Lorde's lyricism is once again brilliant with a plethora of metaphors and heartfelt songs. Inspired in part by the “emotions and insights” gained after her Melodrama is New Zealand singer Lorde’s sophomore album, released on June 16, 2017 via Lava and Republic Records. The album's opening track, "Green Light", features titular metaphors; reviewers interpreted the "green light" as a street signal that gives the singer permission to move into the future. This album is easily on the same level as Pure heroine if not surpasses it and is criminally underrated. Melodrama is a must-listen for almost anyone, and especially people who would typically listen to Indie/alternative. Everyone around her that she knew was searching for something, someplace higher, finding superficiality instead. But Lorde is always the focal point of these songs, as she should be. Antonoff's steely signatures -- a reliance on retro synths, a sheen so glassy it glares -- are all over the place on Melodrama but Lorde is unquestionably the auteur of the album, not just because the songs tease at autobiography but because of how it builds upon Pure Heroine.
It was described by critics as an Amy Winehouse Quotes: Ten Poignant Insights Into Her LifeBest Tanya Tucker Songs: 20 Raw Country ClassicsThere’s a moment on the first part of ‘Hard Feelings/Loveless’ where another producer might have put a guitar solo, but Antonoff throws in a synthesiser that sounds, in his own words, “like metal bending,” and it makes for one of the most jarring, thrilling moments on the album.
A song special to Lorde's heart, "Perfect Places" closes the 11-track set being written in the summer of 2016 while she lived in New York.
And on the songs where he does go for a conventional climax – the aforementioned ‘Green Light’ and the album’s closer ‘Perfect Places’ – it delivers some of the most transcendent and cathartic pop of the last decade.‘Space Oddity’: The Story Behind David Bowie’s Influential SongThe Most Surprising Musical FriendshipsAt once a surrender and a farewell to adolescent emotions, ‘Melodrama’ renders Lorde’s fears and desires as vividly detailed as her portrait on the album’s cover.This article captures the wonder that was Melodrama