Friday, April 22, 2016

Etsy Shopping Find of the Day, plus a bit about Lorde. . .



You know, it's true what Lorde says. We may never be royals, but you can call me Queen Bee. Particularly with this compelling bar of Queen Bee Soap from the SkyRainSoap shop.



You can get it with or without the gold mica dusting on the bee or in clear glycerine. What's not to like about it? It's elegant. It's $5. It's got natural ingredients and real with honey and, I kid you not, you can pick from 17 different varieties of honey. A variety of scents are also included to complement the honey smell, including Eucalyptus, heather, huckleberry, buckwheat, orange blossom and citrus.

It's also available with Marigold petals if you want (so decadent. What is this? Ancient Rome?) I'm so in!

One more thing.

How is it that a teenage girl like Lorde is such a cool songwriter? In my day, teenage songstresses like Debbie Gibson and Tiffany were cute and all, but they didn't have much to say. Lorde has imagery for days.

About her first plane ride, she says she will "see the veins of my city like they do in space." In Royals, she said "I cut my teeth on wedding rings in the movies." Don't get me started on the lyrics in "Team": "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."

Plus, she's already learned truism like the fact that sometimes pretty girls just don't know the things us regular folk know. She also knows how to pronounce the word reveled, as in the way, when she was younger—what, 5?—she "reveled without a care."

And then there's her sound: everything's dusted with jaded cocaine fairy-dust like Lorde—already tired of being told to throw her hands up in the air—has been on the scene for years instead of just recently doing high school homework and binge-watching episodes of Spongebob.

It's like Shawn Binder said on a Thought Catalogue blog, marveling over Lorde's 2013 debut: "When I was sixteen, I was still trying to figure out that you shouldn't wear socks with sandals."

Who is Lorde, really?!




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