Reviews (page 11 of 14)
Luistert lekker weg, beetje poppy wel. Ken Liability van een serie (Euphoria), wel mooi liedje. Verder niet echt iets wat is blijven hangen, hou wel van Lorde's stem
Her voice is nice and the production is cool but gets a bit dull on an active listen. Doesn't really have many outstanding moments. Works nice as background music and I can imagine this is an album you could get more into when getting to know it better.
I can recognise a well put together record, with more to offer than just the radio hits. However, she's just not for me.
Liked it more than I expected. Probably not something I'd actively listen to, bit good background music.
Great sound. Lorde still not one of my favorite. Pure Heroine is probably the better overall album.
Liked this more than i expected to.
super-plus good
her stuff is okay
p948. 2017. 3 stars Kiwi Pink wannabee but without the songs. Sharp lyrics, which is a plus, but a long of the songs blur into one another. It's OK, but not great.
An emotional listen to say the least. Would be perfect after a heartbreak or a breakup. Outside of that and its a heavy but decent album with some great songs. Not a favourite but a notable one.
This was very enjoyable. I’d never listened to her before !
Not bad, not my fav but enjoyed it enough
There are a lot more annoying pop albums than this one out there.
Enjoyed more than I expected, moody and stuff, but nicely put together
Some good tracks but some slower ones drag
Meh, remember it being better.
it was an ok pop album
Another weird choice, this album was definitely a bit of a sophomore slump for Lorde as it didn't really live up to Pure Heroine... an album that was decent but carried mostly by the strength of its singles. Still, this is more memorable than Lana Del Rey, as I noted in a recent review of hers. There are a lot of these not-quite-art-pop-but-more-serious-than-bubblegum-pop pop artists who came out in the last decade and they all kinda hit that "eh, it's all right" note for me. In the 90s these singers would all be filed away under the "adult contemporary" label, so it's weird to me that the majority of them are aimed at teenage girls these days - I think Adele is the only one aimed squarely at the white wine and ice cream crowd. Maybe I'm just a boomer, but it's weird to me that what the kids are into is comparable to the blandest music of my generation.
I like a few of the songs. Not my favorite album ever or anything though.
I’ll take Lorde over a similar artist like Billie Eilish any day. Her voice is unique and works best for me on her least poppy tracks. I’d heard most of these songs but never the album in full. Solid album.
Probably a good album but not my cup of joe
Good pop album. Starts off good with “Green Light” and follows through with a series of decent background music.
nice
Curiosamente nos tocaron muy al hilo tres de las cosas mega populares del último lustro y Lorde se queda a la mitad entre lo pop ultra explosivo y comercial de Tay Tay y las miniaturas überdetalladas de Lana. La verdad es que es también pop muy bien hecho, solo no está diseñado para la fiesta y los cantos en estadios, sino para otro mood.
Nice sound
Twas grand.
Was hoping to enjoy it more. Pop, nice synths, but not much in any other department.
I felt the vocal processing wasn't too bad on this album. Lorde's unique vocals still were able to come through. The comments for a lot of the songs online were WAY too gushy for songs that quite frankly, were very generic. They didn't move me one way or the other. Neither hate or love. They were mostly... forgettable. Moving on.
Lorde's sophomore album Melodrama is a decent follow up to Pure Heroine. The lyrics seem personal and the song-writing isn't bad. The album didn't connect that much with me though. Maybe I'm getting old ("Get off my lawn, you damn kids!") I still think "Royals" is one of the catchiest pop songs written in the past 10 years though and have a lot of respect for her as an artist. This is just an album that I thought was average and with all of the great music out there probably wouldn't find myself coming back to since it didn't connect with me.
She's got a way with a sly melody as well as bangers (Green Light). State of the art pop. 3.5 if they did half-stars.
I don't know what the thing is called when singers kinda twist, roll and truncate the words at the end of their lyrical phrases - but I can't stand it! "I do my makeup in, somebody else's cahw We order different drinks at the same bahws etc..." It's this sort of exaggerated baby talk that you see all over tik tok videos. It took me a while to get past that "technique" enough to consider what I really thought about the album. Contrary to what the pop-forward veneer might suggest, the lyrical content tackles some pretty series subject matter. The songs look past the buzz to the hangover, and past the honeymoon to when the infatuation has worn off. I appreciate that a musician that is getting hundreds of millions of plays on Spotify is willing to go there. Hopefully people who hear these lyrics and they create some awareness and emotional space for those whom their own introspections are missing or repressed. As for the music, it's alright, but not really great (for my tastes anyhow). Nothing about it really gives me goose bumps or intrigues me all that much. It a generally subdue backtrack that stays mostly hidden below and beneath Lorde's performance.
When Royals was on every radio station around the world, I found it a cut above the typical pop music fare, more depth and intensity than most pop songs in my view. I was surprised that the album chosen for this list didn't contain the mega hit, but Melancholy is a good album. I don't on first listen hear anything that hits me the way Royals did, though Green Light comes close and Writer in the Dark is a really interesting track as well. This is more of a pop album than Royals would have led me to believe which has more of an indie-rock aesthetic but as pop music goes I again hear more depth and song writing chops. Very close to a 4 star album but I'm going to err on the conservative side; 3.5 🌟
Never had listened to any Lorde except the first track. Feels a bit one dimensional and I didn't wanna finish it, but it's fine.
Enjoyed it!
Lorde lorde lorde
I really respect her authenticity in an era of overproduction and formulaic pop. As well as seeing how influential she was on artists like Billie Eilish. The sound is not my cup of tea but I do respect it.
Enjoyable album that is a great atmospheric experience. It does however lack standout songs besides Green Light and thus fails to impress me enough for 4 stars
Nice
Good but a bit repetitive
Gledo sam African Lore na tiktoku nisam stigo. E svidio mi se više čak neg šta sam očekivo od Lorde
Not something I would come back to, but I do like Lorde's voice. And it was nice listening to something newer.
Lorde has, up to now, pretty much completely eluded me. She undoubtedly has a nice way with a one-liner and this is pretty good at what it is, it's just that what it is isn't really something I particularly enjoy all that much. I'm currently half way through and feeling a bit restless. To be fair, it ended quite strongly.
Alveg móment hérna, en ég er ekki að tengja neitt svakalegt. Fínt. Næsta plata.
Surprised me a bit.
As far as modern music goes, on the pop side of things, I like it
Decent
Unique sound. Not in love with the vocals.
Good album, never really listened to lorde oustide of her hits but guess ive been sleeping
Music doesn't do much for me. It was playing, but it didn't capture my attention so I wasn't listening very carefully. I'll give an extra star for the cover artwork which I like, much better than the music on the album.
Raw vocals. Like it. country music with vocals. love it.
Tja...viel Reverb, und das trägt auch erst mal so 2½ Songs lang. Dann aber auch irgendwie nicht mehr. Songscheiberisch mittelmäßig bis gut. Ganz schlechte 3.
I heard Royals when it came out and I thought it was a promising song; I then did something that I very often do to no avail: I bookmarked Pure Heroine as an album to listen to later on. To this day, I haven't taken the time to do so. Fast forward a few years and Melodrama comes up as part of the challenge. It's her second album but it's the first one I heard from her. I couldn't really connect with this album. It's all really nice sounding and pleasant to the ears, but I can't find that particular characteristic that makes me go ouff. It is a sad realization for me that millennial pop sounds all the same to me. It's like those old grumpy people back in the 80s who used to say "Punk sounds all the same", and I vowed never to become someone like that. Only that, after listening to this, I did take the time to listen to Pure Heroine, and I liked it very much. I guess I just don't like mature records.
