’re dancing in this world alone.” She understands that her world and she are both changing, both as she grows as a person and a musician which is emphasized in the both the setting of the song, “that slow-burn wait as it gets dark” and her remark “I know we’re not everlasting” but the key difference from the beginning of the album is that she understands that she will become someone fully realized instead of being a being of continuous chaos, “One day the blood will flow so gladly one day we’ll still get still”

This post is getting ungodly long and Tumblr has a character limit so I'll go over the extra songs in another post! In the meantime here are some pictures and gifs of Lorde <333

#Lorde #Pure Heroine #Pure Heroine 10th Anniversary #I am so normal about Lorde I promise guys #music #Pureheroine #brainrot.txt #yall help me when I get to melodrama

[forevermelodrama]

September 27 2023 - 10 Years of Pure Heroine

#lorde #pure heroine #lorde pure heroine #10th anniversary

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"that each of us have a handful of songs inside us that are ours, and only ours, to sing" Lorde

#pure heroine #lorde #happy 10th anniversary I'm still just as emo as i was then #quotes

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#lorde #lorde pure heroine #lorde pure heroine 10th anniversary #lorde pure heroine ten years

[lordehd]

"Experiences exist only in you; you are sitting on a gold mine that no one can rob. Whatever that means to you, whatever that statement you were born to make is, I invite you to take a big breath and make it."

Lorde via email, celebrating the 10th anniversary of her debut album Pure Heroine

#lorde #lordemusic #lorde music #ella yelich o'connor #pure heroine #lorde news #ella yelich-o'connor #lorde gif #lorde lyrics

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my top albums of 2013.. as i'd have picked them in 2013

with 2013 somehow being 10 years ago now and these albums all celebrating their 10th anniversaries this year, i had the idea that it'd be fun to pick out my fav albums from 2013, but as i'd have picked them in 2013 😳

some of these i wouldn't include anymore if i was making a list of my fav albums from 2013 now, cos i've discovered better music from 2013 since.. but these are the 9 albums that 17 year old me would have picked as the albums that defined her 2013 😆

the picks:

alunageorge - body music

arctic monkeys - am

ariana grande - yours truly

fall out boy - save rock and roll

haim - days are gone

lorde - pure heroine

panic! at the disco - too weird to live, too rare to die

paramore - paramore

the 1975 - the 1975

3 honourable mentions:

best coast - fade away

lady gaga - artpop

vampire weekend - modern vampires of the city

(fun fact: so many albums from 2013 had black and white covers, bcos i guess it was the style at the time, that i nearly considered doing 2 separate posts, including 1 just for black and white album covers 🫣)

#ellie's top albums

[prezohhh]

hey happy 10th anniversary of pure heroine! what your favourite song off the album?

sometimes ribs, sometimes buzzcut season.. depends which one i'm listening to

#lorde

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happy 10th anniversary to pure heroine btw

#jrrtxt

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TWQ 10th Anniversary

THE WHITE QUEEN 10-Year Anniversary Week

->Favorite Villain

In the midst of playing fast and loose with known historical facts, its wild costuming decisions, and some deeply questionable narrative choices, the one thing that stood out in The White Queen was the portrayal of its central cast of characters, all women, cast in various shades of grey, caught somewhere between damsel in distress and femme fatale. Not especially heroic, they were nevertheless complex and layered. In protecting what was important to them (their children), they strayed far from what tradition requires of heroines: to be pure, good-natured, ethical. Indeed, their behavior often called into question what it means to be a heroine. They were all villains!

Or were they? What if they were just victims of this story's ultimate and invincible villain, Fortune's Wheel?

“Fortune's wheel takes you very high and then throws you very low, and there is nothing you can do but face the turn of it with courage.”

#twq10 #the white queen #of mothers and daughters #historical shenanigans #jacquetta of luxembourg #elizabeth woodville #nan beauchamp #margaret beaufort #margaret of anjou #cecily neville #isabel neville #anne neville

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got so excited when i saw the new pure heroine 10th anniversary merch especially that shirt that looks like the og merch but then i saw a) the price b) the words on the back 😭

#like a) whyyy is it only in the us store the conversion rate + shipping will be brutal #and b) the first thing it says is ''with thanks to: weed'' i cannot wear that to work

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Happy 10th Anniversary to Pure Heroine!

I completely dipped from this blog for a minute there, whoops. After all, my pfp is Lorde, what did you expect?

Anyways, it's crazy to think it's been a decade!!!! Today is the 10 year anniversary of her's truly, Miss Ella Marija Lani Yelich O'Connor's freshman album Pure Heroine. And what a way to come into the pop scene: reinventing it completely.

I know that's bold statement and I don't care! Tell me there wasn't a noticeable shift after Royals hit the radio stations! I remember when my friend showed me that song for the first time in 2013 we sat in my basement and listened to it on loop like 10 times. A couple months after that I tried to get into her music, but it just didn't speak to me at the time since I was like 11 and not very cultured.

This album really speaks for itself. The first time I had listened and really connected to it was right after I had graduated high school and I was about to go to my first university (which I'd transfer out of after a year, whoops). I remember watching the sun set with my friends and 400 Lux playing in my head (and probably over our speakers at some point). This album helped me through a lot of weird emotions. Leaving my town & friends behind to try and make something bigger of my life, wishing it could just be small and manageable and easy forever, not to mention the impending doom of COVID-19.

This goes down under my list of albums I've managed to find a home in, and that's a connection I wish I could just give to people. Having that sort of a connection to a piece of music is just such an incredible source of comfort.

Every time I hear this album part of me thinks it's 2014 again. It kinda makes me wanna throw on an infinity scarf and watch something with Shailene Woodley. Also, I really wish we could have gotten a repress of the album or something for this milestone. Or at least a story post. Whomp Whomp :(

Speaking of milestones, Royals managed to pass a billion streams on Spotify! I think if we all do our part Team might make it too :)

I have about 25 minutes to midnight and A World Alone just finished so I think I ought to wrap this up so I can proofread. Thank you Lorde for all you've done and continue to do <3

#lorde #pure heroine #music #music blog #album #also Lorde is half Croatian and so is my family so that's just really cool to me idk idk

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Original draft of “Team” lyrics, shared by Lorde for the 10th anniversary of Pure Heroine

#lorde #2013 #pure heroine #honda

[blondeleaves]

“I started to smoke weed. I’d go on long walks around the neighbourhood, and began to mythologise the stuff around me into the motifs that would become Pure Heroine. I wore a lot of navy lipsticks from the 2 dollar shop. God this aesthetic It’s just TOO MUCH” Lorde

#lorde #pure heroine #10th anniversary

[lucentmusic]

Lorde in a new email for Pure Heroine's 10th anniversary.

#lorde #lorde photos #lorde email

[lordehd]

Just wanted to get on here to acknowledge the 10th anniversary of Pure Heroine. I know I’m not on here much anymore but I’m always looking at everyone’s posts and I will always love this community. This album changed our lives in so many ways and I am forever ever ever grateful that it is in our lives. Time really does fly but PH is still as timeless as ever. I’m gonna spend the anniversary listening on vinyl and thinking back to those first few days when I would play it in my iPod back in my childhood bedroom ❤️.

#pure heroine #lorde #lordemusic #lorde music #ella yelich o'connor #lorde news