Lorde‘s “Perfect Places” has pretty much been our jam this week.
Featured on her new album, Melodrama, the New Zealand-born musician recently opened up about the story behind the song with Beats 1.
“It was SO difficult to finish,” Lorde admits. “I cannot describe to you how much of a journey this was.”
She continues, “It had so many different forms before it was finished. You don’t want it to be preachy. No one likes a preachy pop song.
“It really exists in that end of the night space I hoped it would. This sort of encapsulates the feeling of Melodrama I think.”
Later on Facebook, Lorde revealed the true story behind the track: “I was living in new york during summer last year, writing melodrama – I’d ride across the brooklyn bridge every day, or sit on the subway uptown in the heat, then go back home to new zealand winter for a week at a time to party with my friends. My life was like a weird little etch-a-sketch I kept scribbling on and resetting.”
“And all last summer, I couldn’t shake the feeling that everyone i knew or saw was searching for something – trying to transcend the news and the screaming pavements, drinking that one drink hoping it’d get them someplace higher.”
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“You guys, today we have the number one album in america,” she tweeted on Monday (June 26). “From the bottom of my heart, thankyou.
“Royals was, to quote david chase, ‘a moonshot, a dreadnought,’” she went on. “There were no such guarantees with melodrama—that’s why this means so much.”
“When i was a kid i thought big records had to be made a certain way—to be sterile & calculated in craft; that something had to be sacrificed,” she added.
Read the rest of her tweets below!
you guys, today we have the number one album in america. from the bottom of my heart, thankyou.
Lorde‘s new album, Melodrama, is filled with so many great songs that we can hardly choose our favorites.
But, “The Louvre”, is definitely on that we will listen to over and over again and we’re not sorry about it.
“It’s a song about a crush,” Lorde revealed during her Beats 1 performance. “It’s about having a crush and the most potent crushes always happen in summer.”
“You’re always drinking a summery drink. Sort of that perfumed night air. Such a magic to it,” she continues.
“This is a song about a crush that endured and took twists and turns and I was documenting how fast I fell and the magic of that.”
Lorde adds, “People have to make girls feel stupid for getting in it too deep you know…when someone texts me a full stop I think, do they hate me now? I think it’s one of my strengths that I fall the way I do. For a place, for a season, for a person. I think there’s something cool about wearing your heart on your sleeve it’s magic.”
Listen to the song below!
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Lorde released her first album at such a young age, it’s a wonder that she chose such a powerful — and lasting — stage name. (If we did the same, we shiver to think of what our 16-year-old selves would select.)
We know that Lorde didn’t think her real name, Ella Yelich-O’Connor, would cut it in the music business. But how did she settle on Lorde?
“It was actually a really quick decision,” the now 20-year-old singer told 60 Minutes in an interview. “It’s quite funny, because I’m like, wow, if I’d known I would be having that name for the rest of my life I probably would have spent more than two days on it.”
Two days?!
“It was a good spontaneous choice, I think,” Lorde continued, “I’m quite proud of my 16-year-old self for not messing that one up because if I’d given myself a cool, weird, hip name that I hated now that would be super annoying. It was that nobility, aristocracy obsession that I had. I hit upon ‘Lord’ and loved the way it sounded, and then I was like, it would be quite cool to add an E to feminize it.”
Since her first hit was “Royals,” we shouldn’t be all that surprised. Still, we cannot help but be impressed that Lorde became Lorde at only 16 — and not “Kween” or “Princess” or “WildChild48.” (Some of us had embarrassing AIM names, ok?)
JJJ is pretty much obsessed with Lorde‘s brand new album, Melodrama, but we’re really obsessed with one song in particular — “Writer in the Dark”.
During her performance and interview with Beats 1, the singer/songwriter opened up about writing this song and the story behind it.
“This was the last song to make it on the record,” she revealed. “[It's] Another one where I felt I was speaking to someone or closing a door.”
“It’s interesting when you’re female and you write this confessional, painfully honest music about your life. There’s a lot of guilt associated with that. Am I a terrible person for harvesting my personal life for this? This song was my way of going actually ‘no it’s not my fault. This is what happens when you kiss a writer in the dark. They’re gonna write songs about you.’ This was my way of saying ‘I love you but I love this more.’”
Lorde adds about the production side, “This song came together so quickly I was sitting at the piano by myself at Electric Lady. Shout out to Lee, Tom Elmhurst, Barry our engineer, such a great place…I feel so musical in the best way.”
“Some studios I feel like is this just a conference room with a mic in it. I came up with this piano part by myself and the song grew. Jack [Antonoff] came in and moved a few parts around, told me to repeat a part, and it was done. This is basically the demo.”
Listen to the song below and grab the lyrics inside!
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