Yellow Flicker Beat The music video for "Yellow Flicker Beat" was directed by Emily Kai Bock, and was released on 7 November 2014 at midnight (NZDT), when Lorde turned eighteen years old. It has been described as first-person narrative from a woman expressing the strength and resolve of Katniss Everdeen, the central character of "The Hunger Games" franchise. Commenting on the concept of the video, Lorde wrote on her Tumblr page that she wanted to convey a "mood; a harsh, crackling heat." She refers to Katniss as someone pushed over the edge and considers her a shapeshifter, "full of intensity and impulse." The
Katniss Everdeen refuses to believe Snow, Katniss realizes that the attack method was identical to a trap Gale and fellow Quarter Quell tribute Beetee had designed. Eventually, Katniss realizes that someone high up in the ranks of the Rebels would have had to order to have Prim on the front line, despite her age, and comes to suspect that Coin ordered the attack on the children in order to trick the Capitol citizens into thinking that the government had killed their children, therefore winning the loyalty of the Capitol's citizens and that Prim was there solely to subdue and unhinge Katniss. Furthermore,