Liking it a lot
Video is great too

"It's like NFR but happier and better"

and the second coming of fleetwood mac was a compliment but I don't even think the girl was joking. yikes...

hmm is it true its also a more female/LGBT heavy userbase?

It's the same title

just found out there’s already a thread for the album nvm

Love love royals but holy f*** if publications and the industry at large didn’t live through these lyrics vicariously in order to s*** on black culture in 2013 (not to mention Lorde herself doing so in the song)

S*** is so blatant looking back on it and idk why it isn’t talked about more

Yeah. I'm literally in the 5% of hetero users there. It's mostly female and LBGTQ users and they even make you fill out your sexual orientation on your profile

Yes bro with the great taste!! Is it weird the song is giving me "coming of age flick" vibes

@RVI

it really took f***ing ferguson and all that stuff in 2014 for people to even begin examining casual racism and microaggression that stemmed from ignorance

it’s really crazy

hmm

lowkey i want in

yeah s*** like this would not fly in current year AT all

This ain’t it

There's a Charli XCX base there too. Whenever registration opens I'll tag you.

Must be an album cut

real

So boring

June 20th*, my birthday too

But every song's like
Tupac, Lil Wayne, working at McDonald's

damn i just looked for reviews from when the song dropped and this person is talking about exactly what you mean

feministing.com/2013/10/03/wow-that-lorde-song-royals-is-racist

That’s such a ridiculous take.

Black culture is much more than the hyperbolic capitalistic symbols portrayed in some music videos. She’s not criticizing “black culture”, she’s pointing out a contradiction between her banal, boring lifestyle as a middle class girl and the extravagant aesthetics of a certain kind of rap.

She’s saying that this dissonance is alienating because we’re all being sold an inaccessible dream (turns out it wasn’t really inaccessible for her but success is also a matter of luck and circumstances).

middle class btw

Doesn’t contradict what I said. She portrays herself as a middle class girl, listen to the lyrics and look at the music video. If she’s lying about it, she’s dishonest but that doesn’t make her wrong: there’s a clear dissonance between what is being portrayed in music videos and films and what we’re experiencing. By “we” I mean us, the people who don’t own the means of production.

it feels like such a long time since artists regularly committed to the art direction of an album

Last one to really do that was The Weeknd/Carti