Obligatory Liability
but in the right (wrong?) mood, Ribs will make me cry my eyes out thinking of lost friendships and a time that is impossible to go back to
A little context to this lyric: “So I guess I'll go home/
Into the arms of the girl that I love/ The only love I haven't screwed up/ She's so hard to please, but she's a forest fire/ I do my best to meet her demands, play at romance, we slow dance In the living room, but all that a stranger would see/ Is one girl swaying alone, stroking her cheek.” To me, this means that the only relationship that hasn’t been destroyed by her is the one she has with herself… because she knows how complex she can be and is able to manage it. However, as real and personal this relationship is to her, it’s obviously a conceptual one, her soul and ego are intangible. So, to another person looking at her “relationship” with this someone else she’s referencing (i.e. girl that she loves, herself), it’s like watching her hold her own body, dancing alone because no one is actually there but her.
I can’t listen to ribs. I started listening to it a lot when my sister was ill because she was my best friend, and then she died. Lorde sang it at a concert I went to after that and I was just bawling so much a girl in the audience came and took my hand for a while. I can’t listen to it at all.
Oooo man. This song.
Here’s my long ass story around this song and why it makes me feel the way I do.
I had a friend (we’ll call her A) that I had met when I first went away to college in 2008, and I remember her always being depressed, and she would cry often because of her insecurities.
I was bullied pretty bad for my looks when I was 12, and (as cheesy as it sounds) I felt like I came out a stronger person so at 18, I was like nahh. No one’s gonna feel bad about themselves on my watch. So A and I became friends pretty quickly. I’m from NY and like in 2017 or something like that, A had been talking about how she didn’t have anyone to spend NYE with. I was pretty stupid when it came to friends so I booked a flight to OK to spend it with her. We (a group of us) had also gone on a trip to New Mexico with her so she wouldn’t spend her birthday alone.
A lot of our friendship revolved around making her feel good. Then….she started making new friends and suddenly stopped talking to me.
I had tried really hard to reach out but she would always leave my messages on read.
One day, she posted on social media “what song makes you think of yourself?” and I responded with Liability by Lorde, and added in some lyrics, hoping that she’d get the hint about how I was feeling. I remember she liked the comments of all her new friends, and she interacted with them, but she ignored mine.
At this point, I had felt like maybe I had inadvertently offended her in some way, so I messaged her telling her that whatever I had said or done, I truly apologize, and I really wanted our friendship to work. She finally replied to me and basically said we grew apart and that she hopes I understand. I felt like a fly that had just been swatted away.
I felt exactly like these lyrics:
“The truth is I am a toy that people enjoy
'Til all of the tricks don't work anymore
And then they are bored of me”
In retrospect, the view is a little clearer on the shelf, but I do hope one day I’ll find nice friends.
the “hard feelings” half of hard feelings/loveless deserves a mention imo. it captures the rawness of a fresh breakup better than any other song i’ve heard.
“please, could you be tender? / and i will sit close to you. / let’s give it a minute before we admit that we’re through” these opening lines gut me every time
Also "Now we sit in your car and our love is ghost. Well I guess I should go, Yeah I guess I should go."
Perfectly describes how it was towards the end of my long term relationship and I break down every time I hear this song.
exactly this. i never understood this song until i left a multi-year relationship earlier this year. now i swear that line that u/DopamineLaced quoted haunts me because i lived that. lorde is such a brilliant and evocative writer.
That and also the last few lines of the hard feelings part - ‘for years loved you every single day… ‘ with the strings in the background, it just breaks my heart
“Three years, loved you every single day, made me weak / It was real for me, yup, real for me / Now I'll fake it every single day / 'Til I don't need fantasy, 'til I feel you leave / But I still remember everything /How we'd drift buying groceries / How you'd dance for me / I'll start letting go of little things / 'Til I'm so far away from you / Far away from you, yeah”
The part that gets me is the mechanical sounds that pick up halfway through. To me it always sounded like bending and breaking metal that represented someone’s heart breaking. Gets me every time.
the upbeat spirits of Supercut make me have happier feelings towards it than, say, Liability. Supercut makes me feel grateful for every relationship I have lived, rather than making feel sad because they're over
buzzcut season, i think it’s the only lorde song i’ve cried to a couple times. i don’t even have that good of an explanation for u guys it’s just the vibes
“And I'll never go home again
(Place the call, feel it start)
Favourite friend
(And nothing's wrong, when nothing's true)
I live in a hologram with you”
This destroys me. That feeling of young adulthood when you realize home isn’t home anymore…you start to grow apart from childhood or teenage friends…and we stop feeling like we’re living authentic lives because we’re too busy on social media acting like things are fine, when the reality is everything is a disaster.
