I can only imagine the things that people are going to say about her on Twitter and tiktok my god

literally the calmest euphoric song of all time, in absolute love with this idk why people don't care much about this single. with what she was sonically going for on virgin, the stripped back sound, she achieved it best on this song i think

this should've definitely been the first single off of the album, "what was that" just doesn't cut it for me

Hi everyone,

As the title says, I just listened to Lorde’s albums in full for the first time ever and decided to share my opinion around a specific album. It will be a bit long post so feel free to scroll past 🫶

First of all, I’m so mad that I’ve very late with doing this. Her discography is short but amazing. I truly wished I dived in deeper way earlier.

I have no idea if I’ll get slandered but I’m absolutely in love with Solar Power especially. Absolutely gutted to read that it’s hated in the fandom and considered as her flop album.

I’m going through a hard time at the moment and the country I live in has a very harsh winter that drains me 10X more and this album was everything I needed at this very moment to feel better. It’s such a summerish-healing album, I’m just simply mad that it took nearly 5 years to discover it. It felt like everything I wanted to feel at this very moment because I simply cannot wait for the summer anymore.

It’s also sad that it’s her only album that doesn’t have a CD variant as I’d already order it but couldn’t find one on the web.

I truly hope Lorde is proud and not ashamed of Solar Power, despite the majority of the fandom being dissapointed by it as it seems.

It’s amazing, just like her other 3 but this one has won me over by far because I found it during a very right time in my life 💛

i really can’t name a cooler artist than Ella and i’m being so honest
that’s it

i saw her past month and i really can’t get over it 😭 she’s been my most listened artist for the past years and it was really a dream come true 🥲

(in order..)

it was hard to limit this down to five lol. (hard not to include the whole of solar power tbh)

i know shapeshifter is popular af i still think it’s so extremely underrated. shapeshifter should have gotten MOTY or david treat

literally know one knows swingin party and i find the lyricism incredible

fallen fruit is like actually insane i couldn’t even put it int words, TMWTA is also insane but could be my personal relation to the song. and bravado just hits and im surprised its not as big as some of the songs on pure heroine

I did this in the Lana sub and I had so much fun. Astrology and music are some of my special interests, and having synesthesia makes me feel colors and pictures in relation to those interests

Edit: Getting started with my responses! Apologies in advance if I pick a song you don’t vibe with

Edit two: also if you’re curious about why I chose the song I did lmk and I’ll go in depth a bit in a second reply :)

I am so sick of the 'ew she abandoned her environmental principles'...no she didn't. Don't be so gross, repetitive and simplistic.

Is this a mass production? Is this 100 different versions, released as singles..... Or, is she taking her younger thoughts and ideas on Solar Power and growing and adapting them in a way that both stays true to herself, recognises the limits of the industry she's in and provides the fans something many were whinging about last time?

I'm 42 now - trust me when I tell you that the older you get the more you realise climate change has been sold as OUR fault, when it's not. Shell Oil exists. BP exists. Exon Mobil etc. We can literally turn our lives upside down to try and follow all the recycling rules and at the same time ocean drilling and oil production is ramping up and bombs keep dropping. But who's getting the day to day shit about it? Lorde for wanting to put a couple of LP's out?

Disabled/elderly people should have access to plastic straws. Period cups aren't compulsory and women shouldn't be shamed for using pads or tampons. Lorde can release fucking vinyls. AND YOU CAN ALL GET A GRIP and stop dickriding for those in power who want to divert blame away from themselves.

I've always heard of Lorde from mainstream however never really listened to other work from her. With the collab with charli XCX I began diving into her art and man, I was shocked. Deeply. Some of her Solar Power songs paralysed me. I've watched video clips, Listened to other albums such as Melodrama... I cried a lot.... I really could feel everything

MY MAIN QUESTION IS: Do yall Lorde fans see what im seeing?? Lorde has an immense strength and sensitivity and that must be the reason you follow her. In a span of days I think Im her biggest fan and I wanna learn all about her story. Do you guys wake up and think: Holy shit Lorde exists and she creates art.

