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Lorde had said that she reversed the chords from this song into Secrets from a girl! You should do an analysis from Ribs to Secrets from a girl to show progress (growth)
lordeandback I’d say Ribs, 400 Lux, A World Alone are my personal killers. And from Melo: Supercut and then the transition into Liability II is amAZING
@@xrrgr i think she's talking 'bout the depth of it. Well, almost everybody, having enough grasp on English, would understand the lryics' obvious or skin-deep meaning. But, only a few would realize their undertones - the intended duality of the songs.
Lucas.MBH HEY! I did too March 21. Best day of my fucking life! She was my first concert, never have i ever been to one before and she really made me feel free... Ribs was different though.. had a more pop, sorta jazz feel, i liked it but i love the original so much that I kinda wish she kept it original.. still though I’ve never danced as hard or felt the feeling i did that day before .. it was bad-ass. She was phenomenal.
The minimalism of the production just allows the listener to visualise their past-times. Overtime I've definitely grown tremendously fond of this one song off the album. Great analysis btw.
every time i hear this song, i think of the cold winter mornings, at the bus stop, during my freshmen year in high school. it’s weird because this song came out in 2013 and i was in freshmen year in 2010-2011 but somehow it still brings back those memories of being young and careless. it’s confusing to describe.
I'm 68 and the song brings tears to my eyes every time I hear it. You might be on to something there. I hear it as my Mum and Dad died and left me alone. I haven't figured out if Lorde is a genius, a Goddess or a witch, but she is definitely something else.
the only thing lorde and billie have in common is being female and kinda alternative... i think it’s kinda sad that ppl compare the two when they’re both amazing in their own way ☹️
One of my friends thinks Lorde's songs are nothing special and her voice isn't unique or anything but the thing I love about Lorde's songs is how they almost always have that sense of nostalgia or longing or loneliness. Ribs has that very strong vibe of nostalgia that pulls you in. It makes me want to never grow up.
ribs to me feels like you’re in a car with your friends, going along the highway at night, music blasting. your throat is tight and your eyes are watering because you don’t want this moment to end. you know that someday, you’ll be grown and have a job and bills and taxes to pay and you won’t be *young* anymore. i’m thirteen and i feel so much nostalgia listening to ribs and i’m just positively terrified to grow up. i’m glad lorde is able to capture that feeling.
this so accurately describes how i feel about this song that i started crying? upon first listening to ribs in my room late at night, i was struck with a sense of emptiness kind of? but also a sense of having returned home. it resonated with me and to this day is one of my all time favorites. thank you for your fantastic analysis
This song makes me cry and i mean bawl-soak-my-face-raw cry the emotions and lyrics and the hypnotic beat, especially, make me fall apart. Thank you so much for this breakdown i need to know i’m not the only one who has such a tie to this song. It means so much to me ever since it was released and even now when i’m 19 and lost.
Are you me?? I'm also 19, and was 15/16 when I first heard this song. And the ethereal, hypnotic beat paired with the stressfull lament of growing old struck me so hard. A feeling I struggled with, and still do... Truly one of my all time fave songs tbh.
pure heroine brings up bittersweet emotions and memories, and you captured them perfectly in this video. and i really love your style of editing, it's just magical
I find this analysis interesting because for me personally I never really paid any mind to the lyrics. The sound of the song itself is enough to make me feel nostalgia and longing for a simpler time. The song has also struck a chord with me because I listened to it quite frequently when on holiday, so every time I listen to the song, it brings back fond memories of driving on windy roads and looking at the snowy mountains out the window. Does anyone else associate this song with a specific memory? This was a really thoughtful and well-made video, I really enjoyed it.
I listened to the album on repeat for months when it came out, so whenever I hear it again I’m 15 again, walking to school, being exited to ride the bus downtown and living my life in this weird in-between of suburbia and the city. Looking back it feels like a much simpler time, but even then I related to the lyrics a lot. Nostalgia glosses over all of the bad things we felt in the past and only highlights the best parts, so I enjoy that I don’t feel anxious about school anymore or have to live trough those slightly childish friendship-dramas again.
