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Well duh! Forever 15 listening to this
This could be pure nostalgia speaking but this album defined my teenage years. Masterpiece !!!!!! idgaf.
non esiste album prodotto da Jack Antonoff che meriti meno di cinque stelle, men che meno questa mina. adoro per sempre.
Amazing pop album
Late to this party. But I love it. Joyful pop songs, some Kate Bush vibes, great synths - what's not to like?
This is basically the only album i listened to when i was 17. basically my years from 14-18 are a blur and something i dont make myself try to remember often, but hearing this album again does bring me joy. I'm going into this not really knowing about the true what and why of it, so this is fully interpretation and also maybe a bit of messy bullshit. I see this album in 3 "acts". the first act spans from Green Light up til The Louvre. It's very bright, very happy, and it reflects a "young, dumb and in love" feeling. Green Light is my favorite opening ever. The Louvre is definitely the youngest, dumbest and most love-struck track on the album. Just fun all around. The second act goes from Liability to Sober II. It feels horribly sad, in a way that I don't really know how to describe--like an emotion for which you don't yet have a name. Sober II is a perfect title track to this album. "Melodrama". I finally have a name for this feeling. it almost feels like it's an emotion found too late, like "how did I not realize this earlier?" The 3rd act runs from Writer in the Dark to Perfect Places. Now that I have a name for this emotion, I can wield it. Writer in the Dark feels like the beginning of growing out of that emotion, but in a wrong way. "How I felt was kind dumb, but I've grown since then, and I'm better now". Supercut is the antithesis of that--viewing the past in perfection, free of all the bad parts. When Lorde says "but you're not what you thought you were" in Liability (Reprise), she speaks to herself. She's not the person she thought she was in that perfect memory, that Supercut. Perfect Places wraps this album up so wonderfully; she realizes that love is going to be stupid and awkward and a little embarrassing no matter what. Nothing wrong with that. Despite this album being so prevalent to me, this is my first time actually thinking about in in depth, which makes me think more about my teen years--something I shouldn't be avoiding no matter how much it sucks to think about.
I was in a bad spot I cannot describe at all when this album meant so much to me. It's hard to be vague about it, but it's a thing to note. Something I remembered upon a re-listen is being told I lost the "you ovulate, you lose" challenge which grounded me back into reality so hard I re-evaluated a personal relationship to a life changing degree.
Fuck. This is a higher rating than I wanted to give it. I remember this record. I liked this record. It was a good record. Fuck. Why did it age like this? Was I just the one that aged? Will I ever be the same? Would I ever want to listen to this record again if so? 10, get out of my head, leave me alone.
one of my favourites, it's an album I slowly come closer to understanding with each passing year
Den kommer sgu op over, selvom den også lå på vippen. Virkelig, virkelig godt popalbum
An undoubtedly perfect pop album
Producción interesante y muy buena voz, muy fan de Green Light
Abandoning Joel Little’s minimalist electro in favor of Jack Antonoff’s maximalist, piano-centered pop, Lorde explodes the last big teenage feelings one might have into, well, melodrama, in a way that still dazzles today. Lorde invites deep reading, so let’s start at the beginning: “Tennis Court” is a pre-fame lament with a music video that features a memorable close-up, whereas “Green Light” is a breakup power non-ballad wit house piano and a music video that features more than a few memorable close ups. “400 Lux” continues the imagine suburban luxury on Pure Heroine, while “Sober” immediately diverges: horns (!) and overdubbed rhythmic background vocals with an examination of a relationship that only works on the weekends. By “Homemade Dynamite”, the sonic metaphor becomes lyrical metaphor. There’s a lot of relationships-gone-wrong talk on the album, and you may not like that as much as the premature aging anxieties on Pure Heroine (that I may or may not still relate to an uncomfortable amount, even though Lorde and I are both fully adult now). Personally, in spite of what any comparison may suggest, I think both albums remain masterpieces, but we can only talk about this one. I find this album the less personally relatable of the two but goddamn do I feel every moment of this album every time I listen, whether it’s the piano balladry twists of “Liability” or the high-energy beat cuts of the second “in your car, the radio up” prechorus of “Supercut”. Pop artists can only strike pancultural lightning so many times, Lorde’s lucky she got to do it twice, and regardless of what I may feel about Solar Power (though no disrespect if you like it!), I still feel lucky we get to listen to this album.
