> Making you want to dance like Lorde

Jerrison Oracion
Senior Columnist

 

Le was the musical guest on a
recent episode of Saturday Night
Live, and just like when Bruno Mars
performed on the show earlier this
season, she proved that she’s still got
it. The first song that she performed
was “Green Light,” the first single from
her next album Melodrama. Prior to
this appearance, the music video of the
song was released, directed by Grant
Singer, the same person who made

the music video of the Ariana Grande
and Lil Wayne song “Let Me Love

we

You.” “Green Light” sounds great and
has a British pop sound even though
it’s from a New Zealand singer.

On SNL, she did the dances that
she usually does when she performs.
This caused the performance to
be very interesting and made me
like the song even more. The music
video for the song is the same.

The music video begins with Lorde
in the washroom of a club, singing to
herself in the mirror. Next, she goes
inside a chauffered van, dances while
leaning out the window, and dances
on top of it, with a red light shining on
her and the driver just standing and

A faire deal

> ‘Sheriff of Nottingham’ board game review

Ed Appleby
Illustrator

 

ho can resist a good bribe? It’s

the only way to get me to clean
my room, even to this very day. So
who wouldn't want to play a game that
combines all the satisfaction of bribery
with the excitement of sneaking over the
border with an apple in your backpack?

Sheriff of Nottingham (2014) is a
bluffing card game for three to five
players designed by Sérgio Halaban and
André Zatz and published by Arcane
Wonders. In the game, people play as
characters—who are totally not Robin
Hood and his Merry Men—bringing
goods to a market faire to celebrate the
arrival of Prince John. Players take turns
as the sheriff, inspecting other players’
bags to make sure they have what they
declared and are not bringing in any
contraband. The player with the most
profit at the end of the game wins.
Bribery is the name of the

game here: If the sheriff catches any
contraband or undeclared goods, the
player must pay a fine to the sheriff and
have the goods taken. If the player is
carrying what they say, the sheriff has to
pay the penalty instead. In most cases,
players actively bribe the sheriff into

looking the other way, ending in a win-
win situation where the player gets their
goods to market and the sheriff gets to
line their pocket with coin. Bribes don’t
always have to be in coin, they can be
goods, contraband, or favours for later
in the game. The last game I played,
of 24 bags of goods that came into the
market, only 1 was actually inspected.
This game lives and dies by the
psychology of bribing and mitigating
your losses, but the math swiftly
disappears into the fun of playing
the characters and wheeling and
dealing with the sheriff. It is definitely
more of a social game than a strategy
game, and the final score can come
down to a single coin. Be cautious,
though; one bad deal can set you
behind the other players very fast.
Thad a lot of fun playing the game.
The five stages in each round and
unorthodox gameplay may intimidate
some people before they pick it up,
but it won't take long for any player
to start enjoying themselves. The
game design is beautiful and durable,
though the snaps on the goods bags
can be a little hard to get open.
I would highly recommend
this game to anyone within a very
comfortable group, where feelings
wont be hurt by a little dirty dealing.

watching her. Next, she dances around
the streets of Los Angeles, and we see
jump cuts of her dancing wherever she
is. She is accompanied by her pianist
when she is dancing in the club and
the club’s washroom. The singer ends
up on a bridge as morning begins.

This video is like Lorde having a
hangover after a night out in the club.
It looks a bit grainy because the music
video is filmed on film, not digital.
The song reminded me of the song by
The Police, “Roxanne,” because the
line “Put on the red light” is similar to
the line in “Green Light,” “I’m waiting
for it, that green light, I want it.”

 

The dances that Lorde does in the
music video are very interesting, and it
caused me to dance to the song similarly
to how she dances. If you play this
song ina party, everyone in the party
will likely dance and maybe move like
how she dances in the music video.

The music video and the song
convinced me to get Lorde’s next album,
which will be released in June and
will probably have more hit singles.

For now, a lot of people will talk about
“Green Light” in the next few weeks
because of its video and radio play,
and everyone will probably do the
“Lorde dance” when they hear it.

Illustration by Ed Appleby