Pure Heroine will always be one of my favorite albums of all time. To me, it's a perfect encapsulation on how it felt to be an awkward teen girl stuck in the suburbs.
@@thedarkbaby This, in a similar vein as Lana Del Rey. While their music doesn't typically chart very high, you have all of those mainstream darlings crediting a portion of their artistic growth and creativity to arists like Lorde. Olivia Rodrigo is one example, and you can really hear it in her music.
It just occurred to me that Chappell Roan was not the first celebrity speaking out about how celebrities are treated; Lorde preceded and sort of paved the way.
I feel like Gaga did too with some of her comments during the ARTPOP era about putting the decision making back in the hands of the creatives and not the label or the fans. I think people thought of it as pretentious and maybe so but she was right nevertheless.
Artists, specially female artists have being talking about this for long. Sadly they were not hear enough but I really thing they teach new artists as Chapell to not shut up about it and try to change it.
As a fan of Lorde I really loved this video! Going back through her career in this video made me think about hearing Royals for the first time in high school and being so obsessed with her! I’m literally as old as her it’s insane! Love all of her albums, each one represents a different side of her and her story.
I love this video!!! Such a great overview of Ella's path. I would have never guessed you were not that familiar with her discography befor making it. Well done, keep it up!
If I was making this video, there was only one thing I would add, and that is Lorde's own reflection on Solar Power, so I'll paste it here: "It’s been a year since I announced the release of Solar Power. I can honestly say it has been the year with the highest highs and lowest lows I think I’ve ever experienced. It took people awhile to get the album - I still get emails every day from people who are just coming around to it now! - and that response was really confounding and at times painful to sit with at first. I learnt a ton about myself and how I’m perceived by making and releasing this album, and I feel significantly more connected and alive in my art practice and life than pretty much ever before. Sounds dry but it’s true!!! It’s been interesting as the year has progressed taking in works of art (movies, albums, TV shows, visual art) made in and around the pandemic, and feeling like most of them have a greater degree of interiority than others made by that artist before. You already know about my belief that artists work to metabolise collective feeling, and it makes sense to me that when the collective feeling of the past few years has consisted of long stretches of isolation, vulnerability, abject terror and existential questioning, those feelings would be reflected in the art of the times. I was sitting with a friend recently drinking chai at a country house in England, she’s an artist too, and we got on to the topic of the album somehow. She said, it’s clearly one of those works that gets made between peaks, the kind that’s necessary for makers sometimes, no less precious, in fact, there can’t be peaks at all without such works. I think this is true of the record. I needed to go low, to roll a neon ball through tall grass and see what happened. Playing songs from SP live each night in what is undoubtedly my best live show ever is also an incredible feeling - it all makes sense there, both to you and me, in a new and vivid way. And thanks to SP, I’ve been able to work through some big personal stuff that was making it pretty difficult for me to do stuff like travel or play shows without getting completely overwhelmed. I used to sit alone in my hotel room on show days, binge watching Bake Off, Ambien and Vitamin D on the bedside, my skin pale, my stomach knotted in fear. These days, I’m out the door in every city, walking for miles, eating gelato after dark, finding tiny wine bars, trying on vintage clothes down secret streets, laughing with friends, and playing better and better shows for you as a result. So yeah. Thank you for all of it." ❤ Very excited about what comes next!!!
I've been a fan since 2013, even more of a fan since Melodrama. I also remember when Royals was top of the charts when I was 17. I wish I had listened to ALL of Pure Heroine when it came out. I feel like i needed that album as a teen, as much as i need it as an adult. Melodrama encapsulates a very specific time in my life, and I never get sick of the nostalgia. Both Melodrama & Solar Power are summer essential albums for me. I'm so so so so excited to see what her new music will be like. I wish i had her power to articulate her thoughts and feelings into art.
Pure Heroine is very special to me, so I can't compare it to the others. But it was not love at first sight: I have prints of some messages I send my friends from the time Royals came out saying I found it weird. Few years later I became obsessed with the record. Same happend to Melodrama, it took me 2/3 years - it's interesting that Lorde and I have a 2.5 years age gap, so I become obsessed with the album when I reach the age she was when she released it. I haven't obssesed over Solar Power yet, but maybe it's going to be a late bloomer for me. I hope she either goes the hyperpop route or the other way around: anti-pop, something no one expects. But I know that she is going to do something amazing. IOne of the most interesting things about Lorde is how true she is to herself, and how in touch with her desires , and this authenticity reflects in her albuns. She belives in what she does and you can feel it.
She has done incredible things with her music and I love and support her now but I couldn’t help but be a little bit turned off at the irony of her vibe of internalized misogyny. It’s like she was trying to prove that she’s not like other girls who centre men or wear revealing clothing, making a breakup album… And then when she did come out with music involving men, she had to backtrack and say “its not like that guys!” But regardless I think she’s grown a lot since then. Almost everyone has internalized misogyny whether or not we realize it, the important part is reducing harm, not normalizing those behaviours.
solar power is Lorde becoming a royal, that's why I disliked that record so much, she seems to have lost the writing edge that made her so good on pure heroine, and as you said I truly believe that being friends with Taylor and Jack was not good for her, in a vogue interview she mentioned how Jack once told her "don't let me ruin your life" like what does that mean? lol
I think she's still a good writer but she's in such different circumstances than the rest of us. sadly i've lost connection with her. idk about her relationships with taylor and jack
Tbh looking back at how the label and media marketed Lorde is kinda f up like why must she be a palate cleanser to miley lol what was miley doing wrong 💀
@@david.grever well I was there, and I was a teen then, and I honestly still dont see how controversial she was. Like when we can’t stop dropped they acted like the world was ending😂 but there’s nothing THAT out there tbh
@@bib2045 it was because she was adopting a "Black" American persona with rappers, twerking and streetwear, and using that to push her old persona aside, even though she had been doing very non-Disney things since at least 2010 with Can't Be Tamed.
Hey! Love the theme of this video. Just one thought...perhaps a bit more practice on the script will have it flow better! You do sound a bit unsure and stilted in the delivery, it's a bit hard to listen to. Just a tip 🤗
@@stormfischerr I talk to people all day for work. This sounded choppy and there’s faceless channels that are solely AI all over this hellscape of an app. If multiple people liked our comments it seems like it’s something the creator can consider? Is feedback not warranted?
@@rat-x7x both good artists but Lana is the catalyst for the change in the pop music scene. Made evident by all the artists now who are still heavily inspired and influenced by her. Lorde, not so much. She fell off big time.
