Reviews (page 12 of 14)
I couldn't really tell you why, but I've just never been into Lorde. I like the moodiness of her music. It's pretty and well produced. I'm not really all that fond of her voice admittedly. I hesitate to call this bad. It's clean, it's pretty, it's well done, but ultimately just not really for me. Guess Royals got played one too many times for me as a teen.
Don't love. Don't hate. The breathy singing voice is similar to other artists; I am not a huge fan. Liked a couple upbeat songs but overall the tracks don't inspire a second listen. Listened before? N Saved tracks? N Favorite tracks? ⭐⭐ Didn't hate it
So this is where that baby talk singing came form huh? Her version isn’t as annoying as other but it got really distracting at times
Nestled comfortably between Hobbiton and a militant Covid response sits a third cultural juggernaut which shared with the other two an uncanny ability to hold a mirror up to the New Zealand character while simultaneously defining it. Never before has a nation’s reputation been so thoroughly captured and enshrined in the eyes of the world forever.
Was okay, too poppy
Very melodramatic? I liked the starting track but the rest droned on. I recognize Antonoff's signature production style, but maybe the lyrics just didn't carry for me? Tracks to Track: Green Light
Not really my thing. I appreciate Lorde’s haunting voice but I didn’t necessarily enjoy it or the album as a whole.
Oh god. I am disinclined to acquiesce to your request. This album made it to #1 in the US. Apparently. It’s just Taylor Swift. The production is the same- the rhythmic shifts in the vocals between the verses and pre choruses. The Big Choruses. Man. I’ve never heard this album before but I’ve heard it a million times. Argh. TWO STARS
Fine
My first thought when I saw this on the list was that this must just be a bunch of old guys picking some new pop album at random to show they are hip with the times. It could have been this or just as easily Billie Eilish. The songs aren't bad, just kind of generic. I had one of those long play ads come up before one track, a perfume add with music, and couldn't tell the difference--I thought it was a song on the album. Anyway, not terrible, but not my thing.
I have no opinion on Lorde’s music. This did little to change that.
eigentlich no kuul, aber alles in allem chli langwiilig und wie si singt gfallt mir nöd so guet..
Well-produced, but not very interesting.
I swear a lot of the positives I have to say about this album get ruined as soon as I start to think positively about the album. My number two pet peeve in music is pop artists swearing just once or twice per song to seem hard or strong or something. It's just annoying and it shows up constantly in this album. I guess she says shit more than twice in Homemade Dynamite, but it's really only to get us to say it along with her in the chorus. Some of the harmonies are cool and I did genuinely like Liability until I saw that there was a part 2 (speaking of which, why did she think that two songs were good enough to warrant a part 2?), but as a whole this album feels like every other pop album I thought I was going to like until I listened to it and realised that it sounds like every pop album I thought I was going to like. For the record, I can also swear exactly once in what I'm writing to prove an imaginary point to myself.
*gasp*. Hoo boy, it feels good to breathe again. I used to dislike these 2010s picks for being milquetoast and shitty, though I've recently come to appreciate them. After working my way through a quarter of the underwater cavern which is this list, it feels good to rise to the water's surface once again and engage with something that is easygoing and likeable. I've heard of Lorde before, though I can't think of a single song of hers off the top of my head. I may as well be going into this blind, though knowing my luck I'm gonna be jumpscared by a radio hit within the next forty minutes or so. Yeah. I mean, it's a contempop album. I find it hard to believe that anyone feels strongly about this subgenre of music and I struggle to find reasons for why this brand of pop is worthy of immortalisation in the first place, but I enjoyed unplugging for a while. I wouldn't be surprised if Lorde helped popularise this brand of dulcet pop vocals, though truth be told they don't do much for me. The instrumentals don't really work, either. The smudged, subdued, atmospheric sound would be a hell of a lot better if the vocals were appealing to me, though neither wind up working, sadly. Ah, jumpscared immediately - I've heard "Green Light" before. Not a bad tune. Lorde's vocals are a little weak during the verses, though the song comes together nicely during the chorus. The album goes out to lunch for a little bit (with the exception of "Loveless"), but it comes back with "Writer in the Dark". Pretty nice song. The vocal style is unique, and I enjoy how it intensifies during the chorus. Piano ballads are always a weak point of mine, and I enjoy the other musical embellishments which hang in the background, too. Normally I would bemoan my inability to read the entries for these newer albums, though I have recently pilfered some newer editions of the book from my local digital book store. Hmm. It's not in any of my downloaded editions. I spent all that time vaulting over digital fences to get away from the cyberpolice and for what? Wikipedia reveals that this album is critically acclaimed and commericially successful, but I'm snipping the fuck out of this entry. In place of this album, I humbly submit The Magnolia Electric Co. by Songs: Ohia for inclusion on the list.
Geht so
I didn't hate this as much as I expected, but wouldn't choose to listen again. The production / sound is awesome though
Actually enjoyed it more than I thought I would but still rounding down
Me: "Oh cool! A Lorde album I never knew she made! I loved her debut Pure Heroine." (after 20 minutes of listening) Me: "Wow, Lorde sounds exactly like Taylor Swift and has completely lost her unique sound and voice." (reads notes on Wikipedia about this album) Me: "Oh, she teamed up with Taylor Swift's writer." *wonders why this album is on this list* 2/5
One more pop album but quite new. Ok, so it might be interesting. But not really. Once again one of these albums where you wonder why it is on the list. The music is quite nice. But it's simply pop music. Best case it will not be forgotten in 2030. It's certainly not one of the albums which you must hear before you die.
