Lorde - Melodrama (2017)

I thought this stunk

it's fine but it's no "green light"

Oh forget it chorus just came on, it definitely sounds like freedom now.

― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, June 10, 2021 8:34 PM bookmarkflaglink

Yeah, I spent the first 2:00 thinking "yeah, I guess it's roughly the same tempo as "Freedom 90 but what are people talking about" and then the drums and bg vocal melody kicked in. Not that this fact makes me inclined to listen to it again.

I'll still fuck with Green Light tho

Thought it sounded like “moving on up”. There is a weird structure to it - totally horizontal and never goes anywhere. It’s like an arty version of a late 90s CD single.

it has a pretty clear build to it? if anything i think it's too slow to get going

I hope the new album has some Happy Mondays influences as well.

Also, in the cover art for the single, is she straight-up flashing vadge?

all of you except brad pls stop posting

She’s a modern girl in a deadstock bikini,

Did...did an Instagram ad write this?

I would like this more had Olivia Rodrigo sung it

Or Nina Sky

NYT profile to promote Melodrama pointed out that she doesn't play an instrument as it is traditionally understood, which I thought was interesting…if there is anything that you can point to as her purely musical signature, it is surely that, initially via whatever Logic-type software she would have learned in 2011, 2012, she can do vocal arrangements without Jack antonoff or whoever… and that quality is very much evidenced here… also, there can be little doubt that BIllie E was hugely into her…

The 10-year-old hated this (but her complaint was that it sounded like Olivia Rodrigo who she also hates)

Xpost: she doesn't play an instrument as it is traditionally understood, but she is very much the primary composer of her music…she's a good dancer…

the eternal singer's lament, where people don't think of you as a musician because you make music entirely with your body

Do many pop singers play instruments? I wouldn’t have assumed so

No but I think "singer/songwriter" is a different mental category for most listeners than "pop singer"

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— jetski🐬 (@jetski0) June 11, 2021

feels like the drummer was stuck in traffic until most of this is finished, and they should maybe re-record with them there from the start?

anyway this is far more Soak Up The Shine than Freedom 90... it may even be the same chord progression?

*Soak Up The Sun

people keep naming all these songs w/ huge memorable hooks as comparison points, not really doing this song any favors

Somehow reminds me of post-peak Beck.

Lorde says the unconscious “blueprint” was a Primal Scream song (“Loaded”)—she even reached out for Gillespie’s “blessing” after recording it.

i heard "loaded" too, not "freedom" as much at first.

i think the song is fine idk. the cover art is bad i think.

like too lowest common denominator, an obvious nod to "cheeky" tik tok videos which is a depressing reference point to me.

butts are valid

fine i guess. it just seems like a very zeitgeisty body part.

you cracked the case

the press statement brad posted is really cringey too. i like the loaded/freedom rhythm though and the horn part that comes in near the end.

maybe i'm jealous that i'm not feral and free and vibrating at the highest level when summer comes around. all criticism is autobiography.

lmao x-post

xp I do detect a taint of external factors in your reaction.

when i first saw the single art it was posted without any context and i assumed it was some rare brazilian 70s lp

treeship if it makes you feel better, it's winter in New Zealand

She’s allowed to be 24 ffs

when i first saw the single art it was posted without any context and i assumed it was some rare brazilian 70s lp

― flopson, Saturday, June 12, 2021

Me too! Especially since I've been jamming Jorge Ben lately.

this song sucks btw

Still waiting for the hook.

saw it move

not listened yet, gonna wait and see if I encounter it in the course of life, seeming doubtful?

the comparisons to "Freedom '90" are freaking me out, first because "Freedom '90" is one of the most buoyant songs ever written, secondly because it has a pulse.

xp At this point, I fear it will be difficult for you to listen without prejudice.

This song is neither particularly good nor memorable. I was trying to think how it compared to the new Billie Eilish, but that song was not very good or memorable, either, so I couldn't remember it.

The coda sounds really similar to "At the Holiday Party" from the last St. Vincent record.

I feel like post-Fall Asleep Billie can get across a just-OK song on the strength of her performance alone, in a way that Lorde (despite being an artistic forerunner) can’t.

I agree w/ that

the comparisons to "Freedom '90" are freaking me out, first because "Freedom '90" is one of the most buoyant songs ever written, secondly because it has a pulse.

― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, June 12, 2021 4:55 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

it tries to do the thing that freedom does. it fails.

it starts a little sultry and downtempo and then the "freedom"/"loaded" section is meant to be like a moment of catharsis when it kicks in at the 2:00 mark. i don't think it's really supposed to be joyful all the way through like freedom '90.

honestly, all current music seems to have at least some trace of gloom.

honestly, all current music seems to have at least some trace of gloom.

― treeship., Saturday, June 12, 2021 8:13 PM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

same, or maybe it's me.