is MELODRAMA by LORDE overrated?

[@meowmeow16]

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

[@nala1684]

why are you leaving tho, rude! the way he said that was funny :D

[@lll25149]

And during supercut when he makes the cat dance lol

[@Anewevisual]

Oh man i really care to hear about some generic-ass mayo sandwich whiteboys music critique! i'm sure its insanely insightful and original!

[@u-x-m-a]

@@Anewevisual race doesn’t have anything to do with it and why are u even here racist

[@alexandrelopes3600]

@@Anewevisual What's your problem, your mom didn't give enough love growing up is it

[@nathansalim]

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.

[@ajsuflena156]

Omg where did u get this info I want to read the interview

[@nahuelconstantine]

i need more info plssss

[@1973comet]

Not quite. The hookup in the Louvre is a new guy, whereas the subject of Supercut, Liability etc is her ex.

[@nathansalim]

​@@nahuelconstantine Put this text with quotes on google, for some reason I'm not able to put links in the comments. The source of this info is the New york times interview in 2017 "Lord's New Album Tells the Story of One House Party"

[@nahuelconstantine]

@@nathansalim thank you very much!

[@juanda1799]

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

[@livp8354]

you just opened my eyes i never put that together about the hanging in the back of the louvre lyric OMG

[@kiboubo663]

Ikr?? This lyrics section is absolutely genius, gives me goosebumps every time

[@racheldoyon7267]

She likes to use play on words or double meanings like in Green Light when she said "those great whites, they have big teeth, I hope they bite you" the obvious meaning is a shark but when you look at the rest of the lyriccs you see she means white lies coming back to bite you. Same thing with hang us in the louve obvious meaning being hanging a painting but actually she means hanging like you said because right before she said "to sit in hell with you".

[@juanda1799]

@@racheldoyon7267 she really is a lyrical genius!!

[@cant-explain]

wait they did what in the louvre

[@jaimicovelaz1999]

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

[@100PCMMCW]

Facts Spoken

[@nobinpunyo7332]

I know right !!

[@nobinpunyo7332]

lords Co produce every track she writes .

[@carlalopez342]

yes that a shitty thing to do :( she actually talk about that in an interview

[@alafolieee]

oh my god i was enjoying the reaction until he did that and now i'm literally closing the video 🤙🤙 talk abt a turn-off

[@KahlenBarry]

truly one of the best albums of all time.

[@TomUniverse]

Omg, hi.

[@elliettemorales55]

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

[@evamason873]

dude absolutely heartbreaking he just skipped over this

[@yesman9149]

He dont pay attention in any lyrics LOL, IS THE BEST PART OF THE ALBUM

[@indiemcauley5091]

i was thinking of these EXACT lyrics hoping he would notice these absolute masterpieces

[@livp8354]

i would do anything to listen to those specific lyrics for the first time again

[@nobinpunyo7332]

He was busy crediting and praising the male producers , to the extent of even calling it their Album , when lorde literally co produced every track she writes . Stop discrediting Female producers sir and do your research well

[@SoNa-ym5pz]

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

[@devanandas430]

THIS DESERVED THE GRAMMY.

[@GigaChaadam]

ROBBED. Can’t believe it to this day. How Bruno took that home is beyond me.

[@amberm.6024]

it’s ok! to me it has been crowned album of the decade

[@henrymathews3671]

@Unknown Doggo we don’t talk about Bruno 😂

[@Ty-wf6mg]

The album was not good.

[@tatianadelrey6529]

No 😭 I fell like CTRL was robbed 😭

[@KahlenBarry]

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

[@allahbless2278]

Ugh same 🥲

[@natsukxshii]

SAAME

[@sierrastar5155]

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

[@loloseeghosts]

yeah she doesn’t get credited enough as a producer :/

[@johnnyboooy21]

ikr

[@nobinpunyo7332]

Yess. Everyone take notes . Lorde co produce every song she writes

[@irvingmarquez411]

This!!!

