Lorde's Supercut - Thou Shalt Not Make False Idols
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
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Great analysis. I'm still mad that Melodrama didn't win Album of the Year at the Grammys.
Same tbh
We shall never forget that tragic night.
Same
Grammy's all about popularity now
Who isn't?
I discovered you thru your analysis on Lorde's Ribs and how it invokes nostalgia. Whenever I listen to it, I think of how brilliantly you talk about it
Same here!!!
Lmao same
your analysis, music background, editing everything about this vid is so satisfying
"in my head i do everything right"
phrase of this generation
I still remember watching your Lorde video 2 years ago when it showed in my recommended videos feed. Mannn, it was so beautiful.
Yay! Another Lorde analysis :D it’s funny cos Lorde called this song a sequel to ribs “it picks up where ribs left off” - your video exploding ribs was the video that introduced your channel to me :) keep it up!
Yeah the first album is about a break up while the second is about dealing with a broken heart, in a way ribs is nostalgic sad while supercut is sadness accepted,
@ugh cool
@ugh did that make you feel better?
God this song, about idolising lovers, is just too close to home for me. It’s sad how it’s all over, and everything that is grounded in life is telling me to move on, but I think all humans would prefer to live in a lie than a hard truth. I end up just falling back to that, a supercut.
From what i understand the album melodrama has a more accepting view of heart break, and deals with the independence after a relationship that really hurt you. Pure heroine is the high of love you crave like a drug, while melodrama is the feeling after love is gone. And so i think supercut is the lesson we have to learn, to not idolize our lovers, in order to continue loving. I love this analysis so much, as well as the Ribs analysis from 2 years ago. Please check out their other works
Been waiting for this follow up. I would watch a breakdown of all her songs, from both albums, and the bonus tracks.
And the unreleased songs haha. Lorde 3 can't come fast enough.
YES I need to see this
Stream Solar Power the new album of Lorde
Please do more Lorde analysis ❤🌟
lorde's songs feel so personal to me (and i can't express my love for them without it being too much for my friends). her songs kind of remind me of how alone i feel but also i feel understood, even making me embrace this alone-ness. looking forward to more lorde analyses!
This analysis is brilliant. I always thought of this as a song about remembering a past relationship in a clouded way, but this gave me a lot of new ways to think about its lyrics.
You are one of those analysis channels that is super intellectual yet poetic in your script. Please make more lorde analysis please,
Brilliant analogies too
I love the effects man!
Thanks Oliver. You've been here since the beginning, so I always appreciate it when you leave me a comment. Cheers! :)
@@pothecary You're welcome man! I always appreciate when you upload!
Astounding analysis! You always make the highest caliber content. Supercut for me is not only a song about a partner, but also about friendships. We can often blind ourselves in a supercut with our friends just as we would with a partner. Through this time we are all spending at home though a few of my Supercuts are fading and I’m realizing the reality of many of my relationships and I feel like this song inspires me to leave behind the Supercuts that I often live in and pursue genuine friendships.
Thank you. Pls do more of Lorde's songs.
I can't stress enough how much I love Lorde and your analysis on her songs. Keep making them UwU
I love these please make more specially about Lorde's songs
Another HIT!!!!!!! I LOVE your videos. I remember when i commented on your previous lorde video that maybe such a video for the 1975 would be cool and you replied and told me that thats a cool concept or something and ive subscribed ever since.... anyway thats beside the point because THIS VIDEO is king shit and those who disagree sgould argue with their mamas
Another incredible video essay on a fantastic Lorde song!! I’m SO excited i’ve waited this for so long and it’s worth every second
The progression : Ribs - Supercut - and now Secrets from A Girl
This was such a well done analysis my friend, it made me think so much about my lost relatioship and just how difficult feelings and emotions can be sometimes, Lorde is such a genious at helping us express and realize of all these things. Thanks
I wouldn't think of the last verses as something she wishes but something it's actually happening in present tense.
Lorde once said this song was like a little sister of Ribs, so, as in Ribs she takes the last verses to talk about her present, I think she's doing the exact same thing here. I think she's forgiving him ("When you call I'll forgive and not fight") and forgiving herself ("In my head I do everything right").