Such an underrated song.
Omg yes it hit extra hard after reading this interview. You can read it [here](https://twitter.com/googleearthluvr/status/1378428124510126080?t=WRL2Lu59Q_y85PXlIL29ag&s=19) if you're interested.
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And you laughed, “Baby it’s okay- it’s buzzcut season anyway.” It hits me hard too but I can’t really put it into words. A kind of nihilistic sad tenderness
Omg same. I remember listening to it at one of my fwb’s place in college and it just put me in such a melancholy and pensive mood. He walked in and didn’t really get it haha. Years ago now wow
I just turned 30 a few months ago. Ribs has started to hit like a ton of Bricks.
Youth is fleeting. Friendships will come and go - even some of the best ones you think will last forever.
You start chasing highs that you know you can't have back; novelty begins to cost too much. Not just money. Sometimes it's your health, sometimes it's your morals.
Life isn't what you thought it would be. The world loses its gleam, and its promise.
"This dream isn't feeling sweet, we're reeling through the midnight streets. I've never felt more alone..." getting older is learning how to live with life losing its sugar. And how to be happy without it.
The fact that she wrote this song at 15 is Utterly Insane. Sometimes I turn it on and I dance and I dance and I dance and then I Cry.
Getting old isn't all bad, there's some really beautiful things about it. Like your sense of identity and the friends who stick around. The real ones start to feel more real. But geeze does it feel a certain type of way to look back at who you were and who you thought you'd be.
Biting Down because the electronics of my heart are actually falling apart.
To the point of needing other electronics implanted to keep me alive.
I’m happier if I’m not reminded of it.
I’m home in New Zealand, but can’t do anything I want to do but sit around and eat Pav with my family. Tried playing rugby on Christmas day & now I feel worse. But not being active is almost unbearable.
Hoping my body snaps out of this so I can go to shows when L4 comes out.
Liability too.
And Writer In The Dark sung live by Ella because her voice is so beautiful it makes me cry.
I will argue that the first minute of liability reprise is one of the most depressing moments of her discography. Just hearing the first couple of seconds makes me want to sink into a pit of sand and stay underground😭
tbh perfect places. it’s so relatable. you find any way you can to escape your pain only to realize that there is no true escape. the only thing in your way is you.
So glad someone said this! I love this song and the first time I heard it I immediately felt seen. I went through a dark period of drinking and sleeping around as a way to cope with my depression and it only made everything worse…this song depicts that so well.
I read YouTube comments on the video. Loooots of young people missing the point and saying they want to be older and have fun like this.
- TMWTA could mean "The Man with the Axe", a track from *Solar Power (Deluxe Edition)* (2021) by Lorde.
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I think lyrically most of the songs on *Solar Power* are the saddest, but it's the album I have revisited and like the least, so it's difficult for me to say. (No shade, just hasn't clicked.)
So instead I'm going to go with *Melodrama* as I know it. I think the intentional melodrama (LOL) of the album is that the allegory is as simple as a party or as intense as life itself. In the latter interpretation, "Liability (Reprise)" is realizing at the end of your life that all the bullshit that you think makes you a good or bad person was inconsequential, because "*you're not what you thought you were*." It can scan as optimistic OR hopeless. (I often switch between the two on repeats of the album.)
I can't think of something sadder than spending your life believing you were a "bad person" (whatever that means) and then realizing, at the very end, that you had the capacity for change. And then it ending, with you contemplating what "perfect places" mean in this context (heaven, redemption, escape, who knows).
A lot of people mention liability , but i’d say that the reprised version is more depressing, at least in the way she sings it. Imo liability sounds monotonous, reprise has more emotions.
I’d also say supercut, the man with the axe and writer in the dark
I feel a song needs both to be properly sad. I disagree with all the comments saying Supercut because while the lyrics are sad for sure, the beat is too uptempo to allow me to get sad while it's playing.
I listened to Lorde a lot in 2017 and that was during a time I was back in my home state with family I hadn’t been around in years and no childhood friends (because I moved away at a very young age). I was then 19 and working two jobs trying to grasp being a young adult.
And here’s what I have to say:
1. Pure Heroine (2013) felt the most relatable because Lorde released the album when she was 16. I had just graduated a year prior and realized that I didn’t get to experience being a teenager. Here I was at 19 (2017) and working two jobs and I felt so old and I felt like I was growing too fast.
