Melodrama

I maybe didn't give it a fair chance and paid more attention to work, but this one just went by without any moments I remember. Don't really feel the need to revisit. Will I listen to again: 1%

I expected a more distinct sound

Overall very bland feeling. Pure Heroine has much more interesting production, and a more distinct style/sound. Melodrama feels so much more like generic pop. Liability is ok.

I’m so so sorry but Lorde has never been for me. I can’t relate to her lyrics, I don’t enjoy her voice, and the production isn’t fun either. I can respect it/her!!! Just isn’t for me. Favorite song: Hard Feelings Least favorite songs: The Louvre, Writer in the Dark

Ok

A couple of interesting tracks, but mostly not my kinda thing.

Agradable voz

I really like the stripped down, voice-forward sound of Pure Heroine. This album is too techno pop for me which, to me, distracts from Lorde's voice. I understand all the decisions about sound were deliberate, but I don't care for the music. I think it distracts from voice and lyrics.

What's wrong with these people?

Not for me

Great voice, really good production. Sound like XXX with teenager lirics. A good pop album.

Sort of depressing.

Was ok. Sorta repetitive.

An Antonoff nothing burger

Electropop is not my thing - this album isn't horrible but overall because of the style it's just not my jam.

Quite good but it doesn't excite me much

An important artist to the evolution of AAA radio pop. A little surprised this album is on this list. Not as strong as her debut. It does feature her strongest song, Green Light, however.

Amazing production sounds great. Just not for me.

Ok but not really my taste

Sounds like so many of today's albums. Autotuned. Machine driven beat. Nothing stands out here. Would be hard to pick Lorde out of a cast of other singers.

Niih. Olihan se kai ok. Mut sit taas ei.

Liian kähee

Sings that annoying way

Lorde is aight 2.6

Kinda depressing and I didn't like her singing style like I used to before.

Got to admit, I expected more. Like Taylor Swift, I expected something a little more standout but it all felt slightly generic. I guess it’s not really aimed at people pushing 50…

objective late 2010's pop something good found in the sounds of the album hopefully not lost

2/5. Lorde is clearly trying to do too much after her success with albums that I actually enjoy: Pure Heroine and Royals.

Opzich oké, maar vind dat ze te modern is geworden. Vond haar oude shit met ‘Royals’ echt veel leuker

melodrama? more like meh-lodrama

This album made me feel like I was at a 17 year old girl’s birthday party. It’s definitely not for me and I won’t be listening again anytime soon.

More misses than hits, but the hits are solid

A little too slow overall. Supercut is the best song.

Too many songs sound the same. Not a fan of her voice - prob wouldn't listen to again.

Sober II was good. Overall not a bad album but not my preferred music. Maybe if I was an angsty teen or wanted to re-live my late teens early twenties I might vibe with the songs and lyrics more but as it stands I didn't connect with the artist or the music.

Thought the first song was decent, but overall, dance/pop stuff is just not my thing. Actually, it's pretty phuggen annoying. Seemed like everything just ran together too. What can I say? Not my kind of music and not the kind I would go out of my way to listen. I put her up there with swift and the twins. I hope like hell my Spotify overlooks his week and keeps all this stuff out of the random rotation. Bad week of albums. 2

2.5 I know she’s a musical icon, but I’ve always found Lorde to be kind of meh. Royals in particular is a song I’ve always found kind of boring, and anything else of hers I’ve heard has left me feeling whelmed. This is my first time giving one of her albums a full listen though, so I went in with an open mind, as I try to do with anything else on this list… and I maintain my opinion after. The first song Green Light is an enjoyable enough pop track, but it starts losing me very quickly from there. While there was more piano stuff breaking up the pop stuff than I expected, for the most part I thought everything kind of blended together. The only other song I found remarkable across my listening was Writer in the Dark, but mostly because the lyric “Bet you rue the day you kissed a writer in the dark” stood out to me as kind of cringey. But hell, with all the emo shit I listen to, I should probably be the last person to be calling a lyric out as cringey. The fact I walked away from this without any real takeaway made me think that maybe I just wasn’t giving it a proper listen, but when my Spotify started shuffling in songs afterwards from contemporary female indie artists like Mitski, Phoebe Bridgers, St. Vincent, and Lucy Dacus, I started getting into a fun, musical groove, something I never found myself in during the listening of the actual assigned album. So, I think that validated my opinion that Lorde is kind of meh. Not my thing, but shoutout to Lorde for being my age and also being way more successful. I’d take being called meh too if it came with an $18 million net worth and over 5 billion Spotify streams.

Sorry not at all my music. I know some of her tracks that I like but this album is not my thing.

Lorde is an impressive songwriter, but this style of pop is not really for me.

I really really hate this singing voice

Artistissa on lupausta, mutta oli katsottava biisilistaa uudelleen muistaakseen hyvät raidat. Veikkaan, että tämä on myös tehokeinoineen kuulostanut vanhentuneelta 6kk julkaisun jälkeen.

Write and Supercut were decent but this was otherwise a lacklustre and boring album

It is not my age, when I was 15 or 20 I also did not like this type of music.