This song has a special place in my heart. I discovered Lorde when I was a Junior in HS, and as I'm entering into my Junior year of college, Lorde's Pure Heroine is still one of my favorite albums. I used to go to a private school in DC. I never had many friends, I never got invited out to many parties, and I never really felt happy. My Sophomore year of high school I was failing classes, watching anime and playing video games all the time, and weighed 220 pounds. I hated myself and everything that I stood for, but I didn't feel like I can do anything about where I was. I blamed the world for everything that was wrong with me, and was resolved to be miserable forever. Towards the end of that year I saw some of the other guys at my school - kids who got good grades, jocks who lifted, and social people who had friends and didn't watch anime - and I said to myself "I'm tired of feeling unhappy. I'm tired of hating myself and I'm tired of being a failure." So I changed everything. I started working out, put away anime, made an effort to get rid of my weird ticks, and tried as hard as I could to be normal. It wasn't easy, it hurt a lot, and was probably the greatest thing I've ever done, but I changed myself. Towards the end of HS I had actual legitimate friends, I was on the wrestling team, girls hit on me, and I was invited out to parties and other people's houses. How does this relate to Ribs? Every night, coming home from Wrestling practice, I'd be exhausted and sore and I'd turn on my metro playlist. Ribs was always the opening song. Whenever I turned on that playlist, I could feel how much I had changed from Sophomore to Senior year. The kid who was fat and watched anime was gone, and in his place was a fit, smart young man who was ready to conquer the world. Whenever I hear this song those emotions of tiredness, stress, pain, and accomplishment rush through me again - it's almost like I can still see the late night lights of DC again. When I was leaving high school, I was on top of the world. I had accomplished all my ambitions, I had a solid friend base, and I was on the top level of the social pyramid. College scared me - I didn't know what was going to be out there. I was losing all my old friends, and was thrown into a completely different environment that I couldn't control. It really did feel scary getting old. I don't know if you can be nostalgic for 3 years ago, but I sure as hell am.
I remember how hard that song hit when I heard it the first time at 17 a year from graduating High school and becoming an “adult”. That nostalgia was overwhelming. It still is. I think “Hard feelings” is a really underrated song on Melodrama
I didn't know Ribs was so disregarded! From the first time I heard this song I felt exactly what you described here and it's one of my favourites from "Pure Heroine"!
Everything about Ribs in Pure Heroine resonates in Louvre in Melodrama for me. Both of them are so wistfully nostalgic. "They'll hang us in the louvre; down the back but who cares.. still the louvre" = "I want em back, the minds we had, Its not enough to feel the lack, i want em back i want em back"
Vatsal Sharma Yes, yes, yes!!! Both are my absolute favorite off both albums, interestingly enough... both are the 4th song of their respective albums. She played Ribs and then The Louvre during her Melodrama World Tour and just tranced during both songs.
ribs and buzzcut season remind me of middle school when i would get off the bus and immediately go out on my bike and hang with my friends doing dumb things which was one of the few things that made me happy in a dark place in my life.
This video affected me so deeply... your analysis was so emotionaly touching and the words you say and the way you say them is so beautiful, you have a precious way to think and to express your thoughts. Literally when the video ended I went to the suscribe button... and when I saw your subscribers my jaw just dropped to the floor, I can believe you have so few, your videos are really professional and well edited, your sound is beautiful, I can really see you in the future being one of the biggest chanels, you definitley deserve it. And btw, that last line was just almost as beautiful as the song it self
ribs is like a not-so-hidden gem. it’s hidden enough to be special and not really well known, but it’s not unknown like other songs of hers like white teeth teens. it makes it so much more special.
I remember listening to this song and feeling it encapsulated everything that was happening now: friendships, perceptions, attitudes, weather, places. It made it feel like everything was right, as it should be
This moved me to tears. I remember listening to this song for the very first time in college with my best friend in his car. I thought it was a good song, but didn’t really think much of it. He soon left to another city after we graduated, and I really missed and continue to miss him and our daily friendship. I was actually not that happy during that time in my life when he was still around, but I still long for that feeling of connection that we once had. Thank you for making this 🙏🏻
I got into Lorde thanks to Green Light. Went back to listen to this first record and abolutely loved Ribs, was my favorite song on the album!!!!!!! I totally think it is underrated!! thanks for this video :D
ribs is one of my all time favorite songs. it brings me to a time thats in between the edge of forgetting a memory and living within it. its a wash of nostalgia and a feeling of longing
This song always makes me think of right after I graduated high school and when I spent my summer nights out with friends all the time. “I’ve never felt more alone, feels so scary getting old” really drove home the feelings I felt then and feel now.
Ribs it’s by far my favorite song by Lorde, it represents a lot to me due to it was the song that I would dedicate to my best friend and she would do the same to me for we struggle with depression and anxiety. It was and still is a sort of mantra for us as we are here for each other for no matter what happen, with endless love and support. Now we live far away from each other and there isn’t a single time I hear this track and cry for the memories of the afternoons we spent in each other’s homes doing absolutely nothing, just enjoying each other’s company and sharing ou pop couture similar taste. Now I’m gonna give her a call. Thanks
Christian Ribeiro same!! I dedicated it to my best friend, and she passed away a year later, so that song kinda destroys me emotionally with the nostalgia
I cried so much at the end. You made me realize something I didn't quite understand about the song, although I've listened to it for the last 5 years. Thank you and congratulations for the awesome video!
Ribs makes me think of my crush and how much I love and care for them and the last lyric “that will never be enough” makes me think about how we will never be anything more than just close friends:(
You have no Idea How much this video was important to me.. I've always Felt nostalgia when listening to ribs but i was never able to put those feelings in words like you did, a whole new world openend up for me, i love this Song so freaking much. You should review more songs, you really have a great talent.
