Welcome to Chillers, the ongoing series where we take a look at songs that give me goosebumps. Bi-weekly posting will be done on WordPress with a cross post to Bluesky.

Mixed in with the uplifting and sunny beats of Solar Power, Stoned at the Nail Salon is a retrospective of life and love performed by Lorde. Part song and part poem, it’s a celebration of life and the despair of the unknown.

The dream-like combination of Lorde’s vocals and the wavy beats tie in well with the concept of the album and paint a memory of lost loves, missing out on life, and the desire to settle down.

It speaks to the dichotomy between memories of youth and being free with the desire to calm down and live within the now and being happy with the success that you have had. It’s blisteringly human, someone at the crossroads of their youth and adulthood at twenty-five, speaking from experience.

But in the end, maybe they are overthinking everything, simply being high in a salon chair.