One appears not to understand what teenage girls like today any more than when one was oneself a teenager, lo those many yesterdays ago. Theoretically, one believes in the cathartic nature of the break-up records, but this is way too self-involved, the production too high-gloss (rather than human) and just not that interesting -- more mediocre than melodramatic. To put it in the lyrics' own terms, "too much for me." Best thing about the record is the cover.

I wanted to give it the benefit of the doubt but I did not enjoy this album. I could see some of these songs being cool in a live setting like a festival or something but even then idk.

Teenage angst…not my thang.

Who is Anton? And why do I need to jack him off? This is background noise. Not unpleasant, but neither distracting nor compelling. I might listen to some Rilo Kiley after this. Infact I won't even get to the end of the album - after "Liability" I call it quits and listen to More Adventurous. I did go back later on to finish up, and actually the second half of the album was actually a bit better when listened to on headphones while walking. I guess with albums as recent as this, the production is probably set up to sound best on headphones while walking. Still couldn't recommend spending any actual time on it though.

I may make some enemies with this one but that's ok. I want to like Lorde more than I do, but I struggle embracing the vocal style in the zeitgeist where every vowel is 1 degree away from a straight up meow - as a Kiwi though she gets more of a pass from the people who pronounce no as "naor" - I don't think she's putting it on. I also don't think I'm the target audience for her music at all, and that's fine - bubblegum pop is not my bag, too saccharine for me to stomach - the lyrics are interesting but what she talks about don't resonate much with my lived experience generally, which makes it harder to form an emotional connection - I almost feel like a voyeur? maybe that's the intent though. I also can't stand Jack Antonoff's whole shtick so tbh this was a hard listen. RE: this album specifically - Green Light has a great hook. Sober sounds exactly like every single Emily King song (I guess that style of track is really having a moment this decade). Nice little homage to Born to Run & Madame George at the end of the Louvre. Liability is catchy, tried and true formula. I appreciate them taking some production risks on Hard Feelings/Loveless with those industrial sounds but it didn't work for me; just sounded dissonant. Every track on the back half of the record sounds like the type of music they play behind transition shots on the Bachelor or Love Island as the hunks/babes walk in slo-mo to the next setting and it didn't stand out.

Just not my kind of pop

Musically speaking, it's okay and Lorde is a great singer. That said, the breakup, nocturnal-romantic-party-teenage themes just won't do it for me.

Green Light, Liability, Perfect Places. Best lyric “but all that stranger would see, is one girl swaying alone, stroking a cheek.” Boring as fuck. Idc. I didn’t have to hear this.

Most of this was generic formulaic pop music that's been done way better. A few catchy songs but so many of these sound exactly the same. Generic lyrics too. 2.5/5 FS: Liability, Dynamite

Not my type of music at all, none of the songs stood out to me and overall just boring. Sounds pretty much the same as every other modern pop album although it does have good sound production Highlights: Green Light

Its sound allright

Erghh

While I dig the production, this style of music and vocals is just not for me. The concept album does not speak to me either.

The sort of album that I think sounds good but does very little for me

Meh.

I guess this is what would happen if Taylor Swifte's songwriters tried to write a Kate Bushe song. Maybe this passes as artsy for Gen Z. Probably inspired some really good tik tok dances lol. 2/5.

Why do they all sing in this nasal mockney way. Is there no one out there that has their own voice now just over-produced sameness

I enjoyed it more than I expected when I received the album this morning. However, it is still repetitive and too much standardized, especially compared to other stuff on the 1001 list. I like to receive new albums (after 2010), but I think that the quality of an album to be included in such a list as 1001 will always need to prove itself over time, and 5 or 6 years is not enough to really be considered an album to be listened to before die.

Not much drama, to be fair

Everything sounds the same. And very.... Idol/The Voice kind of sound to it (most of the singers that do well in these shows all sound kinda the same when they are finished).

Lorde has a lovely voice, it felt a bit wasted in this

I listened twice since I thought it sounded like someone but I couldn't figure out who. Madonna, Morissette, Aguilera (without the vocal range). No no no. I think I figured it out. It's formulae music that tries to sound like everything and anything that worked in the past. That's exactly what I'm looking for!

I like the vocal production on a few the tracks, where she lops her own back-up vocals, as in Sober. But overall there is a singing style that I'm not crazy about. Maybe Lorde is actually the creator of the style but it's more likely it's pop-radio-ballad-meets-R&B-style that was developed over the last couple of decades. The kind of music my nieces like, but not me :) I do like the song, Sober II.

Better than expected and better than the popular music that the mellenials listen to these days. It does get a bit formulaic at times though.

2.5

Ei nyt korvia särkevä millään muotoa, mutta aika mitäänsanomaton.

Eipä tässä mitään vikaa ollut, mutta vähän geneerisen olosta. Aika mainosmusan kuulosta osin 2/5

Oh Lorde Randy Marsh did it again!

Sådärlåtar och sådärproduktion.

Having never listened to this album, this was exactly what I was expecting when I read “pop album with Kate Bush influence”

Maybe I’m making a lapse in judgment but I simply cannot remember anything from this album except being underwhelmed. My bad

not really my thing, but good enough i guess

Weinig origineel afkooksel in het popgenre. Te veel overproductie

I think Lorde does a great job capturing the era of this album. Impressed it made this list in 2017.