[@nobinpunyo7332]

What infuriates me more is , the song he was listening to when he called it a Jack Antonoff Album , literally had lorde name as the co producer but he downrightly ignored her name and credited only Jack . Also in the entire Album he only praised the male producer involved when lorde clearly was the co producer in every song . Stop discrediting Female producers sir and take note and do your research well

[@juhyaoz]

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

[@aleandra3945]

the true definition of "no skip" album

[@alphabetboy8569]

Yes but I can't listen to "writer in the dark", I broke down in a bus one time listening to it but still The Album is a masterpiece

[@meghansullivan6812]

I agree so much

[@chrisgelin515]

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.

[@namethischannel7794]

that's crazy i never knew that

[@EoinWalsh]

Wow that’s amazing

[@asongoftales]

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

[@blehblehbleh3225]

😭yasss

[@kevinsuarez7470]

100% real

[@rugma1696]

fr

[@nohablogringo]

@Suckaniggadickorsum I think Melodrama and CRJ's EMOTION are the unreachable ones.

[@avalanche8148]

That overrated album*

[@augustoka4881]

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

[@lyldipper]

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.

[@catharticmemefairy2088]

exactly!

[@mattdiprose6196]

BEST DESCRIPTION OF SOLAR POWER OMG

[@angelmedina5430]

I loved the album

[@secretsfromafag]

EXACTLY! If Lorde did something similar in L3 as Melodrama, Melodrama wouldn't be the same. The reason why Melodrama is so good and so significant is because THERES NO OTHER ALBUM LIKE IT! So if she did make another album similar, it would just cancel out the significance of Melodrama's rare production.

[@caitlinsmith402]

Love this

[@HisNameIsJoey]

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.

[@idkwhatever3990]

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

[@wyatt3346]

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?

[@aidasalazar9702]

That's why I her song Solar Power right after Liability in my playlist lol

[@gigin6534]

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

[@imhumantoo9583]

Yeah, i am shookt first time reading the lyrics because i can't really focus on it the first time listening to it

[@danilshchukin1849]

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.

[@nobinpunyo7332]

Yes say it louder . Miss Lorde literally Co produced every track on this Album and on any other Album of her . And he calls it an Antonoff Album ? I’m done . Why aren’t female producers taken seriously

[@nobinpunyo7332]

I’ll keep commenting on this , until he takes notice . He should do his research well!! Don’t discredit Female Producers . Lorde literally co produced the song he was listening to when he said it’s an Antonoff Album and it was shown in this video but he downright ignored her name and praised only Jack and all the other Male producers of the Album . Why aren’t female producers taken seriously 😒

[@crimsonred9280]

this!!

[@klaina.x3461]

melodrama was and will always be a masterpiece

[@wrustria]

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

[@callumsinclair2562]

Unfortunately Melodrama has a cult following and so what so many people wanted was this sound again. It would have been nice but then it would also make Melodrama less special if she did it again. I love Solar Power though, it’s my favourite album of hers

[@usamakhan3553]

if overrated means Album of The Century, then yes!

[@blehblehbleh3225]

😌😭

[@chasehavensmusic]

Not better than Preacher’s Daughter though

[@Aliyahhh22]

@@chasehavensmusic THIS

[@wyatt3346]

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

[@ChaseDotters]

Righttt. Pure heroine (royals specifically) created a new era of singers. People didn’t used to harmonize their own voices as much in the early 2010s

[@esdrasjimenezhernandez1231]

@@ChaseDotters Yes and pop singers started to incorporate more hip hop sounds or alternatives to their songs (also the harmonies)

[@maiu1922]

too true, I literally wrote an essay on this

[@imthebadguyy]

Thinking about it I can see solar power being a popular sound for music in the near future cause it's very contemporary yet retro and oddly new

[@wyatt3346]

@@imthebadguyy shes always a few years ahead, then forgot about. just listen closely to the next couple years of mainstream music slowly transforming into the sound of solar power

[@landonshiarella]

I will literally cry if you call it overrated

[@pupupurin143]

"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.

