{"id":676467,"date":"2025-06-21T04:40:18","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T01:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/lordes-hammer-is-the-late-20s-anthem\/"},"modified":"2025-06-21T04:40:18","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T01:40:18","slug":"lordes-hammer-is-the-late-20s-anthem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/lordes-hammer-is-the-late-20s-anthem\/","title":{"rendered":"Lorde\u2019s \u201cHammer\u201d is the late-20s anthem"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a33028236fa4\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" 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ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/lordes-hammer-is-the-late-20s-anthem\/#According_to_the_singer_the_song_is_%E2%80%9Can_ode_to_city_life_and_horniness%E2%80%9D_It_can_also_be_read_as_what_happens_when_one_approaches_the_big_3-0\" >According to the singer, the song is \u201can ode to city life and horniness.\u201d It can also be read as what happens when one approaches the big 3-0.<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"deck\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"According_to_the_singer_the_song_is_%E2%80%9Can_ode_to_city_life_and_horniness%E2%80%9D_It_can_also_be_read_as_what_happens_when_one_approaches_the_big_3-0\"><\/span>According to the singer, the song is \u201can ode to city life and horniness.\u201d It can also be read as what happens when one approaches the big 3-0.<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"content_blocks\">\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-271837\" class=\"content_block paragraph image triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_760,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Hammer_Press_Photo_Credit__Talia_Chetrit_vbpwhb\/lorde-hammer-video-song-review.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_220,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Hammer_Press_Photo_Credit__Talia_Chetrit_vbpwhb\/lorde-hammer-video-song-review.jpg 220w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_300,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Hammer_Press_Photo_Credit__Talia_Chetrit_vbpwhb\/lorde-hammer-video-song-review.jpg 300w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Hammer_Press_Photo_Credit__Talia_Chetrit_vbpwhb\/lorde-hammer-video-song-review.jpg 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1260w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1800,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Hammer_Press_Photo_Credit__Talia_Chetrit_vbpwhb\/lorde-hammer-video-song-review.jpg 1800w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/Hammer_Press_Photo_Credit__Talia_Chetrit_vbpwhb\/lorde-hammer-video-song-review.jpg 2400w,\" sizes=\"60vw\" alt=\"Lorde\u2019s \u201cHammer\u201d is the late-20s anthem\"><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"img_caption\"><\/p>\n<p>  <span class=\"credit\"><\/p>\n<p>      Talia Chetrit<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-271836\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            Lorde&#8217;s new single &#8220;<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_new\" href=\"https:\/\/lorde.lnk.to\/hammer\">Hammer<\/a>&#8221; is the sonic equivalent of getting through your 20s, realizing actually you know nothing about the world and yourself, and saying &#8220;fuck it, let&#8217;s just do whatever.&#8221; &#8220;I&#8217;m ready to feel like I don&#8217;t have th\u0435 answers,&#8221; she sings on the song&#8217;s beating chorus, released today, June 20, as the final single of what&#8217;s shaping up to be a primal, career-pivoting project for the singer. It&#8217;s hands down the best single from the bunch.\n          <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            &#8220;Hammer&#8221; is not explicitly about <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>roaching your late 20s, but I&#8217;m interpreting it as an age-anthem of sorts. On Instagram, Lorde says the song is an &#8220;ode to city life and horniness.&#8221; But there are bits that also feel like they speak to the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a> loosening of the grip on life that happens when one begins to approach that big 3-0. &#8220;Some days I&#8217;m a woman, some days I&#8217;m a man,&#8221; Lorde sings in the first verse, alluding to the gender explorations that inspired a lot of the forthcoming <i>Virgin<\/i>, out June 27. If <i>Melodrama<\/i> was Lorde crafting a tight encapsulation of early 20s heartbreak and control, <i>Virgin<\/i>, arriving before she turns 29, coincided with paring back and letting go. It&#8217;s a return to the \u201creally essential, pure\u201d version of herself, she told<i><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_new\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/lorde-new-album-virgin-breakup-gender-1235336574\/\"> Rolling Stone<\/a><\/i>.\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            That letting go is all over &#8220;Hammer&#8221; which bursts like a geyser, a furiously bubbling rush of drums built around a truly addictive vocal oscillation that makes it sound like Lorde is living it up right next to your ears. Like her previous single, &#8220;Man of the Year,&#8221; which slow-builds to a cathartic climax, there is a palpable sense of release on &#8220;Hammer,&#8221; like a too-tight valve has finally been loosened. Co-produced by the singer with Jim-E Stack, the song imbues that feeling on every level, lyrically filled with flashes of unrestrained euphoria: a fountain&#8217;s mist hitting the face, an impromptu piercing on Canal St., getting an aura photo taken, and not really caring about your gender identity today because <i>does it really matter<\/i>?\n          <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            What&#8217;s most evident on the track is how the singer&#8217;s songwriting has evolved. In an interview with <i><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_new\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/lorde-new-album-virgin-breakup-gender-1235336574\/\">Rolling Stone<\/a><\/i>, Lorde said that she strove to be &#8220;plain with language&#8221; this go around, and the effect this has had on her songwriting is most clear on &#8220;Hammer.&#8221; Sharp and vivid bursts of one-liners like &#8220;Don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s love or ovulation&#8221; and &#8220;I&#8217;m making a wish when the needle goes in&#8221; build into a supercut-like montage of pure feeling. Dare I say they feel even more evocative and elemental-provoking than the lyrical musings of <i>Melodrama<\/i>? Like the thesis of &#8220;Hammer&#8221; \u2014 a 28-year-old&#8217;s assertion of freedom \u2014 all this effort proves to me that life only gets better after your 20s.\n          <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-271835\" class=\"content_block paragraph embed triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Lorde - Hammer\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/P7xnBdx70GU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content_block paragraph triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"author\">\n    <span><br \/>\n      By <span class=\"credit_name\">Steffanee Wang<\/span><br \/>\n  <\/span><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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