This is such an incredible song and still to this day so difficult to listen to. I'm 20 and it makes me feel like I'm sitting at my death bed reflecting back at my youth. Absolutely incredible.
Lorde's music resonates and relates to me on a very personal level as I live and have grown up in a suburb right next to Devonport, which is where Lorde grew up. Growing up in this particular part of Auckland is a different and special experience, so it's especially nostalgic to me as we have both experienced the same things and grew up in the same streets and the same places. Ribs especially reminds me of my childhood and what life was like back then, so beautiful and simple. I'm only 17 now and growing up and away from my past really fucken scares me
I can’t hear this song without getting completely immersed in it. Like everything else is blocked out, and I picture an entire storyline in my head. That’s just Lorde’s power as a songwriter.
That was like... DUDE I'm not ok, amazing job, it was like a little documentary, a really interesting one. Don't have words to say it(maybe cause I'm not a native) but, you made my day a little better Brazil says hi!
This song reminds me of my first love. It replays all those beautiful irreplaceable memories. It reminds me of how he held my hand all the way to the beach late at night, the look he gave me before we kissed, his silly laugh and the sneaking out at night just to see him. I miss him so much. I wish things ended differently.
Lorde deserves so much more credit as an artist than she's getting. I don't care what anyone has to say, she's a musical genius for me. No one can make me feel the emotions I feel listening to her songs.
i was like 14 when Pure Heroine came out and my best friend at the times mom would let us borrow her car and drive ourselves around the neighborhood. Driving by ourselves was our first real taste of freedom and growing up, we would just drive and blast the her album. Pure Heroine brings me back to being in that car. Being a freshman and scared of growing up and starting a new chapter in my life. Now i listen and look back and think about how i am grown up now, and its not what i thought, but i still miss driving in that car with my best friend and just feeling free.
I have no ideia of why, but I literally cried while watching it. I think you expressed exactly how I feel about Ribs since the first time I listened, and by never putting into words, I didn't knew it how much I appreciated it.
I’m nineteen. my best friends and I spent the last summer vacation before college at the beach every other day, and we always listened to this song while we drove home and the sun was setting behind us. I love my friends, and this song makes me ache for that free feeling again
Thank you for this video. I feel as though I have grown up with this song, listening to it during the same time Lorde wrote about. She states at many of her concerts that she wrote this after throwing a party as a teen. I think for any teen that is a liberating feeling, though you begin to understand during these nights the complexity of the world, and the fact that soon you will have to grow up. This has always been my favorite song by Lorde, as I resonate with it so much (as I am about to turn 18). She uses Ribs now in her Melodrama tour to show the transformation from childhood to adulthood. She actually sings Ribs, then proceeds to change onstage into her 'big girl' clothes, showing her transformation from Pure Heroine to Melodrama. It is all very poetic, and yes, very nostalgic. I love that she sees the song as meaningful as we do, it is truly such a beautiful and powerful song that I will luckily always associate with the memories of growing up.
It's 2019 and I still watch this because it's so beautifully made and it perfectly captures why Ribs and Lorde in general is a masterpiece. She's Pop but she speaks a truth no other pop star does and I love it. I grew up with Lorde back in 9th grade and now I graduated in Uni and I'm pass the Melodrama era. I'm growing up with Lorde and I am so happy about it. I also pursued my career as an artist because of Lorde and I'm hoping one day I get to tell her in person all the things she did in my life that she doesn't know helped shaped me. Thank you for this video, hope there's more Lorde analysis.
I had this song on my playlist but I wasn’t super obsessed with it.. yet.. the night my mom passed away this song came on that night and it just felt so deep and I had it on repeat. A few months later she was on her Melodrama tour and I had to go to watch Ribs live. “I want em back, the minds we had” “ive never felt more alone, it feels so scary getting old” “you’re the only friend I need” always hits and makes me want my mom even more.
I remember when I first listened to this song during highschool and being close to tears afterwards. I remember playing this song in the jeep with a guy I liked at the time late a night while putting my head out of the window and looking out for the stars. Lorde perfectly described my reckless feelings and thoughts during my teen years and I thank her for composing Ribs.
Wow I’m speechless, I’ve always loved this song, I heard it for the first time, on my birthday 16th, since the album came out, I had a small party with drinks and dancing and before I passed out I heard this song for the first time and I fell in love with it, and I couldn’t describe it other than the word nostalgia and the intensity at the bridge, I love the editing, if you could do another Lorde song that would be great I suggest Supercut or Hard Feelings and wow the minimalism in the editing I love it, great job!!!
I LOVE LORDE. I love Pure Heroine because it feels like she wrote the lyrics just for me. Buzzcut Season is my favorite. Debut album will always be the best. I always loved RIBS because I miss my childhood. I’m getting old, 20 and I want to go back to my good old days.