Modern indie pop classic. My favorite from Lorde since I first heard it.
Great artist with a great album!
I mean.... no notes
One of the best pop albums of the 21st century, Lorde went off on this one
this album came out a week after my seventeenth birthday, so it’s total nostalgia-bait for me. it soundtracked some of the best nights of my life, driving home at dawn to perfect places, and some of the worst ones too, pining in my bedroom to liability. easiest five stars i could ever give.
Es la mejor. No sé si algún día la calificare objetivamente, este disco será por siempre de aquellos que me cambio.
If you don’t get Lorde, you don’t get me
Powerful lyrics, mix of bops and soulful tunes, love this album!
One of my fav breakup albums AND one my fav girl-pop albums
Soothing
five
BROOOOOO YESSSSS OMG OMG LETS FREAKING GO I can’t gush about this album enough. When I first heard it, it definitely didn’t click with me all the way. This is one of Jack Antonoff’s best pieces of work. But Lorde - her lyricism, her concept, her stylistic vision - it’s all beautifully imagined and executed. The album being a journey through a night at a party shifted my brain around as a high schooler. It’s deeply personal, vulnerable, and yet so lively and so many people see themselves in this body of work. This album makes me feel like being lost in the world and inside myself is something totally normal and beautiful, and that my relationships with other people are flickers in that darkness. Lorde did something masterful here. 10/10
I'm surprised to find this on the list but it's been a 5 all day every day since 2017.
Sehr gut!
I have had the debate for years if it is this album or her first album is better. Both are so fire.
I only knew Green Light and Perfect Places going into this, but they're both bangers that are on my regular playlist, so I was pretty sure I'd be a fan of the whole album. And goddammit, but I was right - it's queer femme-fronted electropop with some real Antonoffcore maximalist production, and as you might have guessed, every single word there speaks to me on a deep level. Yes, I'm a demographic, but I'm okay with that. (Also, "They'll hang us in the Louvre/(in the back/but who cares/still the Louvre)" is just an S-tier lyric)
10/10
Very good
The best pop album of the 2010's. Creative production, great songwriting, and most importantly it has long-term sticking potential. It isn't a flash in the pan.
When I saw this album I was immediately furious. How could they pick this over Pure Heroine??? But then I started listening. This album is basically exclusively bangers? I then listened to Pure Heroine after and this is definitely better. So I would like to submit a formal apology to the curators of this list for doubting them, I won't do it again. (I probably will, why haven't we got a Green Day album yet?)
Love this album to death.
Stone cold millennial classic. I’m a bit more partial to Pure Heroine as the definitive Lorde record, but it’s easy to see why this one cemented her as a legend and shot Antonoff into the stratosphere as a pop producer. She was 19, and she was on fire. Love it, cherish it, make your mom dance to it. Awesome, right?
I caught off guard how good this album sounds. Well done Lorde, i enjoyed every minute of it.
This was surprisingly good.
This is one of my most favourite albums. I don't have a huge vinyl collection, but I do own this album on vinyl, so y'all know it's automatically a 5. I was in my mid-20s when this album was released. At the time, I was feeling lost, directionless, and isolated: I was trying to figure out what was next for me after a job ended badly. I related deeply to this album, which is about solitude, heartbreak, and big, vivid emotions. I remember laying in my bed crying to "Liability" and "Perfect Places" because I felt I was "too much" for people and didn't belong anywhere. I can't overstate how much I love this album. It'll always be evocative of my 20s, during which I was trying to figure out my identity and also everything else. I was often really mean to and hated myself in my 20s, and now that I'm in my 30s, I look back with such admiration and kindness for what that person went through. Of course, I was never cool enough to be invited to any grand house parties like the one Lorde loosely chronicles on this album. But I'm pretty sure that if I was invited to one, it would've felt a lot like this. Favourite tracks: Green Light, Liability, Supercut, Perfect Places
Jel green light najbolja pop pisma desetih. Po meni vrlo lako moguće. I ne samo to nego je i jedna od najutjecajnijih jer skoro sav pop dvadesetih želi zvučat ovako. Genijalan mi je ovaj album
Lorde’s lyrics and delivery are impeccable. She rocks the old soul vibe. This album is brilliantly produced, I loved it.