Mediocre at his best.i just can't feel it, but I guess this is what kids like these days so I respect it 2.5

Never been a fan of Lorde’s voice/delivery. Good songwriting though.

It’s Lorde, you’ve already heard what she has to offer. Nothing on this album reaches the peaks of her big singles though

One must not be in the target demographic. It's all very, well, melodramatic, though one can't say he wasn't warned. Only by grading on the curve would this rise to the level of mediocrity.

- Green light: 9/10 - Sober: 6,5/10 - Homemade Dynamite: 7/10 - The Louvre: 7/10 - Liability: 8/10 - Hard feelings/Loveless: 7/10 - Sober II: 8/10 - Writer in the dark: 8/10 - Supercut: 6/10 - Liability (reprise): 6/10 - Perfect places: 7/10

Hmja, klinkt als een beetje standaardmeisjesnavelstaarmuziek van nu. Je hoeft er de radio maar voor aan te zetten. Is het slecht? Neuh. Is het een klassiek album? Ik zou niet weten waarom. Over twintig jaar nog maar eens luisteren.

Ik heb het boek nodig. Want ik ben toch echt benieuwd waarom dit nu een album is dat ik moet horen. Luistert wel aardig weg verder hoor. Maar ik verwacht meer in deze lijst...

Er moest ook een plaatje voor generatie Z in. Billie Eilish was al gevraagd voor een James Bond film, dus kwam de keuze op Lorde. Leuk voor haar

melodrama is pretty accurate lol nothing really hooked me 2.5

jos sana loppu ärrään niin ihan rohkeasti sano se kunnolla... jos olisi paskempi ääni niin hyppy kolmoseen ja jos olisi parempi ääni hyppy kolmoseen... mutta ei... keskikaarti ei riitä.. ei mihinkään... muutama hitusen paremmannpuoleinen biisi pitää sen yli paskan mutta ei ei ja vielä KERRAN VITTU EI!!!!! EI NÄIN!!!!!!!!! EI KELPAA!!!!!!! paras bisi hard feelings/loveless...

Manic Pixie Dream Girl music.

Really didn’t like how clean it sounded. One or two good tracks though

I was expecting to be blown away by this...but...wasn't. Pretty good background music for working.

Slow, moody build up...crescendo! Slow, moody build up...crescendo! Rinse and repeat. Album full of 'edgy' X-Factor audition choices. Can imagine Louis Walsh saying "I like this girl, she's different".

One of those albums that I had never heard but felt immediately familiar - too familiar. Massive critical acclaim, which tells me I'm missing something. No tracks I was desperate to skip; and none I wanted to play again.

57/100: I wanted to enjoy this album, but I really, really disliked it. Every song sounded the same, and it wasn’t even a good sound. I don’t think Lorde is actually a good singer, which is a shame because she’s not a great songwriter either. Maybe I was already in a bad mood when listening to this album, but I think it might have ruined my day.

The album is just ok. I was not familiar with any of the songs and I wouldn't choose to listen to any of them again. It is pop music but 2017 pop music at that.

Like a lesser NFR.

Hmm no, too poppy for me.

Nothing to interesting pop. Liked Supercut but that was about it.

Monotonous...

Fucking LORDE

Ya ya ya

Not terrible, just not for me.

I forgot about Lorde and I was never that into her music tbh! I find her music a bit generic poppy crowd pleaser I guess but I only know the big hits. That means it was very interesting to listen to a whole album and I have to say I did find it boring. But I like her song-writing style if she did in fact write these songs and I'd be extremely impressed with myself if I'd written these songs. I don't like the way they're produced at all I think that's it and I don't find her voice particularly v interesting it's a bit generic to me. A song I really like is Supercut, something that stood out among the rest of this album!

Wasn't bad just not my thing. Was a one and done for me.

Forgetable - exceedingly average and a little too pretentious The whole album blurred together into one long and uninteresting piece of elevator music

worst album

sad girl stuff, eh

It’s an ok album by Lorde. She has a few good pop songs on this one. However it seems after a couple listens that this doesn’t hit the same levels as her first album and feels a bit more regressive due to the complaint nature. The production is decent and for modern pop it’s better than other artists. Still just ok though 5.2/10

I have this and it's nowhere near as good as her debut. It's pretty dull, if I'm being honest - nothing on it really grabs me in any way. I will give it another go though, since it's popped up in this challenge...

From https://www.vice.com/amp/en/article/pkyqkv/cursive-singing-tiktok-trend-explained “…cursive singing or "indie singing" – a style characterised by diphthongisation, wherein vowel sounds are stretched beyond what is necessary. The typical cursive vocal will resemble a child mid-tantrum trying to articulate their distress but ever so slightly missing the mark, with many phrases being incomprehensible. For example, "flood" becomes "floyuid", "time" becomes "toyiuem" and so on.”

Nothing entertaining or even remotely interesting about this album.

Mellow some drama, but mostly the same few song ideas swashing around like a shoe in a dryer. Song writing is aight I guess but can't remember any of it as the song is over. Still better than a lot of computer-/committee-generated pop content in recent years.

Bit more boring than expected

2.8 - I respect the artistry but I really did not enjoy this record. For one, Lorde’s breathy and nasally lisp grates on my nerves - she sounds like she needs to blow her nose. This sounds like the soundtrack to a musical about teenage nightlife, played by actors in their thirties.

