is MELODRAMA by LORDE overrated? 

3:28 is where you can find the cat. 5:54 cat is leaving 🐈 Thank me later.

*This album IS THAT ALBUM ! I'm afraid nothing will ever top this album for me and it definitely is timeless!*

A quick tip about MELODRAMA: This entire album was produced to "synthesize" a SINGLE NIGHT PARTY of someone who had just left a relationship, went to a party, got drunk, ended up meeting his same ex at the party, kissed him in and then came home thinking you had the worst night of your life for being with the person who hurt you when should love and care for you.

the louvre is just a masterpiece, she says “we’re the greatest, they’ll hang us in the louvre, down the back but who cares? still the louvre” and it was in the louvre where they performed mass executions by hanging people in the back of the museum. also she says “megaphone to my heart, broadcast the boom boom boom boom and make ‘em all dance to it” and the beat reflects her heartbeats

truly one of the best albums of all time.

THIS DESERVED THE GRAMMY.

You didn't even talk about the lyrics in liability, "so I'll go home into the arms of the girl that I love, the only love I haven't screwed up" and then "we slow dance in the living room but all the neighbors would see is one girl swaying alone, stroking her cheek" ugh album is literally a masterpiece the production is amazing

It's actually a concept album. The entire album takes place in a house party and most people mistake it for a breakup album but it's overall about growing up and entering true adulthood

i truly loved this so much. the money i’d pay to listen to this album for the first time again.

Don’t discredit Lorde as a producer tho! She and Jack produced all of the songs together 💙

the true definition of "no skip" album

fun fact, this album is meant to mirror a house party throughout the night, so like it starts out with innocent sunset party vibes, in the middle are the deep late night feels, and the album ends with sunrise hope. it’s such a masterpiece

Fun fact: the Louvre is a modern day museum but an execution ground back in the day. So the line "They'll hang us in the Louvre" is a double entendre - like, they'll hang us on the wall like a museum piece, but they might also execute us by hanging.

Lorde produced and wrote every song on this album with jack which I think people often forget. Jack is a great producer but so is lorde

I think it was needed of Lorde to go the way she went. Because Melodrama would not remain THIS melodrama if she had made another album with the out of the world drums and production. You grew up with Pure Heroine, Melodrama is the party and now you have to "sober" up. And that hung over maybe IS solar power, to just sit out basking under the sun, listening to the cicadas. But Solar Power is not just that. Its a realisation and disconnection from the past that were dark, but her most brightest years. Now its brighter with Solar Power, but the messages and narrative all throughout the album is dark. So in some truth, people don't actually like the mundane, drilling darkness. But i personally love Solar Power.

it's not just Jack's production, Lorde is literally the main producer of this album

The way people SLEPT on this album when it came out ugh. People didn't wanna believe Miss 16-year-old-Royals could come back THIS GODDAMN strong but alas, she did.

"I'm gonna have to shake ass with this" that's honestly the best description for homemade dynamite I've ever heard

if overrated means Album of The Century, then yes!

No, dude. Jack didn't produce Hard Feelings "by himself". It says jack antonoff AND LORDE. it's really disrespectful the way some people discredit lorde's contribution to the production of her own damn songs, when actually she's been brilliantly in charge since Love club EP.

lmao i dont think anyone noticed that "Liability" ends with "they're all gonna watch me disappear into the SUN". bruh did she just predict her own future album?

It’s a masterpiece is what it is 😌

The instrumental in homemade dynamite is so upbeat that you don't realize what "We'll end up painted on road, red in chrome, all the broken glass sparkling" until after you read the lyrics

I swear lorde in 2013 influenced all of 2013-2017, and 2017 lorde influenced everything until her recent album. I know people dont like to give her credit, but she really pioneered so much of this past almost 10 years of music

I don't really understand why you and several other people give all the credits to Jack for the production, while Ella is the one who ran this whole process of making Melodrama. It is her creative mind which gave him opportunity to mix all these sounds together. The album is the product of them both, so please don't underestimate her abilities as a producer and her contribution to Melodrama as a producer as well.

overrated is something that can’t be together in a sentence with melodrama… melodrama>>>>>>>>>>24kflop

melodrama was and will always be a masterpiece

Is no one going to talk about the hilarious intro to this video? Dude wrote the script, shot, directed, and acted the hell out of that shit and it’s completely going over people’s heads. That was gold, man!

