After ‘Solar Power’, for many a false step, for a few a cult album, Lorde had taught a “teaser” of his return, which had been quite promising.
Judging for what was exhibited in Washington Square Park, we were facing a full -fledged ‘melodrama’ sound, and the official version confirms it. Its sound clearly matches’ Green Light ‘and’ Supercut ‘, exactly the two most listened to’ melodrama songs right now.
Lorde herself ensures that this is the “sound of his rebirth.” The production of Lorde, Jim-E Stack (Haim, Charli XCX) and Dan Nigro (Chappell Roan, Olivia Rodrigo) states a Synth-pop, vintage and playful sound similar to ‘melodrama’ but also evolves from that. Or that, at least, he turns him around. It is another era and it shows.
But what does ‘What Was That’ a 100% Lorde song is his unbroken emotion, and lorda goes by New York in the official video clip, which culminates with her encounter with her fans in the Washington Park. The story of ‘What Was That’ is that of the memory of an intense sentimental relationship that no longer exists but for Lorde it was transformative. So much so that the Neo Zealandon retains in the memory those moments that seemed everyday but that locked happiness: a cigarette that seemed “the best of her life”, a high of ecstasy “in the garden”, a concert in the Baby’s All Right, a dance in “Indian”, that is, in Coachella. All that is now a “dream.”
Lorde summoned his fans in a New York park through his mythical Newsletter. Police had to dissolve the event for security reasons. Hours later, the singer reappeared to definitely give the performance up on a bad death, while the new theme sounded through speakers plugged in Blood Orange, main producer of the fourth album of Lorde. And there are already people who chant the chorus «What was that».
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