Joel Little’s production drew faint lines between spooky underground pop tracks by the likes of Purity Ring and the darkly lurching rap radio hits produced by Mike Will Made It. On the other hand, scaling down the bombast helped Lorde find common ground between stylistic tribes. When her songs did get big, they glided rather than jostled, and she directly scoffed at being told to throw her hands in the air. At the height of wealth-flexing pop excess (remember Artpop?), so did the song’s anti-materialist message. The sparse simplicity of “Royals” stood out. Back then, her minimalist approach was a stark contrast from the styles that were ruling the radio back then: hard-thumping EDM, smooth yet rambunctious bro country, miasmic molly-infused hip-hop, passionately howled arena-ready rock from the likes of Mumford & Sons and fun., pop hits from Taylor Swift and Katy Perry eager to flirt with the prevailing sounds of the moment, epic auteurist rap albums from brand-name stars aplenty, belted out Adele throwbacks, Pharrell’s moment of funky domination. A lot has changed since she emerged as a teen phenom with her 2013 debut Pure Heroine. And just this afternoon, Lorde updated her website with a “Solar Power” teaser featuring that leaked artwork and a caption: “Arriving in 2021… Patience is a virtue.”Īssuming Lorde does come back soon, she’ll be re-entering a pop mainstream made increasingly in her own image. She has also confirmed the new album has a title, conceptualized during the 2019 trip to Antarctica that inspired her to begin writing again.
In their 2022 lineup announcement, Barcelona’s Primavera Sound festival touted “Lorde, who will emerge from her retirement with her third album after her unforgettable visit in 2018.” She’s been sharing progress reports on her “ fucking good” new music via email dispatches to fans over the past few years and hinted at its release in 2021 while urging her fellow New Zealand young people to vote last fall. Alleged single artwork keeps popping up, then disappearing. The new prominent idea is that “Solar Power” will arrive on June 21, just in time for the summer solstice. One theory suggested the songs would be out last Friday that didn’t happen. At this point the stans are starting to sound like cult leaders who keep pushing back the date of an apocalyptic event. Throughout the past week social media sleuths have decided two new songs called “Mood Ring” and “Solar Power” are imminent, with the follow-up to 2017’s Melodrama surely dropping soon after. The internet is abuzz with rumors of Lorde’s return.
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