Lorde announces second album Melodrama
NEW YORK: In one of the crucial anticipated returns in pop music, Lorde unveiled a track Thursday wherein the onetime teenage star takes a brand new dance sound and grownup look.
20-years-old New Zealander introduced a second album referred to as “Melodrama,” her follow-up to 2013’s “Pure Heroine” which received her phenomenal success whereas nonetheless a teen.
Lorde launched the album’s first single, “Inexperienced Mild,” which is strikingly extra energetic than her minimalist breakthrough hit, the Grammy-winning “Royals.”
“Inexperienced Mild” begins off with a sullen piano as Lorde, explaining a breakup, sings: “I do my make-up in any individual else’s car / We order totally different drinks on the similar bars.”
The monitor rapidly heads in a dance course, with the piano backed up by a driving bass line, a backup refrain and a refined electronica beat.
“Oh, I want I might get my issues and simply let go / I am ready for it, that inexperienced mild, I would like it,” she sings.
In an accompanying video, Lorde reveals up at a nightclub, singing to herself within the mirror a WC the place a pianist performs within the nook, and hailing a automobile as she finally hops on its roof to bop.
Lorde wrote the track and upcoming album with Jack Antonoff, the guitarist of enjoyable. and the front man of Bleachers.
Lorde stated she spent the previous 18 months with Antonoff engaged on “Melodrama,” which is able to come out within the coming months. She is scheduled to play a collection of upcoming festivals together with Coachella.
The artist born as Ella Yelich-O’Connor has been writing songs since age 13 however has managed to keep away from the tabloid headline-grabbing life-style that’s infamous among youngster stars.
She stated that she intentionally cloistered herself to focus on the successor to “Pure Heroine,” which offered greater than three million copies in the US.
“For me, it was form of about processing what I needed to say in it,” Lorde stated of “Melodrama” in an interview on Apple Music’s Beats 1 radio.
“I knew it simply could not be any previous factor. It needed to be actually particular and actually singular and it could not sound the identical because the previous stuff.”
Whereas “Royals” mocked the hunt for materials wealth, Lorde acknowledged that “Inexperienced Mild” got here from a extra inner perspective — it centered on her life’s first main breakup.
“The track is about these moments instantly after your life adjustments and about all of the foolish little issues that you simply gravitate in the direction of,” she stated.
Lorde had teased clues concerning the track in current days again in New Zealand, together with shining inexperienced mild on the Auckland City Corridor live performance venue.
She instructed Beats 1 interviewer Zane Lowe, one other New Zealander outstanding within the music enterprise, that she nonetheless felt at residence there regardless of recording “Melodrama” in New York.
“It is loopy if you’re so younger to be spending all of your time in LA or New York,” Lorde stated.
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Lorde stated she was nonetheless processing her “first correct 12 months of maturity” — and that her expertise, with each its “glory and disgusting moments,” dominated the album’s themes.
“I moved out of residence and swiftly I used to be form of figuring who am I after I’m alone, who am I after I’m doing issues only for myself?”