Great album filled with rhythm and melody and lyrics with hauntingly real emotion.
Immediately 5/5, formative album, no skips.
I’m 22 years old, of course I love it.
best
This kicks ass.
I love this album so much. I remember when it came out and I absolutely remember the grip it had on me. So many bangers. Green Light, Liability, Writer in the Dark, Supercut, etc. The storytelling, the drama, it’s everything. I’ll be revisiting her live performances again.
She’s hot in every way 5 stars
man i almost cried like four times ghjasdghjsd. just an ocean of pop catharsis, with lorde's whole Already World-Weary At A Young Age vibe manifesting not for distant self-deflation but for trying to hold onto the fact that no matter how intense things are ur not the only person to ever go thru this and come out fine. reminds me, in its rougher moments, of my first relationship (in college) and how a lifetime spent consuming media About romantic relationships and their flow and how they end by that point made the whole thing feel even more uncanny then it already was. will never forget the first time i heard a song and instantly thought about a Specific Person. rly wonderful album obviously,,,,i should get back on the lorde train
I love the saltry sound of Lorde. It was a good listen. I did enjoy it. But as for most music I find in this genre it started to sound very repetitive. Same basic music with a change in lyrics
I remember listening to this album close to when it came out, and really loving it. However, outside of “Green Light,” I don’t think I’ve seriously revisited this album. I’ve been looking forward to giving this album another listen, so I was excited to see this pop up for me to review today. Let’s let the aforementioned “Green Light” kick off this journey, shall we? Relistening to this today, I see why I was blown away by it. This album has such a great atmosphere that permeates every sound, and that atmosphere creates a mood that holds the whole album together really well. When I first listened to this album, I had no idea that Jack Antonoff produced it, but listening to it now, I think his production work is one of the reasons that I really like it. I enjoy a lot of the music Jack has written or produced, and I love fun.’s Aim and Ignite, as well as a lot of music by Bleachers. For me, when an album kicks off with an adrenaline rush as intense as “Green Light,” I find myself listening to the rest of the album with the expectation that I’ll experience that feeling again throughout the album. That doesn’t happen for me on Melodrama, but I’m fine with it, because I still think it’s a fantastic album. I own Lorde’s debut, Pure Heroine, but I don’t think I ever listened to the whole thing. I found myself gravitating back towards “Team” every time I’d pop in the CD. And that’s my first inclination with this album to, to listen to “Green Light,” and then move on to something else. Even though I don’t get that ‘run-through-a-brick-wall’ feeling anywhere else on the album like I do when “Green Light’s” chorus kicks in, I love that Lorde shifted to a sound that utilizes more synthesizers and traditional hooks, instead of relying on more hip-hop inspired sounds. She still uses her unique vocal style and songwriting, but I the sound on Melodrama is so much more rich and more interesting that Pure Heroine. It’s a gamble to start off a pop record the way this one does, but it pays off, as the subject matter and intensity of the sound shifts throughout the album. But Jack Antonoff’s production work helps the album maintain its cohesiveness, building a sound that harkens back to the eighties but still sounds new and inventive. I struggled with how to rate this album, but after about three trips through it, I’m solidly in the camp of this album being five stars. Yes, I’m more likely to gravitate towards Chvrches, Taylor Swift’s 1989, or Carly Rae Jepsen to scratch my pop music itch, but that doesn’t take away from the fact that this album is beautiful, rich, and brilliantly paced. It was a treat to revisit this album, and to get to focus on it with a more critical ear.
Great. love Lorde
me surpreendi muito positivamente nesse album
Lorde of one my favorite young vocalists. While I am not a huge fan of the genre, their voice and lyrics go beyond to lift me when I am down.