3/10 I went into this album hoping that I’d be opened up to something great that had passed me by because it’s not in the typical genres that get recommended to me. Unfortunately, any good will I had was fairly quickly decimated by the horrific production style of Jack Antonoff, who has seemingly never heard of the term nuance. I assume his middle name is Anton, so he shall henceforth be referred to as Jack Off. Underneath a lot of the production fuckery, there are actually some decent tunes in here. There are some nice vocal hooks, some good pieces of rhythmic delivery and some promising musical structures, but there is literally no dynamic across this album at all. It’s like Jack Off has just pumped every track through a maxed out compressor and then a brick wall limiter, programmed every note of the synths, samples and drum hits at full 127 MIDI velocity and then cranked Lorde’s vocal so loud that it completely dominates the mix. It’s actually painful to listen to. This production style really doesn’t help Lorde’s vocal delivery either. When she drops into that indie-girl, infantilised, breathy, ‘can’t pronounce my Rs properly’ voice, it’s made worse by the fact that it’s so in your face. She clearly has a decent voice, but she insists on putting on this affect that just drains my tolerance and rubs me up the wrong way. But with all of that said, this album has actually left me moderately interested in taking a listen to a Lorde album that Jack Off had no hand in, because it feels like there might just be something in there worth hearing. And for that, it gets a slightly better rating than I was expecting after the first couple of tracks. Green Light - There are bits of this that I like, and bits of it that I really don’t. The dance piano chords that are completely lacking in dynamic are awful, and I just don’t gel with the club anthem sound at all. When things are stripped back, it’s pretty good, with a nice pulsing but restrained bass. I also find that she sings in a style that sort of drifts in and out of this weird affect that seems to have become popular. It’s kind of an infantilised breathy talk-singing that is common among female indie-pop vocalists. Sober - This is a bit better off the bat, but I feel like it’s going to get worse. Oh, it has. What the fuck are those horns? Other than those, it’s actually not bad. I feel like it tries too hard to force a driving beat in, and this would work better as something more restrained. I can feel a bit of Björk influence here, but it’s been given way too much of a pop sheen. Homemade Dynamite - More indie-girl singing. Again, there are elements of this that are decent. Some of the rhythm in the delivery of the vocals is nice, but it’s all just so overproduced that there is no dynamic range to this at all. Some of the synth sounds are crap too. The Louvre - How is it possible to pronounce your Rs as Ys? And what the hell is that “broadcast the boom, boom, boom” bit all about. Crap. There are elements of the sound design that are actually ok here, but it’s all so compressed and limited that it just becomes a brick wall of sound that has no nuance at all. Liability - This is actually quite nice, and she reins in her voice affect except for in certain places. But by god, how compressed is this vocal? It’s had every bit of dynamic range punched out of it, so the emotion is forcefully stripped out of the track. Hard Feelings/Loveless - The theme of this album strikes again. Some decent ideas, and if produced with a sympathetic nuance, something half decent could have been pulled out of this, but it feels like a half-baked idea that’s overproduced to the point of being almost unlistenable. And then, apparently this is the same track? It’s not. And it’s shit. The singing is worse. The production is worse. And it seems to bear no relation to the rest of whatever this track is. Sober II (Melodrama) - Go and listen to a Joga by Björk. Hear the subtlety in the string arrangements and the dynamic range that builds through the track, combined with the airy clarity of the vocal performance? Yep. None of that here. Obviously, this is not the same track, but there could be a half decent track hidden in here, but it’s just smashed over the head by Jack Antonoff, compressed to fuck and buffed with in your face sample choices. Writer In The Dark - Did they put the microphone literally inside her mouth? Mouth noise (that you can almost hear the automation cutting out between phrases) and compression galore. Vocals way too loud that it’s distracting. It’s supposed to be an emotive ballad, but it’s more like someone drunk and shouting in your ear about how sad they are. Again, a production that I’m struggling to pick out the actual song from. Supercut - A boring indie-rock song turned into a (yet again) over compressed, dynamically strangled club track. Big bucket of uninterested. Liability (Reprise) - As with the earlier version of this track, there’s actually something of value in here somewhere, but it’s clouded by this producer who is continuing to completely throttle every one of these songs. Perfect Places - Another attempt at an arms in the air club tune. That piano that echoes the vocal line now and again is so low effort, it’s unbelievable. This is a bad, pedestrian song made worse by Jack Antonoff.
This list just keeps disappointing me. Look, I have nothing against Lorde, this is not such a terrible music or anything, but c'mon, so many great artists are left out from this list, and it seems like the author of the book went to Wiki and searched for best-selling albums and billboard mainstream charts. This is already much better than that Spears debut nightmare, but after a few songs this just gets so similar, can't remember a single song and hate this type of production drowning everything in reverb and there's no dynamic range here at all, sounds too pristine and sanitary. 2.0 at most, maybe less.
Meh. Just meh. Very sadgurl core, but not in the way I'd enjoy feeling sad to songs There was maybe one song I genuinely enjoyed?
Meh, not a big fan
Not a fan
Ok album, gode rytmer men til den kedelige side… en flad udgave af hendes monster hit (rule the world)
That first song Green Light was such a bop and got my hopes up high, but everything after it was pretty mellow and/or whiny. Oh well.
pleasant enough to listen to while working but nothing notable in here. Sounds a lot like others around this time.
Ouais bof ça me manque pas trop ces années de musique
Is this Lorde? Yes? Ok, she pretty good, 3 stars... Wait, does it have Royals on it? No? Ok 2 stars.
I really didn't care for this much; just too samey and one paced
So far not my cup of tea. It sounds like the kind of music you would hear in a prom scene of a young adult movie. Nothing new.
I could see myself buying this record for its art alone, but now I've gone and heard the album. Sigh. Credit where credit is due, Lorde has a lovely smokey voice and an obvious knack for the pop sound. I hadn't heard anything on this project, and by the second listen I could really understand the value of her song writing ability. I'm not a fan of that commercial, ready for radio sound, so I can live without listening to this ever again, but I can still acknowledge the effort. I can see why the art is a literal painting, it ties in well with the quality of the production. 2.4/5
Objectively really good, but it just doesn't do it for me unfortunately
Not for me
1.5
2.5
Sounds like it's trying very hard to sound modern and cool. The production is good, the lyrics & composition are trying so hard it sounds kind of pathetic. This is an album that tries to ride on the wake of better, more authentic albums, and will ultimately be forgettable.
Well.
Ok
Meh
Really got tired of her breathy sing/talking. Wasn’t an enjoyable listen. Maybe royals was supposed to be just a one hit wonder. “I am Lorde, ya, ya ya” - Lorde, Randy Marsh
Feels like an Indie hit but done in a real pop way and that really detracted.
Boring, predictable, pop music. Sorry Lorde - just not my vibe.
Bangers
She’s got a very soul full voice…but it doesn’t land quite as powerfully as some others.
Ah yes, album koji je inspirisao *onaj* powerpoint. Muzički, cijeli je dramatična pauza sporadično isprekidana generičkim beatovima i/ili nabrajanjem.
Lorde isn’t for me
Not my style. My coworker who lives the Hamilton soundtrack loves this album. It reminds me of a musical.
Not for me, musically or lyrically.
This album made me feel old when it came out and I was only 26. Still doesn't connect but "The Louvre" is a standout track. I'm just not into the High School Musicalesque soul-bearing lyrics and vocalizations.
If pop music were ‘The Simpsons’, Taylor Swift would be the Plow King, clearing the way for all of her facsimiles, like Lorde. But unlike ‘The Simpsons’, there’s nothing for me here
Came to it optimistic, got bored quickly 2
the songwriting isnt even bad its just abt stuff i absolutely do not care about and i just am not a fan of the overall sound idk 4/10
Pouty, throaty, pixie, wispy inspirational pop. My least favorite genre. I could live 1001 years and be content never hearing this album again.
Album name matches the music for sure. Sounds like it’s written for a performance. Kinda bland on its own.
Surprisingly decent. But not great
Pretty generic and boring, imo
Save the drama for your mama! I'm sure this is fine, but it isn't for me.
It was fine. Everything lately has been very meh. Its all okay, just nothing is really hitting me in the face. While I couldn't make any of this, it all just sounds mediocre and not memorable.
2.5
Unremarkable really. The music is over produced and sterile, the thumping bass annoying in too many spots, and the breathy style of exhalation singing is dry and boring. The lyrics wanna feel smart but come off self-obsessed and pretentious much like Lana del Rey. Highlights were (xxxx and xxxx). But honestly, I just don’t get it. 2/5
old lorde was better, but shocked its on the 1001 list, the 2017 album finally something pretty new.
creo q es la primera vez que escucho algo de Lorde. Si estuviéramos en 2017 seguro que me gustaría más lol Siento que puedes hacer como "una coreografía de vasos" con todas las canciones de este album *insert picture of kyle maclachlan* hard feelings/loveless es una placentada Supercut es la única que había escuchado, esa no está tan mal bah 1.5/5
Meh
OK.
Artiste inconnu. Encore un album de chanteur/chanteuse sans intérêt. Pas désagréable mais pauvre musicalement. =>2/5
Not terrible but it felt like each song balanced on a single catchy phrase and not too much else.