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I love hearing/learning what a person thinks of a song. especially when it’s in so much depth. I wish more people could explain how a song makes them feel and WHY it makes them feel that way.
This video is a work of art! I've always felt that nostalgia feeling every time I've listened to this song. And now seeing this analysis I'm just loving the song even more. Thank you for this!
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If you enjoyed this video, I'm happy to say that my next Lorde analysis is finally out! Check out Supercut here: th-cam.com/video/EoI-H8I9Krg/w-d-xo.html :)
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PLEASE ANALYZE A SOLAR POWER TRACK PLEASE PLEASE 😭
Lorde had said that she reversed the chords from this song into Secrets from a girl! You should do an analysis from Ribs to Secrets from a girl to show progress (growth)
she wrote this when she was FIFTEEN. five years later I still can't believe how moving and beautiful it is
1k like lol
She doesn’t write her own music. She’s an actress, playing the “Lorde” persona that is written for her
Queen Egg look it up, it’s a fact
Hunter K shut the fuck up thats not true
Hunter K bitches like you are just so sad and bitter. trying to rip someone from their own beautiful work. rise above yourself
Buzzcut Season makes me cry like a baby, so nostalgic....
Same
thats me
Swingin Party was not written by Lorde but, the Lorde version is really nostagic!
same!! it's probably my favorite song of all time
YAAAAS
When I listen to Lorde I feel happy for being sad, it's kinda weird to explain
Vinicius Miranda I understand i feel the same way
Weirdly I completely agree with this
In french we call it mélancolie Aka sadness with a bit of dream mood
@@zaklarc6441 Oh, yeah, we have this here: Melancolia
yah its weird
Ribs, A World Alone and Bravado is a triple threat that could take over the world
lordeandback fuckin true
lordeandback I’d say Ribs, 400 Lux, A World Alone are my personal killers. And from Melo: Supercut and then the transition into Liability II is amAZING
Don’t forget White Teeth Teens
Trueee
The holy trinity frick me UP
Lorde is a great lyricist. Too poetic for everybody to appreciate which makes those who do appreciate her have something unique...
Gabrielle Basañez ..I think most people can appreciate her lyrics, sis 💀
naomi obi truth lol
everybody can understand her lyrics, yes, but not all people understand the layers of her music
@@xrrgr i think she's talking 'bout the depth of it. Well, almost everybody, having enough grasp on English, would understand the lryics' obvious or skin-deep meaning. But, only a few would realize their undertones - the intended duality of the songs.
naomi obi WeRe DiFeReNt
ribs has always made me feel so deeply nostalgic, i feel it in my chest even, thank you for this video.
sarah that song isn’t a song. It’s a movie, a book, a photo and a memory. It’s transcendent. breathtaking.
Ribs is also my number one favorite song from pure heroine
+Zaptos Buzzcut Season is good too
Half Past Awkward Yes and 400 lux
+Zaptos 400 lux and Ribs are my favorites of all time
Ribs, A world alone and lately Buzzcut Season (this song grew in me when I saw Lorde performed it live)
Lucas.MBH HEY! I did too March 21. Best day of my fucking life! She was my first concert, never have i ever been to one before and she really made me feel free... Ribs was different though.. had a more pop, sorta jazz feel, i liked it but i love the original so much that I kinda wish she kept it original.. still though I’ve never danced as hard or felt the feeling i did that day before .. it was bad-ass. She was phenomenal.
The minimalism of the production just allows the listener to visualise their past-times. Overtime I've definitely grown tremendously fond of this one song off the album. Great analysis btw.
Thank you for the kind, thoughtful words! And yes, I totally agree with you about the minimalism - less really is more.
every time i hear this song, i think of the cold winter mornings, at the bus stop, during my freshmen year in high school. it’s weird because this song came out in 2013 and i was in freshmen year in 2010-2011 but somehow it still brings back those memories of being young and careless. it’s confusing to describe.
Also the details on Tempo "dragged" right before the drop idk if im clear. Dope!!!
I'm 68 and the song brings tears to my eyes every time I hear it. You might be on to something there. I hear it as my Mum and Dad died and left me alone. I haven't figured out if Lorde is a genius, a Goddess or a witch, but she is definitely something else.
Thank you for watching, Sir!
lorde claims to be a witch but i hope its a joke. she is definitely a genius though
SHE IS ALL THREE XD
Beautiful.
@@minimalistvlogger3467 she probably means being wiccan, wicca is a religion like Christianity. They also call themselves witches
“Accept the nostalgic feelings that all of us are destined to die with”
That hit me really hard and had to listen to it a few times
yall remember when lorde was the 'billie eilish'
u cant even compare the two
I ain’t comparing them, i just remember when Lorde was the 17 year old star
Lucas Crafes wow. This is facts
the only thing lorde and billie have in common is being female and kinda alternative... i think it’s kinda sad that ppl compare the two when they’re both amazing in their own way ☹️
izzy xo Lucas wasn’t comparing em lmao
One of my friends thinks Lorde's songs are nothing special and her voice isn't unique or anything but the thing I love about Lorde's songs is how they almost always have that sense of nostalgia or longing or loneliness. Ribs has that very strong vibe of nostalgia that pulls you in. It makes me want to never grow up.