At her best she sounds like Kate Bush, who blazed her trail more than 30 years before this album came out. At her worst it's just more contemporary pop product that could work well on the sales floor of any major clothing retailer. The album is definitely appropriately named. I don't know if that's her way of pulling a Led Zeppelin and turning what was originally used as criticism into a badge of honor or what. If so, I respect that, but it's a sort of lazy melodrama. The music has these sweeping dynamics and everything but her voice kind of stays in what must be her comfort zone with this ever present whine to it that I just can't endure for a whole album.

I'm sure it's really good pop, given Lorde's reputation in the music world. To me, however, it just sounds like any other pop record. I really enjoyed El-Ps remix of supercut though!

Ya ya ya this is really mediocre and doesn't deserve to be included on this list ya ya ya.

This LP was a disappointment to me in 2017 and remains so to this day. I'm not going to get into an Antonoff hate rant (there's plenty of discussion on that already in these reviews), but for the follow up to "Pure Heroine"'s dark instrumentals, encompassing production, and intoxicating feel overall to be so flat and lifeless is just depressing. This album fades into the background, doesn't demand attention as its predecessor did - each song is so overengineered and wrapped in such a thick layer of production gloss that it goes down without a thought, each track another 'perfect' pop song without much personality or any distinguishing features. The continuing homogenization of music does nothing but disappoint, and this LP is unfortunately a good example as to why.

Wee bit disappointed in this. Lorde is a bit more interesting than the average popstar and Green Light is a banger but it doesn't really go anywhere after that.

I'm not really feeling this album. I don't particularly care for Lorde's vocal style. Musically, the production is fine, but it's formulaic and fairly bland. All I'm taking away from this is a mild sense of annoyance. "Fave" Songs: The Louvre, Sober II, Homemade Dynamite

Sometimes I listen to modern pop and I just feel old and out of touch. this is one of those occasions

Meh.

There's kind of a whole subgenre of pop that just sort of consists of "woman with nice voice sings over piano" and I'm not that into it. Bonus negative points for Hard Feelings/Loveless having a section that consists entirely of annoying sounds.

Ultimately too poppy and her voice isn’t strong enough to hold my interest. Mostly rudimentary lyrics. Like the little mouth explosion in “Homemade Dynamite.” “Liability” is sweet. Rhyming “drama” with “melodrama” knocks off two stars. “Supercut” sounds like an extension of “Green Light.” “Perfect Places” is great, love the synth.

Pop-by-numbers.

Its a nope from me, whinge music.

Pop music, nothing too revolutionary.

I am not familiar with the LORDE, but aware of her existence. What little I have heard from her does not impress me or make me interested in her music. After listening to MELODRAMA. My first impression is my usual first reaction … I was not impressed and they was to be expected. Musically and vocally, she sounds uninteresting to me. The type of music, Electropop, does not have staying power and is not catchy or different enough for me to enjoy. Usually, I give an album about three more listens to see if musically or vocally something might grow on me. I decided to skip the repeats and concentrate on the lyrics since the title, MELODRAMA, seem to indicate that the lyrics might be more worthwhile to take an interest in. Lyrically, the lyrics are a little stronger than the music, I can see the repetitiveness in the lyrics to suggest something bigger. Overall, since unimpressed with LORDE and MELODRAMA. I see a similarity musically and vocally with TAYLOR SWIFT’s 1989. I like TAYLOR SWIFT a lot, but IMO 1989 is Taylor’s worse album. Lorde seems like a flash in the pan pop star. This does not speak to me about my life now or when I was twenty. In 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die, MELODRAMA is her one and only entry. Rate Artist: LORDE (2.5) Rate Album (Year): MELODRAMA (2017 Original) (2.5)

I don’t get this selection. Her debut album was much better.

Did not like

At least I know what Lorde sounds like now. First time I've actively listened to her and also the last time. I just don't care for this music.

Ei nyt mitään ihan hirveetä paskaa muttei myöskään pääse pysyvästi kuunteluun. Välillä ei edes tajunnut biisien vaihtuneen kun oli niin tasapaksua menoa.

Näitä kolmetoista tusinassa. 2017 duunattu levy, nii en ymmärrä etikoosuutta. Vai oliks tää tän subgenren ensimmäinen? Tylsähkö

If you've heard the song "Royals", you've heard this album. It's pretty unadventurous. She's not a bad writer, but there's no exploration of range or melody or rhythm. Didn't add.

I saw her in the festival circuit supporting this album. It’s not really my thing but she clearly has talent. Nothing on this album really stood out to me though, all just brooding love lost lyrics.

Never really cared for her voice. Songs were boring

kind of lame, the whole point of the album, as a singer, was her vocal performance and it didn’t change at all throughout the whole album, she feels like a one trick pony. she has a nice voice but it’s kinda boring after a few songs. I’ll give it a 3/10 pop isn’t for me

Not my cup of tea...but some ok sounds

Kann man prima Pixar Filme mit vertonen. But not my cup of Melodrama. 1.6

Ik hoor niet wat hier nou zo bijzonder aan is.

It's not too bad, surprisingly, but just not my kind of thing.

Better than average pop record, but doesn't do much for me personally.