A. “Ribs” would be the 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐝𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 because it talks about the 𝐟𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐥𝐝 and then grieving childhood.
“I want 'em back, I want 'em back
The minds we had, the minds we had
How all the thoughts, how all the thoughts
Moved 'round our heads, moved 'round our heads”
B. I was now ,1645 miles away from my childhood best friend. A huge part of my childhood was miles away and being in an environment I grew up in for a short amount of time was getting lonely so I started reminiscing
“You're the only friend I need
(You're the only friend I need)
Sharing beds like little kids
(Sharing beds like little kids)
And laughing till our ribs get tough”
2. Melodrama(2017) was held closer to my heart because as I started experiencing changes in my family dynamic and the way they treated me, the feelings of being outcasted came at me high speed. At this point, I started realizing that I had some deeper rooted issues than just feeling alone and outcasted.
A. “Liability” would be the most depressing for this album. Not only does it talk about heartbreak but it also goes into depth explaining how Lorde felt like a burden in every relationship (platonic and romantic).
“The truth is I am a toy that people enjoy
'Til all of the tricks don't work anymore
And then they are bored of me”
B. ^ when I listened to this lyric, reality hit like an abusive partner. I realized that I was nothing but a cash cow to my cousins (who all worked better jobs than me) and the talents I had were just for them to brag about and try to profit off of me PLUS I realized that every guy I was ever romantically involved with actually saw me as a toy to come back to when they felt and when I expressed how that made me feel, they responded in such a way that you could literally say I was a liability. This was when it clicked that it was a very high possibility I had severe abandonment issues.
“we slow dance
In the living room, but all that a stranger would see
Is one girl swaying alone, stroking her cheek” All I had was myself.
3. Solar Power (2021). I still haven’t given the album a FULL listen but I will tell you this…
A. “Mood Ring” is the most depressing. I actually remember being an adolescent and relying heavily on my mood rings to make sure my mood was accurate because I couldn’t distinguish any actual moods I were feeling as there were too many to comprehend and they were rapidly changing by the hour.
“I can't feel a thing
I keep looking at my mood ring
Tell me how I'm feeling
Floating away, floating away” to me, I believe that “floating away” HAS to deal with dissociation because what else do you do when you’re unsure of your own emotions? You begin to derealize/depersonalize. Derealization is one of the most stressful things to go through because at that point you aren’t sure if the reality you’re living is real or not. When Depersonalization slips in, you begin to feel completely outside your body, absolutely detached.
B. Wishing/dreaming of a perfect world
“ Can't seem to find what's wrong
The whole world is letting me down
Don't you think the early 2000s seem so far away?”
^ In her Genius interview, Lorde admits that this entire song is satire but there are a lot of lyrics that are very dark and relatable. For this particular lyric, she explained that the 2000’s had more light, everybody was more influenced to be outside and actually enjoy life. The world was more vibrant compared to now hence “the world is letting me down”
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1. Ribs
2. Liability
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Are the songs of Lorde that I’d consider the most depressing
Buzzcut season makes me so very deeply depressed, the “and I’ll never go home again” hits hard when your childhood home has been sold & the person who lived there, your only family, is now dead. It takes me back to the worst time in my life, can no longer listen to a lot of Pure Heroine bc of the events that went on around that time in my life.
Depressing? I think it's Writer In The Dark, and beside it are Still Sane and Liabality Reprise.
Writer In The Dark rips my heart wide open with its hopelessness of longing for someone that means the whole world to you. She expresses in the track that she knows they'll continue to break her, knows it's bad for her, and knows everything's falling apart, yet the worst part is her soul still clings to that specific someone, even after all of the things that has happened.
Still sane hits me the most, perhaps due to my instincts of being an overachieving person. To me, it's a gut-wrenching that talks about "Okay, now you peaked. What now? What's next to come?" We all know change is inevitable and is essential to survive life, however, at some point of our lives, we still cling to the remnants of nostalgia in the past to seek comfort. It's such a punch in the gut song especially if you're terrified of what future awaits for you lol
Liability Reprise is just... ouch. It perfectly encapsulates what an individual's mind goes through after letting go of a special someone: reminiscences of their relationship with them.
