Making Smart With the Words Again Song
"Lawn tennis Courtroom" is the second single from New Zealand vocalizer Lorde. It was released as a unmarried iv days after "Royals" and was included on the anthology Pure Heroine and the EP Lawn tennis Court EP.
Contents
- 1 Groundwork
- 1.1 Writing and Composition
- 1.ii Production
- 2 Reception
- two.1 Critical Reception
- 2.ii Chart Performance
- iii Lyrics
- 4 Music Video
- 4.i Background
- 5 Alive Performances
- 6 Navigation
Groundwork
Writing and Composition
Lorde detailed the writing process for "Tennis Court" was dissimilar from that of her other tracks. More often than not, Lorde would have a lyric forming before going into the studio to record. Yet, Trivial and Lorde beginning wrote the music and the beat, and the lyrics were built on the instant music. Co-ordinate to Little, Lorde adult her songwriting skills on "Lawn tennis Court", for which she wrote the melody and the whole chorus:
"That song was one where we had everything except the chorus. She was sitting in the dorsum of the room while I was working on the music and she was saying, "I recollect I've got a chorus thought." I asked, "Can I hear it?" and she said, "No, no, no." She wouldn't sing it to me and so in one case she had it, she basically sang the entire chorus equally you hear it at present. I was like, "Holy shit, this is seriously good." This was the starting time time she had this fully formed, astonishing idea for a chorus. This is, I don't know how long into the process, just it was when I was similar, "This daughter is going to exist an amazing songwriter, or has turned into ane in a really short corporeality of time." Then I just added the "yeahs" and nosotros tweaked a couple things here and in that location."
Product
"Tennis Court" was produced by Joel Lilliputian, who recorded it at his Golden Age Studios in Morningside, Auckland. The song was produced using the software Pro Tools; it is characterised as a downtempo hip hop and EDM-influenced culling pop, art pop and electropop song. Information technology utilises synthesisers and electronic pulses in its arrangement. The rail lasts for a elapsing of 3:18 (three minutes and eighteen seconds). Written in the primal of A minor, it has a moderate tempo of 92 beats per minute. Lorde'southward vocal range spans ane octave, from the low-note of 10003 to the loftier-note of G4.
The lyrics of "Tennis Court" near likely address Lorde's newly established fame and criticise the "high life", though when asked what the literal meaning of the vocal was she said:
"exercise you think things take to have a definite significant to be skillful? i think at that place'south dazzler in something people can't quite work out, and mayhap information technology wouldn't exist right for me to stick a meaning on it anyway. i made something that i idea was visually compelling, and that's all i'm going to say. cheers for listening ten"
Lorde said she wrote the song "after having had a glimpse into the music industry, and I was just thinking near how superficial people can be and how we put up all these fronts." She found the idea of a tennis court "very visually beautiful" and "something I kept coming back to on Tumblr and all that sort of thing", saying it was "kind of a symbol of nostalgia for me. It was something which was familiar and safe to me." She also described the song every bit being "virtually the town where she grew up and the friends [with whom] she would ... hang out all summer."
It is oft mentioned how the beginning lyrics are "Don't you lot think it's boring how people talk" and the ending lyrics of "A World Solitary" are "Let 'em talk", since Tennis Courtroom is the first runway on Pure Heroine and A World Solitary is the last.
Reception
Disquisitional Reception
"Lawn tennis Court" received critical acclamation from music critics and media outlets. Siân Rowe fromNME ranked the EP a seven out of ten, complimenting the vocal for its "forward-looking genres" and Lorde'south "strong pop vocals." Emily Yoshida from Grantland labelled information technology a "murkily winsome, e'er-so-slightly chopped ballad", while writer Kyle Jaeger forThe Hollywood Reporter praised the track's lyrical content and its tricky melody. In an interview withUSA Today, English language vocalizer-songwriter Elton John praised "Tennis Court", describing information technology as "i of the near touching, beautiful things on globe."
Chart Performance
"Lawn tennis Court" debuted at number 1 on the New Zealand Singles Nautical chart during the week of 17 June 2013, becoming Lorde's second number ane on the chart; "Royals" was her starting time. Spending a total of 21 weeks on the nautical chart, the single was certified double platinum by the Recorded Music NZ (RMNZ) for exceeding sales of thirty,000 copies in that location. "Tennis Court" became the 19th best selling unmarried of 2013 in New Zealand. In Australia, the track peaked at number twenty on the ARIA Singles Chart, remaining to chart for 22 weeks. It was certified double platinum by the Australian Recording Industry Clan (ARIA) for 70,000 copies shipped in the region. In the United States, it peaked at number 71 on theBillboard Hot 100 chart and has sold 355,000 copies there, as of April 2014. It as well reached number nine on the US Hot Rock Songs.
Lyrics
Don't y'all think that it'southward boring how people talk?
Making smart with their words again, well I'm bored
Because I'm doing this for the thrill of information technology, killin' information technology
Never not chasing a meg things I desire
And I am only as young as the infinitesimal is, full of it
Getting pumped upward from the little bright things I bought
But I know they'll never own me (aye)
Infant, be the class clown, I'll be the beauty queen in tears
It'south a new art form showing people how trivial we intendance (yes)
We're so happy, even when we're smilin' out of fear
Let's become down to the tennis court, and talk it up like yeah (yeah)
Pretty soon, I'll exist getting on my offset plane
I'll see the veins of my city similar they do in space
Merely my head's filling up fast with the wicked games,up in flames
How can I fuck with the fun again, when I'grand known?
And my boys trip me upwards with their heads again, loving them
Everything's cool when we're all in line, for the throne
Just I know it'south not forever (yeah)
Infant, exist the class clown, I'll be the beauty queen in tears
It's a new art grade showing people how little we care (yeah)
Nosotros're so happy, even when we're smilin' out of fright
Let's become down to the tennis court, and talk information technology up similar yeah (yeah)
Information technology looked alright in the pictures
Getting caught's half of the trip though, isn't it?
I fall autonomously, with all my heart
And you can watch from your window
And you can lookout man from your window
Babe, exist the course clown, I'll be the beauty queen in tears
It'southward a new art course showing people how footling we intendance (yeah)
We're so happy, even when nosotros're smilin' out of fear
Let'southward go down to the tennis court
And talk information technology upwardly similar yes (aye)
And talk information technology up similar (yeah)
And talk it up like (yep)
Let's go down to the tennis court, and talk information technology up like (yeah)
And talk it up like (yep)
And talk it up like (yep)
Let'southward go down to the tennis court, and talk it up like (yes) (yeah)
Music Video
| Music Video | Data | |
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| | Premiere | June 23 2013 |
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| Director | Joel Kefali | |
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| Length | 3:21 | |
Groundwork
The official music video for "Tennis Courtroom" was directed by Joel Kefali, who previously worked with Lorde on
the accompanying video for her debut single "Royals". It is ane shot and appears Lorde staring at the camera with dark lips, a fishnet peak, and braided hair. She only lip-syncs the "yeahs!" in the chorus. The lighting significantly fades out and fades dorsum in sporadically throughout the video.
Live Performances
Royals was part of Lorde's world tour setlist and she has sung a number of times. To promote "Tennis Court", Lorde held a concert at Le Poisson Rouge in New York and performed the song amidst others on 6 August 2013. This was her kickoff US show. Lorde performed "Tennis Court" at the 2014Billboard Music Awards in May. The post-obit month, she performed a Goth-influenced medley of "Lawn tennis Court" and "Team" at the 2014 MuchMusic Video Awards.
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