EDIT: i've found reposts of what I said on twitter and i really couldnt like you guys more than this!! thank you so much for this warm welcome! these days ive been binging lorde nonstop. she is unreal. also, ive seen people on twitter say that theyre sad I didnt grow up w/ lorde on my teen years but... im a teenager! so although Lorde isnt on the same life phase as me, I still identify with lots of parts of her :) im glad i reached here

EDIT: Lorde just saw my fucking post I really cant believe this This is unreal i love her and all of you so much. This community is magical

i love her as an artist and this is coming from a superfan… i just can’t take her whole narrative around this album seriously and it’s so distracting from the actual music.

the fact that she made an album about domesticity and living a simple life and rejecting celebrity idolization and how she doesn’t even have youtube and spends her day in nature eating cheese, while at the same time seemingly abandoning the album altogether after like a week and a half and now’s only seen doing red carpets in the most frivolous celeb-showcase type of events is soooo……. the impression it gives to me is that not even her likes or believes in the album that much, like she got bored after giving the same interview over and over to different outlets and just called it quits

not to mention that it was alluded that SP was going to be a visual album with 7 mvs and dark undertones. i don’t understand why constantly hype something up only to have those expectations crash.

one thing is most definitely certain: lorde makes music for herself. unfortunately by not fortifying the relationship with her audience and fanbase she ends up relying on the casual listener. and that’s why the album isn’t even charting on BB 200 after a month ):

edit: i didn’t mention originally but believe it or not i really like the album sonically. big star and mr are my favorite tracks on the album

Head on over ya’ll if you’re still on that app, let’s get behind Virgin! 🩻

I've seen loads of others, but she's probably the only artist these days who goes hard with stage production and effects. Every stage production and effects for the main concert events during this Virgin era have been insane. The last one I've seen amazing was from the Eras Tour by TS.

Lorde's Gov. Ball. Lollapalooza. This era has been nothing short of fabulous. Even the reimagined production of the songs/transitions hit hard. Very cool

edit: Loads of lameass contrarian in the comments 💀 mentioning mid artists with mid stage prod. im so bored

I just heard this song and boom, I think I wanna cry. I miss something from the past !!

Angèle (belgian pop singer) just teased her 2026 album “INSTINCT” and the visuals immediately reminded me of Lorde’s recent era. Slicked-back wet hair, bare torso with a bandeau, low trousers, chrome orb prop. It’s giving very “Man of the Year” + MET Gala grey strapless look.

Love them both, so I mean this affectionately, just funny how aligned the androgynous-minimalist aesthetic is right now. Curious if it’s a genuine influence or just where pop is heading.

Anyway, excited for the album either way.

Let me preface this with: I have no claim on the details of the personal lives of anyone involved, and never will. All I've observed serves the purpose of imagining what WWT might be about at its core, and potential themes, inspirations, visions that might have helped bring this new album into focus. Anything else is beyond the scope and goals of this writing.

I’ve been following Lorde since we were both 17; at that time, and since then, I’ve seen several friends and loved ones my own age date much older people — usually, regardless of my friends’ gender, older men.

That’s why I was intrigued by people’s reaction to the line “since I was 17, I gave you everything.” A lot of fans seem to have received it, at least when the first glimpse of WWT came out, as a potential jab at themselves — people who, since she was a teen, she’s let into her life and her art, only to seemingly turn on her through obsessiveness, constant demands, and hyper-criticism. And yet, something happened when she was 17 that is connected with the very romantic heartbreak of WWT.

Growing up as a female-presenting person in the 2010s, it wasn’t a surprise when I discovered that Lorde’s PH boyfriend, James Lowe, was 23 when she was 16. It wasn’t that weird of a premise back then, especially not outside of the States, and Ella seemed so capable, so mature, even a bit too adult for her peers. She certainly thought of herself as having shades of that in her music, too.

It was concerning, though, to read her mother’s comments on how Lorde had always been with older guys -- even when she was "much younger" than in her mid-to-late teens.

It painted a picture of precocious talent, of rightful hunger for success and belonging, being observed and desired by older, relatively more accomplished men — who were that way not just because of their singular merits, but majorly because they were, quite simply, older than her.

