Video: Disclosure - Magnets (ft Lorde)

In which Lorde dances like a stop-motion marionette, giving me flashbacks to The Exorcist.

The plot sees our (pure) heroine mercilessly dispatching a two-timing, low-life, abusive love rat. But she's not seeking revenge, she's a cold and calculating boyfriend killer - as she revealed on Twitter:

one of my life goals has always been "to one day play a hitgirl who pretends to seduce then burns alive douchey boyfriends"

— Lorde (@lordemusic) September 29, 2015

She expanded on the theme on her always-entertaining Tumblr page, writing: "The most important detail is the girlfriend's black eye. Watch it with that moment in mind. That's the point the whole video hinges on. [It] takes it from being 'an affair narrative' to 'dude's girlfriend hired Miss Ella the hitgirl to "seduce" him then take him the FUCK out.'"

Fantastic.


Describing the song on her always-entertaining Tumblr, Lorde said: "I'm super proud of this one. In my head it's dark electric blues and greens, and it moves like liquid."

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