![]() ![]() There’s also the implication in the song that Lorde is growing apart from her childhood friend/boyfriend. She sees herself becoming the adult- preferring a quiet night in- against her own will. In the opening verse Lorde sings that “My mum and dad let me stay home/ It drives you crazy getting old.” Here, she suggests that as she gets older, she doesn’t want to be out every night and that her fear of growing up and having to become an adult, her fear of everything she has to become, makes her worried and sad, so she sits in at home instead. This sense of having to grow up, of leaving the tail end of your childhood behind, is what ‘Ribs’ is about and Lorde captures it perfectly. I’m expected to be deciding what I want to do for the rest of my life- get a job, get a career, get a flat, move away from your family and friends, find a man, anchor yourself to a place, a job, another person…It feels like my years of being childish and carefree and a happy drifter are slipping away and I am, inevitably, sadly, becoming a ‘grown-up’. As I move through my last year at uni, I’m aware how quickly things move on and change. ![]() While I think that the entire album has smart, relatable and original lyrics, ‘Ribs’ is the one that I feel resonates most with me at the moment. Although released as a commercial single, it did not gain as much attention as her chart-topping single, ‘Royals’ or similarly successful, ‘Team’. ‘Ribs’ is a track taken off Lorde’s album, ‘Pure Heroine’ which was released in September 2013. ![]()
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