But it’s really not-no matter what the administration, teachers, and parents do, this senior year “will never be enough” to live up to what our expectations were. I can “talk it so good” if I say that I get breaks between classes for the in-person kids to clean their desks, that I have extra time in the mornings since I don’t have to travel, that no one can tell if I’m wearing the dress code. The line that “my mom and dad let me stay home” is repeated three times in the first four sections of the song, in the same way that this idea of being allowed to stay home is bouncing around my head every day I Zoom into another class. Lorde’s song is ahead of its time because some of its lines express this feeling. Hugs and high fives in the hallways are a distant memory. We’re seeing our friends and teachers less or not at all, in the case of Cohort D students. These feelings of fear and loneliness are increased by going through this process in a pandemic. That means leaving a lot of people behind-we’ve “never felt more alone.” We’re on the edge of moving into a completely new world, whether that world is college, a career, or the military. These are feelings that seniors can relate to. The singer repeats that getting old “drives you crazy” and “feels so scary,” and expresses regret about losing the carefree thoughts of childhood. Ribs by Lorde, released in 2013, is a song about growing up.
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