[@eddtheevirgo5679]

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

[@Robert-bs6ww]

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

[@loserhayk2802]

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!

[@sierrastar5155]

And lorde and jack spoke in the past about how lorde is the main producer

[@lane4539]

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!!!

[@airyangelic852]

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

[@rmxevbio5889]

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)

[@tinkler4]

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

[@taylorlay7804]

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

[@camdenkt]

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

[@saoirseduffy6283]

I agree but on another note why is this comment 2 days old but the vid is only 1 am I missing something

[@exhaustedcappuccino3295]

@@saoirseduffy6283 fr the vid is 3 wks but the comment is 4

[@lydiacoffey2003]

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

[@soup7076]

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

[@line5815]

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"

[@amandaroy5072]

I thought it was the subway rails 😂

[@moonofrenee]

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

[@anthonymaghupoy3607]

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

[@jem5167]

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.

[@adedolapo167]

Yeah its not for everyone. And I love it also bur not immediately after like 2 to three listens

[@isabelaviegas8887]

U know what I completely agree that solar power will age like fine wine. i didn't like melodrama until i got to experience exactly what she sings about. It's like a whole another level of life experiences. I was 17 when the album came out and i only liked perfect places and homemade dynamite. When I was 19 I experienced SO MUCH and the album just made so much sense to me, it was def a masterpiece.

[@terrencehatesyou809]

at first listen i kinda hate solar power, i listened to it like a month later and it really grew on me such a good album

[@user-ed7et3pb4o]

@@jem5167 I feel like Solar Power was like 80% of the way there and then slightly missed the mark on execution. Like if the track order was slightly different, and some of the themes were explored a bit more tightly without that weird ambiguity of whether or not it was satirical, it would’ve been an absolute masterpiece. It was definitely marketed wrong - a lot of the build up to it was quite misleading and that disconnect meant that people were disappointed rather than taking it purely for what it was and appreciating it. I also think it dropped at the wrong time - unlike her first two albums, it was kind of out of step with how the rest of the world was doing and it was by far her least relatable album. For an artist who has relatability at the centre of their appeal, that’s a difficult thing to balance. I really love some songs on it though, I think fallen fruit is one of my favourites that she’s EVER made, and I wish she’d explored that sound and theme more. Final thing: I really, really missed her deeper voice and lower register on SP. It’s one of my favourite things about her voice and sort of a signature trait, so the absence of it on the album is probably a big reason why people failed to recognise ‘Lorde’ in SP. Like, if you think about it, Pure Heroine and Melodrama are two completely different albums with very different themes, emotions, lyrics, sounds, etc., but because one or two identifying features were constant it still felt authentic and still felt like HER. It felt like a natural evolution. Solar Power had a lot of merit, but it felt a bit like she was trying on someone else’s clothes instead of making her own.

[@strawmuncher]

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

[@dontdeletethexos]

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

[@Ivan-xn6it]

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

[@nobinpunyo7332]

Yes say it louder . The track he was listening to literally had lorde as the co producer and he called it an Antonoff Album . Don’t discredit female producers sirrr

[@Ivan-xn6it]

@@nobinpunyo7332 I thought the same thing

[@francish6695]

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

[@limuelcruz6259]

Yooo that was very in-depth!! Thanks pal

[@jedwardellen700]

Wow this was just amazing

[@urjabhatt1622]

Wow, I needed this thank you so much

[@marcobc9461]

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

[@tristin3489]

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

[@electricerickk]

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!!

[@alexamjenn]

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

[@CAM-sf9yy]

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.

[@veronicabiswas5042]

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

[@edwardchen9619]

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

[@natbatrat-d7e]

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.