Also, the next song in the album is Liability (Reprise). Then she sings exposing and wondering the actual truth of the relationship:
""All of the dreams that get harder
All of the things that I offer you
And all of the shit that we harbour
Make all of the kids in the choirs sing woo-hoo
Maybe all this is the party
Maybe the tears and the highs we breathe
Maybe all this is the party
Maybe we just do it violently
_But you're not what you thought you were_".
So I think that in Supercut she's trying to accept the past as a Supercut, but she's fully embrasing it by the final verses:
"'Cause in my head (in my head, I do everything right)
When you call (when you call, I'll forgive and not fight)
Because ours are the moments I play in the dark
We were wild and fluorescent, come home to my heart".
That way the lyrics of Perfect Places have so much more sense to me. She accepts that perfect things, such as perfect lovers, doesn't exist ("What the fuck are perfect places anyway?"), buuuut still having fun once she learned it ("All the night spent off our faces tryin' to find this perfect places").
Anyway, that's my interpretation, maybe I'm a little bit optimistic about all (but still objetive). When I listen to Supercut I remember some of my past relationships that went wrong, but at the end of the song I'm smiling happy and thinking like: "Well, that maybe was a hell of relationship but at the end I did everything right: forgive, move on to my own life and keeping with me the cool stuff once I learned from the bad". However, that's why art it's amazing, we can re-interpret a concept in so many different ways.
*Lorde (or Jack, the co-producer, idr) said that each song that talks about memories (The Louvre, Hard Feelings/Loveless, Sober II, Writer in the Dark and Supercut) end with a fade-out effect because it's like a way of representing how those go away very slowly.
Thank you for this video!!! I love the fact that both Ribs and Supercut are maybe my favorite songs of Lorde and you already did an analysis of them!!!
Hope you are keeping cool and safe :)
(I can speak Latin and Spanish but my grammar in english still sucks LOL)
I like this take. I see the end fade out as Lorde replaying what the different scenarios of "doing the right thing" would look like. And almost like there was no one right thing and the relationship was doomed to fail no matter what either of them did or said. The memory aspect you mentioned is super interesting though.
@@CristyCay yeah, I think Lorde repeating 'In my head I do everything right' it's like she telling herself like 'Honey, it's OK. don't worry, don't blame yourself cause you did knew how things supposedly had to be'.
Wow. Just wow. Amazing work!
Thank you! :)
THE KING IS BACK WITH ANOTHER LORDE ANALYSIS 🙏🏽✨
Wow. Thank you so much, this is just utterly wonderful!
2:36 great metaphor!
Really great analysis.
you should make more videos analyzing her songs and lyrics
Brillianttttt ah!
amazing I love ur Lorde videos
Amazing!
Another amazing Lorde analysis!
omg you did Ribs and Supercut💖 my two favourites!
Do such a video for Poppy's song Fill the Crown or Sit/Stay
This was rly great
Hope you make more Lorde's songs analysis
Love your analysis! Can you plz do a Buzzcut Season video? This song has been haunting me for years but I can't explain it.
More Lorde songs please.. im begging you maybe buzzcut season?
Beautiful song, beautiful analysis!
Your videos are amazing. You should do one on Lana Del Rey.
Rideeeeeeee!!!!
I am screaming
Can you do a video on Lana Del Rey?
Can you do more of Lorde?
I will probably complete the trilogy at some point! But in the meantime I did explore Ribs if you haven't watched it already :) ua-cam.com/video/J5-lS-mGOso/v-deo.html
@@pothecary I loved it!
Do you have any ideas of what the line "these ribbons wrap me up" could be referring to?
It's difficult to say exactly - perhaps ribbons is meant to invoke the image of film tape (like a supercut) wrapping us up in the highlights while preventing us from focusing on the present. But this is really just pure speculation haha. Thank you for your comment!
Ngl the narration reminds me of the monologue on the beginning of Incels by Contrapoints lmaooo
Please make more lorde videosss ı am begging
All in due time :)
I would say that the atmosphere of the video is unnecessarily creepy...but that would be because I listened to this in the dark and I'm scared now
I always think of Daenerys whenever I hear this song
Why?
Please do a song from the Solar Power album next
god why are u playing nimrod in the background i’m gonna cry 😭😭😭
Wake up Lorde we're starving for l3
Analyze Lana Del Rey please
I thought this was one of those fan edit😂
Whats the sad piano piece in the beginning called?
It's Chopin's nocturne in C# minor :)