I don't know, I'm not a massive fan of this. I really like some songs from Lorde's solar power album. This one feels so weepy.
bershka vibes
Just ok. I guess I’m just too old.
Just breathe
Decent album but some of the tracks had a quite repetitive sound and vibe. Pure Heroine is still her best work by far. 2.5/5
Nope
1. Green Light - 8 Cookie cutter pop. Musically it's good and I'm a HUGE house music fan but I don't like the ebb and flow between really rigid verses into the way more shapeshifting vocal bridges into choruses. Vocally I feel like the track is all over the place at times but once you run through the whole song you can kind of see the intention in the different tempo of lyrics. It just makes me wishing there was more to it. Background vocals add a lot of great sound to the track. 2. Sober - 5 It's okay. Lyrically it's pretty boring. Musically it's okay but the tempo change leading into the outro doesn't fit really well together on the track. 3. Homemade Dynamite - 6 Beat is amazing during the choruses but lyrically this is dreadful. Shame because musically this sounds incredible. Easily could have been a 10/10 if the vocals were any sort of quality. 4. The Louvre - 1 Remember when Ke$ha was towards the top of the charts and it was a really terrible standard of music and people only realized this ten years later for some reason? Welcome to that revisited in 2017 with this track. Lyrically it's either extremely repetitive, completely dull, or just drivel. Musically it's just as dull. 5. Liability - 2 First verse was very rushed with the lyrics. Musically there's not much too it and there doesn't need to be, it's a slower song. The piano sounds just fine, but a track in which it's the only instrument means the vocals are emphasized even more and they're just not very good in terms of their lyrical writing. 6. Hard Feelings/Loveless - 6 Miles better track. Instrumentally/musically Hard Feelings is absolutely brilliant. Not sure why this needed to be a joint/combined/double song and not just 2 separate tracks, which is a shame because Loveless is such a dip in quality compared to Hard Feelings. Hard Feelings would be a 9 or 10 out of 10. Loveless is 1. Loveless is completely uninspiring in it's lyrics, which are by far and away the weakest part of that half of the track. 7. Sober II (Melodrama) - 4 Entire second half of the track is just the same lyric repeated over and over and over and over again endlessly. Beat is awesome on the track in the opening half and the build up to the strings is absolutely stunning. But the song itself I could do without. 8. Writer In The Dark - 4 It's an average song. There's not enough there for me to enjoy it but it's not poorly written like other songs on the album tend to be. It's too much of the Lady Gaga/Billie Eilish style for my personal tastes. 9. Supercut - 6 It's a slow burner. Opening minute is a drag to get through but when the song really opens up 2 and 1/2 minutes in it becomes enjoyable. Song does on for way too long but the instrumentals on the final minute during the drown/fade out aren't bad and you can live with the over-extended outro because of it. 10. Liability (Reprise) - 7 It's a decent reprise. Meant to be a pass over track given it's a reprise, you can really enjoy it one your way to the last sound. Sounds excellent. Having said that, this should have been the last song on the album and would have been a great way to close it. 11. Perfect Places - 5 Track was probably written specifically for radio play and it's very easy to tell that but the way the octaves change on the chorus with the sort of gospel like choir signing of it alongside Lorde. Outside of that the track is just generic 2010s pop. Nothing special about it. Average Rating: 4.91 Adjusted to a 5-Point Scale: 2.45 Rounded Down: 2-Stars
Unique voice. Music not necessarily as great as her first album.
Good voice.
Y'know I could almost get into the diary of a privileged young girl and the difficulty of loving and being loved but there is practically nothing going on musically here. A little basic synth kit beat behind it but this is almost all just the singing and maybe a little 1st year guitar or piano behind it. If this was going for lofi it doesn't have the rhythm or groove really. I'm not a huge Taylor Swift fan but what does Lorde do that Taylor Swift can't do 10x better?
I thought I'd like this but I really didn't vibe with it at all. All felt a bit flat to me, and unfortunately got a little sick of the vocals midway through. Sad.
Not my thing
My nieces would be so angry at me
Album art: 3
2.0 - Weak
Pop album, I understand it but it’s not really my thing. They just kinda blend together
This has to be the most overhyped pop album of the 2010s, if not of all time. It all sounds so ordrinary, the vocals are all over the place, the songs mean to sound deep but they're mostly the same old thing we've been hearing in pop music since the 80's. And this was compared to Kate Bush? Really? Also, this album made Jack Antonoff the most sought-after mainstream producer and although I do enjoy some of his work with artists like St. Vincent and Lana Del Rey, his overall impact in the mainstream music landscape was to make it grey and duller. I didn't get this record's hype in 2017 and I still don't get it now. Key tracks: Green Light
I was expecting this to be the new kind of pop that is actually quite good. But unfortunately this is just not a good album, it’s filled with musical cliche and has no standout moments.
Easy listening pop, but one of the greatest? I don't know about that.
Yeah not bad. Not sure who's listening to this other than middle class teenage girls in their giving the finger to their parents after Ben told they can't stay out past 11pm
A cocktail of some great influences that meet in the middle of the road - hits of some interesting edginess but it's been somewhat sandpapered down.
The lyrical theme aside, hardly anything about the album stands out. It feels like pop with a P. I suppose if you don't connect to its theme it's just another album.
Ehhhhhh not for me - too poppy and whiney
Boring and so put on
For a someone battling for space in the teen market, Lorde takes a lot of risks. She sings songs that are not pretty, in a croaking voice, and that ask big, difficult questions. Her outlook is one of a sliver of hope peering out of a full sky’s worth of dark clouds. She rejects lighthearted fun in exchange for a fuller experience. Still, she employs so many 2017 tropes as to leave the songs feeling outdated within less than a decade of their release. And, worse yet, the music itself is unmemorable. You couldn’t sing one of these songs even 10 seconds after it ends. A worthy listen, would not bring it home.
A very boring album
carino!
Sleepy
Not a fan of the whining speak singing she does. It’s pretty annoying. That being said if it was 15 years ago and I heard this while shopping at Forever 21 I wouldn’t have been too mad about it. I get it, it’s just not for me.
A nicely produced record, though a lot of the songwriting is very run of the mill. I found it hard to be impressed by any of the instrumentation or performances on here. By no means bad though. Best Tracks: - Homemade Dynamite - Green Light Worst Tracks: - The Louvre -Writer In The Dark Rating: 4/10
A couple of okay tracks, will probably give it another listen
Not even the best lorde album
Melobooorrring
Green Light is an okay pop song. But this album is very forgettable. The same vocal delivery and tone on every single song.
It’s fine. Good maybe. But not my cup of tea.
This album is good at putting me to sleep but otherwise not much else.
So algorithmisch härgstellti musig esch halt absolut ned mis ond ech ha scho fascht e chli en Abwehrhaltig gäge settigi entweckelt. Au das albom esch doch relativ langwiilig ond ech fühle mech als ob echs scho vel z vel ghört ha obwohl ech wahrschiindlech die meischte lieder no nie ghört ha. Es chönnt aber schlächter sie wel ech zom teil die positive Vibes ond gwössi konzept doch no fühle.
"bet you rue the day you kissed a writer in the dark" i.. don't like this at all. basic synth drumbeat, melodramatic (>_>) and frankly bad lyrics, positively radioactive with "baby's first breakup" vibes. Lana does it so much better.
Not for me
Lite för seg för mig. Bara en låt som jag gillade
Meh
Homemade dynamite already knew and it is a banger. Greenlight overrated pop slop. Her singing gives me the shits
There's some composing ability here, but I'm not into this over-produced pop.
