Lorde - Virgin (June 27, 2025) • Page 5

Bad song

 

I think Pure Heroine may have been a fluke at this point. Not nearly as hot on Melodrama as others

 

Terrible take

 

I'd hide a take that bad too

 

It is what it is

 

Idk about a fluke but I am ready to say she has about 5-6 good songs

 

Yeah fluke is probably the wrong word, I think Solar Power is a miss but I'm mostly just indifferent to Melodrama. I think this song is pretty rough, the line about doing drugs in the garden or whatever just feels corny and generic to me. But I'm glad others are enjoying it and hope the album changes my mind!

 

The vibe of the music video certainly did a lot of work in elevating the song for me.

Hopefully we can all at least agree that she has a cool style and gorgeous hair.

 

style is the bit i'm not into. the overall aesthetic and drug lyrics feel like she's reaching for some sort of coolness, it doesn't feel as genuine as her earlier work. hoping i feel differently after hearing the full album though

 

Not trying to be too crazy with defending her, but I think she’s been fairly open about doing MDMA and such since “Melodrama.” The song “Solar Power” was all about drugs and she’s very much a hippy. Don’t really see it as a stretch.

 

I completely agree with this. I adored Pure Heroine (maybe in hindsight not all of it, but still enough of it - Tennis Courts especially) but after that nothing grabbed me. But yes we’re a small minority, haha.

 

Melodrama has some of the best production I've ever heard, it's incredible what they created on that album. Songs like The Louvre and Hard Feelings, among others, still floor me each time I hear them. That album is exactly what I love about music. Extremely creative, diverse, yet still catchy as hell and beautiful and weird and challenging

 

I’ve admittedly gone in and out of casual Lorde fandom over the years, but that’s kinda wild to me? Feels like such a natural vibe for her.

And, I’m personally not a big recreational drug girlie, or someone who actively considers “coolness” a priority or whatever. But, every time I’ve seen her recently, between her with Charli at Coachella or this music video, I’m like, oh. That style on her in particular just taps into something for me, idk.

 

She did a really cool interview/conversation piece with artist Martine Syms that sums up the ethos of the project and I think it really helps clarify what we can expect from Virgin.

A quote from the article that really got me was "This was another one of my big tenets, to avoid prowess wherever possible. Everyone’s good at everything, and I kind of don’t care. Show me what it looks like when you are bad. Show me how it looks when you get it wrong. It feels like that’s what’s at stake to me. Trust they know you’re smart and that you know how to do things, and that working in these simpler or more spontaneous or more naive-feeling forms is going to do something interesting."

‘The magic lives close to the edge’: Lorde and artist Martine Syms on the beauty of the self