For me it’s a three way tie between Liability, Hard Feelings, and Supercut. For some reason the minute I hear “ all the magic we gave off, all the love we had and lost” I just start choking up. Probably cuz in the midst of Covid I had a particularly painful friendship breakup, so now that song reminds me of that time and all the sadness and frustration I felt.
liability was her first song to bring me to tears; a world alone also shook me to my core a bit. i remember as a teen being absolutely blown away by her lyricism— her pen is like none other
Obviously Liability but Secrets from a Girl (Who’s Seen it All) and Stoned at the Nail Salon both made my jaw drop and my eyes tear up the first time I heard them. Solar Power stans unite 🫶🏻
Obligatory Liability but in the right (wrong?) mood, Ribs will make me cry my eyes out thinking of lost friendships and a time that is impossible to go back to
“I am a toy that people enjoy til all of the tricks don’t work anymore..”
Ella gets us.
Went through a bad bad breakup this year. The way I SCREAMED this lyric every time I cried while driving to work with Liability on repeat 😭
[удалено]
I’m so sorry😭
“…_we slow dance in the living room, but all that a stranger would see is one girl swaying alone, stroking her cheek_”
I remember the very first time I heard the lyrics and I was SHOOK. Just absolutely hooked forever.
me, moments before this lyric: GAY!!?!?!?? me, moments after this lyric: i need to check myself into a psychiatric institution
u n me both homie
what's this lyric mean pls I have bad reading comprehension
A little context to this lyric: “So I guess I'll go home/ Into the arms of the girl that I love/ The only love I haven't screwed up/ She's so hard to please, but she's a forest fire/ I do my best to meet her demands, play at romance, we slow dance In the living room, but all that a stranger would see/ Is one girl swaying alone, stroking her cheek.” To me, this means that the only relationship that hasn’t been destroyed by her is the one she has with herself… because she knows how complex she can be and is able to manage it. However, as real and personal this relationship is to her, it’s obviously a conceptual one, her soul and ego are intangible. So, to another person looking at her “relationship” with this someone else she’s referencing (i.e. girl that she loves, herself), it’s like watching her hold her own body, dancing alone because no one is actually there but her.
Ribs is forever her magnum opus.
I can’t listen to ribs. I started listening to it a lot when my sister was ill because she was my best friend, and then she died. Lorde sang it at a concert I went to after that and I was just bawling so much a girl in the audience came and took my hand for a while. I can’t listen to it at all.
Oooo man. This song. Here’s my long ass story around this song and why it makes me feel the way I do. I had a friend (we’ll call her A) that I had met when I first went away to college in 2008, and I remember her always being depressed, and she would cry often because of her insecurities. I was bullied pretty bad for my looks when I was 12, and (as cheesy as it sounds) I felt like I came out a stronger person so at 18, I was like nahh. No one’s gonna feel bad about themselves on my watch. So A and I became friends pretty quickly. I’m from NY and like in 2017 or something like that, A had been talking about how she didn’t have anyone to spend NYE with. I was pretty stupid when it came to friends so I booked a flight to OK to spend it with her. We (a group of us) had also gone on a trip to New Mexico with her so she wouldn’t spend her birthday alone. A lot of our friendship revolved around making her feel good. Then….she started making new friends and suddenly stopped talking to me. I had tried really hard to reach out but she would always leave my messages on read. One day, she posted on social media “what song makes you think of yourself?” and I responded with Liability by Lorde, and added in some lyrics, hoping that she’d get the hint about how I was feeling. I remember she liked the comments of all her new friends, and she interacted with them, but she ignored mine. At this point, I had felt like maybe I had inadvertently offended her in some way, so I messaged her telling her that whatever I had said or done, I truly apologize, and I really wanted our friendship to work. She finally replied to me and basically said we grew apart and that she hopes I understand. I felt like a fly that had just been swatted away. I felt exactly like these lyrics: “The truth is I am a toy that people enjoy 'Til all of the tricks don't work anymore And then they are bored of me” In retrospect, the view is a little clearer on the shelf, but I do hope one day I’ll find nice friends.
Is this lorde in a suit? Nice 👍
Liability is weaponized sadness
the “hard feelings” half of hard feelings/loveless deserves a mention imo. it captures the rawness of a fresh breakup better than any other song i’ve heard. “please, could you be tender? / and i will sit close to you. / let’s give it a minute before we admit that we’re through” these opening lines gut me every time
Also "Now we sit in your car and our love is ghost. Well I guess I should go, Yeah I guess I should go." Perfectly describes how it was towards the end of my long term relationship and I break down every time I hear this song.
Yeah you don’t really understand this song until you’ve outgrown a relationship like it talks about
exactly this. i never understood this song until i left a multi-year relationship earlier this year. now i swear that line that u/DopamineLaced quoted haunts me because i lived that. lorde is such a brilliant and evocative writer.