A little too pop-y for me, but it was solid.
It's ok I suppose and with half a billion listens in Spotify who can argue? She's midway between Bjork and Billie Eilish with some interesting tracks going on. I'd definitely listen again a few times to this before deciding. Very well produced and professional job all around.
Yeah. It's a'right.
I was quite pessimistic when this came up, Having little knowledge of Lorde - I'd kind of written her off as yet-another-2010s-20-something-singer-songwriter - and with an album called Melodrama, I expected to be bombarded with low-key perpetual teenage angst. I kept telling myself to stop being such an old man and give it a chance... so I did, and it was alright, something my teenage daughter would enjoy more. I was glad when it ended. On the upside, I think the artwork is great.
Oh, Lord
Ok for a pop album, but really not needed on that list
I'm Lorde! I'm Lorde! I'm Lorde!
One step up from Taylor Swift and two steps up from Ariana Grande, but certainly not revolutionary, and it is debatable who should get credit, since most of the appeal comes from the arrangements. But i like it (6/10) FT: Liability
Non male l'inizio, con 'Green Light', abbastanza conosciuta. Bel mood, testi non banalissimi, una visione di insieme definita e anche una bella copertina. Si perde un po' dopo 'Liability'. Sono indeciso tra 3 e 4.
2nd February 2022 Started listening on the living room speaker with Jen while working at the kitchen table. Finished on the way to the gym. Neil came round in the evening for catan with victor. Jen won. A bit melodramatic for me but I can see the appeal for young listeners.
Kinda weird, but interesting.
I used to listen to Lorde when I was a teen and listening to this album made me question why I'd stopped! Very good, her energy is so unique. And I always appreciate a album with a nice and round atmosphere :)
This album's a bop. Really enjoyed it.
I was not expecting this album to ever make this list but here we are. I'm more than happy to enjoy the change of pace we have been getting (not a 60's british band). While I wasn't a huge fan of this album, enjoying her debut much more, there are some great songs on here like Greenlight and Supercut. Lorde was stretching her wings on this album but it seemed like she was almost closing herself in. A lot of the beats on her first album felt much bigger and the lyrics felt very deep but this just felt like a watered down version of that but it's on this list so people must really like it.
Found it hard to get into will revisit in a week or so but u h washed over me. It was pleasant enough but I think I need to spend more time to fully get it
Tranquilo de escuchar. Buena voz. Contemporáneo. Pop
Nice
Rating: 6 /10
Lorde is a really good singer but it is like all of her songs are the same
Hey, an album I know and like!
Meh
I think Lorde is really interesting. I like the sparse arrangements. It's about the space between the notes as much as it is about the notes themselves. Good stuff. 3 stars.
Very forgetful
inte min musik men ändå ganska go känsla
Pitchfork electro pop.
Saved Prior: Green Light Off Rip: The Louvre, Liability, Writer In The Dark Cutting Edge: Supercut Overall Notes: I distinctly remember when this album was released and how rapturous the reviews were. I also remembered Liability (found it boring), Green Light (loved it), Homemade Dynamite (did not like it), and Perfect Places (also did not like it) getting radio play on Alt Nation. It was not enough for me to want to check this album out then. While my music taste has matured since then, I still found most of this album eh. You can see the influence she had on massive modern pop stars like Billie Eilish, but I much prefer her debut album Pure Heroine on a song by song basis, even if this is a more complete album experience. Weak 3.
Prety good pop. Not really my kind of music, but I can appreciate it.
Not bad, but not something I’ll go out of my way to listen to. Just glad this one is over. It made me sleepy.
Track 01 - 1.5/5 Track 02 - 2.75/5 Track 03 - 3/5 Track 04 - 3.25/5 Track 05 - 3.5/5 Track 06 - 2.5/5 Track 07 - 3.75/5 Track 08 - 4/5 Track 09 - 2.75/5 Track 10 - 3.5/5 Track 11 - 2/5 Overall: 3/5 Album Art: 3/5
7/10
More of Jess’ bag but she thinks Lorde is a lil witch beyond her years
Liked it 3*
Liked this. Some strong songs others not so. Not the strongest of singers.
3 stars so far.
Bolan's best album
More modern pop - at least this one has some songs of better quality and isn't relying on auto tune and drum machines all the time. I mean, the tunes still sound like the type of songs teenagers put over a photo compilation of their summer but I've heard worse. Came in dreading this after the choices of previous pop albums but was actually pleasantly surprised. I Best Tracks: Green Light; The Louvre; Liability
P o p music +
Erster Eindruck: klingt formelhaft, von Komposition und Produktion und Text - die aktuell übliche ganz große, hybride Pop-Nummer. Bisschen edgy, bisschen knackig sparsam UND wahnsinnig opulent (I know …). Wer und wann hat diese Sounds eigentlich mal angefangen? Timbaland bei Aaliyah? Werden wir das hier noch erfahren? Erster charming Moment: das hinterhergefragte „of a boy?“ in Louvre. Überhaupt: ganz charming, wird nach hinten raus auch nicht schlechter. Schön, das gehört zu haben; hat trotzdem kein tieferes Interesse geweckt. 2,7.
Soulful yet poppy, energetic and sad at times. I can see a couple of potential anthems here for the right set (of which I'm too old to be a part).
She's clearly a good musician and songwriter, but it all just felt kinda bland. Like slightly unusual indie pop wallpaper. I'd be interested to hear more of her different albums, I've heard other tracks which I preferred to most of this
Altijd behoorlijk onder de indruk geweest van haar debuut plaatje, maar deze is toch minder leuk. Iets te veel 'teen-lyrics' en iets minder spannende zang.
Mja, niet slecht maar iets te poppy.
Some qualities of Robyn and Taylor Swift, just not a comprehensive thumbs up, although kudos for being so young, yet so mature.
leuk, niet zo speciaal, zou het wel opzetten als er volk is ofzo
It's fine, a 3. Felt a little like what I consider to be generic pop music, which is likely not fair but what can I say.
Enjoyed this more than I thought I would. Good pop music all the way through.
Well produced. Not my taste.
Wasn't blown away, but Lorde has such a unique voice anything she does is going to sound cool.
Solid pop album with some catchy songs and thoughtful lyrics. Not really for me.
Nice album
Easy listening
Lorde channels the feeling of not wanting to get out of bed because you’re still depressed about the heartbreaking finale to Euro 2020 and parlays that into sweeping, epic pop. The moody, melancholic stylings of her early work take on a grandeur and sweep here; you can’t help but be carried along by the flashes of light and the brooding in the dark - as England were carried all the way to the final on a wave of robust and flexible organisation, and were a matter of inches from winning the entire tournament. Listening to this now, four years later, one feels this is not yet the zenith of Lorde’s considerable powers, merely an exciting glimpse of what is yet to come, if she stays the course. Similar to Engla- etc etc.
Słuchałam ją jakiś czas temu, bez większego wrażenia
This is one of those cases where I don't really like the music, but I can appreciate that it's good music.
melodramatic indeed. pop laments that catch some feels. album breezed by
Haven't heard this album. Most of the songs have a familiar, comfortable feeling. I like when a new album feels like something you have heard before.
Put everyone in alarm mode when it was released, great work for a teenager. Not something I’d listen to, but some catchy tracks
Pop
Much better than i expected
nodded my head a couple times
I didn’t really like this album, can’t really pinpoint why.