Rendez-moi ces 45 minutes.
I am Lorde, ya ya ya!
Lorde ist unvergesslich mit ihrem ersten Hit Royals, aber dieses Album ist für mich zu aufgeblasen und arrangiert.
Moody pop
So so
I really liked the Charlixcx song with her on recently but I guess it doesn't extend to this. The beats totally lack any sort of humanity, and are really cheesy at times. The vocals are very annoying, I feel like if they were less over the top (like it feels like she's putting on a voice) they would be so much better. Not really gonna comment on the lyrics, they aren't outrageously bad, and some were consciously funny (like the one in the Louvre. Feels like Taylor Swift reputation but worse in every way. Favourite song: Favourite places (I like the chorus on this one - I feel like its unapologetically pop which the others aren't). Overall around 4/10
2011 boom-clap beats and indie Taylor Swift voice combine with dogshit stupid lyrics to make… whatever this was. Who put this album on here? I liked Supercut, but only a little.
Fav tracks: The Louvre Liability Writer in the Dark Supercut Imagine if the choruses were all good this could’ve been an almost perfect album for me huh. High 2. ——— Ok let me write this as I listen to it Green light: I like the verses hate the chorus lol Sober: I wanna like this. I don’t sadly. Homemade Dynamite: I like the verses dislike the chorus?? Is this going to be a pattern I hope not.. The Louvre: I louvre. Liability: I love a lot. Hard Feelings/Loveless: hard feelings is mid. The break is cool sounds like white lotus lmao. Loveless continues the white lotus nice, I like this part I think. Sober II (Melodrama): almost had me before the trap beat kicked in. Eh. Writer In The Dark: I like this a lot. Supercut: I love a lot. Liability (Reprise): I like this it’s nice. Perfect Places: Ok ending with another “I like the verses hate the chorus” song, cool. Glad it wasn’t a recurring pattern at least.
Bland, samey all the way through, sterile production. Not sure what qualities merited this album’s inclusion on this list.
'Melodrama' seems like the perfect name for an album of shameless Gen-Z cliches and first-world problems. I just can't raise much enthusiasm for it. Maybe she's got a good voice but it is so overproduced and autotuned that I can't really tell. One listen was more than enough.
Loves Lorde's sound, and individual songs are all generally pretty great, but it doesn't come together into an interesting album, or one that I would ever listen to intentionally.
decent
The kind of music you expect to be playing when you enter a trendy clothing store for teenagers or to be used on TV ad for a new smartphone. Pretty album cover, decent production quality, a bit overuse of reverb effects, bland lyrics, artist sings like she's got her lips stung by a bee. Why is this album on this list?
Sober
Meh. Homemade Dynamite is okay.
Mediocre. Not my preferred style of music, not my preferred style of singing/diction.
the name says everything. i don't like it. it's not my thing, sorry.
Gute Produktion, gibt mir sonst aber wenig. 2-3
I never go in wanting to dislike an album. I go in with high hopes, otherwise what's the point? This one I really wanted to like and I really tried, but I just didn't get it. It ticks the right boxes. Breathy, ethereal, dream-like, electronic and atmospheric music. I enjoyed other albums with similar vibes, but for some reason this one just didn't do it for me. It opens well. 'Green Light' is very catchy, and starts off with very light piano and lovely vocals. After nearly a minute the piano gets into second gear along with a bass drum - which I loved - before bursting into the chorus where it picks up again. A great opener that hooks you in with its catchy melody and upbeat dancy piano. Unfortunately the next few songs I found myself bored, and again, I'm not sure why. The quality comes back with 'Liability' which is brilliant. It's just vocals and soft piano and that's all it needs to be. Lorde sounds her most vulnerable and intimate in this song. A beautiful track, beautifully sung with beautifully painful lyrics. And then I'm bored again for the next ten minutes. 'Writer In The Dark' is another highlight in the same vein as 'Liability'. Just vocals and piano. There's a pattern here. Maybe it's the instruments that bore me? I honestly almost gave this just one star, but luckily the final track 'Perfect Places' came in and saved it because it's also a good one. A little more upbeat, cool uplifting chorus and a good way to end the album. Her voice fits the music perfectly, and there's a few songs with actual hooks, but there aren’t enough interesting ideas musically to keep me interested for the duration of an entire record. Two stars. Gutted.
I dont find this very interesting.
Not my cuppatea
Väldigt bra producerat men med låttext och röst som bara tonårstjejer och mammor gillar, vilket också varför jag tror det blev en stor succé
Nope
Rating: 2.5
Didn’t really care much for this, but I am not a fan of the electronic pop sound. Lorde also sings in kind of a “baby talk” style, which I find not terribly appealing. I did prefer the simpler ballads like Liability, but in the end, this just isn’t my thing. Two stars.
Dette er langt fra min smak, for å være ærlig. Jeg har aldri likt Jack Antonoff sin produksjonstil. Han gjør ofte musikken ensformig og minimalistisk på en dårlig måte. Produksjonen er vel utført og slik, men der er veldig få overraskelser. Det gjelder også for Lorde sin låtskriving her. Temaene hun synger om er meget klisjé. Hennes sangstemme er helt grei, men den konstante affekterte emosjonen blandet med moderne sprechgesang gjør lite for å overbevise meg.
It was fine and enjoyed a few bits but mostly didn't do much for me sadly. Green Light massive tune obviously, enjoyed all of the weird noisy bits on Loveless
It feels all too formulaic to be considered among the best recorded albums of all-time, so you’ll have to forgive my confusion for it being included on this list. There are some moments of intriguing creativity that are admittedly catchy with Lorde’s songwriting being introspective and self-aware, albeit clichéd. 🎧 Classic Track- Green Light 🎧 Hidden Gem- The Louvre 🎧 Guilty Pleasure- Homemade Dynamite 🚫 Skip Track- liability (reprise) Unfortunately, Lorde’s unique vocal delivery and the glossy production are unable to influence my greater interest with these collection of songs. 🖼️ Album Artwork: Loved Click the thumbs up icon below if you enjoyed my take on the album :)
Oj, vilket sömnpiller!
Synth and piano driven Electro-ish pop with a few quieter ones mixed in. Not-quite-singing type singing with plenty of layered vocals, whispered falsettos, talk singing, etc. Some catchy melodies but not seeing the overall appeal of this, there isn’t any song that I love and there’s a handful of boring ones - but this also is just an album that’s unlikely to appeal to me. I can see how the big choruses would make a sing-song splash at a college party.
all this girl wanna do is party
All the kids giving this album/artist a rave must of been born yesterday, to find it do inspired. As another reviewer said, sounds like an algorithm created it out of a tick-a-box list. I was tired of it after 3 seconds with the whining voice/ lyrics. But I’ve heard worse, so 2.
Tolerable.
Mediocre. Green Light is the obvious single, being by far the most catchy song.
woof
Highlight: Liability Lorde always reminds me of early Lana Del Rey. I wonder if she was muse for Chappell Roan? Overall: 3/10
Guter Pop aber mehr auch nicht
I absolutely respect it - but i feel like Jack recyles a lot of sounds throughout his artists now. I think Lana started it - so i'm going to say everybody is just copying that style...at least to a degree. Not realy my taste - but a solid listen
Single plus filler. "Green Light" is an anthem, but the rest of the album is mediocre bedroom bloat. Lorde fans will probably say her lyrics are more elevated than typical pop music, and that she's "real" and an "artist," but none of that makes up for the thin, boring, uninspired music that makes up most of this album. Lorde is at her best when heavily produced with a gigantic sound, and most of this album isn't that.