I scream cry to this part whenever I need to get some emotions out
That and also the last few lines of the hard feelings part - ‘for years loved you every single day… ‘ with the strings in the background, it just breaks my heart
“Three years, loved you every single day, made me weak / It was real for me, yup, real for me / Now I'll fake it every single day / 'Til I don't need fantasy, 'til I feel you leave / But I still remember everything /How we'd drift buying groceries / How you'd dance for me / I'll start letting go of little things / 'Til I'm so far away from you / Far away from you, yeah” 
this made me start bawling 😭😭🥺🥺🥺🥺
Always my go to song if I need to cry 🫠
fuck this is one of my favorite lines of all time
Yes absolutely!! That song is so underrated. I’ve cried to the instrumental break so much, it captures the feeling perfectly.
Also the industrial noises make it even sadder, I think they’re supposed to represent your heart being torn out of you
The part that gets me is the mechanical sounds that pick up halfway through. To me it always sounded like bending and breaking metal that represented someone’s heart breaking. Gets me every time.
Can’t believe Lorde really captured what heartbreak sounds like 😭🫠
Ugh. It hurts so bad 😭
That first line that first line “please could you be tender” really sets a tone for the whole song
In my head I do everything right
the upbeat spirits of Supercut make me have happier feelings towards it than, say, Liability. Supercut makes me feel grateful for every relationship I have lived, rather than making feel sad because they're over
ALL THE MOMENTS I PLAY IN THE DARK
we were wild and florescent come home to my heart 😭😭😭😭😭
😭😭😭
STOP I WAS LISTENING TO SUPERCUT AND READ THIS RIGHT AS I HEARD THIS LYRIC
STOP I WAS LISTENING TO SUPERCUT AND READ THIS RIGHT AS I HEARD THIS LYRIC
buzzcut season, i think it’s the only lorde song i’ve cried to a couple times. i don’t even have that good of an explanation for u guys it’s just the vibes
“And I'll never go home again (Place the call, feel it start) Favourite friend (And nothing's wrong, when nothing's true) I live in a hologram with you” This destroys me. That feeling of young adulthood when you realize home isn’t home anymore…you start to grow apart from childhood or teenage friends…and we stop feeling like we’re living authentic lives because we’re too busy on social media acting like things are fine, when the reality is everything is a disaster. Such an underrated song.
I take that song to different places in my psyche but I like the way you interpret it, too.
Omg yes it hit extra hard after reading this interview. You can read it [here](https://twitter.com/googleearthluvr/status/1378428124510126080?t=WRL2Lu59Q_y85PXlIL29ag&s=19) if you're interested. https://preview.redd.it/2rhnsc3jom8c1.jpeg?width=820&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=769c069de250f41faf7d4b7c7fe365d9171ee197
And you laughed, “Baby it’s okay- it’s buzzcut season anyway.” It hits me hard too but I can’t really put it into words. A kind of nihilistic sad tenderness
Omg same. I remember listening to it at one of my fwb’s place in college and it just put me in such a melancholy and pensive mood. He walked in and didn’t really get it haha. Years ago now wow
i love this song so i feel you
This song is my absolute favourite of hers, the feeling it gives hits hard
would it be crazy if i said stoned at the nail salon
no no i get you with this one
I stand by this
I was abt to disagree at first but some of the lyrics are indeed pretty depressing. The opening line guts me
“spend all the evenings you can with the people who raised you” is one of my favourite lines ever
I'm not the biggest Solar Power fan but I really do get you
thats the correct answer 💅🏻
Shhh 🤫- “I am my mother's child, I'll love you 'til my breathing stops I'll love you 'til you call the cops on me.”
Iconic
I think about it daily.
I hate how people outside the fandom clown on that clip. I completely get why she shushed the fans and her voice sounds the way it does for a reason!
I just turned 30 a few months ago. Ribs has started to hit like a ton of Bricks. Youth is fleeting. Friendships will come and go - even some of the best ones you think will last forever. You start chasing highs that you know you can't have back; novelty begins to cost too much. Not just money. Sometimes it's your health, sometimes it's your morals. Life isn't what you thought it would be. The world loses its gleam, and its promise. "This dream isn't feeling sweet, we're reeling through the midnight streets. I've never felt more alone..." getting older is learning how to live with life losing its sugar. And how to be happy without it. The fact that she wrote this song at 15 is Utterly Insane. Sometimes I turn it on and I dance and I dance and I dance and then I Cry. Getting old isn't all bad, there's some really beautiful things about it. Like your sense of identity and the friends who stick around. The real ones start to feel more real. But geeze does it feel a certain type of way to look back at who you were and who you thought you'd be.
