Views : 3,012,030
Genre: Music
Date of upload: Nov 2, 2021 ^^
Rating : 4.947 (1,765/131,431 LTDR)
RYD date created : 2022-04-09T18:45:50.162479Z
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Top Comments of this video!! :3
The ending is such great commentary on class disparity - when it comes down to it the rich will be comfortably escorted from the insupportable conditions caused by their inherited wealth and greed- while those less fortunate will be left to wither in the fires. Her escaping the dilapidated island in the very thing that fuelled its destruction (a vehicle) is a harrowing and profound image.
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How is no one talking about the skill that went into the production of this music video. It's an absolutely masterpiece. All these FLAWLESS cuts from utopia to dystopia are insane. Also the close-ups you get of Lorde during day and night are quite beguiling. In the day light she seems very modelished and a bit posey even? At night time she's expressing a vulnerability- perhaps representing our arrogance to mother nature and the result of how one day she'll break our hearts.
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The little details, the trash on the ground being picked up from the Solar Power MV, the feather fans left behind by the girls from Mood Ring, the peach pits left behind, the psychedelic mushrooms on her head, and finally how Ella is the one who has to stay on the island but Lorde gets to leave in a G-Wagon. Thereās layers to this, holy shit.
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Lorde has made it clear that she's criticizing the anthropocene on the album - wellness culture and how it appropriates indigenous practices, for example - and that this MV represents a choice that her character is making. But, am I the only one who interpreted this as Ella commenting on and denouncing colonialism? As someone from South America who's really into studying history, I think there's a lot to unpack from a white person arriving in a beautiful and full of life island in the morning, exploring it (the character in Mood Ring also indulges and profits from the native culture), then leaving gracefully in the night, while everything's destroyed and everyone's desperate to save themselves. Brilliant work.
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The juxtaposition of the beautiful, life-filled island during the day compared to the flames, darkness and despair at night is such an incredible metaphor for the state of our world and impending change. She has an incredible voice for spreading awareness and uses her platform spectacularly, without feeling too heavy-handed
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She shows how sheās just starting to realise and honour our mother, Earth, and how itās so quickly being taken from us. She also shows how she feels guilt for being a celebrity and being able to be whisked away if things ever go bad, the last scene where everyone is running and she is greeted with a plastic water bottle and 4x4 shows she feels guilty the privilege that she hates may have to be utilised in the face of the climate crisis.
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@fernandouribeii720
2 years ago
the aesthetic of this era is so beautiful and fits the album so well.
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