Tell your friend to listen to Rihanna, sia and Taylor swift! Lorde is so talented and her voice is angelic.
TOTALLY, RIBS IS EVERYTHING FOR ME
Things you can say both during dinner and as a music critic: “I love Ribs”
Ribs and A World Alone are two of the most underrated songs on Pure Herione
Completely agree.
I agree too peep my name 😉
My two favourite songs
Bruja i think those are everyone’s favorites but ok loool
Ribs is not underrated at all but it’s a rlly great song
Also a fan of Lorde's music so I liked melodrama it was more of a new adult album
hard feelings is my favourite 😊
FLODKA it's hard for me to chose to one I love more but I'd chose perfect places
omg Melodrama saved my life. i love it so much.
FLODKA SAMEEEEE I LOVE THE ENDING
Sobber II. Can´t beat that one
ribs to me feels like you’re in a car with your friends, going along the highway at night, music blasting. your throat is tight and your eyes are watering because you don’t want this moment to end. you know that someday, you’ll be grown and have a job and bills and taxes to pay and you won’t be *young* anymore.
i’m thirteen and i feel so much nostalgia listening to ribs and i’m just positively terrified to grow up. i’m glad lorde is able to capture that feeling.
When she said "You're the only friend I need" I immediately messaged my friend and said thank you. That lyric always gets me for some reason.
this song honestly just makes me feel like I’m wasting my youth
same here. i wanna be out there, living my life. twirling on beaches at sunset, being with the people i love. but i feel like i’m wasting it.
this so accurately describes how i feel about this song that i started crying? upon first listening to ribs in my room late at night, i was struck with a sense of emptiness kind of? but also a sense of having returned home. it resonated with me and to this day is one of my all time favorites. thank you for your fantastic analysis
harper!! What you said has made me teary lol
She’s a genius, bro. I swear to god. Child prodigy.
This song makes me cry and i mean bawl-soak-my-face-raw cry the emotions and lyrics and the hypnotic beat, especially, make me fall apart. Thank you so much for this breakdown i need to know i’m not the only one who has such a tie to this song. It means so much to me ever since it was released and even now when i’m 19 and lost.
Dantae i relate so much to this
Are you me?? I'm also 19, and was 15/16 when I first heard this song. And the ethereal, hypnotic beat paired with the stressfull lament of growing old struck me so hard. A feeling I struggled with, and still do... Truly one of my all time fave songs tbh.
"Even now when I'm 19 and lost" .... what a weirdly relatable phrase 😕
i relate to this tbh. I was 16 when i first heared it and i still love this song so mch
I ride the subways read the signs, I let the seasons change my mind :(
pure heroine brings up bittersweet emotions and memories, and you captured them perfectly in this video.
and i really love your style of editing, it's just magical
Thank you for the kind words! :)
I find this analysis interesting because for me personally I never really paid any mind to the lyrics. The sound of the song itself is enough to make me feel nostalgia and longing for a simpler time. The song has also struck a chord with me because I listened to it quite frequently when on holiday, so every time I listen to the song, it brings back fond memories of driving on windy roads and looking at the snowy mountains out the window. Does anyone else associate this song with a specific memory? This was a really thoughtful and well-made video, I really enjoyed it.
Libby Bond I associate it with going to the amusement and messing around with my friends last may.
This is off topic but is that a cat or dog you are holding?
Mayonnaise haha it’s a cat
I associate it with the feeling you get when you are under water at the pool on a sunny day and open your eyes
I listened to the album on repeat for months when it came out, so whenever I hear it again I’m 15 again, walking to school, being exited to ride the bus downtown and living my life in this weird in-between of suburbia and the city.
Looking back it feels like a much simpler time, but even then I related to the lyrics a lot.
Nostalgia glosses over all of the bad things we felt in the past and only highlights the best parts, so I enjoy that I don’t feel anxious about school anymore or have to live trough those slightly childish friendship-dramas again.
This song has a special place in my heart. I discovered Lorde when I was a Junior in HS, and as I'm entering into my Junior year of college, Lorde's Pure Heroine is still one of my favorite albums.
I used to go to a private school in DC. I never had many friends, I never got invited out to many parties, and I never really felt happy. My Sophomore year of high school I was failing classes, watching anime and playing video games all the time, and weighed 220 pounds. I hated myself and everything that I stood for, but I didn't feel like I can do anything about where I was. I blamed the world for everything that was wrong with me, and was resolved to be miserable forever. Towards the end of that year I saw some of the other guys at my school - kids who got good grades, jocks who lifted, and social people who had friends and didn't watch anime - and I said to myself "I'm tired of feeling unhappy. I'm tired of hating myself and I'm tired of being a failure." So I changed everything. I started working out, put away anime, made an effort to get rid of my weird ticks, and tried as hard as I could to be normal. It wasn't easy, it hurt a lot, and was probably the greatest thing I've ever done, but I changed myself. Towards the end of HS I had actual legitimate friends, I was on the wrestling team, girls hit on me, and I was invited out to parties and other people's houses.
