Lorde Responds To 'Painful' First Reaction To 'Solar Power' Album, Drops New Music Video

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Lorde isn't afraid to wear her heart on her sleeve. On the year anniversary of the announcement for her highly-anticipated third studio album  -- which would be released in August 2021 — the 25-year-old singer got real with fans in a newsletter about the mixed reviews the record got.Along with a new music video for «The Path,» Lorde shared her feelings, writing, «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,” Lorde continued. “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!!!”Lorde went on to explain that despite mixed reviews, she is thankful for her fans and that she thinks the album it was necessary for her growth and evolution as an artist.“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,” Lorde shared. “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..