[@darthbane3223]

U are so lucky

[@Blueberriboy]

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

[@hthazee]

such a solid album minus the grandma 🤣

[@Blueberriboy]

@@hthazee lmao 🤣 I actually like grandma’s part. Felt more personal for Sza

[@Cassiecatlovesbeauty]

Your solar power skit was the most relatable

[@fbutsel]

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.

[@arturov4147]

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

[@benwood6998]

The “we’ll end up painted on the road red in chrome” she’s describing a car crash in the most disturbingly beautiful way

[@jenny-bu4le]

seeing other people react to melodrama for the first time is so satisfying because it's honestly the closest i'll get to listening to it again for the first time. yes, im in love with an album

[@Ley_17.03]

That intro was a whole ass movie I live for it

[@jedidiahmarada]

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

[@vontrude3310]

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

[@andressah.carandina3932]

I actually liked solar power, yeah, its different but a good different. It just shows how she can write and produce her feelings away. Lorde is the Lord for me lol

[@manuelvillacarillojr6404]

I HAYED SP but it grew on me as time passes by and let me tell you that it's actually hella good you just have to be in a different headspace to fully experience the body of work imo, atleast that's what it took for me to like it.

[@Radhika-ve4fc]

@@manuelvillacarillojr6404 true

[@dumbleedore8880]

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

[@burningcold2793]

The versatility existing between the genre of the three album alone is for me, astonishing. Pure Heroine and Melodrama are critically acclaimed high Pop certified music while I take Solar Power as the aftermath. The closure and most phenomenal move that alot of people still require processing before appreciating it's true intention of existence...

[@justnicole7208]

This album is hands down in the hall of fame of memorable and noteworthy albums projects. And so so timeless. I haven't listened to it in a while and this just remined me how spectacular it is. NO SKIPS! not a single one

[@lalalallalalaala]

how did you go 4 years without listening to this masterpiece SIR

[@kaileykinsey3093]

this album was the soundtrack to my freshman year of college it was a wild time in my life. I miss 2017 very much.

[@larissabalaban2582]

The O.C reference on the intro was... EVERYTHING

[@rodrigomedeiros1234]

Literally NO Lorde fan thinks Solar Power is Lorde’s best work. I think the stans’ aggressiveness towards the reviewers is that some completely missed the theme of the album, and decided to minimize it as “Lorde’s happy album”. I agree that it is underwhelming sonically, but it’s still a good album in my opinion. Underwhelming for Lorde standards, but good for 2021-music standards.

[@soaribb32]

2021- music standards are quite low

[@callumsinclair2562]

I’m gonna prove you wrong, as a Lorde stand Solar Power is my favourite Lorde album

[@tmughnaynels]

Melodrama is irrefutably Lorde’s best album and it gets so much better each time you listen.

[@user-ed7et3pb4o]

Honestly, I think pure heroine gets kinda underrated. Melodrama is better on average, it’s a no skip album, but pure heroine has some moments of pure distilled genius that are practically unmatchable

[@user-ed7et3pb4o]

Honestly, I think pure heroine gets kinda underrated. Melodrama is better on average, it’s a no skip album, but pure heroine has some moments of pure distilled genius that are practically unmatchable. It’s also probably the more influential of the two albums, it sort of changed the entire course of music

[@captainaaron96]

Bro I just realized, is Red TV gonna be the first time you're ever hearing the album? That's gonna be sick!

[@BroBroMakeup]

your cat leaving during green light absolutely sent me

[@carolinavita2610]

the reaction at 20:53 is so freaking satisfying , it's just so on point

[@froggygirl1167]

i love going back and watching this video when i'm feeling low

[@reynao.3671]

Same

[@gio-kg4fm]

Love it

[@ani989]

Melodrama got me through a lot, it will always hold a place in my heart💛🌦️

[@assya7941]

you’re such a mood

[@danwadey2969]

“i think this might just be a jack antonoff album” … we are going to pretend that we did not hear that…

[@IanMichaleris]

In The Louvre the beat is her heartbeat ❤️✨

[@evefenn-scott3408]

Ngl tho it’s kinda shitty your only crediting jack when Lorde also coproduced some of the work.

