Lorde: Behind the Melodrama
Lorde talks to Henry Oliver for The Spinoff about the lyrics, songwriting and production of every song on her album Melodrama
- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 13 minutes
- Episodes
- 11
- Years Active
- 2021
Perfect Places
"Hating the headlines and the weather and feeling like... Bowie's gone, and Prince is gone, and George Michael's gone, and what's left? I don't want to be alone in my house with Twitter and it's all …
00:13:36 |
Fri 11 Jun 2021
Liability (reprise)
"I went into this record thinking I knew what I was doing and thinking I knew exactly who I was at that moment and what I was going to do and the process as been very confronting and intense and awes…
00:10:25 |
Fri 11 Jun 2021
Supercut
"I felt the way I used to feel when I made music as a kid and it felt like I could cry because it's such a relief to get out how you're feeling for the first time. I remember being like 'oh my god'. …
00:18:01 |
Fri 11 Jun 2021
Writer in the Dark
"It's not a historical document. It's not a police record. It's not journalism. I didn't go to journalism school, I'm a writer. It's about what I felt and sometimes you can feel an element of guilt o…
00:10:02 |
Fri 11 Jun 2021
Sober II (Melodrama)
"I felt more aware of my age than I ever have making a record. I was in these moments of just being gripped by an emotion and I was like 'I'm feeling this because I'm 20 and everything's fucked-up in…
00:10:17 |
Fri 11 Jun 2021
Hard Feelings/Loveless
"I was basically speed-dating different producers and songwriters in LA and hating it. And then I walked into a room with [Jack Antonoff] and just felt like I was home. I was like, 'oh, yes. I want t…
00:20:02 |
Fri 11 Jun 2021
Liability
"I'm so aware of the thoughts that are so potent in a moment and then, in the light of day, you're like, 'alright, I was being a bit of a drama queen there, but it's all good, I'm over it.' But I wen…
00:15:31 |
Fri 11 Jun 2021
The Louvre
"I wanted to [give the feeling of] just like the big sun-soaked dumbness of falling in love and it's like your whole head is like glue, it's amazing. It is like drugs. It's like 'I just want to be by…
00:10:42 |
Fri 11 Jun 2021
Homemade Dynamite
"Sometimes it is just about having your arms around your friend's shoulders and being drunk and being into the same song."
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00:09:02 |
Fri 11 Jun 2021
Sober
"I feel like the essence of Melodrama is 'we present that we just don't care / but we care.' We fucking care! And I'm going to show you. This record is a document about that care."
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00:09:23 |
Fri 11 Jun 2021
Green Light
"I always want to run toward the thing that feels challenging and scary and exciting, and that didn't feel like a drum and a vocal anymore. Because those types of songs had been number one on the cha…
00:19:41 |
Fri 11 Jun 2021
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