This is why so many fans were disappointed with solar power, it’s impossible to follow up perfection😭

everytime i revisit Melodrama im surprised by how much it still holds up. certified SLAPS!!

Listen to pure heroine by lorde! I like that you give credits to jack for he production but please don’t forget that Lorde is also one of the producers on all the songs!

This is lordes album with her own ideas, concepts, lyrics, music videos, and production from her!! Jack and other producers have helped her put it together, they deserve credit but it’s HER album. Lorde is credited for co-producing every song on this album!! It’s great that you mentioned the producers they should be mentioned!! Just don’t forget to also credit female producers that have produced/co-produced their own songs they’ve written especially when her name would’ve been right next to Jack’s for the credits on each song!!!

I will literally cry if you call it overrated

Yeah, that part in Liablity (Reprise) when Lorde gets to talk to her "inner persona" is what she also does in Sober 2 over the line "we told you this was melodrama"... She knew getting all drunk and big partying maybe was not the best desition speacially after her being heartly broken up.... Lights are on and they've gone home But, who am I? (oh gosh I could keep going on n on)

Lorde has only given us 3 albums in almost 10 years of musical career, and all of them are so sick on their own terms that makes me very, VERY hyped to whatever comes next. I don't expectations - just the certainty she'll surprise us again

"we'll end up painted on the road, red in chrome, all the broken glass sparkling" - lorde's way of saying we're gonna get into a car crash, but the way she says it is almost like glorifying it and wishing it would happen jeez.

man, the solar power slander, understandable though. it is not for everyone. however, i personally loved the album -- it is such a classic-sounding minimal album. i promise it will age like a fine wine. something i would still listen till i am gray and old.

This has been my top album since its release. HOWEVER, I JUST REALIZED something with Supercut. Of course the whole idea of the song is reminiscing on a past relationship, more so the good parts of it. But if you notice, in the chorus of the song it brings back the SAME PIANO MELODY as Greenlight, as if it were a supercut of the album’s past. IDK THATS AMAZING TO ME

Pls do not discredit Lorde as a producer. Women have been discredited so many times 😩

Lorde has synesthesia. She visualises aurally in colours and textures. The way she describes synesthesia is along the lines of mist and hues engulfing her (well, that's how I interpreted it :). It could be, the colours and textures she wishes to coalesce, creates the foundation for the sounds - which are nothing less than innovative. Lyrically... she is a genius.

if this man comes to the conclusion that it’s overrated i will unsubscribe. (not really but i will be hurt)

It still feels like a fever dream knowing that Lorde collabed with Post Malone, SZA and Khalid for a remix of homemade dynamite

this vid gets me so hyped everytime😩

Definitely a pet peeve when people give Jack sole credit for production on Melodrama 😤😡 but I get it since most pop artists nowadays do the minimal if anything for production. Lorde is incredibly talented with putting together sounds and really knows what sounds she wants to bring out. Since Pure Heroine era. Jack definitely very talented tho 👌

Was never overrated. It never got the recognition that it should have in 2017.

Also Lorde in concert used her best board to create a lot of these songs from scratch with the repetition Pedal. Legit insane that she made a lot of the production

This video makes me soooo happy; i keep coming back to it for the lols and bants and vibes bro

lorde co-produced this album alongside jack- don’t discredit her like that

THIS IS: ALBUM OF THE YEAR! ALBUM OF THE DECADE! ALBUM OF THE MILLENNIUM! ALBUM FOR THE TREATMENT! ALBUM OF THE LIFE!