Was kinda embarrassed to be listening to this, but it’s not too bad. Fell off at the end, feels empty.

meh

2 saves sur 11, sans aucun interet, shanta Billie Eilish, ça sera un 2/5

Pop moderno é muito questionável, este demonstar alguma qualidade mas é ofuscado pelo gênero em que se insere. Nota:3/10

Alright, just pop. First track was catchy. Prob a 2. Also, feels like Billie Eilish prob tried to sing like this girl.

Not too bad.

Best wel prima album, Lorde heeft mij nooit helemaal lekker aangesproken maar kan het wel waarderen

Not a big fan.

Lorde is fine enough I guess. I don’t know if she’ll still be well-known in 5-10 years. This record is mostly forgettable

Some interesting bits but ....

Whatever this genre is, I hate it. Sorry to any lorde fans but this was almost arguably worse than loveless for me. It felt like the same energy as taylor swift and I was not here for it. Props to the album title being really apt, this was indeed a melodramatic album. Otherwise not a lot of redeemable stuff here for me Favorite was Liability

loathe entirely

This isn’t even her good album. It was very boring and draggy and sad.

i actually like lorde but didnt really care for this album or maybe i just wasnt in the mood idk

The least interesting pop album I’ve ever been forced to endure

I have no idea why this is on the list. Reading the history, it looks like she got overwhelmed by gaining popularity from making a pop album, so she went and made.... a pop album? I didn't listen to the full album, but I assure you I've heard these songs so many times by different "writers". No thanks.

I genuinely just didn't like it. The songs were boring and her voice got somewhat irritating about three tracks in. So I ended up skimming over the rest of the songs, simply listening to brief snippets of them until I had heard enough. Normally I like listening to them in full, but I just couldn't do it for this one. I can think of so many different albums that deserved to be on this list more than this one. There was just nothing that stood out to me about it. It was just another generic pop album. Better pop albums exist. There are other albums that I have listened to on this list, whilst they weren't for me, I could still see their significance and influence on the music scene. This one just felt forgettable.

Literally everything I hate in music crammed into one single album – trite and simplistic pop tailored for mass-appeal, music created by a whole cohort of producers (Wikipedia mentions at least 11) without the involvment of a single actual musician, whispery voice effects in line with the latest trends, and inane lyrics about small nothings that will only appeal to first-world teenagers who never experienced real hardship in their entire life (which makes the album title "Melodrama" weirdly apt...). This commercial slop is just the latest installment in a long line of manufactured artists that started with Britney Spears and will one day be replaced by AI singers, endlessly mass-producing interchangeable songs for each specific "target demographic". Lorde adds insult to injury by pretending to be a critic of the music industry, when she is in reality very much its most perfect product. One of the hardest albums to finish for me so far. I cringed so hard it was almost physically painful to listen all the way through. 1/10

I would have liked this back in 2017.......maybe.....

too 2017 for my taste sorry ms. lorde

hate it, not for me at all

Well, it seems that strong lyrics aren’t a necessity for getting on this list. I don’t understand the fascination of young women with being crazy, psycho. It’s demeaning.

Попса

Trying to keep an open mind about these albums but i have NEVER liked lorde

I normally like pretentious whiny music, but this has way too many painful teenage cliches for me

Not impressed, Randy Marsh.

Inexcusably awful. If a breakup is so bad it inspires you to write an entire album, I would expect that listening would be an emotionally charged experience. Instead, I got some bullshit from the pop-slop factory and it sounds like this lady didn’t even experience any of the events described in the lyrics. I don’t want to listen to 40 minutes of half-hearted pathetic little ““““sad”””” indie girl shit.

Creo que el pop es de mis géneros menos gustados, honestamente, pero éste álbum en particular no me gustó para nada. Rescataría: Writer In The Dark y Perfect Places.

Antonoff. Sounds exactly like the Taylor swift records.

Meh

I did not find this particularly interesting.

If she sang in a different language I'd enjoy it more. The lyrics are bad.

Move along, nothing to hear here

Boring and stupid

Gave up halfway through, just awful

My sister likes this, so I’ve already heard it far more than I ever wanted.

There isn’t too much out-and-out pop cack on this list, but this definitely falls into that category. Not sure what the critics are thinking with this one.

generic popslop

I really don’t think it’s cool to hate on lorde but she leaves us no choice. I like her in theory too - her whole dancing like nobody’s watching bit (not in a Taylor Swift “this is me at my most vulnerable brought to you by AMEX” sort of way but an actual sincere way that I believe) but it’s just too bad that she does in fact suck I will say this album clearly made a fucking impact on pop music. I assume this is one of the first few instances of Olivia Rodrigo ultra-specific songwriting (IMO the worst thing to happen to pop and indie in the last couple decades). The production is obviously quite ambitious for a pop record which I know is partly why this part of the 1001 canon I feel myself dozing off and enjoying it a bit at times (at least not hating it) but a lyric goes by and I am reminded of the insanely cheugy lyrics and cringey delivery

shit

More Randy Marsh and less Taylor Swift.

