New Rules
Updated: 2 days ago
⋆ Genre: Alternative Funk
⋆ Producing Credits: Supreme Boi
⋆ Writing/Composing Credits: Supreme Boi, EL CAPITXN, Daniel Caesar, Ludwig Lindell, Jordan "DJ Swivel" Young, Candace Nicole Sosa, Max Lynedoch Graham, Matt Thomson, Wilhelm Borjesson, danke
ABOUT/MEANING: “New Rules” captures the rebelliousness that emerges as childhood gives way to adolescence and young people begin questioning the expectations placed upon them. Frustrated by being told what they should do, how they should behave and even what they should like, the boys resist rules that feel arbitrary or imposed by others, expressing a growing desire to decide for themselves who they want to become. If the existing rules do not make sense, their youthful solution is simple: break them and create new ones.
Yet this rebellion is deliberately messy and contradictory rather than a declaration of complete independence. The boys are still figuring out what they want; what they know more clearly is that they no longer want other people deciding it for them. Their desire for “new rules” therefore reflects an early stage of self-discovery - testing boundaries, questioning convention and beginning to develop identities on their own terms.
As the opening track of The Dream Chapter: MAGIC, “New Rules” signals the boys’ movement deeper into adolescence. Having discovered friendship and belonging in STAR, they now begin exploring the wider freedoms, frustrations and possibilities of growing up together.
LYRICS - ENGLISH TRANSLATION (translations by @translatingTXT)
I think I’m feeling all right
Or maybe not, hey
Repetitive math class
My life trapped between lines
If it’s left foot, right foot
Right foot, left foot is more comfortable
I don’t know why I’m like this
Everything in this world is forbidden fruit (yum yum)
CONTEXT/EXPLANATION: “Forbidden fruit” originates from the Biblical story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, where they are forbidden from eating from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. The phrase has since come to describe something that becomes especially tempting because it is forbidden. Here, it reinforces the boy's rebellious impulse: the more the world tells him something is off-limits, the more he wants to experience it.
For no reason, I want to go to the locked rooftop
I’m tired, tired of these set phrases and tones
(Why?) On Facebook and Instagram
(Why?) Are there so many teachers?
(Why? Why?) Are there so many classes?
Everyone get out, out of my way
Even though it’s obvious that I’ll be punished
I want something more thrilling
Give it to me
If it crosses the line, I want it
If they tell me not to do it, I do it
Stupid but I
Want to be punk
Let me go, let me go, let me go go go
Let me go, let me go, let me go go go
I want to be punk
Where we go? Where we go? Where we go?
Don’t know
Let me go, let me go, let me go go go
The escalator becomes a slide
If you tell me not to lean, I lean
Trouble, trouble, let me go
Trouble, trouble, let me go
I break free from my transparent shackles
And make new rules
Trouble, trouble, let me go
I’m troublemaker, let me go
The common sense that you like
Whose common sense is that?
Did you get it verified by some doctor or professor?
The common sense I make
Do it what I like it
I grab the handles
I’m troublemaker
Even though it’s obvious that I’ll be punished
I want something more thrilling
Give it to me
If it crosses the line, I want it
If they tell me not to do it, I do it
Stupid but I
Want to be punk
Let me go, let me go, let me go go go
Let me go, let me go, let me go go go
I want to be punk
Where we go? Where we go? Where we go?
Don’t know
Let me go, let me go, let me go go go
The escalator becomes a slide
If you tell me not to lean, I lean
Trouble, trouble, let me go
Trouble, trouble, let me go
I break free from my transparent shackles
And make new rules
Trouble, trouble, let me go
I’m troublemaker, let me go
I think I’m feeling all right
Or maybe not, hey
Repetitive math class
My life trapped between lines
If it’s left foot, right foot then
Right foot, left foot is more comfortable
I don’t know why I’m like this
Everything in this world is forbidden fruit
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