This album was already exceptional but then i began to decipher something deeper that transcends the individual songs and interlocks the entire album in a giant metaphor of a party being compared to a relationship . ((this has probably been elaborated on in much greater detail and just better by someone else but whatevs)) so in GREEN LIGHT, (again just my interpretation) she is just getting out of a relationship and is waiting for the metaphorical green light to move on. the track has a very obvious and abrupt switch to a piano dance beat which to me symbolizes her entering the club/party in search of the green light (aka another lover to help her move on). In SOBER, the beat is hazy and the falsetto voices in the background repeat “night, midnight, lose my mind,” which to me symbolizes her getting drunk at the party. The whole track is shrouded with haziness to carry the ‘drunk’ ambiance through, and lyrically, she’s lamenting on what she and her lover will not only think of each other once they’re sober, but also how they’re going to deal with the consequences of their recklessness when the hype is gone. HOMEMADE DYNAMITE gives me kinda Bonnie and Clyde vibes. The thought of her and her partner “blowin’ shit up with homemade dynamite” makes me feel like they are each other’s ride or dies. She is in a state of euphoria because the relationship that she had worried might have been a drunken mistake turned out to be the experience of a lifetime. THE LOUVRE continues this idea but adds even more emotion. “megaphone to my chest//broadcast the boom (x4) and make them all dance to it” not only shows us the large extent to which she feels for her partner, but also reminds us that her love life and career are very closely intertwined. (the songs that she makes about her feelings are put out into the world for us to enjoy/dance to) Lorde mentions that “they’ll hang us in the louvre//down the back, but who cares?//still the louvre.” while this originally sounds just like a quirky little addition, it’s actually a fact that originally, the back of the louvre was used for pictures of wanted criminals, which further enhances that Bonnie and Clyde dynamic from homemade dynamite. Now, whether or not this ‘back of the louvre’ detail was historically intentional or not i don’t know but i like to believe it was. In LIABILITY, Lorde goes from the highest high to the lowest low. Once the spark runs out, her lover was ultimately run off by her hectic life as an international superstar and she takes it personally. She feels like it might be impossible to find someone that could overlook her work life and just love her for her. (p.s. taylor has a similar song called peace which just happens to be my favorite track off folklore but i digress). However despite Lorde’s sorrow, she assures us that she still loves herself. In HARD FEELINGS, it seems like more time has passed and Lorde is ruminating on the end of the relationship. It’s possible that this was the first real relationship she ever had and by that i mean the first person to truly betray her love and break her heart. Then we move on to LOVELESS, and i think at this point is when she re-enters the party (as it starts with another upbeat, clubby-sounding beat) to try to get her mind off of the end of her last relationship. The lyrics seem really bitter and sardonic-she says that they’re in the loveless generation, but it’s very obvious in this point in the album that Lorde feels things very deeply and truly. Perhaps it’s a commentary on the lovers, or i guess “lovers,” that she’s had… only really in it for the rush and the sex and the hype, and then leave once the real responsibilities of love become apparent, leaving lorde heartbroken, and then both her and her exes are…..loveless. In SOBER II (MELODRAMA) (which is my personal favorite from the album, that damn beat drop never fails to get me hype) the party has ended yet again, made apparent by the repetition of “cleaning up the champagne glasses.” It seems to me like she is very jaded and slightly hopeless by this point in the album, “all the gunfights//the limelights//the holy sick divine nights.” I’m not quite sure if the person she’s with in this song is a random person from the party or a booty call from her ex from sober I, but nevertheless i think the reason she sounds so jaded in the verses in the second half of this track is because she realizes the volatility of party-born romances, “i know you won’t remember in the morning when i speak my mind//lights are on and they’ve gone home, but who am i?” she’s clearly questioning her whole lifestyle of party after party and spilling all of her qualms and anxieties about her youthful generation, and kinda hedonist society in general, “the terror and the horror//god i wonder why we bother//the glamour and the horror//we kiss and kill each other” are just some examples. My favorite line in this whole album is “we told you this was melodrama.” not only does it remind the listener that this narrative is clearly hyperbolized and heavily accented, but it’s also (in my opinion) a summary of this whole party/fever-dream aesthetic that this album embodies….it’s melodrama. WRITER IN THE DARK sounds to me like the musical equivalent of sobbing uncontrollably. The whole song is just one big cathartic exhale where she releases all of her sadness related to that relationship from the first half of the album. She reveals her seemingly endless aquifer of love for this person that remains untapped, “i love you till my breathing stops.” but the really cool thing to me is when she harkens back to that Bonnie and Clyde thing from earlier-partners in crime, when she says “i love you till you call the cops on me.” she felt like their love was as magnetic and exciting as blowing shit up with homemade dynamite, which would make them criminals, and that love was so infamous that their “wanted” pictures should be hanging in the back of the louvre, and it only will stop when they call the cops on her…🤯 It’s clear that despite Lorde’s obvious sadness about the relationship ending, she still has a soft spot in her heart for her ex, and that becomes even more apparent in SUPERCUT. if you’re not aware, the word “supercut” is a digital media term which basically means highlight reel, or cutting out all the bad and only including the best footage in a video, and that’s exactly what she’s doing to her memories of the relationship, she’s compiling all the best aspects of her partner, but when she goes to reach them she realizes it was just her own idealized projection of them and stops herself. (i’m assuming “ribbons wrap me up” is referring to reels of video footage but i may be mistaken, feel free to correct me). I personally love the part of the song when she says “in your car, the radio up//we keep tryna talk about us” because it gives me the impression that in her memory the sound of the radio drowns out the tough discussion about her relationship, almost like involuntary censorship. in LIABILITY REPRISE, we’re back at the party (“and maybe all this is the party”) Lorde finally is able to let go of her insecurities and heal her own wounds which were inflicted in liability. I think the simple ending “leave” symbolizes her expelling her supercut/memories of her past relationship, which takes us finally to PERFECT PLACES, which to me sounds like unbridled joy and ambition. finally being able to let go of her demons has allowed Lorde to actually enjoy just having fun with friends. she wants to go to perfect places, yet doesn’t know what perfect places are…but she doesn’t really care, she’s just happy with the the journey of looking for “perfect places” with her friends and having fun, rather than having meaningless sex and temporary passion (“all the nights spent off our faces”). aaaaaanyways i can’t believe i just wrote a whole damn essay about this album. actually i can believe it because melodrama is literally transcendent musical material lyrically, sonically, melodically, vocally, emotionally, thematically……..just……..everything. feel free to drop your thoughts about this album or about my interpretation in the comments, i just love talking about this album and i’d like to see what other people have to say about it

