Making Smart With the Words Again Song
"Tennis Courtroom" is the 2d unmarried from New Zealand singer Lorde. Information technology was released as a unmarried four days subsequently "Royals" and was included on the anthology Pure Heroine and the EP Tennis Court EP.
Contents
- ane Background
- 1.1 Writing and Limerick
- 1.2 Production
- two Reception
- ii.1 Critical Reception
- 2.2 Chart Functioning
- iii Lyrics
- 4 Music Video
- iv.1 Background
- 5 Live Performances
- six Navigation
Groundwork
Writing and Limerick
Lorde detailed the writing process for "Lawn tennis Court" was different from that of her other tracks. By and large, Lorde would have a lyric forming before going into the studio to record. Nonetheless, Little and Lorde showtime wrote the music and the beat, and the lyrics were congenital on the instant music. According to Little, Lorde developed her songwriting skills on "Tennis Court", for which she wrote the melody and the whole chorus:
"That vocal was one where we had everything except the chorus. She was sitting in the back of the room while I was working on the music and she was saying, "I remember I've got a chorus idea." I asked, "Can I hear it?" and she said, "No, no, no." She wouldn't sing it to me and then once she had it, she basically sang the entire chorus as you hear it now. I was like, "Holy shit, this is seriously good." This was the first time she had this fully formed, astonishing idea for a chorus. This is, I don't know how long into the procedure, simply it was when I was similar, "This girl is going to be an astonishing songwriter, or has turned into 1 in a really short amount of time." Then I merely added the "yeahs" and we tweaked a couple things here and there."
Production
"Tennis Court" was produced by Joel Little, who recorded it at his Gilded Age Studios in Morningside, Auckland. The song was produced using the software Pro Tools; it is characterised every bit a downtempo hip hop and EDM-influenced alternative pop, art pop and electropop song. It utilises synthesisers and electronic pulses in its organisation. The rail lasts for a duration of 3:18 (3 minutes and eighteen seconds). Written in the key of A minor, information technology has a moderate tempo of 92 beats per minute. Lorde'due south vocal range spans one octave, from the low-note of Grand3 to the loftier-note of Gfour.
The lyrics of "Lawn tennis Court" most likely address Lorde's newly established fame and criticise the "loftier life", though when asked what the literal pregnant of the vocal was she said:
"do you think things accept to take a definite meaning to be good? i retrieve there'due south beauty in something people can't quite work out, and peradventure it wouldn't be right for me to stick a meaning on it anyway. i fabricated something that i idea was visually compelling, and that's all i'm going to say. cheers for listening x"
Lorde said she wrote the song "after having had a glimpse into the music industry, and I was but thinking about how superficial people can be and how we put upwards all these fronts." She found the thought of a lawn tennis courtroom "very visually beautiful" and "something I kept coming back to on Tumblr and all that sort of thing", proverb it was "kind of a symbol of nostalgia for me. Information technology was something which was familiar and safe to me." She as well described the vocal as being "about the town where she grew upward and the friends [with whom] she would ... hang out all summer."
It is oftentimes mentioned how the beginning lyrics are "Don't you think it'south boring how people talk" and the ending lyrics of "A World Lonely" are "Allow 'em talk", since Tennis Courtroom is the first rails on Pure Heroine and A World Lonely is the last.
Reception
Critical Reception
"Tennis Court" received disquisitional acclamation from music critics and media outlets. Siân Rowe fromNME ranked the EP a seven out of ten, complimenting the song for its "forward-looking genres" and Lorde'south "strong pop vocals." Emily Yoshida from Grantland labelled it a "murkily winsome, ever-so-slightly chopped ballad", while writer Kyle Jaeger forThe Hollywood Reporter praised the track's lyrical content and its catchy tune. In an interview withU.s.a. Today, English language singer-songwriter Elton John praised "Tennis Court", describing it as "one of the nearly touching, cute things on earth."
Chart Performance
"Tennis Court" debuted at number one on the New Zealand Singles Chart during the calendar week of 17 June 2013, becoming Lorde'southward 2nd number i on the nautical chart; "Royals" was her get-go. Spending a total of 21 weeks on the chart, the single was certified double platinum by the Recorded Music NZ (RMNZ) for exceeding sales of 30,000 copies there. "Tennis Court" became the 19th best selling single of 2013 in New Zealand. In Australia, the track peaked at number 20 on the ARIA Singles Chart, remaining to chart for 22 weeks. It was certified double platinum by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) for 70,000 copies shipped in the region. In the United States, information technology peaked at number 71 on theBillboard Hot 100 chart and has sold 355,000 copies there, as of April 2014. It also reached number nine on the U.s.a. Hot Rock Songs.
Lyrics
Don't yous remember that information technology's boring how people talk?
Making smart with their words again, well I'm bored
Because I'g doing this for the thrill of it, killin' information technology
Never not chasing a one thousand thousand things I want
And I am but as immature as the minute is, full of information technology
Getting pumped up from the little bright things I bought
But I know they'll never ain me (yeah)
Baby, be the class clown, I'll be the beauty queen in tears
It's a new art course showing people how piddling we care (yeah)
We're so happy, even when nosotros're smilin' out of fear
Let'south go down to the lawn tennis court, and talk it up like aye (yeah)
Pretty soon, I'll exist getting on my start aeroplane
I'll see the veins of my city like they do in space
But my head's filling up fast with the wicked games,upwards in flames
How can I fuck with the fun again, when I'm known?
And my boys trip me up with their heads again, loving them
Everything's cool when we're all in line, for the throne
Only I know information technology's not forever (aye)
Baby, be the class clown, I'll exist the dazzler queen in tears
It's a new art form showing people how niggling we care (yeah)
We're so happy, even when we're smilin' out of fear
Let's get downwardly to the tennis court, and talk information technology up like aye (yeah)
It 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 lot tin can watch from your window
Babe, be the form clown, I'll be the dazzler queen in tears
It's a new art form showing people how petty we care (yes)
Nosotros're so happy, even when we're smilin' out of fearfulness
Let'due south go downward to the tennis court
And talk it upwards like yeah (yep)
And talk it upward like (yeah)
And talk it up like (yep)
Let'southward get down to the lawn tennis court, and talk information technology up like (yeah)
And talk it upward like (yes)
And talk it up like (yeah)
Let'due south go downwardly to the tennis court, and talk it up like (yeah) (aye)
Music Video
| Music Video | Information | |
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| | Premiere | June 23 2013 |
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| Director | Joel Kefali | |
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| Length | 3:21 | |
Background
The official music video for "Tennis Court" was directed by Joel Kefali, who previously worked with Lorde on
the accompanying video for her debut single "Royals". It is one shot and appears Lorde staring at the photographic camera with night lips, a fishnet peak, and braided hair. She only lip-syncs the "yeahs!" in the chorus. The lighting significantly fades out and fades back in sporadically throughout the video.
Live Performances
Royals was function of Lorde's world bout 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 vocal among others on 6 August 2013. This was her offset US show. Lorde performed "Tennis Court" at the 2014Billboard Music Awards in May. The post-obit month, she performed a Goth-influenced medley of "Tennis Court" and "Team" at the 2014 MuchMusic Video Awards.
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