What the fuck are perfect places anyway?

they say "you're a little much for me, you're a liability"

Nineteen

Quarter Life Crisis - Baby Queen // Dear John - Taylor Swift // Teenage Dream - Olivia Rodrigo // Perfect Places - Lorde // Would've Could've Should've - Taylor Swift // Making the Bed - Olivia Rodrigo

oh, the glory and the agony of 19

maude latour // probabilities — lorde // perfect places — lucy dacus // thumbs — blegh // almost close — katie gregson-macleod // complex — taylor swift // would’ve, could’ve, should’ve

Cinematic parallels:

Lorde's Perfect Places music video directed by Grant Singer (2017) / Poor Things film directed by Yorgos Lanthimos (2023).

Venice by day

𝐭𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐬..𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬✨

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what the fvck are perfect places?

No but who let Lorde make melodrama? Like greenlight? Liability? Supercut? Writer in the dark? The lovere? Homemade dynamite? Perfect places? Hard Feelings? Loveless? Sober?

melodrama is for the people who don't mean half the things they say. melodrama is for the people who pluck their eye makeup out of their lashes the morning after. it is for the ones who get the urge to cut off the people they love, for the people who secretly think their friends are full of shit. melodrama is for the people who love for the thrill of it and romanticize the high. melodrama is for the people who don't have any tangible problems but blow up everything in their minds, the ones who feel their problems are invalid. melodrama is for the ones who hate being called dramatic. it is for the ones who don't have talent because they are never the best, who want to grow but are scared of aging, who relate to everyone but still feel lonely.

melodrama is for the ones who are insecure about their anger. melodrama is for the ones who aren't good enough for their friends. it is for the hypocrites, the ones who value reciprocation but aren't good with affection. melodrama is for the easily distracted, the ones in denial. it is for the ones who don't feel their lives revolving around them, for the ones who recognize "home" but have never had one. it is for the ones who want to feel like themselves again. melodrama strikes the dangerous balance; it is for the cynics, the romantics, the stable, the unhinged, the dramatics, the detached, the self-centered, self-loathing, the selfish and selfless, the undefinable. melodrama is for the constellations of contradictions.

in my head i play a supercut of us

Melodrama

I discovered this album in summer of 2021. I had heard a few songs here and there but I hadn’t gotten into the full immersive experience that is the album. It’s one of the major albums that has defined 2021 for me so as the sun sets for the 2021, I want to look back and reflect on this year It could be sunset or dawn:light creeping through the blinds, illuminating half of a young woman’s face as she lies in bed, dark hair strewn across a pillow. She looks towards us, as if she’s been stirred from her sleep, pulled from a bad dream into a reality that’s just as wild and brutal as what her subconscious mustered. Modern existence can be brilliant and colourful and numbing all at once, and Lorde is perhaps the first artist of our generation to articulate this properly. If records about solitude and shifting relationships tend to gloss over the small details of how that changes someone, Melodrama is our generation’s first album that appreciated those nuances. It is wise and yet vulnerable, often violent in its imagery. Melodrama bleeds that semi-masochistic feeling. Of allowing yourself to be in love or happy, knowing the end will hurt anyway. Sure,Melodrama is dramatic (it’s in the title after all), but it also speaks to our generation’s desire to not take things so seriously stupid as fuck, laughing off a pain we feel stuck in. It’s a record for a generation who tweet memes about their depression, in an attempt, maybe, to manifest a cure somewhere out in the ether. But also just because it’s good to extol our emotions for working when they feel mute in daily life. It’s no surprise that the album’s cult following remains strong some 4 years after its initial release. That people see it as an emotional refuge that may take them back to a time and place, while still allowing that meaning to evolve, moulding perfectly to situations in your life that have arisen since. For we spend so much time begging to feel smthn that even pain is a positive sign we’re still capable of feeling at all. Lorde’s sophomore record will always speak to that: “All the glamour, and the trauma and the fucking melodrama” of what it means to be young, bitter, brilliant and lonely all at once.

//this is how we get notorious//