You are a gem and pure musical soul, and watching you as a musician vibe the heck out to tunes has become my new favourite thing. Like going to a gig or driving round with your best mates blasting tunes and just feeling the music.. Knew you were going to flip listening to this masterpiece. Your Green Light reaction alone was 👌🏼 let alone the rest of the record. I say don’t be afraid to make these videos *longer* - like your T Swift and Billie Eilish reactions. I love hearing you go on a journey with lyrics and the tunes from beginning to end. I would genuinely watch your unedited supercut (lol Lorde ref, snap) of you listening to this whole record uncut. This is all just to say that your videos are just pure joy to me, so thank you!! Vibed and subscribed.

No matter how many years go by, I always look for Melodrama reaction videos to see how people react listening to this masterpiece for the first time. Thank you for this. I would definitely recommend "Sawayama" by Rina Sawayama if you haven't heard it before! The production is insanely good and it's right up there in my list of top albums!!

“i used to get my haircut at a Supercuts, notice the beanie” I STOPPED THE VIDEO AND LAUGHED FOR LIKE TEN MINUTES STRAIGHT

this album changed me omfg

The album is loosely based off the events of a single house party. It starts with her getting ready and heading to the party in Green Light, then the next 2 tracks she’s enjoying herself at said party. In The Lovre she starts to think about the feeling you have at the beginning of a relationship or crush, and falls down into liability. The rest of the album she is coming to terms with being alone

i'm so obsessed with your videos it's ridiculous

the excitement running through my body seeing this video and knowing he would eventually listen to hard feelings/loveless is exponential

Your solar power skit was the most relatable

fun facts: the weird "door" noise at the bridge of hard feelings its actually a recorded trumpet. its funny seeing all the things people think it is, other yts say its a gym mat or an elephant. and also in perfect places, the "sh sh" sound lorde does near the chorus, represents a gun. thats why she said "i'll blow my brains out to the radio"

