Lorde: Tennis Court analysis
The concept of pure heroine
Pure Heroine is Lorde’s debut album. If we took her as the narrator the album is told from a very young perspective, the vast majority of these songs were written when she was 16 to 17 years old so she talks about the fears and of growing up and the changes she’s experimenting while entering young adulthood. She also criticises the way grown adults view teens, and there is sort of a rebellious theme throughout the album, which is also related on fame and how other people view her as a celebrity.
Tennis Court: Resources used in the track
Conceptual: “Don't you think is boring how people talk….but ill know they never own
“Is a new art form to show people how little we care” As previously mentioned this is a rebellious side of lorde speaking we can see this even emphasised in the music video were all she does is sing the background vocal saying “yeah” as in “I am going to do my own thing” kind of way.
There’s also a lyric that states “pretty soon ill be getting on my first plane…” this is her way of talking about she is becoming famous while still remaining true to herself
Sound/Technical: Electric drum set, bass drum is not used, tom drum is treated with a reply high eq same snare and some sort of high hat they are also ver compressed (1:3 ratio i think)
The vocals in the back are treated with reverb and some a bit of a chorus effect also a low pass eq (I think is the track is equalized with more intensity in the mid section and definitely a high cut filter used)
As in the panning of the track the vocals are situated in the right middle and in the front, the string enable done with an electric keyboard is extended through all the spectrum (from right to left) the tom is on the left (75 - 80) percent and the snare is in the left with the same proportions cymbals are both in the right and left with a 65-60 percent with mens there placed a bit more in the front.
Musical, microdanymics: Its an 84/85 bmp track (if I counted correctly), 4/4 beat, those time measures are almost the standard of pretty much every mainspring gender not making any judgement at all just a fact. In the verses The bass drum marks the first beat of every bar, theres a drum beat in the back with varies between a cymbal and a lower tom drum with marks eight notes.
In the chorus the main beat comes to the from of the cymbal track marking the eight notes and the tom moves slimly to the back
How the technical resources are used artistically: the vocals in the back just reinforce the fact of that we've all gone through this fears, hopes, fighting for what we want to sum up, growing up with as mentioned before is the main concept in the album.