Pretty fun for pop, but a little whiney and some of the songs really blend together. Cool sound design overall.
I dont know modern pop music very well, so it was nice to get this album to expand my music knowledge a bit.
so far sounds like coworker music. made it through about 4 songs and got bored out of my freaking mind. Music isnt bad its just all the same recycled cardboard. If i wanted to listen to someone whine at a barley audible whisper with no passion i would listen to my coworkers over this.
Idc, this was a tough listen
I already heard this album before and I got to say it's intimate (with a good song: "Liability").
I was initially upset that Melodrama made this list over Pure Heroine, then I listened to the album. Now I'm fucking livid. This is a sophomore slump if I've ever seen one. It really struggles to elevate itself beyond 'default pop album', and I'm really puzzled by the inclusion on this list, unless it's to serve as an example of what the inside of an H&M sounds like. As I'm sure Tyler will allude to, the production has Jack Antonoff's fingerprints all over it. That pulsating 16th note synth & bass is a dead giveaway, and you'll find that in a ton of 2010's pop if you listen for it. You've also got the tinny electronic drums, which is another mainstay. Antonoff is someone that loves to play with distortion and reverb a lot too, something you hear a bunch in The Louvre. A pretty textbook Jack Antonoff produced album This is exactly the kind of music I loved when I was 15/16, driving around town at night with my friends and enjoying the newfound freedom of a driver's license after realizing I could lie to my parents and say I was studying at a friend's house. That breathy, mumbled singing is a Lorde calling card (I didn't know she's from New Zealand!), but 'sad girl'-ness that pervades this entire album gets a bit tired. The talk-singing oscillates between haunting and affected, and it walks that line really uncomfortably; at its most noticeable during Liability and Writer In The Dark (the way she sings those lyrics in that song irk me to no end). The lyrics are extremely melodramatic (ha), but given that she was 20 when she released this album, I can partially forgive it, since most 20 year olds are just Like That. However, the subject matter is overly well-tread territory. How many times can we make an album about a breakup. I'm sad, I'm mad, I still love you, I regret you, you regret me, I'm drowning my sorrows and getting fucked up. Blah. I level the same accusation I leveled at Elastica: music can be a lot of things, and can make you feel a lot of different ways but the one thing you can never do is be boring. This was a nothingburger unfortunately. A perfectly listenable pop album, and hits hard if you're 16 or throwing it on in the background of a Pac-Sun, but past that I wouldn't touch it. 4/10 Favorites: - Homemade Dynamite - Liability - Perfect Places
If you’d shown me this in 2018, I would’ve thought it was the deepest album of all time. It’s really bland. I wanted to like it because the album cover is gorgeous but there’s nothing that sets this apart from every other pop girl to me; I am seeing people say she pioneered this sound that’s so prevalent in pop music and while I applaud her for that, I’m also tired of the breathy sad indie girl vocals. The Louvre would’ve been better with some bigger production though.
Why not pick the album with all the bangers on it? This is not as good as Pure Heroine
I'd rather have King Crimson.
If imagine dragons did cursive bedroom pop.
Average pop music. It'd play in a jcpenny
Unremarkable. I did not need to hear this before I died...
This just doesn't come together for me. It's clear this is an incredibly beloved album in terms of the critics and music fans as a whole. The love appears to be pretty universal. And yet, this album really doesn't do much for me at all. Now, I generally enjoyed Lorde when she first popped up with her first album. I thought songs like "Royals" and "Tennis Court" were pretty cool, but I couldn't really get into the whole album. With "Melodrama," I have the same issue. While I do think "Green Light" is one of her strongest songs she's ever done, the album really just kind of falls off for me after that. The more I listen, the more grating her voice gets, the less interesting the songs get, and the more this album just makes me feel like I'm listening to the 2010s style of pop music that I've really come to dislike. Maybe I'm just biased against it for hearing it so much, but I guess this kind of music just doesn't really do much for me anymore. I will say other high points are "Perfect Places" and parts of some songs, such as the instrumental section at the end of "The Louvre," and the noisy middle section of "Hard Feelings/Loveless." Besides that this album really just doesn't come together for me.
An undeniable talent with a great voice, but an entire album of her affectation was too much for me.
Once again, not my cup of tea and I'm not part of the target audience but I still expected more. All these newer female artists sound very similar with the airy vocals and poppy production. Jack Antonoff is everywhere and unfortunately a lot of the songs in this genre sound the same
I can’t stand Lorde. On paper there’s nothing really wrong with this album. But holy shit music is supposed to be about feeling and I feel nothing. Taylor Swift writing with Coming of Age movie production
I didn’t like this as much as I thought I would :(
funny i thought about this album the day it generated! but it's not that hard not to think about this album when you wish you were more into Lorde. it is very in check with linking the alt pop which also opened me doors back to enjoying purely pop and radio playable music that i got tired of as a teen. and i feel if there is music that is equally interesting, well-made, catchy and "carefree" enough to get the attention of as many people as possible (radioable), it probably is something like this. i'm not sure what people like more about this album, but from a songwritting view, the lyrics didn't do much to me, as much as i see it as well written. the delievery at times rangers close in the taylor swift adjacent vocals which scramble a bunch of similar vision female pop artists together in a box by familiar voices, a bit similar to how metal/rock rage male screaming sounds the same to me, just not things that get me past the surface level of interest to notice enough difference (tho in here i hear a bit of lorde's more unique tone). sonically, i love the ranges reached, there is good variation and interesting melodies. i like the more explosive and product-of-their-time tracks, which makes me like pure heroin more than this. maybe not my type of melodrama, or my pop (not exaclt danceable, or sad enough, or idiosyncratic either). perhaps i will get it some day. for now i could probably get back to "the louvre" and "hard feelings" INCLUDING "loveless". better than the beatles (same rating because only full stars)
Hardly listened to any of it but really not my cup of tea.
Не чув, не знаю. А може й чув? Зараз дізнаюсь) Попса(((
I got bored. Obviously a talented singer, but nothing for me.
I did enjoyed her cover of Phoenix, but this was my only real dive into her music till now. In the end, it’s just too pop for me, built around a kind of easy melancholy and introspection that never really feels earned. Slick production, sure, but very little that sticks with me.
music for gay people who take themselves way too seriously
Look. LISTEN. I sincerely thought I was a Lorde fan. Melodrama is catchy on first contact, tastefully produced, and draped in the kind of nocturnal emotional fog that makes you feel temporarily interesting while staring out a car window. In spots, it’s genuinely inspiring — little surges of perseverance rising from the wreckage like a drunk woman standing back up in heels after eating shit outside a nightclub. Soldier on, you beaming beacon of headlights. Reclaim your purse. Find your friends. But repeated listens dull the sheen. Lorde’s breathy, disaffected delivery initially feels intimate and cool, but eventually starts sounding like she’s preemptively bored by her own feelings. The emotional cadence rarely changes: wounded, detached, vaguely triumphant, then back to staring blankly into the middle distance like someone just asked her to name three hobbies 👀. For an album called "Melodrama", I could use considerably more fucking melodrama. Flip a table. Key a Hyundai. Bang out your therapist’s dad. GIVE ME SOMETHIN' There’s nothing here that actively repels me. The production is polished, the atmosphere is heavy, and the songs glide by pleasantly enough. But memorable hooks and truly special moments remain weirdly difficult to summon afterward. It’s an ocean of mood with barely enough substance to drown a hamster wearing ankle weights. Lorde reminds me of the disaffected art girl from high school who seemed completely preoccupied with convincing everyone she possessed unknowable emotional depths — when really, she’d had one disappointing boyfriend and recently discovered cigarettes. YES, JADE - WE SAW YOUR FUGGIN' AUDREY HEPBURN BINDER. COOL STUFF. Enjoyable. Stylish. Occasionally uplifting. But ultimately - I’m left outside the glass, watching someone perform emotional intimacy I never actually feel.