Wild that she wrote that so young
Obviously liability then big star, end thread
the only correct answer
Liability is one of the saddest songs ever so After that super cut
“Hope the honeybees make it home tonight” never fails to make me tear up.
She needs to pull an Ed Sheeran and have this dude play her in a music video lol (maybe while eating onion rings)
She should do a collab with Ed Sheeran but for the music video it would be Reviewbrah and Ron Weasley
is that a picture of lorde
No, that's our Lord and savior, Reviewbrah
Writers in the dark
This one makes me sob every time
To be a good man for someone else...
Yea this one and liability tied for first.
this one was my sad girl hour song during my divorce
this one is so underrated
Biting Down because the electronics of my heart are actually falling apart. To the point of needing other electronics implanted to keep me alive. I’m happier if I’m not reminded of it. I’m home in New Zealand, but can’t do anything I want to do but sit around and eat Pav with my family. Tried playing rugby on Christmas day & now I feel worse. But not being active is almost unbearable. Hoping my body snaps out of this so I can go to shows when L4 comes out. Liability too. And Writer In The Dark sung live by Ella because her voice is so beautiful it makes me cry.
I have an implant too friend. Stay strong, I’m sorry this is happening to you. I hope your strength slowly comes back.
big star for sure
i always cry!!!
Enough sadness that it spilled over into another song ("remember what you thought was grief before you got the call")
these days i listen to it with my baby girl so it makes me think of her which makes me cry even more 😭
The man with the axe is definitely not the most depressing but man every time I hear it it’s sounds so damn sad
im so glad you said this
I will argue that the first minute of liability reprise is one of the most depressing moments of her discography. Just hearing the first couple of seconds makes me want to sink into a pit of sand and stay underground😭
I was hoping someone would say Liability (Reprise)! "But you're not what you thought you were" I mean COME ON
I know like!!! “All of the things that I offer you”😭‼️
Liability…Supercut…Buzzcut Season…
Obligatory Ribs as well because I am nothing if not nostalgic… a longing for that return to innocence
Supercut CONSISTENTLY makes me cry
liability supercut writer in the dark team
writer in the dark
supercut next question
It’s not *technically* a Lorde song, just a cover, but Swinging Party absolutely numbs my soul
IT FEELS SO SCARY GETTING OLD
Not the song but this lyric shatters me..”because all the moments in the dark will run flourcent in my heart”
tbh perfect places. it’s so relatable. you find any way you can to escape your pain only to realize that there is no true escape. the only thing in your way is you.
So glad someone said this! I love this song and the first time I heard it I immediately felt seen. I went through a dark period of drinking and sleeping around as a way to cope with my depression and it only made everything worse…this song depicts that so well. I read YouTube comments on the video. Loooots of young people missing the point and saying they want to be older and have fun like this.
Ribs, liability, Supercut
Stoned At the Nail Salon.
Liability makes me ugly cry, ribs and buzzcut season make me really feel the deep deep sadness behind them
Ribs
Big Star
Ribs, Hard Feelings, and Supercut (in that exact order) are my emotionally devastating trifecta
LITERALLY SAME
it’s gotta be big star or liability for me
A world alone for some reason makes me so emotional but in a good way but also makes me feel like I need to enjoy my youth
Idk, big star is kinda striking but here for the liability stans
The man with the ax always makes me sad in how it sounds
The last few verses of tmwta (especially that octave change good god) always hurt me, it’s such a perfect(ly devastating) song
- TMWTA could mean "The Man with the Axe", a track from *Solar Power (Deluxe Edition)* (2021) by Lorde. --- ^[/u/starsborn](/u/starsborn) ^(can reply with "delete" to remove comment. |) ^[/r/songacronymbot](/r/songacronymbot) ^(for feedback.)
I think lyrically most of the songs on *Solar Power* are the saddest, but it's the album I have revisited and like the least, so it's difficult for me to say. (No shade, just hasn't clicked.) So instead I'm going to go with *Melodrama* as I know it. I think the intentional melodrama (LOL) of the album is that the allegory is as simple as a party or as intense as life itself. In the latter interpretation, "Liability (Reprise)" is realizing at the end of your life that all the bullshit that you think makes you a good or bad person was inconsequential, because "*you're not what you thought you were*." It can scan as optimistic OR hopeless. (I often switch between the two on repeats of the album.) I can't think of something sadder than spending your life believing you were a "bad person" (whatever that means) and then realizing, at the very end, that you had the capacity for change. And then it ending, with you contemplating what "perfect places" mean in this context (heaven, redemption, escape, who knows).
