“The world’s first ever monster truck front flip/I’m just a bad girl trying to be good” (‘The World’s First Ever Monster Truck Front Flip’) Turns out the moon isn’t immune to the plights of gentrification, but boy do we want to grab a taco and a frozen marg at the rooftop taqueria. This is where we get shown around the fictional Tranquility Base Hotel + Casino. “Cute new places keep on popping up/Since the exodus, it’s all getting gentrified/I put a taqueria on the roof/It was well reviewed/Four stars out of five” (‘Four Stars Out Of Five’) A reaction to all the mocking of his accent after he moved to LA? Less said about that Trump image the better, though…

Top marks here for getting “him sen” – aka Yorkshire dialect meaning “himself” – onto the record. “The leader of the free world reminds you of a wrestler wearing tight golden trunks/He’s got him sen a theme tune” (‘Golden Trunks’) “Do you celebrate your dark side then wish you’d never left the house?/Have you ever spent a generation trying to figure that one out?” (‘Tranquility Base Hotel + Casino’)Īnd then a couple of lines later, he comes out with this cracker – one of the most perfect lyrics on the album. “I just wanted to be one of those ghosts you thought that you could forget/And then I haunt you via the rearview mirror on a long drive from the back seat” (‘Star Treatment’) The frontman’s said he’s talking to himself in this line, but it’s easy to read it as he’s talking to any number of groups – the media, the music industry, the fans. “I just wanted to be one of The Strokes/Now look at the mess you made me make” (‘Star Treatment’)Įasily one of the most iconic opening lines of an album in recent years. He might have recently admitted some of his older lyrics are a little embarrassing to him now, but there are plenty of stunners – and some weirder ones – on the newie for him to be proud of. Whatever you make of the music on the bound-to-be-a-little-divisive new Arctic Monkeys album ‘ Tranquility Base Hotel + Casino‘, there’s no denying he’s really done it again with some of the record’s lines. You don’t need us to tell you Alex Turner is one of the finest lyricists music has ever seen.

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