That the musical premise is so flimsy is what makes it so pliable as to eventually bend back around on itself.Д«ut 38 minutes is a long time to be spent listening to one song. Never has the sound of nothing-to-say-about-anything-much seemed so monotonous, the opening and closing songs with palinode lines suggesting not so much a song-cycle but a circle of songs that play out, musically, along a straight line. These songs, spaced to carry a couple of nearly-filler tunes between them, will see you two thirds of the way through the album an album that takes the vapidity of The Naked & Famous and hopes to dazzle and distract because these are the (naked) thoughts of a (famous) 16 year old.ДЄnd these thoughts have been praised, her lyrics sheвЂ™s attracted a lot of talk (and, well, let emвЂ™ talk!) about her lyrics that would be lyrics like вЂњIвЂ™ve never seen a diamond in the fleshвЂќ and вЂњIвЂ™m kind of over getting told to throw my hands up in the air/So thereвЂќ and, though sheвЂ™s (presumably) writing what she knows (not usually a bad thing) thereвЂ™s a lot of churched-up ennui here a lot of entitlement-boredom. Tennis Court opens and itвЂ™s a standout, along with Royals (carried over from the EP) and Team. Similarly the album surely seems to be wanting to exempt itself from criticism by beginning with the line, вЂњDonвЂ™t you think that itвЂ™s boring how people talk?вЂќ and ending, a trim 38-minutes/10 songs later, with the song A World Alone which features a вЂњlet вЂem talkвЂќ passive-aggressive kiss-off.

IвЂ™m not saying sheвЂ™s cleverly manipulated her audience of wonвЂ™t-hear-a-bad-worders, strangely split between 16 year old girls and 50 year old men it seems. But fuck the hype, letвЂ™s look at the music this time right? Sure, thereвЂ™s a niggling annoyance for me that almost every song references LordeвЂ™s age вЂ“ meaning this вЂњonly 16вЂќ thing gets to get carried on, used as both praise and a defence, either itвЂ™s extraordinary that she wrote what she wrote when she was this age or itвЂ™s a sign that thereвЂ™s (even) more to come, given sheвЂ™s only the age she is right now. ItвЂ™s in no way a terrible album вЂ“ LordeвЂ™s debut full-lengther leaves that EP in the dust, where it belongs ( you may remember I wasnвЂ™t such a fan of it, nor the hype surrounding/engulfing).

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