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.
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It was fine, didn't really resonate with it at all
Okay pop album. Hun har nogle smukke stemmer, men langt for poppet til mig
Not a fan
Melancholy, has nothing on Pure Heroine.
generic chillstep textures, unremarkable lyricism, toned down, detached vocals... what is this record doing here. why did i have to listen to this before i die lol
I didn't know the album before, but I listened to it in its entirety and can only say that it's not for me. It's not terrible, but I don't think it's good either. 2 stars because the cover isn't bad at all
People actually liked this? The lyrics were low grade and the beats were too
Music made on a computer for playing too loud at bars where you don't talk to anyone you don't already know. A simulacrum of a life lived. hi-hat_4.wav the album.
Here we go - an album I have zero real conceptions to offer. “Green Light” has a solid build, lots of good twists and turns. There’s a lot of that 2010s piano pop but with a disco beat building. Nice way to start. “Sober” is fine, a little on the nose lyrically. Also yeah I can REALLY tell this is a Jack Antonoff joint. That sound is so hit or miss, it’s though he is so committed to highlighting the artist that if the song is weak it only reveals that weakness and feels cheap. When the song is good, it adds a bright layer. It’s noble, but there’s very little that his production enhances. “Homemade Dynamite” is better with a little more passion, but hoooooo boy that chorus is rough. I will admit, my initial blush on Lorde was always tied to “Royals” and how much whisper singing she did. There’s a lot more here, but her vocals still stay on a single level a lot. “The Louvre” is also solid, but god these lyrics. Right when she has me hooked she throws in “broadcast the boom boom boom” and I’m lost again. Some of these songs seem allergic to a real cathartic build, for the sake of a dance breakdown. It’s frustrating, cause there’s a lot good but it’s always undercut. “Liability” stands out perfectly because it’s fully stripped back. It’s not insisting in the production. She writes great songs, it’s just getting messy in the production.
broadcast the boom, broadcast the boom to you i was out on this as soon as the midi horns came in. this is like wistful college party hot tub pop but even though she was 20 when she made it it sounds like a person in their mid-30s trying to write relatable songs for teenagers. probably her best album compared to what i remember about the others i give this album 2 booms out of 5
Boring. :/ 2/5
Nothing special, but it’s a solid and easy-to-consume pop album. It does seem slightly mass-produced / soulless, but I’m not sure if that’s a product of the mellow vibe or not. Not really sure how much this belongs here… I could understand the album with her biggest hit that everyone knows instead.
Pop singer that seems to keep going. Unique voice, good music.
I'll start with the positive, the album does feel well produced- some of the music in terms of the beats, the drops etc I did enjoy. That ends the positive section of this review. I have to start with whatever this singing voice is. I don't know if Lorde started it- but it seems increasingly common in music today. (I can look past it to an extent on this occasion, given that Lorde is Randy Marsh.. so she's probably doing whatever she can to contort her vocal chords and mask that fact), it doesn't however, stop it from annoying me to no end. The voice is borderline infantile at points, a musical baby voice. R's are half pronounced and often sound like W's, all of the words sound like they're being curled, like they're attempting to make some weird, cutesy, and toxic ASMR album. This leads me on to my next point. The album is just a bit juvenile in its subject matter. It's essentially a diary set to music, of that one weirdly attractive but worryingly medicated and erratic bird you made the mistake of knocking boots with when you were a teenager. One minute she's self loathing and guilt tripping you for politely making eye contact with a frumpy middle aged woman at the checkouts in Aldi.. the next minute she's aggressive, bubbly and independent.. and this emotional flip-flop is constantly underpinned by the fear that this person might stab you or themselves at any given moment, for any number of reasons. Well Randy, you're not pulling me in this time, take your toxic pubescent ramblings and damage somebody elses ears.
It’s like she decided she liked the word Melodrama, then wrote a shit indie pop album just because she liked it as an album title. That being said some of it is catchy. I recognised bits of it just from hearing over the years, but i have only ever liked that song Royals by her. Still the case
Well pop music isn't what my ears enjoy so this didn't stand much of a chance, but I can see someone with pop stronger sensibilities being into it.
This has all the hallmarks of mid 10s pop production, trauma-core. An electropop pallette that's all about moody pulsating synth and a patina of nostalgia for a sound its audience originally knew as always already retro. Drawing on electronic dance music for the build/drop crowd moving effect but played too slow to dance to, instead the pacing makes room for big swells and leaves lots of room between the beats. Huge choruses - shouted rather than sung for pop buy-in - that feel a bit forced like they were written to be on at the emotional peak of a mediocre teen drama. An explosion of big fill-in-the-feeling feelings, fill-in-the meaning meanings. Dynamics that flip between bombastic beats and quite piano. Hushed breathy vocals that create a whispered intimacy, then they're doubled and tripled for a polyphonic effect for maximalist choruses. Subwoofer testing low end bass hits to connect the ethereal synths to your body and ground it. A detached disillusioned affect from hyper-mediation and lyrics that mix up deepening isolation and self care. This was one of the big albums that made this sound hegemonic, but it still ends up feeling a bit predictably samey and none of the songs really pops in the way Royals did.
3/10
Corny
can't remember being as disappointed by a sophomore album as this one, hasn't aged much better than when I first heard it either
Not bad but I found it monotonous after a while.
Her voice (lower register, timbre) is interesting for a song or two. Otherwise feels like a very generic pop female vocalist...don't get why this is included
This was my introduction to Lorde. FTR I'm also somwhat out of the loop on modern pop music. My main takeaway from this was that Jack Antonoff has an even more distict sound that I had thought. This sounds like a Taylor Swift album with a different singer. Because of that, to me Melodrama was fast food pop music or something. A giant machine spit this out, along with all the Tswift records and what ever else. The reality may be that Jack Antonoff is insanely successful and the reason this sounds tired is because we've all heard all of his hit songs on repeat for 10 years. Lorde does seem talented and nothing about this is offensive, but I didn't connect with anything on here. Highlight was "Loveless" which was basically an outro. Cool we're getting records from 2017 - I could use more awareness of fairly recent hit albums.
This is a typical run-off-the-mill pop album with all of the musical clichés one can imagine. Even though it doesn't sound "bad" it is really quite boring and I'm sure AI could write very similar songs. Kudos the the fact that there is a theme across the album, the lyrics are OK, and Lorde's voice is more interesting than some - if it wasn't for the voice, most songs could be mistaken for other generic pop such as Taylor Swift. Much like the latter, I think I really like Lorde as a person and role model and they have a lot going for them, just not the novelty of their music. I can understand that its inoffensive nature, universal thematic, and pleasant sound sells. Nothing wrong with a plain old commercial pop album, it just won't get a high rating from me as a "must hear" album.
I had only heard her main hit and not a full album before. It’s not to say that I didn’t listen to the full album because the single wasn’t good, rather that I wasn’t pulled in by the single enough to listen to more. As this album doesn’t even contain that partial gem, there is even less reason to delve in. But having now done so, nothing ever rises above standard mellow pop fare. Nothing memorable. Nothing sonically enveloping. It’s an album I could have happily never listened to. There’s nothing bad about it, per se, only it sticks a mediocre landing as simple and uninteresting in favor of basic beats and forgetful lyrics.