Could be any one of a number of female pop singers. Maybe it's the lyrics that make it special. Who knows. Because the production is so generic I won't be spending any more time listening. I gave Mars Volta 1* yesterday but at least they were trying to be themselves. Lorde isn't even trying to do that. 1*

nah

geit so

come ascoltare ellie goulding, concettualmente la stessa cosa inascoltabile per me

I very heavily dislike this album. I very much want to like what im listening to, but i disliked almost every song. was literally tortured by it

Man corporate songwriters straight up don’t give a fuck anymore. How is this autotune heavy I’m-so-soulful-about-being-uninteresting vocal on here? This is why I avoid hearing modern pop. Hilariously terrible.

Shits ass

doodoo

Bad, boring… 2 notes songs… rubbish! C’etait difficile de ne pas zapper…

I dislike this like taylor swift and charli xx on crack

i just dont like any songs this lady makes

Green Light

Album I would replace this one with: Tame Impala - Innerspeaker (2010) 5/5

It's important in this post-truth world that we be as honest and straightforward about things as we can be. With that in mind, I can say without fear of straying into mendacity that this album is dog shit wrapped in cat shit. She lost me early doors with the lines, "those great whites, they have big teeth, hope they bite you". Carole King she is not.

Pretty grating. Not for me

I'm good

Yay another female artist!! But this is lowkey my least favorite type of music (sorry Lorde).

I honestly did not enjoy this album and gave up listening fairly quickly :)

Really don’t care for whatever the vibe is here. The exactness with which it emulates (or presages?) the very particular and sometimes cloying sound of Taylor Swift irritated me often.

I dunno. I think I'm just old. But I'm not that much older than Lorde is... I like her voice, and the stacks of wide ranging harmonies is interesting. Lorde's lyrical content is fine, but boy is the music itself just a bore to me. Played out progressions that I'm sick of hearing over and over again. And even with the former point about lyrics, as the album goes on, I'm getting sick of hearing about another breakup despite how evocatively the entire affair is described. I can only hear so much about one thing before I start asking you to talk about something else, anything else, regardless of how much color you put on it. Listening on youtube and one of the comments on the last track of the album said that it was the most beautiful song they had ever heard. Someone on track 7 said, "This is the hardest shit ever. My fav lorde track. Gangsta af". Gangsta af, they said. Couldn't believe that one. Someone called it neo-soul! More than one thing to unpack with those last two comments. Different worlds for sure. The album isn't meant for me in the slightest, and that's alright. It just did not land.

This one is just not for me.

Terrible. Uninteresting gimmicky overproduced teenage girl pop.

вообще мимо….альбом как будто состоит из тех самых песен, которые включают в масс маркетах…мимо

I ain’t listenining to ts

Won’t slate it too much , just wasn’t that enamoured with it all in all felt a bit samey to me through most of it

Only thing I know of Lorde is her song Royals which used to play on the radio constantly back in 2013/14 when I worked in a factory so it did my head in.. But I'm entering this with no bias and open ears! Got to track four and all a bit samey so far, nothing standing out and making me pay attention, perhaps the lyrics are those songs saviours? The music writing and production is very minimal and low effort in my opinion. This doesn't seem like art for arts sake but rather a product for radio play. This would fit nicely in the background at any supermarket. I was hoping for something with some dynamics, tempo changes , key changes, textural changes, instruments but no. Every song follows the same minimal electronic style. For me a great album should have variation in some of the above ways and more. Not for me at all.

The lyrics were so cringy, she has a terrible case of indie voice syndrome, and the instrumentals were extremely bland. I have no idea why this album is on this list but Pure Heroine isn’t

Not for me

Not very memorable.

I did not care for this. What’s up with the weird baby voice? I would rather listen to The Black Album.

ZERO

Very boring album, i can't remember any catchy song. Just a gray mass Rate 1/10

It was so cringe im sorry

I don't like this Album

Was expecting the Finnish Metal band who won Eurovision many years ago. So this was a major disappointment.

I've never knowingly heard anything by Lorde before. I have now though, so... thanks? I suspect if I was fifteen rather than 53, this record might mean more to me than it does. As it is, it seems unremarkable and entirely forgettable. The world seems to be awash with records exactly like it.

Millennial women break album painful to listen to

I only listened to one song but just isn’t for me at all, sorry Lorde

Unmitigated crap. I can honestly say I am not a poptimist.

Not bad, I can see why people like it, definitely doesn't have its place in the 1000 best albums though

Another 1.

Just not something I vibe with. Like just no

Found it really dull

Not my thing. Didn’t make it thru it.

Sorry no

i've not had to listen to any minge music for a long time. does she have a speech impediment or is she actively singing like she's deaf? either way this is so bad i want to put the names and addresses of everyone i know on to here so the they can be associated with my terrible prose.

This is certainly an album I could've done without hearing before I die!

I don't think it's bad necessarily, I just don't really like it.

Worse than Alanis. Canada: 1 New Zealand: 0

Oh no… I dont like it!!!

the meme is so funny; cuz that's your whole life. that bitch is so pick me i would rather poke my eye till it pops out into my skull then ever listen to the motherfucking dumbass bitch. no body wants your antisemitic ass to make a sound. I’d rather wrestle a crocodile in a thunderstorm while wearing noise canceling headphones and screaming the alphabet backwards than ever listen to that horrble person.

Not rateable. Shit. Hated jt

Another teenage girl's diary entry with a drum machine, synth noises and masses of reverb. What happened to musical instruments?

