However, Ella's voice is quiet and composed but feels like it's getting more and more panicked as it goes by. The beat is fast, at 128 bpm it's the same as songs like 'I gotta feeling' and 'Party Rock Anthem', which makes it feel like it's going by fast (like her youth) and like it's a party song (which is a central theme of the lyrics). Other than the sentimental value, I think Ribs is also one of the smartest songs on PH. On the one hand, it reminded me of my old friends and it was nostalgic and on the other it reminded me that everything was always going to be ok. And then a year later I'd settled in, I had new friends, I'd gone to new parties and wandered through different streets and Ribs wasn't painful anymore, it was bittersweet.

I ached for my friends, I ached for my hometown and my family, it hurt to grow up and be an adult and live in a huge city all by myself and meeting new people and not having any familiar faces. Then, I went to university and for the first year I went back to listening to PH obsessively and Ribs just felt like someone was twisting a knife inside of me. I hung onto Ribs as kind of a lullaby that reminded me of my friends and our nights out. At the time I was just starting to go to my first parties and developing my social life and the idea of moving away and having to do it all over again was daunting and scary. I'm only a few months younger than Lorde and when PH came out I was in high school and the prospect of going to university loomed over my head. In my case, it came at exactly the right time in my life.

Ribs lorde 8d