Not my thing
Pop music but with cussing. First track was p decent but rest of the album was samey and forgettable. Didn't hate it but didn't care for any of it really.
fav songs: green light polished, bittersweet, pop 30/100
Música sacada para juegos de futbol. Sin distintivo para la época, una más del montón. Solo porque no suena mal esto no es un 1.
Eca
I didn’t get the hype then and I still don’t get the hype now
So much of it sounded so much like the rest of it. A few good moments but I'm not into this style of vocals.
Okay so the album cover is drop dead gorgeous let's get that out of the way first and foremost. That being said - I prefer artists to sing rather than talk with a backing track. Just not my taste, I feel like every time I was getting into the swing of something we hit a block and came off the rails. Perfect places and green light are kinda fun.
A little too…melodramatic for me. Can’t say I wasn’t warned.
J'ai oublié de demander à Steph hier si je devais applaudir Lorde. Je ne trouve pas fameux anyway. Fuck le grand Antonoff.
Muy Lorde, aburrido
**an ok no album, mostly story telling.
Parece música de adolescente.
Enjoyed the 1st track but very quickly got fatigued listening to this. The production definitely feels like the main thing here, definitely the king. The production is spot on while being too much at the same time. There is the odd hook very occasionally but they are very intermittent. Look I don't enjoy this "modern pop" sound very much, and accept fully I am not the target audience for this. It's not the self confession lyrics, lots of my favourite artists do those, it's the form of delivery starting with that talking almost none singing, it just seems to be whiny teen diary delivery than much in the way of actual songs, with any musicality coming from said production. She shows she can sing but that isn't singing. Look it's not for me, that's the bottom end. If you are into this fine, just can’t imagine it being dug out in 50 years, but as said might be wrong it ain’t for me. 2 Star
šta je bliže hrvatskom albumu na ovom popisu: laibach (geografski i kulturološki najbliže, ali hrvatski, dakako, nije) ili ovo (lorde čak ima i hrvatsko državljanstvo na temelju porijekla)? vidim da je na albumu surađivao čifutkov i imam loš predosjećaj... sasvim sam ispravno slutio. prije nego što sam pročitao da je ovaj album antonofljevo maslo, mislio sam da će album biti solidan jer mi je lorde bila poznata isključivo po do neke mjere nekonvencionalnoj pjesmi »royals«. no uz čifutkova nema ničeg približnog na ovom predvidivom i prije svega dosadnom albumu koji se ni po čemu ne usuđuje riskirati. svaka pjesma dade se u svojoj cijelosti pustiti u slastičarnici i odgovarat će. velika šteta jer lorde ima dobar glas i uz dobre skladatelje i tekstopisce mislim da bi mogla svašta. ali ne, dosadni, generični pop... završna stvar albuma na samom početku zazvučala mi je kao spotifajeva reklama, to govori dovoljno
It was okay. I liked the futuristic soundscape, but this definetely not my cup of tea.
Not a fan. Loved her voice on her first album but this album didn't seem much different. Liked a couple of songs but unmoved by most of them. Greenlight and Homemade Dynamite.
Not bad and some interesting parts but not my style at all
Yikes! Not a fan whatsoever. Sounds like her new producer wanted more pop, not her style. Wasn't unlistenable so I can't put it a 1 but this was nothing to write home about
I wanted this to be better. A slightly fuller Tegan and Sara.
Drifted through this album without being particularly wowed, or dismayed.
Not my thing
Man green light geriausia ir kitos.... nelabai..
Fine, I guess. Not sure if it's the instrumentation, or else maybe all the songs were written in quite a similar way, but overall this feels kind of mechanical. Lyrically, it left me pretty unmoved.... Perhaps unsurprising, given I'm a middle aged man. Some of the vocals, I did like, actually. Also, I feel that if the songs had more room to breathe this would be a much better album.In summation: a kind of a cross between The XX and Lana Del Boy but nowhere near as good as either.
From heartbreak and break-ups to loneliness, young female singer-songwriters are shaping the themes of pop music. For some, anger, revenge, disappointment and bitterness are also part of the mix. However, I think for Lorde it stays at heartbreak and sorrow. Her music is very much of the moment. But none of that interests me in the slightest. I hate to sound like an old white boomer, but this music is as ordinary as it is trivial. Goodness, I was so bored. But I suppose I’m not the target audience either.
I have heard one Lorde song, and I enjoyed the music, but I feel like her voice is going to irk me. I’m not a fan of singers singing in a style that changes the sounds of words. For instance, singing the word hard, but it ends up sounding like horde. Amy Winehouse did it, Adele, I think, does it, but they are generational talents. I feel like it’s an affectation that singers, both male and female, put on to sound more like Adele and Winehouse. It screams hack to me, which is why it sounds like nails on a chalkboard. This album came out in 2017, and it may be the newest album on the 1,001 albums you must hear before you die list. I’m going in thinking I’m going to hate this, but that means if it’s even a little bit better than I’m thinking, I’ll love it. It’s just 11 songs and 41 minutes long. That's excellent news. After consulting with my good friend, Wikipedia, I've just found out that this is Lorde’s second album and it’s not even the one with the Royals song on it. Then I am truly going in blind. Oh, and I see that nerd Jack Antonoff was her main collaborator. What is he? The new Todd Rundgren? Though, at least when Rundgren was producing albums, it was just him. We now live in the age where it takes 12 people to write and produce a song, and double that for an album. Most of the time it doesn’t even include the star. I digress Track 1 is Green Light and I already hear the goofy singing style. It’s like she's copying someone else. I need to get past her voice. I’m predisposed to hate it. This was the first single off the album, and it did well all across the world, reaching 19 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The music is nice. It’s pure electronic pop. This reminds me of Robyn, and I love Robyn. Maybe I can do this. Track 2 is Sober, and I’m betting it’s not a cover of the Tool song. I like the beat. It’s very sparse, with no real music, just beats. Now the synths are coming in. Oooh, there are some fake horns in this jam. This sounds like it's going to be a summer album. Her voice still irks me, but if I focus on the beats, I can take it. Track 3 is Homemade Dynamite, and it’s more of the same: great beats and mildly annoying singing. I do love it when Lorde goes into her upper register. She does that a lot in this song. It's hard to apply her affectation when she’s singing like that. These songs are short and sweet, which adds to the appeal. Because the songs are kind of the same beat over and over with little variation, a 7-minute song would be monotonous. I love the chorus, “Blowing s**t up with homemade d-d-d-dynamite.” I see now it was the last single from the album. Great song. Track 4 is The Louvre, and the affectation isn’t so prominent on this song. I really like it. I don’t know that she’s a powerhouse Adele-like singer. Lorde is probably more like Robyn vocally. It’s a slower groove, but it still has the summer in the city feel. I really like this song. I think Lorde is turning me. Track 5 is Liability, and it starts with a Let It Be-style piano. The melody reminds me of My Chemical Romance’s Black Parade, at least the opening of that song, when he was a young boy. The affectation is back a bit, but it’s just a pretty piano melody and her voice. Wow, it stayed like that for the whole song, and by the end of it, I’ll admit, it got me feeling a little choked up. Looking at the meaning behind the song, it’s about how her fame made her a fun toy to hang around until the worst parts of fame interfered, and then she became a liability. She was always left alone and isolated. I felt that in the song, and I wasn’t even paying attention to the lyrics. Supposedly, this album is a concept album about Lorde’s life between the two years of her going from nobody to world-famous. I can imagine fame can be fun for about 15 minutes, then as much as people like to build you up, they love even more to tear you down. Aren't humans fun? My favorite song on the album so far. Track 6 is Hard Feelings/Loveless, and that