Lorde has spoken on how the sales of her second album Melodrama helped free her from crushing expectations in the run-up to the release of her third record, Solar Power.
Released in 2017, Melodrama was the much-anticipated follow-up to Lorde's influential 2013 debut Pure Heroine, which contained her worldwide Number 1 hit Royals, which also hit the top spot in the UK.
Now speaking to The Sunday Times, Lorde admitted that Melodrama's more subdued reception charts-wise at the time of its release lead to a moment of personal realisation. "When Melodrama came out, I had this moment of being, ‘Ah, I’m not always going to be No 1 for nine weeks,’” she said. "Now I’ve settled into this place where people call you, then one day they won’t.
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