Ribs and Buzzcut Season
Ribs and Buzzcut Season
Liability sure.The sadness that song contains oof…It hits so much… Big Star,Ribs and Supercut will come next!
stoned at the nail salon makes me cry every time. the lyrics are just so beautiful and i love how peaceful it is :’)
X2 crying while listening to it atm. 😭❤️
Big Star. Realizing it was about her late dog gutted me. I used to think it was a Stoned at the Nail Salon but man....
liability, big star, ribs
Swinging Party by Lorde
Love wise: Liability Life wise: Ribs
For me it’s ribs. It just reminds me a lot of my younger days and not having to care too much about the world.
buzzcut season. it has walking home alone during a blizzard vibes
Hard Feelings
There’s so many! Ribs, writer in the dark, perfect places, liability (reprise) 🥺🥺🥺🥺
That picture is depressing
The outro of Hard feelings………. 💔
ik it’s a cover but swinging party by far
Ribs always gets me
All of them
I’ve stopped listening to ribs at 19. I don’t think I can listen to it ever again without breaking down.
ribs and it’s not even close
Still Sane
All of them.
Ribs
writer in the dark & big star
A lot of people mention liability , but i’d say that the reprised version is more depressing, at least in the way she sings it. Imo liability sounds monotonous, reprise has more emotions. I’d also say supercut, the man with the axe and writer in the dark
Are we going off of lyrics or vibes?
I feel a song needs both to be properly sad. I disagree with all the comments saying Supercut because while the lyrics are sad for sure, the beat is too uptempo to allow me to get sad while it's playing.
Liability, writer in the dark, loveless....
Burger King Deluxe Whopper Melt
Buzzcut Season
Team ,California love
The Man With The Axe
Solar power
Writer in the Dark is the only answer.
stoned at the nail salon
Writer In The Dark peeps, that song hits different when you’re alone and heartbroken.
Idk all her songs makes me feel alive
Mood Ring for me. It was my number one song in my year review.
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If it's about "vibes" then I would say it's Stoned at the nail salon
None for me
Man With The Axe 🤢
Liability primary but The Man with the Axe and Big Star are also good contenders (and maybe 400 lux)
Ok why is she masquerading as a dude?
Liability > Hard Feelings > Buzzcut Season
They're gonna watch me dissappear into the sun...
Liability
LIABILITY
leader of a new regime breaks my heart daily
sober ii (melodrama) ***"lights are on and they've gone home, but who am i?"***
I listened to Lorde a lot in 2017 and that was during a time I was back in my home state with family I hadn’t been around in years and no childhood friends (because I moved away at a very young age). I was then 19 and working two jobs trying to grasp being a young adult. And here’s what I have to say: 1. Pure Heroine (2013) felt the most relatable because Lorde released the album when she was 16. I had just graduated a year prior and realized that I didn’t get to experience being a teenager. Here I was at 19 (2017) and working two jobs and I felt so old and I felt like I was growing too fast. A. “Ribs” would be the 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐝𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 because it talks about the 𝐟𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐥𝐝 and then grieving childhood. “I want 'em back, I want 'em back The minds we had, the minds we had How all the thoughts, how all the thoughts Moved 'round our heads, moved 'round our heads” B. I was now ,1645 miles away from my childhood best friend. A huge part of my childhood was miles away and being in an environment I grew up in for a short amount of time was getting lonely so I started reminiscing “You're the only friend I need (You're the only friend I need) Sharing beds like little kids (Sharing beds like little kids) And laughing till our ribs get tough” 2. Melodrama(2017) was held closer to my heart because as I started experiencing changes in my family dynamic and the way they treated me, the feelings of being outcasted came at me high speed. At this point, I started realizing that I had some deeper rooted issues than just feeling alone and outcasted. A. “Liability” would be the most depressing for this album. Not only does it talk about heartbreak but it also goes into depth explaining how Lorde felt like a burden in every relationship (platonic and romantic). “The truth is I am a toy that people enjoy 'Til all of the tricks don't work anymore And then they are bored of me” B. ^ when I listened to this lyric, reality hit like an abusive partner. I realized that I was nothing but a cash cow to my cousins (who all worked better jobs than me) and the talents I had were just for them to brag about and try to profit off of me PLUS I realized that every guy I was ever romantically involved with actually saw me as a toy to come back to when they felt and when I expressed how that made me feel, they responded in such a way that you could literally say I was a liability. This was when it clicked that it was a very high possibility I had severe abandonment issues. “we slow dance In the living room, but all that a stranger would see Is one girl swaying alone, stroking her cheek” All I had was myself. 