doesn’t sound like a sad title at all. It’s another slower-tempo song. It’s not bad, but I think I’d have followed such an emotional song as Liability with a banger of a song. Later, the song breaks down into some sort old school hip-hop track about how Lorde’s generation is the loveless generation. According to some AI thingie, it’s about the part of the breakup where you start spouting nonsense like, “I never liked you in the first place!” Or, “I’m glad I broke your heart!” I guess. Probably my least-liked song or songs on the album. Track 7 is Sober II (Melodrama), and I guess this is a reprise of the earlier Sober track? This Sober has more instruments in the music, with strings added to the piano. The affectation is back on her voice, or at least I notice it more on this song. It’s fine, but it’s nothing blowing me away. This album seems more like a sad album than a dance album. After the first two or three songs, which sounded summery and fun, the last few are not fun. Maybe that’s the concept. Track 8 is Writer In the Dark and it’s another slow, heartbreaky song. Oooh, there’s a part in the song where Lorde harmonizes with her voice, and it sounds very cool. Lorde is saying to a guy, "Be careful dating a songwriter, or you’ll end up fodder for the next album." When she loves you, she loves you until you have to call the cops on her, but after she’s over you, you’ll be immortalized in song. I love the concept. The song was good, but the chorus was great. Track 9 is Supercut and we’re back to summer boogiedown, though it’s still a breakup song. Whoever this dude was, he really messed Lorde up, it seems. I guess this is how every Taylor Swift album is. Speaking of Tay-Tay, now that she apparently has found love and happiness, will she still be the same songwriter? A lot of bands or rappers who were poor and struggling don’t have that same fire when they’re millionaires and flying in private jets, you know? I wonder if Tay-Tay's fire will be extinguished? I digress. This song is fine, but I still want that one last banger. Track 10 is Liability (Reprise), and what’s the deal? Did Lorde only have like 6 songs, so they decided to split 3 or 4 of them into two parts? I don’t get it, Big Dan. The singing affectation is back in a big way. This reprise is ruining what I used to think was the best song on the album. I’m not even going to finish this crap. Track 11 is Perfect Places and it was a single. It’s a bit more uptempo, but it sounds like becoming rich and famous has quite literally ruined Lorde’s life. I feel sorry for her. I hope she was able to work through these feelings and get to a better place. The song is alright. It sounds like what I imagine pop radio sounds like these days. Overall, I thought this was a fine album. Lorde’s singing affectation didn’t totally ruin the album for me. Is it an all-timer? Far from it, at least in my opinion. But this isn’t really my style, though I am a fan of pop and dance music. Lyrically, I think the album is very good. She opens herself up and pours it all out. This album just depressed me by the end. If you are the kind of person who likes what’s on the radio these days, I’m sure you’ll love this.
Points for her vibe (which I do love), but the album itself isn't very memorable. Didn't really hold my attention.
not really into this one that much
It’s nice enough. Feels like painting by numbers. It’s all perfectly assembled but has no soul. I can’t fault it as a pop album. It’s probably I’m just too old now to connect with it. Horribly compressed sound also. 2
Not my flavor decent album not stellar
The supposed “New Queen of Alternative” making an album produced by the man who ruined pop production. 2/5
Average pop music
I remember when Lorde first came about, a couple good songs, but I have never heard this album before. Not bad 2.5 stars
Ehh... It's not as awful as I find most modern pop but it does nothing for me. At least there's no excessive autotune.
Not really a fan
Not ground breaking. Definitely didn’t hit the same as her first album did when she first appeared
Pop music with an edgy indie vibe. It is still formulaic.
Modern pop with all its standard accessories - an over-produced, manufactured quality salvaged by some hooky melodies interspersed throughout. When AI starts creating records, it will sound close to this.
Good modern pop album from Lorde
Got some boops but very one note. Late for and made therapy, lunch with Mason about work. Trimmed trees, neighbor let me use his ladder
sounds like i'm listening to a movie soundtrack, in a bad way
How did this generic thang end up here? What's so special about it?
It's Lorde. Album is very of its time. I never liked her voice and it's somewhat nice to know I still don't and it wasn't just me acting "too cool" to enjoy mainstream (at the time) music in my early 20s. I only liked Green Light and it's a shame the album started and ended so strongly with the first track. A firm 2.
I've been blissfully ignorant of 21st century mainstream pop, so i'm not sure if this is super formulaic or one of the albums that created the formula... but it's ridiculously homogenous, repetitive and 100% not targeted at me.
Nice album to listen on the car
This would be a lot more interesting if there were melodies.
4/10
noice
Mid
one or two cool songs but overall douchebag music
The intro was good and catchy, but it shifted fast into Taylor. I felt that she was copying and not really in her own style. Her singen is really good paired with the synths and piano, that’s what i enjoyed the most.
Not her best album
It might as well be a Taylor Swift album — well-produced music, but there’s very little soul in it. 3/10
sounds too 2017. which makes sense but it aged badly
Eh... I don't know. I think this is mostly fine, but the overall style and delivery doesn't really work for me. Maybe it's just modern production, or modern pop music in general. The blurb describes this as a "maximalist departure from the minimalist hip hop-influenced production of its predecessor"... admittedly I haven't heard that album, but I am NOT getting that. This feels so minimalist in the entire delivery. Stripped back, whispery vocals and beats. Sure, sometimes there's an interesting piece of production in there, and maybe some of that layering counts as 'maximalist' in a technical sense, but that certainly doesn't translate on a general listen. It mostly feels slow and awkward. Maybe I want to feel it more on an emotional level. It feels so cold. I kind of wish she'd just go bigger and really belt out a track - but then of course that's not what this is, and I guess it's just not for me. 2.5 rounded down.
Number: 101 Date: 04/13/2027 Artist: Lorde Album: Melodrama Year: 2017 Genre: Synth Pop Rating: Notes: Before: ======= Another recent artist that I know nothing about. Wow, looks like she is pretty popular, the first track has 739 million streams on Spotify. I'm probably not going to like this. During: ======= Yep, definately not my thing. Well, let's see where this goes. Four tracks in and still not engaged. So, to pass the time, here are my favorite albums of 2017, with one caveat. I have recently discovered Hovvdy, and once I incorporate them into my lists, they will probably take one of these spots in my top 10 for 2017, probably in the lower third on the list. And just for kicks, let's see if any of these artists or in the 1001 list at all. Molly Burch | "Please Be Mine" Michael Nau | "Some Twist" Circuit des Yeux | "Reaching For Indigo" Flotation Toy Warning | "The Machine That Made Us" ShitKid | "Fish" Sweet Spirit | "St. Mojo" Kevin Morby | "City Music" Godspeed You! Black Emperor | "Luciferian Towers" The Head And The Heart | "Stinson Beach Sessions" Slowdive | "Slowdive" Nope, not a single one of these albums or artists are on The List. Eight songs in now, "Writer In The Dark" sounds a little familiar, and I'm thinking maybe I am familiar with Lorde after all, so search my yearly playlists file and find 2 tracks from her on my favorites of 2013 playlist. 2 Green Light 1 Sober 1 Homemade Dynamite 2 The Louvre 3 Liability 3 Hard Feelings/ Loveless 1 Sober II (Melodrama) 3 Writer In The Dark 3 Supercut 2 Liability (Reprise) 2 Perfect Places ----------------------------------------------------- 2.19 WEIGHTED AVERAGE (accounts for song lengths) After : ======= 2 my personal rating 1 suitability for this list 2 impact ----------------------------------------------- 1.7 composite rating
cva ma veel hetzelfde ofzo… 2,5
There is some catchy stuff here and there but there’s also some terrible breathy stuff. And some of these lyrics are truly heinous.