Not my type of music. I did think the instrumentals were ok but i didnt like the lyrics. i really didnt like but i could see lots of other people loving it. 1/10
No need to complain that much, come on man
Whatever late 2010’s pop. Most of the album just blends together indistinguishably. This is what SO much gen z music is and I hate it (as a gen z’er I can say this). It’s the oh woah is me my life is so hard and sad melancholy drama bs. Her voice is fine and like two of the songs are decent but literally everything else is the same track after track.
Oh, Lorde. I like the cover art. I'm not a fan of her voice. It's not bad, but not for me. She seems to be a good songwriter, but this album isn't moving me. I'm thankful that I had the chance to hear it, but I most likely won't listen to anything else from her without being forced to do so. 2 rating.
It's a no for me for you dawg. Not a bad singer but it lacked structure and I struggled to keep paying attention. This seems to be a pattern for me with how millennials and Gen z approach music.
I wonder if I’d like this more if it was done with the Dap Kings as the backing band. I don’t object, I’m just not digging the backing/accompanying music.
Pre: I don’t know much about this album, but I have heard of the artist. Not 100% sure I know what to expect. After: Lorde’s voice is nice but a bit breathy at times. The lyrics aren’t really my thing but I could see how a young person might find more meaning in them than I do. Music is just fine, didn’t really find myself drawn in by much but it was mostly pleasant.
Unoffensive music that might run on the radio in the background all day long and that you've forgotten as soon as the song ends. No drama here.
Well, let’s put it this way. I got bored and started scrolling social media and the album ended and other artists started playing and I dint realize it for 4 songs. That is how forgettable this was.
Tolle Stimme, aber nicht meine Musik 2/5 Songs der Playlist hinzugefügt: Keine
Extremely dull album. Nothing stood out. And the breathy voice thing got old fast. They should really wait like five or ten years before adding anything to this list because nobody is going to be listening to this in the future.
I found songs on this album that I recognized and liked. They were also songs that were new to me that I enjoyed. It's a solid album overall but not always my cup of tea. Her voice reminds me of Ellie Goulding at times.
Another album I wanted to like more than I did. I generally like her singing voice, but overall I thought it was a dull album. Early on I thought to myself that this sounded similar to some Taylor Swift at points, and sure enough, same producer.
I didn’t mind this, but it’s pretty forgettable. There seems to be a swathe of artists currently who, to me, make basically the same sound.
Didn’t really know it was playing…
2.5
2- An ok pop album, but nothing groundbreaking
I guess Green Light was ok. Didn't really connect with this album. Was mostly annoyed by it at the end.
very uninteresting pop music doesn't help that she sounds like justin timberlake who hasn't hit puberty yet
its not bad but its just generic pop NNN
You really get a different perspective on this album after reading the 29-slide powerpoint on how this album is about Lorde and Jack Antonoff's [alleged] affair. Favorite song: The Louvre Least favorite: Hard Feelings/Loveless Knew before? No
Jack Antonoff was perhaps the worst person to produce Lorde. Bookends nicely, I guess, in the vein of royals, but everything in between is such a pale Antonoff-based imitation that it makes them worse.
What's with female singers and the breathy/throaty voices they put on! Ok as an example of the genre but nothing special; its well produced and she has a nice voice but its so generic in the tempo, style and structure. Some production electronics and arrangements seem to me more for effect than adding to or supporting the song and generally no variety in either the songs or subjects, overly self-centred. Did quite like 'Liability' though! Ok and listenable but it doesn't make me want to rush out and get anything else by her.
I liked the production - notice I like a lot of Jack Antonoff production. Probably enjoy that more than anything else going on here. Overall just feels uninteresting pop. Hardly terrible but nothing memorable for me.
Tiene bases parecidas a Billie Eilish, por ahí es más pop y no está a su altura.
I didn't much care for this album.
Meh! Almost gave it 1, but Supercut and Hard Feelings are ok, so it's a 2. Otherwise: meh
I mean, it has a few more quirks than late 2010s pop music, and it's clearly got more personal lyrics than a lot of it, but it doesn't really stand out to me as being all that much more innovative or unique. Very Tumblr-core
It's very well produced but it's formulaic bubblegum pop
Not the worst I've ever heard but not my vibe.
Sounds very generic
Melodrama is over-rated. The melodies are thin, and what's supposed to compensate, the words, are trading in teenage heartbreak territory so well-covered that no amount of sharp phrasing rescues it. It feels less like songwriting and more like angsty poems talked over late 2010s pop beats. Jack Antonoff's maximalist production was already starting to date by the time this came out, and it hasn't aged well. "Green Light" earns its energy, but one strong single doesn't redeem an album that mistakes emotional inflation for emotional depth. 5 out of 10, rounding down
there is a reason why this combination of songwriting and production has been so successful but it's not always for me
Some decent songs like "Liability", but take the pop radio format and just refine it in an album setting. I get why some people love it, but it isn't my type of music.
She's not very good
This album is okay but just does not appeal to me which is probably because it is not meant for my generation anyway. So for my listening preferences this gets just 2 stars or D as a rating.
I'm not sure about this one. Production wise it's pretty solid. Listenable. The vocal choice gets repetitive. Feels a little souless. It's not bad, just not for me. Kind of like a paste made of flour and water with a few sprinkles thrown in.
Sue me but this was boring
Fucking Lorde is such a narcissistic twat. I liked her hits OK until I went to see her live, and was literally spellbound by the lack of creativity, the lack of showmanship, the absolutely lifeless performance where all the while many of the young concert goers seemed to be in captivated. What spell had she put on them? It’s the first concert I actually walked out of within the first five songs because it was so fucking horrible.
All the songs sound like fillers.
Overly busy production and average songs. The singing really grates. Maybe this is a taste thing, but it's not a great album.
Geigh
It's ok
Pretty good sound.
OK but won't listen to it again
Not for me
Pretty much every pop album from the 2010's forward has been written by the same crop of people, using the same instrumentation in a completely commercialized effort to sell as much music as possible. The artists themselves are unique and interesting people. I loved Pure Heroine when it came out. Lana Del Rey, Taylor Swift, and Lorde are all interesting people and I respect them as artists, but damn if everything they put out is so forcefully crammed into the small box of 'sellable' production. I honestly really liked Jack Antonoff in Fun. and don't mind his production, but go listen to Reputation and Melodrama next to each other. This music is literally just picking the purple or pink backpack in sixth grade and deciding that it has a huge impact on your personality. That is literally true when you are young and impressionable, but that doesn't mean it's art. At the end of the day it's just Jansport manipulating human experience to turn the real process of self discovery into dollars. Ted Talk aside, this was an album that played through twice while I was in the same room. I can probably sing most of it back to you because that's how simple and catchy modern pop music gets, but could not tell you a single track title except that Melodrama was referenced in one of them.
Just sort of cliche and uninteresting The instrumentals are uninteresting She's a cool artist, but this is not that cool of an album
Not my thing
1001 Albums day 7 Taylor Swift at home. Favs: Liability, Perfect Places Least favs: ngl idc 47/100
Baffled by how this was the Lorde album chosen. Doesn’t hold a candle to her debut, Pure Heroine. This one is over-produced pop music. I sense that her production team is to blame for this blandness. Bring a break-up themed album it lacks much of the fierceness of the debut. At times this is downright whiny. This might barely be a three star album, but I will probably deduct one star because it is SUCH a letdown in comparison to her debut. I’m sad that Lorde is being represented by this uninspiring album. Honestly, you before you die must listen to her debut album and feel free to skip this one.
