Lorde's "Stoned at the Nail Salon" Has Fans Thinking We Won't Get "Pure Heroine" Part 2
Lorde just released the second single off her upcoming album, and following the more upbeat "Solar Power," released last month, this track takes a much darker turn. Stoned at the Nail Salon is a more somber song that focuses on the passage of time. In the lyrics, Lorde contemplates her life and wonders if she has made the right choices thus far. Still, as usual, Lorde delivers a track that you will be singing (and using as Instagram captions) for years to come. Check out the lyrics for yourself below.
[Verse 1]
Got a wishbone drying on the windowsill in my kitchen
Just in case I wake up and realise I've chosen wrong
I love this life that I have
The vine hanging over the door
And the dog who comes when I call
But I wonder sometimes what I'm missing
Lorde is looking back on her life and trying to figure out if she has made the right choices along the way. In an interview with The Guardian, though, she said she doesn't know if that's necessarily a bad thing.
"That kind of searching, being unsure that I had chosen the right path and feeling lonely, I don’t see those as permanent or even bad emotions," she said. "It’s all part of [life] to feel that trepidation. Maybe it is sad, but I’m very comfortable in the periods of limbo, or times where I feel afraid or vulnerable."
[Pre-Chorus]
Well my hot blood's been burning for so many summers now
It's time to cool it down, wherever that leads
[Chorus]
'Cause all the beautiful girls, they will fade like the roses
And all the times they will change, it'll all come around
I don't know
Maybе I'm stoned at the nail salon
Maybe I'm just stonеd at the nail salon again
Lorde spoke about this theme of beauty fading while speaking to The Guardian. She explained that she recently "entertained the notion that the sexy models on Instagram who made me feel inferior—they too will age." She continued, saying, "We’re all on the same bus. At some point we have to get on the bus back."
[Verse 2]
Got a memory of waitin' in your bed wearing only my earrings
We'd go dancing all over the landmines under our town
But the sun has to rise
When it does, we'll divide up the papers
Two former hell-raisers
I'm still crazy for you, babe
[Pre-Chorus]
Well my hot blood's been burning for so many summers now
It's time to cool it down, wherever that leads
[Chorus]
'Cause all the music you loved at sixteen you'll grow out of
And all the times they will change, it'll all come around
I don't know
Maybe I'm just
Maybe I'm just stoned at the nail salon again
Lorde released her first album, Pure Heroine, when she was sixteen, and many fans have been waiting for a follow-up. So, they're taking the line at the beginning of the chorus as Lorde's way of saying it's not coming.
"cause all the music you loved at sixteen you'll grow out of" queen lorde calling us out for wanting pure heroine 2 instead of her new stuff, we have to stan
— unmonitored tramp (@donaldchubbs) July 21, 2021
"cause all the music you loved at sixteen you'll grow out of" ahhh lorde really said yall stop asking me to make pure heroine 2.0
— sab (@vmphoria) July 21, 2021
[Bridge]
Oh, make it good
Oh, make it good
I'd ride and I'd ride on the carousel
'Round and 'round forever if I could
But it's time to cool it down
Whatever that means
Carousels have previously been used in music to signify time passing. This song speaks a lot about time and growing older, but here Lorde is saying she would live in this moment forever if she could.
[Chorus]
Spend all the evenings you can with the people who raised you
'Cause all the times they will change, it'll all come around
I don't know
Maybe I'm just stoned at the nail salon
Maybe I'm just stoned at the nail salon again
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