Lorde gets fired up
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In her latest single, “Yellow Flicker Beat,” Lorde is feeling disenchanted with her life and the world around her. She feels that things have changed, and not for the better.
This week’s Karaoke Korner takes a look at vocabulary words used in the lyrics.
ABOUT LORDE
Name: Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O'Connor
Nationality: New Zealand
Style: Pop
Albums: Pure Heroine (2013)
Labels: UMG, Lava, Republic
In brief: Born in Auckland, New Zealand, this 18-year-old singer-songwriter took part in singing and drama classes at school. She signed with the Universal label when she was just 13 years old. Her debut EP, The Love Club, was released in November 2012, with her debut album, Pure Heroine, following in September 2013. Lorde’s single “Royals” reached No. 1 on many music charts around the world, including the US Billboard Hot 100, UK Singles and New Zealand charts. Her latest single, “Yellow Flicker Beat,” also hit big internationally. The song is featured on the soundtrack album for the movie The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1. Since her sudden success, Lorde has performed on many top-rating TV shows in the US, including Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and The Ellen DeGeneres Show.
If you like Lorde, check out: Lana Del Rey, Florence and the Machine and Sky Ferreira.
Website: www.lorde.co.nz
“Yellow Flicker Beat”
By Lorde
I’m a princess cut from marble
Smoother than a storm
And the scars that mark my body
They’re silver and gold
My blood is a flood of rubies
Precious stones
It keeps my veins hot
The fires found a home in me
I move through town
I’m quite like a fire
And my necklace is of rope
I tie it and untie it
And now people talk to me
But nothing ever hits home
And people talk to me
And all the voices just burn holes
I’m done with it
Chorus
This is the start of how it all ends
They used to shout my name
Now they whisper it
I’m speeding up
And this is the red, orange, yellow
Flicker beat sparking up my heart
We rip the start
The colours disappear
I never watch the stars
There’s so much down here
So I just try to keep up with them
Red, orange, yellow flicker beat
Sparking up my heart
I dream all year
But they’re not the sweet kinds
And the shivers move down
My shoulder blades in double time
And now people talk to me
I’m slipping out of reach now
People talk to me
And all their faces blur
But I got my fingers laced together
And I made a little prison
And I’m locking up everyone
Whoever laid a finger on me
(Chorus)
Exercises
Match the following words used in the lyrics with the correct synonyms from the choices given.
| …... 1. precious | a. fade |
| …… 2. shout | b. residence |
| …… 3. home | c. valuable |
| …… 4. disappear | d. yell |
Vocabulary
- blur (v): to become or make something become difficult to distinguish clearly
lace (v): to weave or twist something together with another thing
disenchanted (adj): no longer feeling enthusiasm for something
