Then there are the tracks Team and Glory and Gore. Hearing this song blasting through my headphones was like slapping a bandaid on whatever was bothering me. The lyrics remain dark and introspective, such as, “ I’ve never felt more alone/ feels so scary getting old.” The whole number feels less nostalgic and more resigned, and it’s easy to see why it’s melancholy beauty transfixed so many listeners.
The song is minimal, with just one throbbing beat swelling in the background, as she mourns the collective loss of youth among teens, not necessarily of her generation, but that universal experience of kids becoming more exposed to the adult world, and that punched-in-the-gut realization that there’s no going back. Her voice sounds glossy and lithe, sleepy and sighing. Miller’s deeply tragic death inspired me to listen to Pure Heroine again, just to experience the music as it was then and as it is today.
It’s that you’ve developed a special connection to the soundtrack of your adolescence, and now, those memories are tinged with this knowledge of the future, and that’s unsettling. Miller was always in the spotlight because of who he was or wasn’t dating, and it looked like he had years of a strong career ahead of him- but it’s not the loss of new music that hurts.
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For a lot of my peers, that album is Mac Miller’s K.I.D.S (If you were born in the mid-late 90s you would have been a pre-teen at the time of its release) and I think that’s part of the reason why the internet is so completely shaken by his untimely death. For me, Pure Heroine will always be one of those albums. It’s this concoction of puberty hormones and petty middle school melodrama that makes e veryone look back at the albums that defined their teenage years so fondly. 5 years isn’t exactly a long time, but still- even though I feel worlds away from my former self, listening to Pure Heroine now, I can remember exactly who I was when I heard it the first time.Īnd good or bad, those fundamental adolescent years are characterized by intense emotions and teenage angst that just makes listening to music sound so damn good. Every sad song, every ballad, feels written just for you. It’s one of those albums that will always serve as a time capsule for that part of my life. Now, 5 years later, I’m looking back at Pure Heroine as one of my favourite albums from my teenage years. It was cheeky, defiant, but also infused with smart, teenaged perspectives and truths that other artists just couldn’t seem to hit on. And while we were living completely different lives, I remember thinking that Lorde’s album just spoke to me in ways that others didn’t. I, however, was working at an outlet mall and still taking a yellow bus to school because I didn’t have a car. I was in high school at this time, and conveniently, also 17 years old. At 17 years old, Lorde, (Ella Yelich-O’Connor) and her debut album have somehow graced the Rolling Stone’s Top 50 albums of the year, landing in the cushy top 7 spot. When I was a pre-teen I binged too hard on salted snap peas and now, in my mind, peas are synonymous with puke. INTENSE EMOTIONS AND TEENAGE ANGST Lorde was signed as a pre-teen, and now her name is synonymous with pop star.
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