#lorde 3

[grocerystore-gf]

REALLY waiting for her to broadcast the boom boom boom boom and make us all dance to it

[bitingdown17]

Lorde when picking out the cover for Solar Power

[dreamscapesonthewalls]

Lorde’s drunk painting of the Melodrama cover art is all I can think about

[mosiacbroken]

Solar Power - Lorde (2021)

[folkive]

lorde headers

[lifeinsillypictures]

oh, well, okay, Lorde has written my summer anthem, thank you, queen

[pinkinski]

listen, solar power doesn‘t need to become your favourite lorde album when pure heroine and melodrama exist. but here’s what i find so super fascinating about solar power: i think its slowness and weirdness does fit into our current world perfectly. it is a world where we know nothing, where anything could change within a couple of days. and most importantly, we‘re witnessing a stripped down world, in which we learn to appreciate every little ray of sunshine. what makes this record so powerful and relevant for our day and age is its simplicity. this is not a careless summer record. this is an album about an apocalypse. didn’t we all think that the end of the world as we know it would come with a bang? with earth being swallowed by a giant meteor? well, i did. instead, here we are, watching climate summits lose hope in reaching crucial temperature goals, hearing about the first rain to ever fall in regions that only knew snow, and waiting for a virus to vanish, one which will stay with us forever. and apparently, all we can do is try, try and save our species from doom for a little longer. but as lorde said in fallen fruit: “how can i love what i know i am going to lose“? how are we supposed to fight something that is going to win anyways? solar power is a celebration of the natural world, and to me it feels like a eulogy. a moment of contemplation before the world caves in, a final ode to all the things that make life on earth bearable. just like we expected the big bang to be the apocalypse, the big bang on solar power didn’t happen. instead, it’s slow, brutally gentle, taking you along with a sad and sympathetic smile. this album embodies the feeling of mid-covid life like no other: the feeling of finding sad peace midst omnipresent existential dread. go listen to the album again, give it another chance. it’s not what we might have expected but then again, when was the last time something we expected came true?