Lorde - Melodrama (2017)

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…

The 10-year-old hated this (but her complaint was that it sounded like Olivia Rodrigo who she also hates)

Xpost: she doesn't play an instrument as it is traditionally understood, but she is very much the primary composer of her music…she's a good dancer…

the eternal singer's lament, where people don't think of you as a musician because you make music entirely with your body

Do many pop singers play instruments? I wouldn’t have assumed so

No but I think "singer/songwriter" is a different mental category for most listeners than "pop singer"

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feels like the drummer was stuck in traffic until most of this is finished, and they should maybe re-record with them there from the start?

anyway this is far more Soak Up The Shine than Freedom 90... it may even be the same chord progression?

*Soak Up The Sun

people keep naming all these songs w/ huge memorable hooks as comparison points, not really doing this song any favors

Somehow reminds me of post-peak Beck.

Lorde says the unconscious “blueprint” was a Primal Scream song (“Loaded”)—she even reached out for Gillespie’s “blessing” after recording it.

i heard "loaded" too, not "freedom" as much at first.

i think the song is fine idk. the cover art is bad i think.

like too lowest common denominator, an obvious nod to "cheeky" tik tok videos which is a depressing reference point to me.