Modern pop music is the lite beer of music, it's easy to crush a whole album/sixer but it won't leave the least impression on you. This is the Natty Bo/Rainier/Lionshead/etc. of pop, it's definitely different but the consumption is just the same.
I wish I was a pop girlie in hs so that I’d like this more
I wish I liked this more but it's quite overrated in my eyes. Her lyrics are good, the production is really good, keeps you on your toes and expecting different sounds as the album goes on, but it wore on me eventually, at least felt repetative enough that i through in the towel regarless of Lorde's emotional connection. It's all in the album title I guess.
je suis pas forcément fan, j'imagine que ce n'est pas du tout mon style de musique. et pourtant j'ai beaucoup de pop. je suis pas fan des mélodies ni des prod. c'est pas catastrophique pour autant. juste je ne le réécouterai pas
An extra star for a measurable reduction in ear bleeding compared to 'Royals'. 'The Louvre' is borderline inoffensive and lulled me into a false sense of complacency before the sudden onslaught of some of the most jarring and caustic notes ever committed in a mainstream pop song. There are moments of decent production and beats, immediately undercut by lazy simile. Nice cover.
Partially known. Mostly just all sounds the same.
Fine, and I've already completely forgotten it. I would like to hear the justification of why I needed to hear this album.
Boring pop music. Not my jam.
Not a fan. The late 2010’s was a great time for good pop music, this album doesn’t count.
This was pretty hit or miss for me. I enjoyed some of the brighter/bouncier melodies, even while they were paired with sardonic imagery (the piano roll on “Green Light” reminded me of Supertramp while “Loveless” evoked Kate Bush). Some tracks felt, as the title suggests, melodramatic. To my ears, the album does not do well separated from 2010s dance-floors. It feels like a bit of a time capsule only ten years later, even if in all fairness, Lorde is one of the architects of that sound.
Way too much production for my feeble mind....
Started well with Green Light, but then seemed to fall into this standard husky voiced dance-lite style that's been popular in the later 2010s and leaves me super uninterested.
Like it's not bad bad it's just not for me
meh, not my style really
green light, hard feellings/loveless y the louvre fueron las unicas que me gustaron, me parece que es un disco bien producido pero es todo muy artificial, no me gusta.
Not for me
This was a nice listen, but I won’t listen again.
2,5
i like the instrumentals on a couple tracks in the first half, especially the fucked up drums in parts of "the louvre" and the weird metallic squeals on "hard feelings", but other than that this one just didnt register. i spent most the second half of the album checking the track list like "damn.... theres still this many tracks left?" i've already forgotten everything i didn't mention already. im not sure if it's not for me or if its just not very good,
The lyrics come off like a prose-y teen diary: juvenile, alluding to dynamics and scenes that don't reveal much of a story beyond vague longing, but aside from the first song they do manage to float along without many clunks. Melodrama, yep. None of the songs are bad offenders, I like the production on Hard Feelings/Loveless particularly, but nothing strikes out at me as interesting or engaging. Maybe because I'm not under the age of 23. But Lorde has a strength in making repetition and similar lyrics flow without getting obnoxious, to the point of track partitions not being obvious at times, so it was an easy listen. The final song Perfect Places is where all the energy dripped off the rest of the album roast like a concentrated mid-2010s pop jus. Supercut is the one I might listen to again.
*incorrect buzzer*
With production help from Jack Antonoff, this 2017 album from Lorde is labeled Electropop. Pretty accurate, lot of electronic instruments, however, the vocal style isn’t really something I enjoy, but perhaps it will grow on me. I will say the production and writing are stellar, however. Out of nowhere, turns out I’m kind of a fan of Sober II (Melodrama); I think the trap drum kit really fits the song. Other than that one song, I didn’t particularly enjoy many of the other songs, basically just Sober II and The Louvre.
A record that makes me feel very old. I mean, it's perfectly serviceable pop, but it's just not for me. Granted, most of this list is skewed heavy to the middle-aged white guy, so I'm hardly underrepresented, but I can only like what I like...
Feels like basic radio slop on first glance, tho some of the underlying beats being a little weird/silly kinda defeats that. Sadly only a few songs ring that bell and even then they don't really capitalize on that "strong" point. Being a dude how mostly likes songs based on vibes, the only songs I could enjoy were homemade dynamite because it gave a hint of the Y2K Justin Timberlake feel and sober II because that part with the 808ish beat + the strings just tickles my fancy. All in all won't be listening to the whole album again but wouldn't want to end it all when I'd be forced to.
Not that bad but im not that into it
I don't understand the popularity. It's kinda boring. Her voice is nice. Not a fan of the synth instead of a band. I'd rather hear her with an actual band behind her. It doesn't even make me want to hear more of her. It's just kinda there. Like she's sleepy. Explains the album cover of her in bed. I guess you can judge this album by the cover.
Jack Antonoff is a phenomenal producer, but there's only so much he can do to offset the esthetics that Lorde top often leans into. Cursive singing, pick me energy, and a particularly mopey writing style, really made this hard for me to like. Jack is the reason it gets more than a 1 for me. His production is always beautiful, even if he has to adapt to suit Lorde's boom clap style of pop. Also you can really tell he cowrote this. Alot of these songs have a particular LDR NFR vibe to them, which he also cowrote.
The Taylor Swift effect 20 years from now we will be able to look back and see the amount of influence Taylor Swift had on music and realize she has- for better or worse- had as much influence as The Clash, Metallica, Led Zeppelin, Eminem, Pearl Jam and on and on. There are now catalogs of music built on her influence and generations of second level acts building off of those foundations. This is a good record. Not my thing.
Sorry, but this isn’t my kind of pop. I understand the appeal, but it doesn’t do anything for me. I’m also not a fan of her voice.
the people are going to hate this but I was not a fan. Her voice felt whiny and performative, I couldn't really focus on anything that was being said. Music was not doing enough to offset
Not my style or music
Green light- boring Sober- boring Homemade dynamite- had good flow but boring The louvre- “were the greatest, they’ll hang us in the louvre” is a real line Liability- surprised me. So emo. Reminds me of waitress. Hard feelings/loveless- favorite so far. Again, good flow but boring. Interesting transition Sober II- beat was cool Writer in the Dark- hated this one. No instruments during the bridge Supercut- boring Really well produced with nothing new to say. Feel like I’ve heard several of these songs a thousand times before by a thousand artists. Really reminds me of Taylor swift but great voice. Party music for people who are afraid of everything, or good supermarket music.
Fine.
