#they're purposefully corny okay don't @ at me | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

pitseleh333 · 2 years

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i would like to hear your beef with liability. this wave of sadgirl music is also troubling to me

okay bc u asked if i get cancelled im shifting the blame to you anon <3 lol firstly disclaimer i am extremely tired at the moment so if this is barely coherent thats why

do you know that david foster wallace quote "theres a lot of narcissism in self hatred" ? i think thats a very good way to describe this song. but of course thats not bad in and of itself. especially bc i have a STRONG feeling that when lorde wrote this song she was purposely being melodramatic (wink wink) and i think if u look at it is a highly camp song in the same vein as like, primadonna by marina or no children by the mountain goats then thats cool. like its a song you sob to in your room feeling self pity when you're 13. but i also have a suspicious feeling that a lot of people listen to this song in an extremely uncritical manner & take the sentiment of it very seriously. so i guess then my issue would be less so with lorde herself and more her fans.

however, i also have heard that lorde wrote it because she felt like she was being isolated from all of her friends because of the fame she was receiving which im like. very conflicted about because on the one hand i do think it must be hard to be on the receiving end of such attention at such a young age, however i also feel like it just comes across as a little bit Out of Touch.

but im going to go into the lyrics specifically i guess bc i cant just say all this without saying why i think it or whatever first of all first verse

Baby really hurt me, crying in the taxi

He don't wanna know me

Says he made the big mistake of dancing in my storm

Says it was poison

so immediately very grandiose and conceited and i guess my big critique w the lyricism itself in the enitre song is that it sounds like a rupi kaur poem straight up. but yknow i think lorde herself admitted that they're meant to be purposefully corny a bit. 2nd verse whatever who cares honestly kind of weird THE CHORUS really is the huge issue for me i mean

They say, "You're a little much for me

You're a liability

You're a little much for me"

So they pull back, make other plans

I understand, I'm a liability

Get you wild, make you leave

I'm a little much for e-a-na-na-na, everyone

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

idk this is just such an annoying way to see yourself and your friends and the world. i have no critique beyond if a friend said this to me i wouldnt want to be their friend either but not because theyre a fucking liability but because theyre annoying and clearly self centered. like this song is very much "i am the center of the universe" like omg "i am a toy that people enjoy til all of the tricks dont work anymore"

i guess thats a not so short summary of my major qualms w it and my main issue is moreso the interpretation of the song than the actual lyrical content though i do think it is very much like 5 rupi kaur poems put into one song w a catchy jackanantoff production which is an issue i have w a lot of her music. like a lot of it feels like just because she says the lines in a very convincing matter of fact way with a sort of snappy "punchline" people think its deep and all that but really its just like. corny straight up. and idk i dont think lorde makes it clear enough that shes in on the joke like marina did with electra heart where she was telling these complex narrative tales about specific archetypes. god sorry this is so long and idk if it makes sense but xoxo.

#i think theres a lot to expand on but im too tired to do so here #tldr: its corny and demonstrates a very flawed world view

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