Not my thing

I've heard this one enough times at work through one of my former colleagues incessantly playing the CD (that I bought for them as a birthday present 😬😬), to know there's absolutely nothing for me here. Time is precious, and I don't need any "not like the other girls!!!" shite in my life.

Nope... 2 listens of this and I can't remember any bit of any song from it. Bland pop music, nothing much else to say.

More boring insipid modern pop music. Reminds me of Taylor Swift, but not as fun. Just... Shit.

Poppy, lyrics pretty boring and reductive

Not my thing

love the voice but painfully boring

Just not my style. Gave it a one for effort though.

Nej.

boring

I was a "girl" in my early 20s when this came out so I was the target audience and I can still say - Oh my god it's soooo boring I don't even care if it's well-produced.

Meaningless pop drivel. Melodrama is the perfect title.

lowkey album mi se nije svidio. Nisam pretjerani fan ovakve glazbe, Lordein glas je veoma unikatan i sviđaju mi se njene iconic pjesme, no ovaj cijeli album je takav miss tematski i tekstualno. Naravno, ovo je samo based off of one listen, stoga ne znam jeli ima neko dublje značenje u glazbi. Svakako, nije mi bilo nešto. Najbolje pjesme su mi bile The Louvre i Sober II, ostalo je mehhhh.

2/10

Too often the opening of this browser is followed by an exasperated sigh. It just escapes from me. The additions to this list in the years since the original book’s release have caused me great pain thus far. From that Beyoncé greatest (s)hits fiasco, to a Taylor Swift record, now we move to the most indie coded of the pop princesses, Lorde. I don’t care about this. I could go my whole miserable life without hearing another Lorde song and fade into the nether realm without batting an eye. There are so many games to play, books to read, things to do. But sure, let me spend 40 minutes listening to a pop album in order to satisfy my completionist mind. With an introduction reminiscent of a disgruntled court jester, you may take the stage your Lordeship. I shall slink off with my shoe bells jingling softly. Green Light - Oh I’ve heard this before. This was a horrible era for music. This plays quietly before a work presentation in a local playhouse that you have to go to. Red light. Sober - I wish I wasn’t. That was a long song. Whoa. That was weird for a second. Now it’s like the Zootopia theme song except evil. More songs about dancing. Oh Gawhawd moy hawart. Why does she sing this way? Homemade Dynamite - Napoleon Dynamite. I need to watch that movie again, but I feel like it holds up. It’s a brand of millennial humour, but I think it’s aged well. Who knows? Maybe I can try to replay it in my head to dissociate from this album. The Louvre - Why is this song named after an art museum despite featuring the repeated refrain of “broadcast the boom boom boom and make ‘em all dance to it.” I think I just spit up a little bit. Liability - I’m sure this is very meaningful to Lorde. The words seem well crafted but they don’t speak to me. Why would they? Hard Feelings/Loveless - Hey, I like the part with no vocals! That’s something. Great. Unfortunately everything else stays mired in the same stench as the preceding tracks. Oh good, it switched into one of the worst songs I’ve ever heard. Sober II (Melodrama) - Lorde, we need a title track. Can’t it just be that second sober song? Uhh I guess that’ll have to do. For both a track review and a bit. Writer in the Dark - Who cares? Supercut - SuperCard of Honor. That’s what she’s saying, right? Let’s watch classic ROH instead of listening to this. Great idea. Gotta find that match between Danielson and that big Morishima guy. Liability(Reprise) - We don’t need a reprise. At all. We need a reprieve, but a reprise? Never. Perfect Places - Gelatinous mass looms. The nourishing sunlight blocked ushering a sickening chill. Screams are cut off by silence as the form glides into apocalyptic vision. A life form that should not be threatens bloodshot human eyes. Revolting proliferation of cells. The ultimate malignancy. No objective, no prisoners. A planet absorbed. A lifeless frost envelopes our besieged earth. A planet absorbed, all life vanquished. Yeah this sucked. Depressed, teenage girl breakup songs. Maybe early 20s. I am an old man at this point. At least this album made me feel that way. It’s funny that this album is everything Taylor Swift would end up doing for the next few years. Couldn’t she have copied something cool? Check out Chat Pile. Maybe sludgy noise core will be the next “era.” I’m done with this. Fuck corporate pop. 0 HIGHLIGHTS: HOIUGHHHLOIGHTS

i do not lik

Teška komercijalna dosada. 1/5, 1.5/10

Really really really shit pop Cant believe this is in this list

Modern pop schlock. Not even her breakout album.

not my style, i can appreciate the technique but i don’t like the genre (personal preference)

Self indulgent horseshit

Not for me

😞

Her second album. Argh ! Three days in a row. An album of... I love you, I hate you, I'm bitter, I'm better than you, I moved on, I need you, I made out with a guy tonight now I'm crying in the back of the cab. And I made an album about it all using my laptop blah blah bland.

What I did listen to.. awful 😣

Nope. Too much pop for my liking.

If I could rename this album, I'd call it 'Misphonic Triggers'. Alternating between straining to defecate and attempting to summon a cat, her whiney tone makes me want to pierce my own eardrums. How on Earth is Lorde in the top 300 artists on Spotify? I suppose 'popular' has never truly equated to 'good'. To sum this album in a word: horrible. It's the first album I've encountered so far that I have had to turn off. I tried. I really did, but by the time I got to the fourth whispering whinge, I'd had enough.