Stuck for what to say, I went to read the Wikipedia entry, where most of my basic impressions were confirmed. Yes, Melodrama is an appropriate title for a 19 year-old’s fixations on a failed relationship and the hedonistic solution - like Amy Winehouse with a scratch wound. It reaked of loneliness and insularity, but never felt victim to the fatalism of Frank or Back To Black. Lorde just has to get it out of her system. Of course, most of us get it out of our systems in time, so, for a middle-aged man, it is a question of emotional memory rather than emotional resonance. “Don’t worry, you’ll have forgotten about her this time next week,” I tell me son. And he generally does. But he hasn’t made any records about the experiences and doesn’t have to return to old wounds as a professional practice. The Wikipedia page also mentions Lorde’s interest in Bowie and Laurie Anderson on this record. Bowie I had picked up on Liabilities descending All the Young Dudes baseline and Anderson on all the vocoders. Again, what is for the young artist an inspiration, is, for an oul fella like me, a bingo card of musical recognition. And that is the problem, less and less seems startling and revelatory to me. Certainly not as startling and revelatory as it appears to the artist. And, for the experience to work, the artist needs to be a little ahead of you, so they can guide you by the hand. That’s not a problem with Lorde here. Nor a problem with me. It is what it is. I was baffled by the Wikipedia reference to “maximalism” though. Surely this small sounding record is a bedroom production? Thin, pure synth sounds from FruityLoops. Simple keyboard rhythms that feel pieced together on the piano roll - the chord change that comes a little early on Green Light is an interesting choice. Static harmony and arrangements that focus on addition rather than progression - these are the hallmarks of contemporary music, produced on the grid and produced on a laptop. That’s fine. But don’t call it maximal, when it is as lonely, fragile, and small as the author of the record stated it was meant to be. According to Wikipedia. 2 I was going to write a thoughtful bit about the essential irreconcilability of the confessional and the dance floor. Then I thought ‘nah this isn’t worth it, I’ll just do a snippy comment’ - “Ke$ha with feelings”, which I was quite pleased with. Lorde wakes up in the night crying, Ke$ha wakes up in the morning feeling like P.Diddy. That’s the difference. Boom. But THEN I looked up Ke$ha to see what she’s at these days now that ‘Tik Tok’ isn’t played on the radio any more. Well didn’t I feel silly; singer-songwriter Ke$ha has six albums (one just out last year) and is touring with Scissor Sisters. Not only is she still out there making ‘it’ pop in general - she is helping folk get crunk using fresh material. A deeper dive revealed that Ke$ha also, in fact, has feelings; apparently never better confessed than on her Grammy-nominated album ‘Rainbow’ which was released just a couple of months after Lorde’s ‘Melodrama’. So the next question, naturally, is which Ke$ha albums are on this list? Friends, not a fucking one. Now presumably the user list will remedy this if it hasn’t already but in the meantime #JusticeForKe$ha. 1.5/5
First song is nice but the whole album sounds a bit the same
ugh. it's dance pop, so make of that what you will. it's mostly fine but nothing more. "royals" was a good song. it's not on here
Booooring. Thought this was from like 2010, but way behind its time. Ok songs i guess, just generic
Ok pop.
No Royals?
i don’t like how she sings in cursive. it’s kinda pissing me off i don’t think i’m in the right headspace to be able to enjoy this. it’s way too sad
Ratings: 5: I will happily play this album anytime 4: I may occasionally play this album of my own free will 3: I will happily listen to this if someone plays it in the background 2: I will tolerate this if it is playing in the background 1: I will leave the room if someone plays this in the background Just not my thing.
Good pop music. But completely unisnspired and bland if youre trying to discover music.
spoko muzyka, ale gorsza ocena ze przekaz popularyzujący niekonstruktywne społecznie postawy
Decent, nothing special though.
It was OK. Her style of singing is really not for me.
This is a flip flop for me (describes my state of mind listening to it). Another aspiring artist that had potential in my eyes down the drain. I like her deep connecting tone, the emotion, the atmosphere, and potential depth. The reality is that is an exceptional titillating sound bite of an otherwise jarring pop album. "Homemade dynamite was crap" and any song that states "You got to catch the boom boom boom and make them all dance to it" wont help that's for sure. "Liability" - Got close to my opening brief but it's not a consistent in the album sadly. "Hard Feelings/Loveless" had an amazing grating section of synth sound. Again those 2 celebrate what can be great about this album. I just don't get it you have "Hard Feelings/Love" which sounds like K Pop with a fake girly accent. Its just nasty. Ironically another OK song is "Writer In the Dark" largely due to it being a highly stripped back song which is simply her voice and a dankly played piano. infuriating album quality but ultimately just a standard pop record and not a good one due to the over zelous production.
I can understand why people find this compelling. Lorde performs with more depth and personality than your average pop singer and she has a unique style to her voice and delivery that has a surprising rawness. This is also lyrically quite strong, often darting off in unexpected directions. My issue with this album is that it conforms to all of the clichés of modern pop music production. Moving from early albums on the list to this is quite a jarring experience, there are far too many canned sound effects, quantized drums, and too much vocal processing. It's all too perfect and precise, stripping out all artistry and personality. This sounds like a product, not a performance. The fact that any of Lorde's individuality still shines through this studio "enhancement" is a testament to her strength as an artist. If this was recorded in the seventies, maybe I would be talking about her in the same terms as Sandy Denny or a Joni Mitchell. As it is, I predict that this will not stand the test of time.
Unfortunately this sounds like so much of the pop coming out in the last 10 years. It has no unique identifier. Happy she found success, but it aint for me.
at least she didn't use that annoying autotune effect
Meh
Тоді я не дуже розумів популярність цього альбому, а тим більше зараз для мене Мелодрама звучить якось аутдейтед. Дуже не моє, оця поп-музика 10х, не знаю. 2.5, ближче до 2.
Decent album
I prefer her more poppy work.
Prior to this, I had already liked the song "Royals" by Lorde. I think this was played on Alternative Rock radio a lot when it first came out (in 2013). That's the only one though, and I never spent any time diving into the rest of her stuff. Thoughts while listening to this... I kept wondering why so many pop singers of the last decade or 2 have such a "breathy" singing style where they pronounce words in a strange, "chopped" / "talky" way. I found out that it's called "Indie Girl Voice" or "Whisper Pop". It's the kind of thing I hear when out and about in stores etc. and I'm always wondering why so many women artists sing like this. I find that it can be a very annoying affectation. Lorde didn't innovate it - it looks like singers like Bjork, Regina Spektor, and Lana Del Ray probably started this and Lorde followed in this tradition and helped popularize it along with others like Selena Gomez. Learn something new every day. I'm sure there's a lot more to this that I am missing. I do like that many of her songs are NOT the standard verse/chorus/verse setup of many pop songs "Writer In The Dark" had a very Tori Amos feel to it. I like the songs that are piano based the most. Ended up liking "Liability", "Hard Feelings/Loveless", "Writer in the Dark", and "The Louvre" I'd probably relate to this more if I was a sad, 20-something girl - but I do respect her artistry. I should add that I can't tell how much of this is her doing or the producer guy who looks like he also co-wrote most of the songs. Liked songs on Spotify: 4/12 Rating: 2/5
I don’t know. Lorde’s music isn’t my favorite. As I listened the music seemed overproduced. Each song had some music switch. It got boring after the third or fourth song. She and Jack Antonoff wrote some decent songs but not for me.
não é muito meu estilo, mas a produção é muito boa
Неплохой поп альбом. Он вычешен на максимум и звучит, как и любой другой поп альбом, чисто, больше всего запомнилась песня hard feelings.
not really my taste
I couldnt get thru half of the album
Break up angst ugh. I don't love her voice. She is a creative songwriter and the production is interesting i.e. her multi track vocals.
green light is a serious jam. not sure about the others.