Really good album, almost perfect even. 9.2/10. Would a hundred percent listen to it again, it’s just that good. Lorde is such an amazing singer, her voice is so unique, one of the most unique voices out there.
Great album.
Das ist ein wunderbares, melancholisches Album. Sehr sanft, schöne Melodien passt zum Cover. Lorde ist eine große Künstlerin, die auf diesem Album ihre tollen Fähigkeiten entfaltet.
I love Lorde, I listened to this album twice because I forgot how much I loved it and I love it so dearly
yupppppp
oh absolutely. 10/10. 100000/10.
10/10 Intimo, well produced, icónico, instant classic, será estudiado en 20 años en todas las academias de artes en el mundo, una experiencia, es como visitar el Louvre.
Increíble, lo mejor cuando tenia 17 y lo mejor ahora también
Just perfect
This album got me through one of the darkest periods of my life, I would give it 6 stars if I could.
Works on you. Lyrics an eye opener
Love and heartbreak songs that don't have to do anything with myself but god does it feel like they describe something that touches my soul. Also who doesn't like a little bit of drama? 4.8/5
Relatively foundational Industrial pop and one of Jack antonoff’s Crown Jewels. It’s a little bit her style, but I think Lorde’s vocals are a little uncrisp. But everything else about the album is 10 out of 5. The production and instrumentals are fantastic and layer in such an easy way that all of the album is listenable without being exhausting. The hits are bangers and the feel of the album is very relatable and real, which I think is my biggest bias - the album is about being 20 and came out when I was 20. To me, Melodrama is little bit of a safe pick for popheads to put in a top X list; the album is good enough to exist in a 85th percentile of all time but be overall a little more obscure. I don’t think the album is very bold and but Antonoff pretty much just has the formula to write good music, and really it’s hard to find reasons why this is still not a 5
Hard time rating this album critically because it is one of my favorites. I think it nails its spot on the cohesiveness/variety spectrum, a lot of similar sounds throughout but every song is still distinct. I think the moody layered production and lordes unique vocals blend together perfectly
This was really good, but 4 or 5? I'm gonna have to think about this. Alright, some thinking has been done. I'm going to rate this a 5. Because the more I think about it and the more I listen to the songs the more I love them. I am no expert on lyrics and I can't really tell if they're 'amazing' and 'original' or 'boring' and 'unoriginal.' But in my opinion Lorde's lyrics are pretty good. And the vocals are really what makes this album for me. The instruments are pretty basic on most songs but they do compliment the vocals very well. And that's why I rate this album a 9 or even a 10 out of 10. Green Light is the only song I heard before listening to this album. My personal favourites were Sober, The Louvre (although I'm not the fan of the "broadcast the boom, boom, boom and make 'em all dance to it" part), Liability and Supercut... well basically the whole album. I'm too tired to decide a definite favourite. The whole album was great. I would never had listened to this had I not got it from this generator, but sensational nonetheless. I just love the whole vibe of this album. P.S. This sounds a lot like Taylor Swift which is why I am even more surprised I rated this as high as I did. When I get a Taylor Swift album, will I rate that a 5/5 too??
It was good.
Great album. It really showed the progression of her talent, and it's a perfect soundtrack for a particular moment - heartbroken in your early 20s, partying to try and deal with it.
Better than I expected. It didn't drag or outstay its welcome
I’ve loved this album since its release.
Love this album. Kiwi artist. Pop perfection. "Green Light," and "Perfect Places," bangers
Fantastic
this is a really tough album to rate, which probably means it’s a 5. i didn’t love every song but there was only one song that i didn’t really like (Writer in the Dark). i think as an album and cohesive work it’s easily one of the best pop(?) albums of all time. especially with green light on there - all time banger
Great catchy pop record, very pleasantly surprised as the one song I knew from Lorde (Royals) doesn't normally do it for me.
Man I love this, probably my favorite Antonoff produced album I have heard.
