Lorde - Solar Power (August 20, 2021) Album • Page 18

tight

 

Oh man, this is exciting

Lorde is day drinking with Seth Meyers for Late Night

 

?

 

Song is up on AM.

I really like it, and I respect her not reaching for the BIG single. She’s staying true to her vision it seems like. Nice song.


Feels like she’s playing the long game. Very confident.

 

California and Mood Ring have also leaked apparently.

Edit:
California: Lorde California mp3
Mood Ring: Lorde Mood Ring mp3

All these songs are great, really excited for this album!

 

Damnn. I'd just about settled that I was going to hold off anything else after Solar Power and wait till release date.

But this is really testing my resolve...

 

Pitchfork is saying Phoebe and Clairo are on Stoned At The Nail Salon too

 

It's funny, I was thinking to myself "this kind of could be a Phoebe song" as it was playing, then sure enough Zane Lowe brought up that she was on the song, haha.

 

Ehhh, didn't care for either Nail Salon or California. And that Mood Ring link is most def not Lorde, haha

 

This was fine, didn't love it, didn't dislike it.

 

I posted the wrong link at first but now it's the actual Mood Ring song

 

"Pomegranates, Majorca” by John Singer Sargent

Hello my mates. I hope you’re doing good out there. I’ve just gotten back from a crazy amazing shoot in the middle of nowhere that I can’t tell you anything about yet, surprise surprise, but that you’ll see soon and — I’ll put money on this — shit your pants over. It was very very intense and amazing, and then it was over and we were driving back through the redwoods, and I was sitting in the back of a sprinter van with my feet up on the seat like a naughty teen, shaking my head that this is my life. It’s something I keep going on and on about, I know, but it’s just so insane, the contrast between home and here. I’ve been trading the tour bus for the grocery store line over and over since I was sixteen (I’ll probably do it forever), and a couple of years ago I realised it was time to write about those two sides to my life. I started writing this in the first six months after stopping touring for Melo. I was so tired by the end, I’d been so busy for so long, and I remember at the end of that tour saying to people I knew “I’m just going to go home and get bored” — because it had been two years since I had been at a loose end, bored out of my brain going from the couch to the fridge, and I was craving that. The first couple months of it were incredible— I’d run a bath at 10am and eat a slice of cake in it! My bandmate Jimmy and I would go out for these long lunches on Mondays and drink wine! But eventually, of course, the insecurity that this was my life now, that I wasn’t a titan of industry, but someone who just… cooked and walked the dog and gardened crept in. I was starting to fall out of step with the times culturally, I didn’t have my finger firmly on the pulse for the first time in my life, and I could feel the next round of precocious teenagers starting to come up, and I felt insecure that they were gonna eat my lunch, so to speak. Was I over the hill?!! This song was borne out of that feeling. I was sure that I was building a beautiful life for myself, but I wasn’t sure if that life was going to satisfy the same thirsty, fearless person who could tear apart a festival stage or be in seven countries in seven days. I know now that as hard as I try to run towards or away one of the sides of my life, they’re both very much who I am. It’s jarring to move between them, but that dichotomy is me. And writing this song was a real step toward embracing that. It’s almost comical to be writing this from a hotel room where my life is busier than ever, my iCal is wall to wall from wake to sleep, and of course I’m daydreaming about cooking and gardening and romanticising the greener grass once again… SO IT GOES.



I brought the kernel for this into Jack’s home studio on the same trip as Solar Power. I found this cute pic of us the day we were writing it. It’s pretty cute that we’re gonna perform this on Seth tonight the day it comes out, shoulder to shoulder two years and change to the day that we wrote it. I hope you love this song, and this side to the album, and I hope if you’re someone who also has a habit of tiptoeing up to a deep thought then doubting yourself or dissociating, you know you’re not alone.

More soon. Love you so very much, and think of you fondly, even when I can’t see you.

Til next time, may happy gods attend you,
E x

 

Not gonna listen to the other two yet but I immediately liked Nail Salon way more than Solar Power, which I haven't listened to since the day it came out

 

nail salon is kind of a snooze and solar power is the song of the summer

 

Ehhhhhhhhh

 

he’s right. i like what she’s done on the songs so far but he has added nothing to her sound that has been beneficial.

the only artist he has helped expand sonically in a positive way seems to be st. vincent. still a good writer and a good performer in his own right, but his production often hurts more than helps.

 

I mean, he made melodrama

 

St. Vincent was gonna be my argument for the opposite.

 

He also made Norman Fucking Rockwell which was very much acclaimed by critics and fans alike

 

And like half of folklore

 

I just think it's a weird angle cus the way people talk is like he is ruining these artist's visions, which feels really discrediting to the artists themselves. Especially when they all talk about how good Jack is at helping them execute the specific vision they have in their head.

He's obviously on a specific sound right now, and I think it's totally fine and understandable to not really be digging the work he's doing lately, but entirely discrediting him as a producer given his track record just feels odd to me.

 

what did he add to any of those artists that they didn’t already show themselves prior to working with him lol

at best he is a neutral presence as a producer.

 

They're basically saying they don't like her new songs so it's his fault, lol. Jack has a pretty solid track record.