Just bad all around, not much to grab onto here

Is dit wat populaire muziek tegenwoordig inhoudt? Lekker depressieve pop

Não compensa

Sad pop does nothing for me.

Typical pop record, not impressed

Holy shit that sucked donkey balls

Courageous. Raw. Wow. Not really. This sucked. She sucks at singing. She sucks at pronouncing. The only thing spot on was the title of the album. Melodramatic BS. The only people that enjoy this shit are overly fragile infants who live in self pity.

I like the catchy keyboards Edit Mar 17 2026: 3 --> 1. I really don't like the vocals

Shit

Aw hell no, I don't want to listen to randy marsh...

Very standard stuff, I didn't like the production at all, it was over the top and more often than not didn't accompany the music and its direction in terms of overall feel. The lyrics were often corny as hell too, take "the louvre"(production wise a mess too). Overall glad the album was done, the only good thing was the powerful intro, which was ultimately followed by a landslide of sloppy work. Favorite track: Green light. Overall score: 1.8/10

Nice

23/1001 Jesus this record was bad. Like really boring and basic pop music bad. Wanted to stop listening after only a few songs but I persevered, sadly it didn’t get any better. 1,5/5

nawet nie przesluchalem, pop

Could not finish it

I do not care for lorde and I do not have love for this

Come out Jack Antonoff I know you're there I just wanna talk

I can't stand this brand of singing, it's hard to articulate it. But it's a highly affected, distorting of most vowels. Ellie Goulding is a bastard for it too. It's known as IGV (indie girl voice) or Indigo voice. Green Light is full of it, and full of rubbish lyrics too, “but they bite-chu” lol. The beat in Sober reminded me of that Gotye hit, what a geometric headache that song and video was. Liability is just My Chemical Romance’s ‘Welcome To The Black Parade’, which of course is also derivative of many other songs, but this feels like blatant lift and shift in style and arrangement. She of course went on to rip off George Michael, Primal Scream and various others for that Solar Power single. Supercut made me want to smoke. I think it conjured memories of both Richmond Super Kings and Silk Cut. I'd gladly eat a sleeve of two hundred cigarettes than listen to another Lorde album. I can't believe the audacity of having callbacks to earlier songs and a reprise! As though this is an album with any artistic merit whatsoever. The album is a pile of piddle laced with forgettable songs, phoned in production, and totally benign songwriting. I seriously hate churned out, manufactured toss like this. It's completely devoid of personality.

She seems to be both very melancholy and very sleepy. She just woke up and has been informed her boyfriend left her and she needs to sing the song about it before mark antonoff will let her get out of the bed. He’s hitting a few basic progressions on a keyboard by the bed and just telling her to sing her thoughts as they occur - we have to finish this album by 930 at the latest so I can get to Miley Cyrus house.

I guess she’s got a decent singing voice. But the slow, quiet and breathless songs just don’t do it for me. Add the cursing and general simpering about their broken relationships, and it’s a pretty good snapshot of today’s anxiety-riddled woke white females. Lorde leads the way. It’s a yuck. I much prefer the Madonnas and Britneys and Taylors.

Awful

Not a Lorde fan at all!!!

Had to stop listening to this one it was so boring. Boorring.... Boooorriiinnggggggg

Too much drama

No va

No

Like poor karaoke. No structure to verses/stanza. Tone is terrible.

Η κλασσικη ποπ white-girl coded. Στιχοι που ακους σε καθε αλμπουμ ποπ για χωρισμους κ τετοια. Target group 20αρες που ακουνε mainstream. Αρκετα βαρετο Rating: F+

This Lorde album feels more inconsistent than her previous effort PURE HEROINE. Album felt algorithmic. I'm also not a fan of her singing style. None of the tracks stood out to me as bangers that had instrumental and vocal ideas that really captured my attention. While critics lauded her for more mature songwriting subjects on this album, I felt the subject matter on this album actually felt a bit more, please forgive me, sophomoric. On PURE HEROINE she explores her own views on class, wealth, and gender, and on this she explores breakups, hookups, and crying in her taxi. Most of it didn't quite evoke anything for me. I did enjoy the "Hard Feelings" half of "Hard Feelings/Loveless" when it felt like not only the lyrics came together but the sonic ideas got some bold risks, but then it was gutted when the conventional arrangement of "Loveless" began.

Lorde has a very unique voice in the world of pop. She is super interesting compared to other pop artists that I have grown to dislike. That being said, pop just isn't for me. It is the epitome of why I dislike modern popular music

Uninteresting

rich kiwi girl pretending to be poor sings all songs and melodies in the same way and calls it an album. Meh.

First run through, I thought it was of interest. Second run through, I realised it wasn't. Disposable, unremarkable. forgettable, pap-pop

Not interesting Quite bad

Not for me

Hate Lorde. Sounds like a cat being strangled underwater.

Not my style

Of all the pop albums to be released in the last ten years, this one makes the list??? The lyrics of the first are atrocious and the rest of the album gets a tiny bit better from there. Classic record label songwriting at its best right here.