She spends all 12 songs of the record contemplating her decisions and looking for guidance on drugs, celebrity, family, her home and finally, the earth itself. In her 73 Questions interview with Vogue, Lorde described “Pure Heroine” as teen angst and “Melodrama” as ecstasy. It’s a sound almost entirely divorced from the pop maximalism and heavy synths of Lorde’s previous work, her vocals and lyrics the only through lines. “Solar Power” finds Lorde laying on the beach, smoking weed and contemplating life while Jack Antonoff sits nearby strumming away on his guitar like it’s either the 60s or the 2000s. I knew “Solar Power” wouldn’t touch me the same way “Melodrama” did, and that’s okay, but knowing it’s okay doesn’t take away the sting. I don’t say this to be a pessimist, but I’ll be writing about a decent album as if it’s a disappointment. “Solar Power,” Lorde’s new album, doesn’t live up to “Melodrama.” No music has ever felt so personal and relatable to me before or since. I probably listened to “Melodrama” end to end close to a hundred times between March and June.
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