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‘Broken Glass’ Picks Up Where Lorde (and Charli XCX) Left Off
Virgin’s best and most brutal track has Brat all over it.
That war in her body is outlined with startling clarity and metallic thudding in “Broken Glass.” “Mystique is dead / Last year was bad,” Lorde announces in the song’s opening. Whereas her verse in “Girl, so confusing” was a kind of open-hearted mea culpa — an apology laced with admission — she confidently shoves what made her ill back at us as listeners. We not only bear witness but feel implicated in her aggressive regret at how she “got sucked in by arithmetic.” Like “Homemade Dynamite” and “Tennis Court,” Lorde is at her best when crafting these wrenching bangers — she knows how to turn her darkest moments into undeniable bops.
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