How does this relate to Ribs? Every night, coming home from Wrestling practice, I'd be exhausted and sore and I'd turn on my metro playlist. Ribs was always the opening song. Whenever I turned on that playlist, I could feel how much I had changed from Sophomore to Senior year. The kid who was fat and watched anime was gone, and in his place was a fit, smart young man who was ready to conquer the world. Whenever I hear this song those emotions of tiredness, stress, pain, and accomplishment rush through me again - it's almost like I can still see the late night lights of DC again.
When I was leaving high school, I was on top of the world. I had accomplished all my ambitions, I had a solid friend base, and I was on the top level of the social pyramid. College scared me - I didn't know what was going to be out there. I was losing all my old friends, and was thrown into a completely different environment that I couldn't control. It really did feel scary getting old.
I don't know if you can be nostalgic for 3 years ago, but I sure as hell am.
You don't need to reply or anything, I just wanted to get my story out there so maybe even one person could read it.
this is a beautiful story
I remember how hard that song hit when I heard it the first time at 17 a year from graduating High school and becoming an “adult”. That nostalgia was overwhelming. It still is.
I think “Hard feelings” is a really underrated song on Melodrama
This song my best friend and I sang to when we were 8. She’d sing the “you’re the only friend I need” and I’d sing the echo. Beautiful times.
I didn't know Ribs was so disregarded! From the first time I heard this song I felt exactly what you described here and it's one of my favourites from "Pure Heroine"!
ribs makes me imagine someone having flashbacks after partying and messing up or something
Everything about Ribs in Pure Heroine resonates in Louvre in Melodrama for me. Both of them are so wistfully nostalgic. "They'll hang us in the louvre; down the back but who cares.. still the louvre" = "I want em back, the minds we had, Its not enough to feel the lack, i want em back i want em back"
Vatsal Sharma Yes, yes, yes!!! Both are my absolute favorite off both albums, interestingly enough... both are the 4th song of their respective albums. She played Ribs and then The Louvre during her Melodrama World Tour and just tranced during both songs.
Woah same I think of Melodrama like a whole album based on Ribs
the line ‘summer slipped us underneath her tounge’ just gets me for some strange reason like i cant explain
ribs and buzzcut season remind me of middle school when i would get off the bus and immediately go out on my bike and hang with my friends doing dumb things which was one of the few things that made me happy in a dark place in my life.
This video affected me so deeply... your analysis was so emotionaly touching and the words you say and the way you say them is so beautiful, you have a precious way to think and to express your thoughts. Literally when the video ended I went to the suscribe button... and when I saw your subscribers my jaw just dropped to the floor, I can believe you have so few, your videos are really professional and well edited, your sound is beautiful, I can really see you in the future being one of the biggest chanels, you definitley deserve it. And btw, that last line was just almost as beautiful as the song it self
Santiago Raly These are the comments I live for. Thank you so much for your kind and thoughtful words!
ribs is like a not-so-hidden gem. it’s hidden enough to be special and not really well known, but it’s not unknown like other songs of hers like white teeth teens. it makes it so much more special.
this made me cry so much because over the years from being 9 to now nearly 14, ive grown up with her.
enjoy adolescence, have fun
Woah, good luck
ur probably almost 15 now, i turn 15 this next month :)
Good luck
Same here :)
ribs and a world alone personally just make me feel such a special kind of nostalgic that i feel it like a physical ache in my chest. it's lovely
I remember listening to this song and feeling it encapsulated everything that was happening now: friendships, perceptions, attitudes, weather, places. It made it feel like everything was right, as it should be
this song is my comfort song. I reminds me of a person I miss badly but it makes me feel calm
This moved me to tears. I remember listening to this song for the very first time in college with my best friend in his car. I thought it was a good song, but didn’t really think much of it. He soon left to another city after we graduated, and I really missed and continue to miss him and our daily friendship. I was actually not that happy during that time in my life when he was still around, but I still long for that feeling of connection that we once had. Thank you for making this 🙏🏻
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I got into Lorde thanks to Green Light. Went back to listen to this first record and abolutely loved Ribs, was my favorite song on the album!!!!!!! I totally think it is underrated!! thanks for this video :D
Thank you for watching it!
Listen to the Love club!
lorde was the soundtrack to my teenage years and now that I'm 20 I need a new soundtrack from lorde
I thought I was only one who had this weird memory past feeling when I hear this song! It's cool what songs can do to you. I've always liked Lorde 👌
Thanks for watching! :)
lorde has been making me go through existential crisis since i was 13, i am 18 now and two weeks away from turning 19 and nothing has changed.
