#i know BOOORRRRING

[thetangibleghost]

This is probably not the way to go.

[puns-and-patton]

It’s 2AM on my overnight shift. All my friends are asleep and I’m so booorrrred. You wanna hear about the DnD campaign I’m planning so I can ramble about something for time passing reasons? -actualdragonwitch

Yeahhh absolutely!!! Sorry i dont know when you sent this tho! Sorry if it's too late

[messthatuwanted]

Do you have opinions about Liability? Bc it’s my heart and I trust you to give it the love it deserves

oh honey i have many opinions. first of all “says he made the big mistake of dancing in my storm” stings so bad. How could you ever say to someone? How could you ever make someone feel that way? I wanna fight this man.  My favorite part of the song is “says it was poooooiiiiiison” because her VOICE!!!! Literally sounds like poison!!! I feel like Lorde held me down against my will and injected poison into my bloodstream with her voice as the needle and then left me there to die while she carried on with the song like nothing happened. Smh can you believe her? The nerve? The whole song actually has such a specific Lorde effect that no other singer in the entire world could have done the song like she did. Like if she had decided to give this masterpiece away for someone else to sing, the meaning wouldn’t even be the same. Anyway, “so I guess I’ll go home into the arms of the girl that I love” HAD MY GAY ASS SO EXCITED but that excitement was quickly killed when I realized the girl is herself. However it’s still a beautiful and powerful message that a lot of people need to hear. THEY say ‘you’re a little much for me you’re a liability’ but she also describes HERSELF as “so hard to please/a forest fire” and it shows that even though she’s hurt by the opinion of others, she doesn’t entirely disagree with them and that’s a bitter pill to swallow. It takes strength to find beauty in that but she did because even with her being a “liability”, her self love is the only one she hasn’t screwed up. This such a complex emotion. You know the song is amazing when I’ve been gay baited and I still stan. If you have ever had a relationship with someone that feels like you have to walk on eggshells all the time, that’s exactly what the tone, melody, and spacing of “I do my best to meet her demands, play at romance, we slow dance…” sounds like. it’s so fragile!!! It’s amazing how she was able to capture that feeling and put it into sound. It’s like I visualize her on a tightrope trying not fall every time I hear that line. But usually that feeling is in relationships with other people. But she’s talking about herself. She’s her own liability I’m so sad THIS SONG IS SO SAD WHO ALLOWED THIS TO BE FOR PUBLIC CONSUMPTION WITHOUT A WARNING???? “So they pull back, make other plans. I understand. I’m a liability. Get you wild, make you LEAVE" SHUT UP???? LEAVE ME ALONE PERHAPS????

I’m a little much for eh-eh-ananana-eh-eh-veryone…. CHILLS! EVERYWHERE!! this is such a nice touch I’m obsessedThe second verse….oh my god. This verse is honestly too sad to even talk about but since you insisted on opening my wounds with this ask, let’s get into it. "truth is, I am a toy that people enjoy til all of the tricks don’t work anymore. And then they are booorrrred of me” THATS SO FUCKING SAD I HATE IT I HATE EVERYTHING WHAT THE FUCK WHY ARE HUMANS SO TERRIBLE TO EACH OTHERI KNOW THAT IT’S EXCITING!RUNNING THROUGH THE NIGHT BUT!EVERY PERFECT SUMMER’S!EATING ME ALIVEUNTIL YOUREgone.

THE DELIVERY! THE TEMPO! THE CHANGE OF TONE!! GOD!!! WHAT DID I DO TO DESERVE TO FEEL THE PAIN OF THOSE WORDS IM A DECENT PERSON I RECYCLE I DIDNT ASK FOR THIS the entire verse is almost asking people to remember that she’s a human being. Almost. But not asking because she’s been through this enough to think it’s hopeless to ask. She accepts that this is how it’s always gonna be. She understands!!! She’s a liability. I hate this goddamit I’m crying 

And did you notice the parallel with Hard Feelings? “Every perfect summer’s eating me alive” / “it’s time to let go of this endless summer afternoon” it gives a different perspective to the nostalgia in Hard Feelings where she looks back at the summer as perfect and great. But in Liability these perfect summers are eating her alive because she knows it’s gonna end anyway. So maybe she was never fully present enjoying every moment anyway? Because her fears of being a liability got in the way? I personally think this parallel speaks to how nostalgia romanticizes things and makes the past seem better than it was. But ANYWAYwhen Lorde closes the song with “They’re all gonna watch me disappear into the sun” she took me with her. This song launches my ass into the sun every time it plays. I have been robbed of every emotion I ever had. As robbed as Melodrama was for album of the year. A fucking masterpiece.