more marvelous vocabulary from sza‘s verse in toluca lyric 5: all the stars!! for more vocabulary and an excellent playlist of songs related to the lyrics in all the stars, click here
spoiler alert, used at 2:55, is a warning that spoilers, e.g. information about a movie, series, book, etc. that could spoil your enjoyment, are coming.
freckles, alluded to at 3:15 are little brown patches of skin.
sza’s got some freckles. (roger erickson, out magazine)
there are two uses of get at 3:18 that come from the beginning of sza’s verse in all the stars. get to talking means start talking. get involved means participate.
a list of expressions used in sza’s verse appear on the screen between 3:25 and 3:32. got no is a reduction of i’ve got no, which is a contraction of the . an off switch allows u to turn off a device. a turn on excites sexually.
means make me feel sad or bad; or remove from power, destroy. get away from is a phrasal verb that means remove. keep away from means don’t let it near me. give thanks means to be grateful, appreciate. at all emphasizes a negative statement. end game is a final objective at the end of a detailed plan. it is the title of the fourth movie in the avengers saga. (is that an accident?
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there is an example of past perfect at 3:40. i hadn’t realized refers to realizing (discovering) that there are alternate versions of sza’s verse in all the stars. different from realizar in spanish, realize usually does NOT mean finish, .
had u? is a tag question that refers to the statement i hadn’t realized. because this statement is negative, the tag (had u?) is affirmative. because the structure is past perfect, the auxiliary had is used. u is a plural pronoun.
at 3:45, listen for mandela effect (false memory). the expression refers to several people misremembering that south african hero nelson mandela died in jail when , after being released from prison in 1990, he served as president of south africa from 1994 to 1999.
u can read different versions of sza’s verse in all the stars here and here.
when large percentages of people forget, we remember nelson mandela
at 3:50, overwhelmed is used to describe the feeling of processing too much or extreme levels of information on line every day. at 3:57 proper means correct, adequate.
overwhelmed by little notes
the final line of sza’s verse, mentioned at 4:02 in toluca lyric 5, is
better live your life, we were running out of time
better is a modal auxiliary verb in this lyric. it indicates a strong recommendation. run out of means time was gradually diminishing.
kendrick lamar & sza (lester cohen, wireimage)
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