This is why ribs will always be my favorite song of hers and of all time
I don't know if it's just me, but I am so obsessed with nostalgia and past happiness.
ribs is one of my all time favorite songs. it brings me to a time thats in between the edge of forgetting a memory and living within it. its a wash of nostalgia and a feeling of longing
The way the song builds up and just completely slows down is amazing.
This song always makes me think of right after I graduated high school and when I spent my summer nights out with friends all the time.
“I’ve never felt more alone, feels so scary getting old” really drove home the feelings I felt then and feel now.
This is one of the reasons why I prefer Pure Heroine over Melodrama. It was magical.
I really thought it was “laugh until our ribs get tired”
And I thought the next line to that was "But there will never be another"
Ribs it’s by far my favorite song by Lorde, it represents a lot to me due to it was the song that I would dedicate to my best friend and she would do the same to me for we struggle with depression and anxiety.
It was and still is a sort of mantra for us as we are here for each other for no matter what happen, with endless love and support.
Now we live far away from each other and there isn’t a single time I hear this track and cry for the memories of the afternoons we spent in each other’s homes doing absolutely nothing, just enjoying each other’s company and sharing ou pop couture similar taste.
Now I’m gonna give her a call. Thanks
Christian Ribeiro same!! I dedicated it to my best friend, and she passed away a year later, so that song kinda destroys me emotionally with the nostalgia
I cried watching this omy
This is soo good, I feels like watching video from vox
Watching this video was for me like finding that special connection with someone who just *gets you*. And it was awesome. And I almost cried. Thanks.
a video that explains all my late nights just blankly looking up at the ceiling
Blankly looking up at the ceiling while listening to music is underrated.
I cried so much at the end. You made me realize something I didn't quite understand about the song, although I've listened to it for the last 5 years. Thank you and congratulations for the awesome video!
Ribs makes me think of my crush and how much I love and care for them and the last lyric “that will never be enough” makes me think about how we will never be anything more than just close friends:(
Every now and then I come back to watch this because I haven't seen any other analysis video that makes me feel like this one
Ribs, 400 lux, and Buzzcut season are so damn nostalgic
You have no Idea How much this video was important to me.. I've always Felt nostalgia when listening to ribs but i was never able to put those feelings in words like you did, a whole new world openend up for me, i love this Song so freaking much. You should review more songs, you really have a great talent.
She makes me feel nostalgic because I was like 15/16 and all those songs have memories attached.
Every single one of Lorde’s songs are so good and give me a feeling of missing memories that I never even experienced.
I always come to this song when I need emotional release, and it encourages me to let it all out.
This is such an incredible song and still to this day so difficult to listen to. I'm 20 and it makes me feel like I'm sitting at my death bed reflecting back at my youth. Absolutely incredible.
This song really told me : enjoy your life now so you can remember all of this tomorrow
Great analysis, but IMO words can never fully explain how beautiful the song is
Thanks! And yeah, I completely agree, an explanation will never fully capture the magic of the actual thing.
Lorde's music resonates and relates to me on a very personal level as I live and have grown up in a suburb right next to Devonport, which is where Lorde grew up. Growing up in this particular part of Auckland is a different and special experience, so it's especially nostalgic to me as we have both experienced the same things and grew up in the same streets and the same places. Ribs especially reminds me of my childhood and what life was like back then, so beautiful and simple. I'm only 17 now and growing up and away from my past really fucken scares me
This is my favourite song ever, thank you for loving it and appreciating it as much as I do
And thank you for appreciating it as much as I do! :)
I can’t hear this song without getting completely immersed in it. Like everything else is blocked out, and I picture an entire storyline in my head. That’s just Lorde’s power as a songwriter.
That was like... DUDE I'm not ok, amazing job, it was like a little documentary, a really interesting one.
Don't have words to say it(maybe cause I'm not a native) but, you made my day a little better
Brazil says hi!
Vinícius Augustus 💕
This song reminds me of my first love. It replays all those beautiful irreplaceable memories. It reminds me of how he held my hand all the way to the beach late at night, the look he gave me before we kissed, his silly laugh and the sneaking out at night just to see him. I miss him so much. I wish things ended differently.
i would love to see more videos like this.
maybe a song by florence and the machine? she always had great deep words
There will be more! I'm busy planning scripts for future episodes and songs :)
Half Past Awkward do one for Lana del Rey ultraviolence
Lorde deserves so much more credit as an artist than she's getting. I don't care what anyone has to say, she's a musical genius for me. No one can make me feel the emotions I feel listening to her songs.
I smoked two hours before this im not really sure if that affected me but i thought this was a really beautiful video
i was like 14 when Pure Heroine came out and my best friend at the times mom would let us borrow her car and drive ourselves around the neighborhood. Driving by ourselves was our first real taste of freedom and growing up, we would just drive and blast the her album. Pure Heroine brings me back to being in that car. Being a freshman and scared of growing up and starting a new chapter in my life. Now i listen and look back and think about how i am grown up now, and its not what i thought, but i still miss driving in that car with my best friend and just feeling free.
