Four years after Lorde illuminated suburban teendom with ‘Pure Heroine’, she captures the dizzying agony of adolescence on a second full-length album, "Melodrama", out today.
- ‘Lorde captures emotions like none other. Her second album is a masterful study of being a young woman, a sleek and humid pop record full of grief and hedonism, crafted with the utmost care and wisdom.’ - Pitchfork, 8.8/10
- ‘As a pop song production display, it's a tour de force. Lorde's writing and fantastically intimate vocals, ranging from her witchy, unprocessed low-register warbles to all sorts of digitized masks, make it matter.’ - Rolling Stone, 4/5
- ‘Whether it's a party record disguised as a breakup album or a breakup album disguised as a party record, it's cathartic, dramatic, and everything else you could want an album titled Melodrama to be.’ - Slant Magazine, 4.5/5
- ‘It’s Lorde’s own storytelling that offers Melodrama‘s most rewarding twists.’ - Entertainment Weekly, A
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ABOUT MELODRAMA
“Green Light,” the first taste of new music in four years, immediately launched Lorde to the top worldwide trending topic on Facebook and Twitter, amassing an incredible 2 billion impressions on Twitter alone within its first 24 hours. The track was the most added at Top 40 radio in the US upon impacting and was added straight onto the A-List at BBC Radio 1 in the UK. In just one week, the track has clocked up a staggering 12M streams and the video now has over 72M views on YouTube. The second coming of Lorde got the whole world talking; everyone from Diplo, Katy Perry, Taylor Swift, Halsey, Charlie XCX and even Aaron Paul from Breaking Bad took to their socials to praise the track and video.
Lorde about the new album:
“Everyone has that first proper year of adulthood,” she told Beats 1. “I think I had that year.” She chronicles her experiences in these insightful odes to self-discovery that find her battling loneliness (“Sober”), conquering heartbreak (“Writer in the Dark”), embracing complexity (“Hard Feelings/Loveless”), and letting herself lose control. “Every night I live and die,” she sings on her new single “Perfect Places,” an emotionally charged song about escaping reality. “I’m 19 and I'm on fire."
The album was recorded over an 18-month period with co-writer and co-producer Jack Antonoff.
Track by track, lyrics, artwork, press shots: click here.
ABOUT LORDE
In 2013, a 16-year-old Lorde quietly, yet confidently asserted herself as the voice of a generation with her full-length debut, Pure Heroine. The album would go triple-platinum, win two GRAMMY® Awards, and spawn the seven-times platinum record-breaking international juggernaut single, “Royals,” and quadruple-platinum follow up “Team.” The former cemented Lorde as “the youngest solo artist and the only New Zealander to achieve #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 since 1987.” Time exalted her amongst the “Most Influential Teenagers in the World,” she landed on Forbes’s “30 Under 30” List, graced the cover of Rolling Stone and performed alongside Nirvana during the 2014 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony. She also curated the official soundtrack for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 and recorded “Yellow Flicker Beat” as the lead single.