Youth is a high stakes game, and no one captures the perils and euphoria of growing up quite like the oldest adolescent that ever lived shedding her teenage skin.
On Pure Heroine, Lorde was a dedicated outsider who’d never been on a plane, but imagined endlessly what it must be like with a cool, criticial distance. On Melodrama, she’s skydiving, terrified but self-assured. Do you think you love onion rings? Lorde loves onion rings so much that she made an Instagram account devoted to them and promptly deleted it once the simple act of rating fried food lost its purity.
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