Chris Willman Music WriterHappiness is the new depression? You might think so from the sunnier, sexier dispositions of a few of the most celebrated young singers of late.
Taylor Swift turned on a dime from the shadowy “Reputation” to the pastel-colored “Lover”; Billie Eilish, while not intending the title “Happier Than Ever” to be a unilateral statement, has recorded something as contented, or at least well-adjusted, as “My Future” and gone unironically blond.But none of these others has done a 180 quite as dramatic as Lorde, who’s hardly recognizable on her third album, “Solar Power,” as the same artist who made precocious darkness her brand in 2013’s career-making “Royals” (recorded when she was a world-weary cynic of 16) and 2017’s.
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