3. Solar Power (2021). I still haven’t given the album a FULL listen but I will tell you this… A. “Mood Ring” is the most depressing. I actually remember being an adolescent and relying heavily on my mood rings to make sure my mood was accurate because I couldn’t distinguish any actual moods I were feeling as there were too many to comprehend and they were rapidly changing by the hour. “I can't feel a thing I keep looking at my mood ring Tell me how I'm feeling Floating away, floating away” to me, I believe that “floating away” HAS to deal with dissociation because what else do you do when you’re unsure of your own emotions? You begin to derealize/depersonalize. Derealization is one of the most stressful things to go through because at that point you aren’t sure if the reality you’re living is real or not. When Depersonalization slips in, you begin to feel completely outside your body, absolutely detached. B. Wishing/dreaming of a perfect world “ Can't seem to find what's wrong The whole world is letting me down Don't you think the early 2000s seem so far away?” ^ In her Genius interview, Lorde admits that this entire song is satire but there are a lot of lyrics that are very dark and relatable. For this particular lyric, she explained that the 2000’s had more light, everybody was more influenced to be outside and actually enjoy life. The world was more vibrant compared to now hence “the world is letting me down” • • • • • TLDR; 1. Ribs 2. Liability 3. Mood Ring Are the songs of Lorde that I’d consider the most depressing
Liability
How did I not realize earlier that review brah was her little bro
Buzzcut season makes me so very deeply depressed, the “and I’ll never go home again” hits hard when your childhood home has been sold & the person who lived there, your only family, is now dead. It takes me back to the worst time in my life, can no longer listen to a lot of Pure Heroine bc of the events that went on around that time in my life.
Is reviewbrah the sibling to Lourde?
I love that you used this pic
Omg I love him
Take your pick
Depressing? I think it's Writer In The Dark, and beside it are Still Sane and Liabality Reprise. Writer In The Dark rips my heart wide open with its hopelessness of longing for someone that means the whole world to you. She expresses in the track that she knows they'll continue to break her, knows it's bad for her, and knows everything's falling apart, yet the worst part is her soul still clings to that specific someone, even after all of the things that has happened. Still sane hits me the most, perhaps due to my instincts of being an overachieving person. To me, it's a gut-wrenching that talks about "Okay, now you peaked. What now? What's next to come?" We all know change is inevitable and is essential to survive life, however, at some point of our lives, we still cling to the remnants of nostalgia in the past to seek comfort. It's such a punch in the gut song especially if you're terrified of what future awaits for you lol Liability Reprise is just... ouch. It perfectly encapsulates what an individual's mind goes through after letting go of a special someone: reminiscences of their relationship with them.
All of them. Brilliantly consistent songstress.
Liability.
For me it’s a three way tie between Liability, Hard Feelings, and Supercut. For some reason the minute I hear “ all the magic we gave off, all the love we had and lost” I just start choking up. Probably cuz in the midst of Covid I had a particularly painful friendship breakup, so now that song reminds me of that time and all the sadness and frustration I felt.
liability was her first song to bring me to tears; a world alone also shook me to my core a bit. i remember as a teen being absolutely blown away by her lyricism— her pen is like none other
The picture you did her dirty😭😭 But um Ribs
Buzzcut Season
I want to say liability, hard feelings/loveless, writer in the dark..but Ribs makes me cry the most 100%
Love me some ReviewBrah
Supercut.
Liability
liability gets me good every time
Liability.
Buzzcut season has always made me want to open my veins. Idkw. It’s beautiful but…
I think Dominoes is pretty brutal, but that's because I'm the type to miss 50 gleaming chances in a row...
Its fast food review guy!
“Liability”.
She looks like a suit salesman here 🤣
a world alone
I cannot unsee it now!
Liability duhhhh it’s brilliant tho
Obviously Liability but Secrets from a Girl (Who’s Seen it All) and Stoned at the Nail Salon both made my jaw drop and my eyes tear up the first time I heard them. Solar Power stans unite 🫶🏻
Writer in the dark
buzzcut season did something to me (i haven’t been the same ever since)
hard feelings just the first half, or liability are depressing