“Team” is the third single for Lorde’s debut LP. It’s a bittersweet, dreamy track with a beat that further criticizes the glamour depicted in “Royals” through a fantasy world.

After the music video debuted, Lorde posted on her Facebook:

this video was borne from a dream i had a few months ago about teenagers in their own world, a world with hierarchies and initiations, where the boy who was second in command had acne on his face, and so did the girl who was queen. i dreamt about this world being so different to anything anyone had ever seen, a dark world full of tropical plants and ruins and sweat. and of this world, i dreamt about tests that didn’t need to be passed in order to be allowed in: sometimes the person who loses is stronger.