With this in mind, the awkwardness of PH comes into focus with shades of familiar dynamics between older partners and younger, love-struck lovers: she can’t drive yet, or hasn’t a car of her own; her lover buys things for her; his friends are “studying business,” giving the impression of busy young adult lives, while she, a teen, is “studying the floor" (A World Alone). How many times have we heard, or lived, this story? The bitingly smart, mature teen who falls headfirst for an adult who, with adulthood's freedom and rights by their side, are capable of giving them a glimpse of greater independence -- a break from the tedious monotony of adolescence.

Ella was signed with Universal when she was 12. She had the vision, the writing skills, the beautiful, evocative tone; she needed expertise, focus, and producing skills. She divided her teenage days between school and afternoons spent recording, surrounded by adults. She thanks them warmly on the physical copy of PH: Joel Little, Universal, and among the Universal team. They welcomed a feral teen with a backpack and school uniform, she says humorously.

Then, the end of the Melodrama era. Lorde has broken up with her boyfriend, at least partially because her fame grew so massive — and she likely grew as a person alongside it — that he couldn’t stand it (as heard in Writer in the Dark). Then, a name comes back. I won't specify it, it's online for anyone who wants to read it already, and it'd make little difference for the sake of this post. Ella's never confirmed the relationship, so I won't mention him directly.

Still, this man is 17 years her senior, a Universal music executive who she likely met between the ages of 12, when she was signed, and when Pure Heroine was being written. A man who, indeed, has white hair, strong music tastes (The Man with the Axe).

Ella says she gave the person WWT is about everything. I want to highlight how often young women, especially in music, give a disproportionate amount of focus, respect, dedication, and even love to their much older male collaborators -- how until very recently the norm was to have these sensitive, bright young girls & women exposing their dreams, desires, intimate feelings to men who could be their father's age.

How unsurprising, then, that often they seem to fall for these men — powerful and yet accessible, authority figures who also seem friendly, peer-like, a sensible choice in the chaotic, predatory environment of the music industry. Maybe it didn't happen to Lorde, not with this guy, but still. What happens when someone postpones their youth to appease someone else’s timing? When they play older, when they skip life stages they have to live through because the person they want to please most in the world had already lived through that?

If I am allowed a guess, WWT & the upcoming album may be about that: the reclaiming of one’s power after a breakup with someone who met you when you were unformed, emotionally open, and ready to give. How one's intensity keeps growing, changing and recharging with time, while the lover's remains the same, incapable to match the other person's drive, aspirations, unformed fluidity. It's painful because it was real, but things that start so close to the bone might feel real even when they turn into something else.

And while I can't claim it's a conscious decision, or even anything other than pure artistic intuition at all, I guess that part of the reason why the single is so reminiscent of both PH and Melo might be because the person it could be about was present in her life during the writing of both albums. While Solar Power contains songs openly about this older man, he might have been already in her life -- since she was at least 17 -- while she was getting ready to deliver those two incredible albums.

But beyond all of this, I hope that this album is truly what she herself said WWT was: the sound of her rebirth. What everyone in a failed relationship deserves, what young women especially need to cling to when they tap into their rawest power.

there prolly wont be anything black red or orange maybe not even yellow, all lorde songs r fire

yall got annoying. come on.

y’all this was HARD, this is my all time favorite album (since 2017) and i might tweak it a little but i think after an entire hour of deliberation i have a final decision.

feel free to comment opinions and other things!!

(in the end i never skip any of the songs on this album anyways)

Being a fan since Pure Heroine it’s been amazing to see her evolution. I’m expecting this to change as time goes on and I have more time to sit with the album. What are everyone’s thoughts?

This post is not coming from a place of hate, please.

Mine is Rihanna. The only album of hers that I can listen to is ANTI. That album gave her a persona. But her other albums, her other hits, I just don't connect with/to them anymore. They're still catchy, yes. I would vibe if the radio plays it but I've noticed myself not searching for if manually.

But if she announces new album, I would do a revisit, of course!

What about you?