Lorde - Melodrama (2017)

this is a big step up from her debut and it's quite pleasant overall but mostly it's not really grabbing me yet either

the only track i don't really care for is "sober II (melodrama)," but besides that, the record is really good

I'm on that track! I wish they'd let me cut loose, but they had a specific thing in mind

― fgti, Saturday, June 17, 2017 6:03 AM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ah, nice! would've loved to have heard what you wanted to bring to the table

were you provided onion rings?

Really liked my first run through of this album. This would sound great on a late night drive.

sounds good but I still can't get with her pronunciation, sounds like she's pouting all the time

she does come off as wise beyond her years and quite sympathetic in recent RS feature though:
http://i.imgur.com/U46jMq9.png

eh if she was wise beyond her years, why does she hear wisdom in Don Henley?

sneaky passive voice "might be considered uncool"

I thought you heard wisdom in Don Henley?!

Don't look back
You can never look back

roll my eyes so hard when RS uses "might be considered uncool"

Lorde not doing much to dispell the rumors that she's actually 45 by digging Henley and Phil Collins

wow can't believe lorde is donald trump

I think 35 and younger and 55 and older would be acceptable Collins/Henley fan ages

anywhere between then idk

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/91/8d/75/918d75f16c1378e807563bc4b37011f0.gif

lorde is seasoned enough by this point to play to the outlets she's being interviewed by, I'd be surprised if she didn't mention someone like Don Henley

"also, every REM album is a 5 star record!"

lol if she was thinking "hmm this is going to be in Rolling Stone, how could I fuck with them? Better mention Don Henley"

DON: Well, yeah.

Before giving me any assignments, Whiney asks if I like Don Henley.

it's great because half the time I think of RS I picture some old white dude who peaked in the 70s and keeps wondering why there aren't more lists with Led Zepplin

the other half of the time I picture Whiney saying something about deadlines

Lorde talked to Tavi Gevinson for the Rookie podcast and mentioned Don Henley frequently in that conversation, for what it's worth

I think nothing would piss off Don Henley more knowing that a young female electronic musician with an obvious debt to current pop likes him, the more I think about it.

def. Kate Bush vibes on the "Writer in the Dark" chorus but Lorde is a million miles away from having the evocative emotional touch of Bush

Saying that I really like this

Yo, fgti, nice!

I have listened to the album a lot over the w-e and it's really good.
The only song I don't enjoy as much as the others is "sober" but it's alright.
I find the album almost too short (although I like that most of the songs are unusually short for these days. they say and do what they have to without expending for the sake of it).
One of the several moments I love is the "loveless" part. it's so light and great pop compared to the rest and right in the middle of the album.

Also anyone else get Echo + TB vibes at the end of The Louvre?

It was definitely reminding me of something. Came up with "Puerto Rico Way" by the 6ths.

ooooo that's a good one.

Was also wondering what Lorde Album #2 sounds like thematically if Tayor and 1989 didn't exist.

there are a few songs that remind me, maybe through roundabout influence, that Lorde curated a pretty good Hunger Games soundtrack

IN MY HEAD I DO EVERYTHING RIGHT WHEN YOU CALL I FORGIVE AND NOT FIGHT ALL THE MOMENTS I PLAY IN THE DARK WE WERE WILD AND FLUORESCENT COME HOME TO MY HEART

Sober is a GREAT track

It's been pointed out that Sober is a response to Tennis Court thematically

this is sequenced flawlessly, one of those summer record you can't help but put on repeat.

d-d-d-d-dynamite

did you write about it Alfred? would love your opinion on this record.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bhvufnPkxc

she rules

so good

This is the one album where I initially thought, "album of the year", where I then was, with significant-more listens, an album with just a few album highlights, but that overall was, to my surprise, a disappointment.

that cover is a butchering imo

I listen to it again atm and still really like it.
It feels so intimate and touching for such a big pop act.
And the production is really good.
The whole thing flows nicely and her voice/delivery is fantastic throughout (and I'm not even a fan - have never listened to her first album).
I still think it's a bit of a waste that "Loveless" wasn't made into a proper song.

In her wtf interview she enthusing about Phil Collins but I think using Take Me Home as an example of his greatness

It's not the war crime she committed against Tears for Fears level bad, but it's bad.

^ re: the Collins cover obvs

It’s p bad, makes her style feel like schtick actually. Maybe it was on a dare because “I can feel it coming in the air tonight / oh Lorde”. And the keys after the drums enter are pure failure.

just dropping by to say that 'the louvre' is a terrible song and what are you doing calling a song that only a few months after dawn richard bodied that song title

Perhaps the cover is not great but range is overrated anyway, just thought it was cool to see her do that song but whatevs

Ha, "Take Me Home" is my favorite Phil Collins song ever. Still doesn't make me like this album more. I really like a few songs, but don't see the love for the album whole anymore.

Yeah I’m a big fun. fan but I definitely prefer Lorde’s Joel Little stuff to her Jack Antonoff stuff.

Except that ending of Green Light where the distorted bending synths kick in and finish it off. That bit is killer.