Just not my thing.
Pas un gros kiff même si ça s'écoute bien. Le premier titre "Green Light" est finalement mon préféré.
Klinkt erg gedateerd.
This makes me kinda uncomfortable. I don’t think I should be listening to this
Erster Eindruck: greenn liigghhtt Lieblingssong: „Green light“ „supercut“ (Lieblingszeile:) „Are you lost enough?“ Overall Rating: 4/10 Andere Anmerkungen: die beiden Songs mag ich wirklich gerne, aber die anderen haben mich lowkey nicht überzeugt, hab irgendwie echt mehr erwartet, dabei fällt es mir echt schwer lorde nur 2 zu geben
Cursive ass voice
Teleported me to a Target fitting room 2/5
Is this a great Taylor Swift impression or is Taylor a great ventriloquist
I don’t get the glick with Lorde. It feels very generic to me and just makes me think of that meme where she shushing everyone to sing out of tune but in pindrop silence. She seems great and I love the new song “what was that” (which isn’t on this album), not because it’s a good song, but it is a great vocal stim. This album doesn’t even have that :/
Just can't really get on borde with Lorde, the over-earnestness of the vocal is hard to get past, every word annunciated as if it's extremely important, but really never going that much deeper than the surface level in terms of content. Though I wonder if I might feel differently were I closer to the kind of age Lorde was when she wrote it, and whether there's just too much of a gap in perspective that makes this harder for me to engage with.
2.5
The name "Melodrama" basically sums up this album. It's exactly what I would expect a 14 year old girl would want to listen to while she cries about her girlfriends being mean while her boyfriend won't keep asking her for a handjob in the car, then quietly cutting her wrists just so she can feel something.
I wish I liked this record, as I've often seen it praised. Green Light's hook is good, but Hard Feelings sounds like the Cbat song (iykyk). And I don't like that damn cover!!!
2.5
Green Light is a good un. Decent housy groove when it pops in after a minute or so and build-up throughout is very rushing n euphoric. Really banged when it debuted at Glastonbury 2017 and still makes for decent BBC Glastonbury ident music. The songs after it are just not up to the same standard and are more of an amber warning. The beats and backing music feel way more basic, bare bones and not as interesting and the lyrics are all just variations on a theme of Justice Tthhee Ppaarrtty. Homemade Dynamite is more like Homemade Damp Squib. Also Lorde’s voice is pretty annoying to be honest, like a cross between Taylor Swift and Lars Ulrich. 2.5 stars.
Wasn’t a fan, though I enjoyed the first track
It seems that when female recording artists share the same producer, their music sounds interchangeable to me. I'm not immune to a well-tuned pop song, but I'm also not impressed either.
Not for me but understand why people like it. Decent for what it is.
• not the biggest fan • probably won't add any of the songs to my playlist :,(
I really enjoy Royals but I cannot get enthused about any songs on this album
Lorde is clearly very talented but I just don’t enjoy this type of music all that much.
Yes, of course contemporary artists also belong on this list. In that sense, Lorde was probably inevitable. According to Wikipedia, she is a singer-songwriter, and as long as she sticks to that (e.g., in “Liability”), it's reasonably listenable and her unusual voice comes into its own. Unfortunately, most of the tracks are accompanied by random electronic beats, and Lorde sings in registers where she doesn't sound so good. Much of it reminds me of Björk—a respectable artist, but one whose music I don't usually like.
This is grating. Drags on and really just not for me. Some parts stick out but overall 2/5.
The good: slick production, vocals are a little sad, the cover is nice, easy to listen to. The bad: a bit formulaic, a bit samey, a bit boring. Most positive reviews seem to be from those who have youthful nostalgia for the record. I feel bad if this was the best the kids of 2017 have.
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Didn’t find it particularly interesting
Definitely a unique and beautiful album but not my taste.
The overproduction on this killed it for me. She's got a great voice. Just let me hear what it actually sounds like. Yeah, I'm an older generation than this is meant for, but I don't think that was the issue. I actually think there were some good songs underneath and some heartfelt lyrics... but the over-processing of her voice blanketed over the humanity. Not in an artistic way of adding distortion to make a statement of pain or dehumanization or anything, because that's not what the songs were about and it was the same effects on every song. Tough to rate. I think it's better than a 2, but I feel like a 3 may be overly generous. 2.5 maybe.
Day705 - oh boy if i had to say one nice thing about this album i guess supercut was ok
The only problem with hearing records you're not familiar with 10, 20, or 30 years after they were smash hits is that they are either ground-breaking masterpieces that everyone and their brother ripped off in the following couple of years or they are one of the many other records that ripped off some other ground-breaking act. Either way it can be easy to dismiss it as trite, over-played and over-rated. I expect Gen Z and Gen Alpha feel that way about Nirvana and grunge. Or Metallica and metal. Or Tears for Fears and 80's new wave. I feel like this is overproduced club-lite stuff that influenced and is influenced by every other thing heard in pop music these days. I can see the Kate Bush comparisons sometimes. Arrangements have that epic, synth-full, multi-tracked, reverb-drenched wall of sound paired with melodramatic lyrics full of ennui and teen angst. At least it doesn't have that crappy cranked autotune. She seems to have a good voice. This record doesn't do much for me, but being an old GenX guy, I am very much not the target audience.
Album review 019 Melodrama by Lorde (2017) Rating 1.5/5 The album title, Melodrama, is apt but the album itself sounds like it was written by a focus group with the objective: “write an album that appeals to 14-year old girls (or boys) who are feeling sorry for themselves after seeing the boy (or girl) they fancy ask another girl (or boy) out”. One-dimensional tedium, without a single memorable song.
not 4 me
Clearly a talented musician but I’m just not her target audience, the lyrics don’t really talk to me. I feel the music is somewhat like Gracie Abrams’.
Meh.
A couple nice tunes but mostly a boring slog. Most of Lorde's lyrics are so cringe I wanted to crawl out my skin
Säkert någon som tycker om men det fungerar inte för mig när popartister gör den där indierösten där de pratar bebisspråk
Catchy songs but just not for me.
Extremadamente genérico y olvidable. Pero al menos tiene un buen trabajo de producción y los arreglos son minimalistas, por lo que el álbum no se percibe molesto, simplemente no destacable. Me gusta la atmósfera melancólica que genera, es algo que me interpela generalmente, pero la temática de escribir un álbum después de una ruptura de pareja es un cliché difícil de sortear, y este no es una álbum que lo logre. No entiendo muy bien porqué estaría incluido este álbum en la lista.
The music is fine. Her voice and the affectation she does is so, so obnoxious
Not horrible, but not outstanding against others.
helt ok, inte wow
i dont know
Top 3: 1. Sober - Pop padrãozinho 2. Green Light - Pop padrãozinho 2 3. Homemade Dynamite - Pop padrãozinho 3 Bem que falam que gosto é que nem c*... Achei um álbum totalmente enjoativo, fraco e sem tesão nenhum. Talvez seja o conceito do álbum, visto o nome, mas pessoalmente não me agradou. Pra não falar que é completamente descartável (o que seria injusto), as 6 primeiras músicas variam de ouvíveis à legais, depois disso terminar esse álbum gostando das músicas é uma tarefa quase homérica.
Just seemed like wallpaper