Lorde learns about life
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In her latest single, “Team,” Lorde sings about growing up and learning to deal with life’s hardships with the help of friends that she can relate to.
This week’s Karaoke Korner takes a look at vocabulary words that contain the word team.
ABOUT LORDE
Name: Ella Maria Lani Yelich-O’Conno
Nationality: New Zealand
Style: Pop
Albums: Pure Heroine (2013)
Label: Universal
In brief: Born in Auckland, New Zealand, this 17-year-old singer-songwriter took part in singing and drama classes at school. She signed with the Universal label when she was just 13 years old. Her debut EP, The Love Club, was released in November 2012, with her debut album, Pure Heroine, following in September 2013. Lorde’s single “Royal” reached No. 1 on many music charts around the world, including the US Billboard Hot 100, UK Singles and New Zealand charts. Her latest single, Team, also hit big internationally. Since her sudden success, Lorde has performed on many top-rating TV shows, including Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and The Ellen DeGeneres Show.
If you like Lorde, check out: Lana Del Rey, Florence and the Machine and Sky Ferreira
Website: www.lorde.co.nz
“Team”
By Lorde
Wait till you’re announced
We’ve not yet lost all our graces
The hounds will stay in chains
Look upon your greatness
That you’ll send the call out
Send the call out
Call all the ladies out
They’re in their finery
A hundred jewels on throats
A hundred jewels between teeth
Now bring my boys in
Their skin in craters like the moon
The moon we love like a brother
While he glows through the room
Dancing around the lies we tell
Dancing around big eyes as well
Even the comatose
They don’t dance and tell
Chorus
We live in cities
You’ll never see on screen
Not very pretty
But we sure know how to run things
Living in ruins
Of a palace within my dreams
And you know
We’re on each other’s team
I’m kind of over getting told
To throw my hands up in the air, so there
So all the cups got broke
Shards beneath our feet
But it wasn’t my fault
And everyone’s competing
For a love they won’t receive
‘Cause what this palace wants is release
(Chorus)
I’m kind of over getting told
To throw my hands up in the air, so there
I’m kind of older than I was
When I revelled without a care, so there
(Chorus)
Exercises
Match each of the following vocabulary words that include the word team with the correct definitions from the choices given.
| 1. team spirit | a. a person who is good at working as a member of a team, usually in their job |
| 2. dream team | b. to join with another person or group in order to do something together |
| 3. team up | c. the best possible combination of people for a particular competition or activity |
| 4. team player | d. the desire and willingness of people to work together and help each other as part of a team |
Vocabulary
- graces (n): ways of behaving that people think are polite and acceptable
comatose (adj): deeply unconscious
revel (v): to spend time enjoying yourself in a noisy, enthusiastic way
