No Better

"No Better" is a song by New Zealand singer-songwriter Lorde, taken from the extended version of her debut studio album Pure Heroine (2013).

[6] It incorporates "woozy" basslines,[7] and "pulsing" synthesisers in its instrumentation,[8] making the song's melody "dreamy", according to Whitney Phaneuf of HitFix.

[8] At the first verse, she sings "We roll in every summer when there's strength in our numbers / And your breath's hot and gross but I kiss you like a lover".

[9] Marc Hogan from Spin wrote that the song "flits between fairly vivid first-person details",[4] while Whitney Phaneuf from HitFix labelled "No Better" a "sexy" track.

[8] Writing for Slate, L. V. Anderson shared that "No Better" is reminiscent of some of the best tracks on Pure Heroine, but also "lighter, simpler [...] and more confectionary than most of her debut album", in spite of its dark theme.