I'd rather listen to King Crimson. (The Louvre is a good song though.)
Overrated
Nada sorprendente lvd, no me gustó mucho.
Pleasant but I don’t believe this will survive the ages
Does me no harm. The most remarkable thing about this album for me is its coverdesign.
I'm giving this a 2. Not because I think it's bad music. It's excellent at what it does. But what it does is not for me. It's interstingly put together, more interesting than a lot her peers. But it's still that emotionally charged pop that just doesn't mean anything to me. That's a me problem ... but these are my scores. For me. They're not a diss.
Meh, 3/10- supercut Carrie’s this album
My daughter likes her and has seen here live so I gave this 3 listens around the house and on the main system. Didn’t really click with me musically or lyrically. There’s the odd clever turn of phrase and I can imagine live a lot of fans singing along with gusto but a 2 star from this 59 year old.
Helt okej, har bara aldrig lyssnat på Lorde. Bästa låt: Homemade dynamite
Helt okej popalbum, tyckte många låtar var lite tråkiga men vissa var ändå bra Bästa låt: Supercut
It’s too corny and Taylor swift-y for me
Didn’t hate it or like it one bit. It was a very neutral experience
Wholly forgettable
eh, not for me
No interest.
nope... niets voor mij... te veel van hetzelfde gezaag...
2.5 there were a couple of songs that I enjoyed but then there were some real overproduced, over fabricated stinkers
demasiado girlie para mi
I am familiar with some of Lorde’s hits who could escape Royals when it came out. I never listened to an album through or not sure if I know any other song by her. I like the album cover and recognize it. The album sounded like carefully calculated pop to me. She’s got a distinct voice that really leaves a stamp on her songs and I don’t mind it. She’s also got more creative lyrics than other pop sensations. I understand why it’s on the list but not something I’d return to as someone who enjoys some pop. I was ready for it to be over pretty soon into it. I’m not sure if I enjoy the Jack Antonoff marks on albums which is an epiphany to me, with maybe a couple exceptions.
Feels harsh considering Pure Heroine was my formative album. But this was just a little too Greenwich Village for my straight ass.
Felt one bit of one song, but mostly this vocal style is pretty unbearable. I wouldn't say I'm a Lorde fan, but a coworker used to play Pure Heroin at the office a lot and I did at least feel like that one had more of a unique sound, more stripped down, whereas this.. I mean, I respect Jack Antonoff but anymore it just feels like 'pop product'. Purple drink.
Oh man, this was hard going, so samey, awful vocoder noises over a bland electro-pop background. The vocals were just so bad and the whole thing was a mess from start to finish. I think the low point was the awful tom tom drums being played in some sort of demented Phil Collins tribute, maybe, I have no idea what the real intent was here? It was a little too boring to get 1 star, so 2 stars it is.
Nobody actually talks like that.
Boring, generic pop music
pop
find lorde eigentlich glaub nöd soo cool. aber ich los etz mol green light isch essy, s klavier isch nice. aber s macht halt so pop-produktion vo jaaaa ich will en mega grosse popsong sii mega episch. sober isch au nöd miis. aber s isch guete pop? bi homemade dynamit singt sie chli cursive am ahfang. the louvre fangt vielversprechend aah, find d synths und so recht geil. liability isch fast besser als de rest well nur piano und gsang. aber de song isch etz au nöd sooo strong. loveless au sochli es nüt sober II, weiss wid meinsch. hass ihr uuh-oh-ohs. whooaah. nai. denn wen trap beat meeeeh. meh es interlude als en song. writer in the dark isch no schön aber s ganze album het keeeeei hooks mann. oke supercut isch e geilinidee für en breakup song. und s isch scho afoch en schlechtere phoebe bridgers song aber ich ha gern phoebe bridgers. boah isch das outro lang mann. oke nocher gohts direkt in liability reprise ine und ich mach de harmonizer drunder. wikipedia het gmeint s seg maximalistisch produziert aber ich find s goht. de bass synth und so i dem isch recht geil. und sie zeigt wie tüüf sie chan singe. perfect places isch chli minimalist knackigi syyyynths geil. jo s isch mer scho chli zu sehr jack antonoff taylor swift lana del rey seicht popsongs time. merk mega dass ich mich nöd agsproche fühl. aber s isch guet? git glaub e 3.
oke cools cover und sie het ebe schono e cooli stimm ouhh s erste lied hani GAAR nöd gern....gfühlt scho 1000 mal ghört uf irgendere bravo hits cd, de uufbau isch recht offesichtlich und nöd würkli befriedigend gsi :( oke cuti bläser und no cool wenn de beat chli switched aber s isch iwie no nüt unglaublichs passiert homemade dynamite isch no cool wie de refrain ihsetzt se louvre seit sie broadcast the boomboomboom? liability isch no cute mitem klavier und d melodie vode strophe gfalltmer na aber ja isch s "e nananana eeeee" nötig? JAAA ENDLICH WIEDER ÖPPIS UNERQARTETS MITE WEIRDE DISTORTION BI HARD FEELINGS ahh ok cool dass es actually en zweite teil git loveless NEI BRUDER HÖRED UUF SONGNÄME BUCHSTABIERE oke bi nüchtern wie ein stockfisch (zitat chmile) numero due findi no cool wenn de beat ihsetzt, hett denkt, dass es wieder nur e pianoballade isch also writer in the dark hani scho gspeicheret? kei ahnig wenn das passiert isch aber wenn sie so mehrstimmig weird singt gfalltmer sehr supercut mal chli meh als 3 bpm uhh beat findi cool, de refrain findi denn wieder chli meeeh hittet sie eus jz miteme 1 min outro vom lied? japppppppp oke de reprise vo liability hetmer fast chli besser gfalle als liability selber perfekte plätze. (also bullingerplatz und idaplatz) wieder chli synthis und s klavier gfalltmer sehr ide strophe und ENDLICH en refrain wo chli hangeblibt?? de synthi nachane findi nöd megaaaa nötig aber mega en closener, findi no cool, das lupfts glaub gad no uf es 3 nvm jz hani mi wieder umentschiede
This was ok but subject matter didn't appeal to me. To quote her, she's 'a little too much'. Clearly talented though.
I liked one song, forget which, but overall was kind of meh.
Popmusik, angenehme Stimme, irgendwie zwischen Madonna und Cyndi Lauper, nur jünger, nett, gut fürs Radio...
It's fine I guess, just a bit bland. There are tons of other artists doing more interesting things lyrically, vocally, musically.
I enjoyed the lyrics, but this album didn’t really speak to me at all. 2.4 stars
Sinds die ene Southpark aflevering waar Randy Marsh Lorde speelt kan ik Lorde iets minder serieus nemen. Toch kom je er niet onderuit dat ze een goed gevoel voor hits en geweldige stem om de top40 in te sluipen. Green Light is een lekker nummer, fijne beat, piano, aanstekelijke lyrics. Zo kent het album nog wel meer catchiness, maar ik vind het niet de moeite waard om ze allemaal te bespreken. Een paar nummers voelen ook een beetje fout om naar te luisteren. Het klinkt alsof het gemaakt is voor 14 jarige tienermeisjes. Niks mis mee, zit alsnog gewoon goed in elkaar. Maar.. niet helemaal voor mij weggelegd. Rating: 6/10 Highlight: Green Light
I'm solidly Meh?
