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Due to the high stress position Lorde feels she’s in, her heart is pumping extremely quickly.
This relates to electronics as electrical components can only take so much voltage and current. Lorde wonders if her heart can take more punishment or if it will fail to capacitate her sorrow.
Finally, the electronics of your heart is a metaphor for how society is turning us into robots. By rebelling, you are breaking out of their system, which is why they fall apart so fast.
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Life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
-Oscar Wilde
Lana references a famous quote by Oscar Wilde, whereby it is detailed that life mirrors art.
Lana suggests that she has a “fake it till you make it” story. She started out as an unknown among millions of other hopeful young women in L.A., trying to project the appearance and attitude of a serious singer. Life imitates art because she ended up becoming famous and successful, even though her posing was initially just an act.
Lana may also mean that life is unique just as art is, and that life may not be perfect, yet it is still beautiful.
For Tom to spend another night
Writing songs about all the people he thinks are gay? blink-182 – Fentoozler
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Mark wonders if it’s okay for his fellow band mate Tom DeLonge to write songs every night calling people homosexuals.
Probably not, but nevertheless, he writes a lot a songs about it:
I would like to find him Friday night hanging out with mom and trying on his father’s tights
This is slighty hypocritical as well as this is exactly what Mark is doing right now. He really loathes his girlfriend that he once loved.
I guess it's just another, I guess it's just another
I guess it's just another night alone blink-182 – Carousel
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He ask somebody else if they feel the same way he does about leaving school, when they disagree it makes him feel even more alone
He retreats back to his own solitude begrudgingly admitting that it’s “just another night alone like every other night*.
He’s accepted that he’s just going to be a lonely person from now on – there’s nothing he can do about it.
Fun fact: When sung live, the group usurps the final lines with “I guess it’s just another / I-had-sex-with-your-mother night alone”
You better hope you're not alone
You better hope you're not alone
You better hope you're not alone
You better hope you're not alone
You better hope you're not alone
You better hope you're not alone
You better be hoping you're not so
Hope you're not alone Jack Johnson – Hope
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If the sea does catch you out in the end you better be with someone otherwise things aren’t looking up for you.
If you are alone and you get injured you’ll have no way of getting any assistance, which is why you always have to surf with a buddy.
Land in his bed, repeat yesterday’s mistakes Shakira (Ft. Rihanna) – Can't Remember to Forget You
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Rihanna is extremely famous so she’s on the road a lot, yet when she comes back home she always seems to end up back with him.
The train represents progress and this man seems to hold her back, she’s not going anywhere – it’s just a retrograde movement
Saying not to repeat yesterday’s mistakes Shakira (Ft. Rihanna) – Can't Remember to Forget You
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She puts a note saying “don’t repeat yesterday’s mistakes” at the first place she’ll see at the beginning of the day. She wants to hammer this lesson into herself.
Shakira has been out with this guy before and she’s made a promise to never get back together with him,
#like ever.
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Play on the phrase “Flavour Of The Week”, which means to be interested in something right fleetingly. Right now Key is really into girls who are extremely promiscuous.
Yet he’s only going to be into them for a short time because there are so many other types of girls who want to be with him.
Could be a reference to the American H-fi song “Flavour of the Weak”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAmINmjpQxw
And be in my heart
Be in my eyes, aye, aye, aye
And be in my heart The Lumineers – Flowers in Your Hair
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She is a part of him, he feels her whatever he does. They’ve grown up together and become so close that they are two intertwined souls now.
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At least one critic called out the difference between the video, which features Shakira and Rihanna getting hot and heavy, and the song itself, in which the singers pledge fealty to “that boy”:
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Yes, that sounds like not just a terrible video but way too irrelevant