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it's a new art form, showin' people how little we care we're so happy, even when we're smilin' out of fear let's go down to the tennis court and talk it up like, yeah

Tennis Court

I love these roads where the houses don't change where we can talk like there's something to say I'm glad that we stopped kissing the tar on the highway we move in the tree streets I'd like it if you stayed

400 Lux

this dream isn't feeling sweet, we're reeling through the midnight streets and I've never felt more alone, feels so scary getting old

you're the only friend I need sharing beds like little kids and laughing 'til our ribs get tough but that will never be enough

Ribs

dancin' around the lies we tell dancin' around big eyes, as well even the comatose they don't dance and tell

we live in cities you'll never see on-screen not very pretty, but we sure know how to run things livin' in ruins of a palace within my dreams and you know, we're on each other's team

Team

📝

When Pure Heroine dropped in 2013, it didn’t just arrive — it disrupted. At 16, Lorde didn’t come to play in the glossy, sugarcoated world of pop.

There’s something daring in how quiet this album is. Where other teen artists of her generation leaned on booming choruses or EDM drops, Lorde carved out space in the silence — in the synth pulses, the dry beats, and that voice that feels at once ancient and newly born. She doesn’t shout to be heard.

Throughout Pure Heroine, Lorde captures the weird contradiction of being young and jaded at the same time. She romanticizes not romanticizing. She turns apathy into art. And in doing so, she speaks for a generation that’s tired of pretending they’re having fun just because the world told them they should be.

Pure Heroine wasn’t just an album — it was a mood, a manifesto, and a mirror held up to teenage culture at a time when no one else was really looking. Lorde gave us anthems for the outsiders, the thinkers, the ones dancing in their bedrooms instead of on club floors.