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While rollin in the NorsePlay mobile , we were bumping Lorde's Glory and Gore track and couldn't help but notice how lyrically evocative the song seems to be of holmgang duels , battle readiness, craving for achievement through confrontation, and warrior ethos. Lorde, on the other hand, actually wrote this song as a "black satire to express disdain towards modern emphasis on violence, and compares celebrity culture to gladiatorial combat". Yet sometimes art can  miss its target,  transcend its creator's intent, and even be flipped into opposition of that. Perhaps the straight-on bloody fistfight imagery of Lorde's breakout single Royals  video carried over into how its audience reads Glory and Gore (and we suspect these aspects may actually have led to her curation of the 2014 Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 soundtrack, definitely a combat-centric franchise) , but it's obvious we're not the only ones to instead embrace it as a martial anthem, gi