[@redroses376]

A FACT: IT COULDNT WIN AOTY CAUSE IT WAS ALBUM OF THE CENTURY ANOTHER FACT: ALTHOUGH SHE WORKED WITH PRODUCERS THE MAIN PRODUCER OF THE ALBUM IS LORDE. UNFORTUNATELY YOU HAVE TO GIVE CREDITS WHEN SOMEONE ONLY ADDS ONE NOTE

[@dianacastro3238]

I forgot how good this album is my god loved the reaction

[@ven6100]

I come back here every once in a while for a heavy dose of serotonin

[@karissmith]

i can’t with him saying the “lerv” hahahahahah. loved the reaction

[@prakhar4547]

this vid gets me so hyped everytime😩

[@irisong0]

I’m still mad she didn’t get a grammy with this album

[@user-ed7et3pb4o]

It was so ridiculously deserved and I think has aged better than the Bruno Mars album, it was so underrated and deserved multiple grammys it’s crazy. It’s a perfect album

[@irisong0]

@@user-ed7et3pb4o you are 100% correct. Even after all this years, when someone asks me my favorite albums, it’s always on the list.

[@karinakornina]

the mmhm whatcha say segment took me out this was the best cinema ive ever seen, snl could never

[@lydiacoffey2003]

I went to see this in concert front row my fav artist. Honestly my favourite moment in my life so far. I love her it was BEAUTIFUL it moves me in a way nothing else can.

[@Treetimebek]

The intro to this is the greatest intro I’ve ever seen. Lmao so many levels. But the OC/SNL Parody OC shooting reenacting. I’m deceased.

[@NatKaori]

Melodrama is without a doubt one of my favourites album of all time. The lyrics and the drums hit me hard. About Solar Power, it wasn't for me too, but when I heard the EP of some songs from Solar Power in maori, it was perfect. The language goes so well with the production. Sad people can't express a different take without hate.

[@user-ed7et3pb4o]

You’re so right, the maori made it so much better

[@et072]

I was in grade 2 when this came out, and I remember listening to this with my dad in the car. I was memorised at the quality of the songs. love ya lorde

[@ClaytonGoldhawk]

Would be so interested to see what you'd think of SOPHIE's Oil Of Every Pearls Uninsides album. You Definitely have an ear for detail and thats what the album is full of.

[@hyrumforpresident2.0]

I SECOND THIS, PLEASE

[@Benheartsart]

PLEASE

[@erikahuber6617]

It’s so sad that you’d been missing out on Green Light for years, but selfishly I’m so glad you could record your first reaction now

[@alexandra9402]

Knowing about the story behind and listening to Melodrama makes Solar Power better in my opinion, like the personal and mental growth between the two albums is just...love it.

[@sierrastar5155]

Exactly. We get to grow up with her. She shares so much with us through her music

[@vaevae02]

This was posted literally two years ago, but I come back to it all the time JUST so I can see his reaction to the horns in "Sober" because THAT. WAS. ME!!! That was 13 year old me having my mind blown the first time I heard that song!!!

[@reynao.3671]

this video is my absolute comfort video, i watch it at least twice a week and the moment at 18:22 when troy goes 'jack did you produce this one by yourself' when listening to hard feelings/loveless and he checks the producer credits which Clearly say jack and lorde and he still goes ' oh! you did!' will never not be absolutely hilarious 😂😂😂

[@husseinamhareb2125]

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

[@jules2300]

i get goosebumps every time i hear green light, it's like i'm finally alive

[@LindaDulcinea]

That Liability (Reprise) really do be hittin' exactly like that, though. I'm not crying, you're crying.