Her best song is on another album lol
Meh album don’t rate her
I didn't like this at all. Very very unremarkable.
Green Light 3 Sober 1.5 Homemade Dynamite 1.7 The Louvre 2.3 Liability 2.8 Hard Feelings/Loveless 1.8 Sober II (Melodrama) 2 Writer in the Dark 1.7 Supercut 2 Liability (Reprise) 1.6 Perfect Places 2 Score: 2.036363636
I'm feeling a little 'hey nineteen' about this album; it speaks to a time and place so alien to my own experiences that it's difficult to pull any emotional connection through the static. A supercut, you say? Sure. As with a lot of modern(ish) records, very little in its sound universe seems well defined. Swampy synth washes and murky beats rear out of the sonic fug, and the hushed vocals contribute to the impression that Melodrama is an unlit, smoggy, creepy thing. Not for me. And ain't it all a bit boring? Nothing to stir a soul nor shake a limb.
Not for me.
eh.
Meh Lorde for me
Look she's fine and all but meh
Not a bad album but I won’t be returning. 2.5
Proper end of season montage music
Pleasant enough but how can I, as a man, ever sit there and listen to music like this. 2.5/5
2.5 Maybe if I gave it more time I’d enjoy it more, but I’m not going to do that. Not for me this, too slow and odd.
Melodrama is a mixed bag, offering glimpses of potential but ultimately failing to captivate throughout. Lorde's lyricism, while occasionally insightful, often feels contrived and fails to establish a genuine connection with the listener. The overall sound of the album feels derivative, blending into the sea of generic pop offerings without offering anything truly distinctive. While not outright terrible, Melodrama fails to live up to its potential, leaving me feeling indifferent rather than enthralled. It's a forgettable effort from an artist who initially sparked curiosity and excitement, ultimately falling short of expectations. NUMBER OF BANGERS - 0 STAND OUT TRACK - None
Was slightly boring at times, Lorde always seems on the edge of being real cool but never quite lands. Was funny hearing the song from that meme, the one where she’s playing live and shushes the whole crowd from singing along
Hmm, I've never heard this performer sing before. I actually like the sound of her voice (don't know what she's singing about), but all the surrounding melange of instrumentation feels processed and artificial. I'd like to hear her sing an acoustic set. 2 stars for her voice.
Not my favorite style.
I remember having an interest in Lorde a few years ago. I think it was as a result of the single Royals which I really liked. But having streamed some other of her tracks decided she was a bit on the Brittany Spears side of pop music to retain my interest. Since then I’ve really got into Lana Del Rey and bought all her albums. As Lorde is often compared to LDR I was willing to give this album a serious listen. I can now see the similarities between the two. This is a well crafted album full of interesting ideas and I now realise mentioning Brittany Spears in the same breath is unfair as I think Lorde is trying to make serious and memorable music. Writer In The Dark is a good example and is the standout track. There are some other good moments but my same initial opinion that Lorde drifts over to the Gen Z poppy side too much for my liking still holds. I much prefer the darker side LDR brings to this genre which I think Lorde tries to achieve but fails as she is still trying to achieve chart success. And who can blame her?
If I wanted to hear a lady whisper witty things to a stripped back sound I'd have transitioned long ago.
Bit annoying
Green Light é boa DEMAISSSSS O vocal da Lorde é bonito, os arranjos também são legais mas eu acho pop muito genéricozinho
sorry lourde but i’m not feeling it
Teen girl music. Not for me
It was ok! It had its moments I really liked (‘Supercut’ stands out), and some other tracks where her voice just really annoyed me. A high 2.
Green light is class, the rest was OK.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SU0gFPMwP8 Who the fuck is forcing pop artists to sing like this. Generic boring pop. Factory produced. Another inauthentic album by Girlypop McIndustryPlant serial number Y3208327.
I wasn't sure what to expect with this record. I'd of course heard "Royals" but not much else from Lorde. It was okay. I didn't hate it but I also didn't love it. It's just not my cup of tea. Lyrically she's quite clever. Her lyrics had me chuckling a few times or brought a memory, but I wasn't *moved*.
***WARNING: Early-mid-40's-year-old-man rant incoming*** Here is something I don't understand about Lorde, and while we're at it, Lana Del Rey/Billie Eilish/Olivia Rodrigo/etc.: are they pop or not? In the "I think this might be pop" category, they win Grammys and sell out stadiums and are played on pop radio and have hits. On the other hand, they don't make songs that are fun to listen to. And isn't that what pop is, at its core? Fun songs that make you want to dance and sing along? Because I would not describe any songs by any of the artists I have named that way, except maybe "Royals". And - I totally get it - I am lumping Lorde in with other female artists around her age and dissing all of them for not making pop music. Which smacks of some kind of backwards attitude that men can make art but women have to make pop. But before I am totally canceled, back in my day we had Tori Amos and Fiona Apple, and before that there was, I don't know, Kate Bush? Those artists were making music that, for the most part, wasn't poppy, but had something else going for it, whether that was unique instrumentation or engaging lyrics or . . . something. And for me, most of Lorde/Lana Del Rey/Billie Eilish/Olivia Rodrigo's songs aren't pop and also don't have anything else going for them. They are just tinkling pianos and boring synths and I'm-14-and-this-is-deep lyrics. I like Tori Amos and Kate Bush and Bjork and PJ Harvey and Regina Spektor, so I think my I-enjoy-female-artists-even-when-they-aren't-all-that-poppy bona fides are firmly established. Therefore, I think that there may be some validity to this rant . . . possibly mixed with an unhealthy dose of misogyny and I need to really examine some of my assumptions and possibly do better. But, speaking from my current unenlightened state, I don't like this album. Also, fuck Lana Del Rey.
Thoughts before listening: I never really understood the hype on Lorde although "Royals" is a good song....I don't think it's on this album though. Pop music isn't typically my thing but I'm sure this will be fine. Review: Well right off the bat "Green Light" is recognizable and a very good song with an even better chorus, and "Supercut" was a fun track later in the album. The rest of these songs are just okay to me. I don't know if it's cause Jack Antonoff produces all of their albums, but a lot of recent female singers have a very similar sound...thinking of Lorde, Taylor Swift, Lana Del Rey, etc. It's a lot of mid-tempo songs with lyrics that are more spoken/whispered than sung. This came before Taylor's folklore/evermore but the vibe is almost identical. This is a 2-star album.
I wrote one catchy song inspired by an old photograph of Baseball Hall Of Famer George Brett in National Geographic magazine and it became a monster smash and now I have an album on this list even though I haven't done anything since then. Oh, and that catchy banger isn't even on this album.
Same pop crap, same pop channel.
Some high points on this album but it's definitely not a consistent quality, high 2 overall.
Green Light is a banger! Couple other decent tunes but nothing close. Wish I liked it more.
like olivia rodrigo but boring
I wasn't overly impressed on first hearing. Sounded similar to many other young female singers. maybe it's me being an old fogey.
Not good.
Gear: Aür Audio Aurora Mix: irgendwie schizophren - so ein maximaler melodramatischer (sorry) Sound für das bisschen Radio-Pop. Bass tight und modern produziert. Musik: würde ich Radio hören, würde ich es hierbei wohl zuverlässig ignorieren können - oder doch ausschalten. "Pure Heroine" habe ich stärker und mit weniger Pseudo-Pomp in Erinnerung. Wertung: 1-2/5
Kinda ass 2/5