I have no ideia of why, but I literally cried while watching it. I think you expressed exactly how I feel about Ribs since the first time I listened, and by never putting into words, I didn't knew it how much I appreciated it.
I’m nineteen. my best friends and I spent the last summer vacation before college at the beach every other day, and we always listened to this song while we drove home and the sun was setting behind us. I love my friends, and this song makes me ache for that free feeling again
Whenever I find myself going through the mechanical motions of life I always somehow make my way back to this video.
Lorde deserves more recognition and praise than she is given. Her songs are poetic and have deeper meaning than most of those on the radio today
RIBS IS MY FAVORITE SONG ON THE ALBUM AND THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS, THIS IS DOPE. KEEP GOING! 💞
This has always been my favorite song of hers.
Thank you for this video. I feel as though I have grown up with this song, listening to it during the same time Lorde wrote about. She states at many of her concerts that she wrote this after throwing a party as a teen. I think for any teen that is a liberating feeling, though you begin to understand during these nights the complexity of the world, and the fact that soon you will have to grow up. This has always been my favorite song by Lorde, as I resonate with it so much (as I am about to turn 18). She uses Ribs now in her Melodrama tour to show the transformation from childhood to adulthood. She actually sings Ribs, then proceeds to change onstage into her 'big girl' clothes, showing her transformation from Pure Heroine to Melodrama. It is all very poetic, and yes, very nostalgic. I love that she sees the song as meaningful as we do, it is truly such a beautiful and powerful song that I will luckily always associate with the memories of growing up.
how am i still crying when i watch this video?
Nostalgia? :)
I always thought this song was nostalgic, it feels incredible to know I wasn’t alone. Laugh through the pain together indeed.
ribs is one of those songs you just feel in your entire body
It's 2019 and I still watch this because it's so beautifully made and it perfectly captures why Ribs and Lorde in general is a masterpiece. She's Pop but she speaks a truth no other pop star does and I love it. I grew up with Lorde back in 9th grade and now I graduated in Uni and I'm pass the Melodrama era. I'm growing up with Lorde and I am so happy about it. I also pursued my career as an artist because of Lorde and I'm hoping one day I get to tell her in person all the things she did in my life that she doesn't know helped shaped me. Thank you for this video, hope there's more Lorde analysis.
I had this song on my playlist but I wasn’t super obsessed with it.. yet.. the night my mom passed away this song came on that night and it just felt so deep and I had it on repeat. A few months later she was on her Melodrama tour and I had to go to watch Ribs live. “I want em back, the minds we had” “ive never felt more alone, it feels so scary getting old” “you’re the only friend I need” always hits and makes me want my mom even more.
This song gives me goosebumps every time!
I remember when I first listened to this song during highschool and being close to tears afterwards. I remember playing this song in the jeep with a guy I liked at the time late a night while putting my head out of the window and looking out for the stars. Lorde perfectly described my reckless feelings and thoughts during my teen years and I thank her for composing Ribs.
Wow I’m speechless, I’ve always loved this song, I heard it for the first time, on my birthday 16th, since the album came out, I had a small party with drinks and dancing and before I passed out I heard this song for the first time and I fell in love with it, and I couldn’t describe it other than the word nostalgia and the intensity at the bridge, I love the editing, if you could do another Lorde song that would be great I suggest Supercut or Hard Feelings and wow the minimalism in the editing I love it, great job!!!
I love Supercut and definitely plan on making a video about it at a later stage :) Thank you so much for your kind words and support!
I LOVE LORDE.
I love Pure Heroine because it feels like she wrote the lyrics just for me. Buzzcut Season is my favorite. Debut album will always be the best.
I always loved RIBS because I miss my childhood. I’m getting old, 20 and I want to go back to my good old days.
I always thought it was “laugh until our ribs get sore”
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oml youre still alive! im totally not crying but ily
please do an analysis to Mariah Carey's album BUTTERFLY pls!!!!
ribs and buzzcut season are the most iconic 3am crying sesh duo
I love hearing/learning what a person thinks of a song. especially when it’s in so much depth. I wish more people could explain how a song makes them feel and WHY it makes them feel that way.
I can’t describe the nostalgia that every single lorde song gives me and the hopefulness it gives me for the future
This video is a work of art! I've always felt that nostalgia feeling every time I've listened to this song. And now seeing this analysis I'm just loving the song even more. Thank you for this!
Thank you so much for the incredibly kind words! More song and film analyses are on the way!
Ribs tbh motives me when I always feel down, the song kinda remember me that I need to keep following my dreams that one day I though as a child
Thank you for tackling my favorite Lorde song in depth
lorde is one of the most incredible artists of our generation, being so young but such an intelligent lyricist