That cathartic feeling in the outro of the Louvre is soooo good

Melodrama changed the game. The production, the lyrics just everything about it

i ADORE this album, it's my favorite of all time. it came out during my senior year of high school and i used to go out partying every single week as green light and perfect places and supercut blasted from my headphones. melodrama truly made me feel alive and i was able to see lorde perform live in 2018 and it was a SURREAL experience. this album means the absolute world to me and to think that after four years it still holds up better than most album of the last decade brings me an insane amount of joy.

i really love troy i can spend hours watching him and his energy, hope he is having a great day 💗

The only critique I have is how you can just skip past “when you’ve outgrown a lover the whole world knows but you” Has me violently throwing up sobbing

I wasn’t a following fan of Lorde literally until i heard Melodrama all the way through a couple years ago. This is my favorite album OF ALL TIME. Top 3 on an off day lol. No bs!! The penmanship & production is on its own pedestal tbh

whaaaaaat?!?! dude im so looking forward to this. I needed this. Thank u Troy - and yea...it´s a masterpiece.

i love this channel so much

I love your content so much.Good vibes

The minimalism on Solar Power is it's beauty and the reflection of her happy state of affairs in New Zealand

you’re such a mood

That intro was great and that imogen is just chefs kissn

congrats on the engagement!!!!

Idk why but the last thing i expected his name to be was Troy

That intro was a whole ass movie I live for it

I was waiting for this one

Loved your reaction! It’s always so interesting to me watching people’s first Melodrama experience. Would love to see a Solar Power album reaction as well. 💛

Love that you mentioned Timberland and Nelly Furtado because Lorde has said that Say It Right is the song that she wishes she wrote herself.

OMFG I DID NOT KNOW I NEED THIS BUT NOW I DO YASSSSSS

this might be the best video you have ever done along with the midnights one

you never fail to make my day 100x better i heart you

Hard feelings has THE greatest beat drop of all time. The way she used contrasting all over the place sounds to describe the ups and downs of a relationship will forever put it at the top of my list. A SONG, HER BEST SONG IN FACT.

This is LORDE ALBUM Jack just had the pleasure to arrange the sounds that Lorde already had in her head.

Always so good to see people discovering this hidden gem of an album

Loveeeee your reactions , keep it up man

The whole intro deserves an oscar. I lost it at the SNL Watcha Say reference

brooo if you're loving this Jack production, I'm hoping you've listened to his own project, Bleachers? Three banger albums (plus a recent live release) - all with unique vibes and production styles, so it's really cool to hear how he's grown and changed his sound

okay but this is one of my favorite videos of yours, not only i love this album and you clearly love it too, but the editing goes off and i fucking love it

u have no idea how much this video has made my day

what i would give to experience The Louvre and Supercut for the first time again

Idk who writes about car crashes with the phrasing “we’ll end up painted on the road, red and chrome all the broken glass sparkling” but im gonna drive my car off a cliff to imitate the vibe now

:”) sobbing again along side you as you listen. most of them are upbeat but even the “happier” songs make me cry. this was such a time of my life when this came out

Wow watching this from New Zealand your reactions "Priceless"

melodrama is a masterpiece. I have a feeling you would really appreciate Aurora. Especially her two part sophomore albums have brilliant production imo. Her first album is definitely worth listening to as well but she learned a lot for the second as well as being allowed to coproduse the whole thing really elevated it

Lorde is also a producer on Melodrama, not all credit goes to Jack

love that you put this out the eve of her birthday!

This reaction vid gives me goosebumps like im listening to the album for the first time. Thanks for that ❤️

The album that defined my early 20s and will forever be my favorite album. So was CTRL by Sza

btw, in the Louvre, she sang "broadcast the boom boom boom boom and make 'em all dance to it", it's to depict her heartbeat, and the drop is basically to represent heartbeats also, they hid a tiger roaring sound in between the 2nd chorus and the bridge in Sober there are so many more to figure out, and it'll definitely give you chills when you find them out

I've seen reactions to this masterpiece since 2017 and yours was definitely the best. Thanks for this video. XOxo from Brazil.

Melodrama is one of my all time favourite albums, it's just so good. And her performing it live was just fantastic! I would love to see you react to Halsey's Manic, personally I feel like that album is so underrated.