Lorde, Virgin ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Lorde is back with her fourth album. She’s had a strange career in my eyes. Her debut album was huge, everybody loved her, and even David Bowie christened her the “Future of music.” But I feel like since then she’s never really gotten back to that point. Not that her work has been bad, it’s always been good. But she always waits four years between albums, and nowadays with pop culture moving at hyper speed that might as well be a decade. She’s just never built the momentum she initially had back up.
But, with that being said, this is a really great album. It might be viewed as some as a course correction after the polarizing Solar Power, but this better than a mere course correction. This is an artist firmly making a statement that they’re back to the sound that they pioneered, and doing it better than anyone else can. Every song on here has something to offer. There are no skips here.
Also, the lyrics are so vulnerable and raw, to the point where it damn near makes you uncomfortable. Very sexual, but not in a sexy way. It’s the type of lyricism where it’s a tight rope to walk. They easily could have come across as crass, gross, or the biggest sin, CRINGE, but I think they just come across as honest.
A funny little side note… She released this album on a clear, translucent CD. Now, if you know how a CD works, you may already see the problem. Unsurprisingly, there have been a huge number of reports of it not being readable.
Favorite song: “GRWM”
