Whoever wrote this is racist for assuming that the things Lorde talks about automatically only apply to black people. People always seem to make up an issue with a song once it becomes a hit (blurred lines).
But not only black people are associated with those things mentioned in the song. They are just apart of popular culture. I wouldn't mind if she elaborates though.
How many times has Lorde stated that she's influenced by Hip-Hop music?
So of course she's going to talk about things that are portrayed in Hip-Hop culture.
Everything she talks about is a part of Hip-Hop.
That reviewer is reaching so far she must be in physical pain. Lorde writes from her own experiences - who is this woman to say with what Lorde associates the things in her lyrics?
Why is it that every time a song goes #1, that's when the conspiracies come out, but before they became #1 hits nobody really cared? The same thing happened to "Blurred Lines." Except I hope Lorde doesn't read into it and ride with it for even bigger buzz.
I do like the song, but I did think about this a bit...Lorde doesn't seem to understand that the reason so many hip-hop songs (which she seems to be targeting in the lyrics) have lyrics that boast about excess is because hip-hop is a BLACK genre created by and for black people in the United States (which has spread to all the world), and black people have had wealth systematically denied from them for centuries due to WHITE people enslaving and discriminating against them. It's really no coincidence that the two major hip-hop tracks of the past year to denounce materialism in hip-hop ("Gucci Gucci" and "Thrift Shop") were made by white people.
It's the same as Thrift Shop basically. Both songs use hip hop beats, but instead of boasting about how much money they have, they're doing the opposite (in Thrift Shop's case Macklemore is boasting about the bargains he finds and how cheap he gets stuff).