Lorde - Melodrama (2017)

I loved this album !
But it bombed, didn't it ?
I feel like I never hear about her anymore.

I hear about her doing covers every few weeks

she's on world tour forever

Like this album a lot. Favorite tic that hasn't been mentioned in this thread is the scream in Supercut. Also anyone else get Echo + TB vibes at the end of The Louvre?

― ein Sexmonster (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, June 16, 2017 3:20 PM (three years ago) bookmarkflaglink

I'm just getting around to this. I don't know Echo and the Bunnymen very well, but it reminded me of the outro to Siouxsie's Dazzle.

new single "solar power" soon

some Free cover connection going on here..

https://static.stereogum.com/uploads/2021/06/lorde-solar-power-1623098760-1000x1000.jpeg

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/bd/Free_albumcover.jpg

But seriously looking forward to new Lorde, loved that last album so much.

unexpected revive

revisited melodrama today and wow i do not like this record

this is the first time you've posted this sentiment

you said you loved music you're such a damn liar

I still like this album a lot

it was a good album, not a great one

"green light" & "the louvre" both great tracks though

I like it, but more in theory than execution. "Supercut" will always be a perfect song to me, though, and "Green Light" and "Writer in the Dark" are pretty up there as well

i think the chorus of "the louvre" is fucking amazing, and i like "supercut" but this album radiates high key theater kid energy that is repellant to me unless it is cut with other things

The new song is nice (not so sure about the lyrics, tho).

nice of antonoff to shrug off his claustrophobic tendencies but otherwise zzz

it immediately reminded me of "Brighter Than The Sun" by Colbie Caillat

nice of antonoff to shrug off his claustrophobic tendencies but otherwise zzz

― maura, Thursday, June 10, 2021 3:36 PM (six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

more like borde

idk why people keep trying to re-write "freedom 90," they know we can listen to the actual "freedom 90" whenever we want, right?

I don't hear "Freedom! '90" at all in this but my first thought when I heard this was "yvan eht nioj" from the Simpsons despite barely any resemblance so I guess that says more about me than the song

i immediately heard "freedom 90" too and then it goes further and further in that direction

It feels like a very self-conscious attempt to write a "summer anthem."

feels more like a rebranding than an attempt to write an anthem/hit

Isn't Freedom 90 just a rewrite of "Feelin Alright" anyways?

finally heard it, pleasant but uneventful, for whatever reason i do not like listening to lorde sing

Anyways, my first go to points of reference ended up being Natalie Imbruglia's Wish I Was There or Sheryl Crow, but with more modern minimal arrangement/production/mixing akin to Billie Eilish or something from the last Haim album.

weird to attribute a "Freedom '90" sound to a person who has never shown interest in that sound

Agree with MarkoP, that’s more or less the same comparison I thought of, specially imbruglia

Oh forget it chorus just came on, it definitely sounds like freedom now.

I dont want a languid summer banger after the past year i want to get rawed

Jimmy hi

radiates high key theater kid energy

There’s someone I want you to meet.
Her feet are bare at all times. She’s sexy, playful, feral, and free. She’s a modern girl in a deadstock bikini, in touch with her past and her future, vibrating at the highest level when summer comes around. Her skin is glowing, her lovers are many. I’m completely obsessed with her, and soon you will be too.

It’s my divine pleasure to be introducing you, at long last, to my third studio album, SOLAR POWER.

wait is that real

maybe she will be a character like Marina used to do and Lorde will murder her at the end of the album

let her live that fantasy

comparisons to "freedom 90" and "brighter than the sun" have already killed my interest in this immediately, not that i rly like lorde much anyway

Let her be, she’s 24 and used to people praising every thing she writes. I’m in for midsommar Lorde.

But yeah that write-up is lame

I thought this stunk

it's fine but it's no "green light"

Oh forget it chorus just came on, it definitely sounds like freedom now.

― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, June 10, 2021 8:34 PM bookmarkflaglink

Yeah, I spent the first 2:00 thinking "yeah, I guess it's roughly the same tempo as "Freedom 90 but what are people talking about" and then the drums and bg vocal melody kicked in. Not that this fact makes me inclined to listen to it again.

I'll still fuck with Green Light tho

Thought it sounded like “moving on up”. There is a weird structure to it - totally horizontal and never goes anywhere. It’s like an arty version of a late 90s CD single.

it has a pretty clear build to it? if anything i think it's too slow to get going

I hope the new album has some Happy Mondays influences as well.

Also, in the cover art for the single, is she straight-up flashing vadge?

all of you except brad pls stop posting

She’s a modern girl in a deadstock bikini,

Did...did an Instagram ad write this?

I would like this more had Olivia Rodrigo sung it

Or Nina Sky

NYT profile to promote Melodrama pointed out that she doesn't play an instrument as it is traditionally understood, which I thought was interesting…if there is anything that you can point to as her purely musical signature, it is surely that, initially via whatever Logic-type software she would have learned in 2011, 2012, she can do vocal arrangements without Jack antonoff or whoever… and that quality is very much evidenced here… also, there can be little doubt that BIllie E was hugely into her…