Melodrama - Lorde - Full Album Reaction / Review
Added 2021-12-08 23:02:07 +0000 UTC
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I LOVE THAT!!!!!! I didn't think of it that way! I really enjoyed it I just wish it was either the ending of liability or like, a full song. Like I liked it too much for how short and potent it was lol.
Kelsea Sisler
2021-12-12 08:56:19 +0000 UTCI love that!! And I loved that line!! The way she sings it adds so much.
Kelsea Sisler
2021-12-12 08:55:07 +0000 UTCYa I really liked both songs!! I just wanted them to have their full moment to shine! But I get her trying to have some extra control over how her art is digested.
Kelsea Sisler
2021-12-12 08:54:30 +0000 UTCAww she played the long game with that one.
Kelsea Sisler
2021-12-12 08:53:33 +0000 UTCAhhh I'm loving this context!!! I had no idea about the Louvre!!!
Kelsea Sisler
2021-12-12 08:53:11 +0000 UTCWOAH WAIT WHAT. IT ALL REVOLVES AROUND A HOUSE PARTY?? π³π€―π€―π€―π€―π€―π€―π€―π€― AHHHHH I feel like I need to relisten with that in mind! Wow that's so damn cool!! That part was so intense. It reminded me of this poem the really fucked me up as a kid, it was written from the perspective of a teenager that dies in a drunk driving accident after a party, and it BROKE me. Haven't thought about that poem in decades but that verse brought it all back. (Not in a bad way)
Kelsea Sisler
2021-12-12 08:52:30 +0000 UTCAhhh thank you for all of this!!! π€―
Kelsea Sisler
2021-12-12 08:49:40 +0000 UTCOh wow that's so interesting! So many popular artists have synesthesia!! π³π³π³
Kelsea Sisler
2021-12-12 08:48:15 +0000 UTCOh I'll definitely be doing it!! I'm intrigued!
Kelsea Sisler
2021-12-12 08:47:17 +0000 UTCI can't wait to hear her earlier stuff!!! And about the production.. ya I'm definitely glad to know that!! And now that you mention it, while it is clearly JACK, it's simultaneously unlike anything else Jack has done so I should have known there was other influence there!!
Kelsea Sisler
2021-12-12 04:18:40 +0000 UTCall our heroes fading in perfect places i feel references the disillusionment you feel when you realize the people you look up to are actually just not good people. her first album is basically all about this concept of growing up and realizing the things that you thought were true about the world aren't and how her and her peers cope with that. if you continue with lorde i would definitely say to do pure heroine next and then solar power last. you gotta remember that ella's young and that she's around 19 for melodrama but pure heroine is written around 15-16 years old. i really do appreciate it because it's not really about relationships it's just about growing up and it was my favorite album when it came out and i think it's my most listened to album of all time. also there was an EP called the love club that was eventually just added as pure heroine deluxe but she recently took the deluxe off streaming and added the love club ep back so you can treat that as ph deluxe. and lorde is from new zealand which i feel like is context for solar power. but yeah besides that just remember that she had a big part in the production of this too i feel like people never give female producers enough credit but of course if you don't know then you can't! she's a writer before anything and it definitely shows haha! melodrama was nominated for aoty but didn't win and i'll never get over it
Grace
2021-12-12 03:35:08 +0000 UTCliability reprise is such a turning point in her healing process i think it's important that it comes later on. in liability she's hurting and she says "i understand, i'm a liability" but now she's talking to herself after all her growth saying "you're not what you thought you were" as in she's realizing that she's not a liability like he always told her. the "leave" at the end... this was her green light moment she's been waiting for. she knows she's not what she thought she was and she can finally leave it all behind
Grace
2021-12-12 03:22:08 +0000 UTC"i am my mother's child i love you til my breathing stops" in writer in the dark is also a reference to the fact that her mother was a poet as a career so they're both writers that feel really deeply
Grace
2021-12-12 03:11:29 +0000 UTCyou nailed hard feelings! as for how hard feelings/loveless ended up together this way, from my understanding lorde is big on the chronology of albums especially a concept album like melo. she felt it was important that these songs are listened to back to back as they are two sides of the same feelings and this was in order to keep them from being able to be split up by shuffle but i would love an expansion of loveless
Grace
2021-12-12 02:58:29 +0000 UTCliability speaks for itself tbh. but yes solar power came after melo! that line is definitely a cute little nod to that and none of us got to understand it for four years
Grace
2021-12-12 02:45:44 +0000 UTCi looove the louvre! so they actually used to use the back of the louvre as a location to execute criminals so we get a fun double meaning with "they'll hang us in the louvre, down the back but who cares" as in they'll be hung in a museum even if no one sees, but also that they'll be hung for their crimes and punished but hey at least they're in the louvre! love the megaphone to my chest line, then the atmospheric chorus with the heartbeat feel to it
Grace
2021-12-12 02:39:54 +0000 UTCi don't have a ton to say for homemade dynamite tbh but when the album dropped lorde shared her playlist called homemade dynamite that was just full of party songs so by being homemade she's just basically playing dj for her parties and curating the songs played. she said this is a concept album that revolves around a single house party so we can make connections to other songs so the verse about the car wreck that could happen if her friend drives calls back to green light where she's in the car on her way there and now she's singing about how she doesn't know how to get home because everyone is too messed up to drive
Grace
2021-12-12 02:32:33 +0000 UTCok sober! i think sleeping through all the days is referring to the fact that they're sleeping in super late and partying all night. lorde said this song is about seeing someone and it's like magic when they're going out but they haven't really put a label on anything and that she felt like she would have to get drunk to say how she really felt. "get to know the kicks" is referring to a kick drum sound in a dance track and they're memorizing the kicks so that they can dance in time with each other basically because they're out every night and the songs are becoming familiar aaaand the bridge is a lot to unpack it's totally ok that it went over your head lol. i won't copy down all the lyrics so if you want to look back at them it's basically talking about how when you wake up in the morning after nights like these, you feel crappy and hungover and tired of meaningless relationships like that. you want to find love thats real and substantial and you fantasize about "leaving" this kind of life. but then the day goes on and all your friends wanna go out and "we know when it's over you'll be dancing with us" bc of course you're gonna go out again also since you're loving the production it's worth noting that this is 100% a collaboration between lorde and jack she wrote everything but also co-produced the majority of these songs with him
Grace
2021-12-12 02:22:10 +0000 UTCi'm gonna comment as i go! so the lines you were asking about with green light, "brand new sounds in my mind" to me has to do with firstly what you were saying about like having new experiences and feelings now that she's moving on but also melo was a big departure in the sound she had in her previous album and she said that the sound of melo and green light specifically was inspired by her ex and his music taste. she also has synesthesia so she sees colors for sounds (which is what inspired the cover) but yeah in general it's mostly she's just waiting for her "green light" which is basically her giving herself permission to move on because she wants to but she's not ready
Grace
2021-12-12 02:09:52 +0000 UTCPure Heroine was her debut album and I definitely think you should give it a listen. It's got some very interesting sounds and is quite different from melodrama, so it'd be interesting to hear your thoughts on it.
Mitsy
2021-12-12 01:16:09 +0000 UTC
