Lorde says she’s “getting nearer” to writing nothing but big pop songs
nme.comLorde has thanked fans for the support of third album ‘Solar Power’ and said she’s “getting nearer” to writing nothing but “bangers” again.Lorde’s third album saw the artist move away from the all out euphoria of 2017’s ‘Melodrama’ to create something more introspective and delicate.Speaking at the third and final night of her residency at London’s Roundhouse (June 3), Lorde revealed she’d been “thinking about bangers.”“It’s so interesting to me how writing a big, bright pop song has been the thing that’s defined my life.
This thing I started trying to do when I was 14-years-old because I would turn on the radio and love that feeling, what it did to me.
It became like an addiction, I just wanted to keep trying to construct the perfect thing that would hit you in the heart emotionally, over three-and-a-half minutes,” she explained.“But I never thought a pop song would be the thing that changed my life.
I was informed today that it’s the nine-year anniversary of ‘Royals’ coming out. I remember sitting in my parent’s kitchen, pressing upload on Soundcloud.
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