01) Green Light - 10,0 02) Sober - 8,5 03) Homemade Dynamite - 9,0 04) The Louvre - 9,0 05) Liability - 9,5 06) Hard Feelings/Loveless - 9,0 07) Sober II (Melodrama) - 8,5 08) Writer in the Dark - 9,5 09) Supercut - 9,0 10) Liability (Reprise) - 8,5 11) Perfect Places - 9,0 TOTAL: 9,05 (91/100) Current ranking: 20/198 I didn't expect to like it this much. I know a couple of songs from the album, but I have a feeling that they sound better now than they did in 2017. There is not a single boring song, each one has something that draws you in to listen. The vocals are excellent, the production is superb and the result is 5 stars for me - Jelićka, welcome to the club.
This album came out when I was 20, and I listened to it nearly every day walking from the bus stop to where I was living at the time. Even then I thought it was an achievement in pop music. I hiked in the woods bumping "Green Light," got stoned on the beach to "Perfect Places," and wept at "Liability." Two years later I had my heartbroken for the first time and this album became a kind of confidant; it understood me during a time where I felt very lonely and uncertain I'd be happy again. I was excited to revisit this album again for this generator, and I do believe it deserves its spot on 1001 albums to hear before you die. Thanks for making 'Melodrama,' Lorde. Highlights: Green Light, Homemade Dynamite, The Louvre, Liability, Hard Feelings/Loveless, Writer In The Dark, Supercut, Perfect Places
te amo muchísimo lorde, gracias por plasmar de una manera tan hermosa la belleza en la tristeza. 10/10
A younger female artist who writes her own music and produced by Jack Antonoff, where have I seen this before l? In all seriousness this album was fantastic. I knew of Lorde's music mostly from the radio so I was excited to get one of her albums. And I was not disappointed. I always think music is better when the lyrics are personal to the artist and Lorde is a great example. Add in the production of Antonoff and you have a masterpiece. This is a great modern pop album that I'm surprised doesn't get talked about more after listening to it. Green Light is a fantastic opening song and sets a tone that stays throughout. The songs don't get repetitive and the album doesn't draw longer than it needs to. Definitely one I will come back to and an artist I plan to further explore.
Oh, how I have waited for the first Lorde album of this list! I'll try to blend out my early 20s nostalgia and try to be as objective as I can be and take this as a chance to really explore why I even like this music as much as I do. First Impressions: Lorde's voice -singing style -tone? has a fatalistic, nihilistic dramatic sound. You sense an underlying sadness paired with cool-headed detachment. Superb production. Fat beats. Booming bass. Head nodding. Danceable. Multi layered. Multi facetted. Varied. Recognizable. I regularly have homemade dynamite's hook stuck in my head at random times. Although, I have to admit: I can't immediately connect all song titles to their sounds, despite having listened to the whole album multiple times. On the one hand, this for me speaks to the quality of the album as a complete work. Sure, I have tracks I like more than others, but overall they blend together so well I don't really feel the need to look up and check what is currently playing. On the other hand, this also indicates that many songs may be too similar in terms of sound, content and general feel. But of course you have "Liability" and "Writer in the Dark", which break up the flow. I'm a sucker for ballads on non-slow sad song centric albums, but these hit extra hard, only featuring soothing piano scores and Lorde's vocals in between these heavy electronic beats. If you are a teenager/young adult, you can identify yourself with the lyrics. If you remember once being an angsty teenager/young adult, they might move you enough to feel nostalgic. Although I would say you don't even have to listen to them. The instrumentals and singing transport enough. After listening to it all, the critique I have is that the lyrics are very monothematic and tend towards exaggeration, the full and bombastic sounds are hard to digest towards the end, and somehow you wish for something more cheerful. But is this critique really valid, when the title of the album is "Melodrama" and Lorde literally sings "we told you this was melodrama" to you? Overall, the album has a certain style and transports a feeling that I couldn't really pinpoint up until now, and I feel stupid realizing it this late. According to Google, melodrama is "a sensational dramatic piece with exaggerated characters and exciting or sad events intended to appeal to the emotions.". This is Melodrama.
A showstopping phenomenal album from start to finish. Big hooks, biting lyrics. A masterpiece.
LORDE!!!
I like Pure Heroine more than this album, but it is still really unique and engaging. The electronic beats, her light vocal delivery, and the interesting spaces in the music. It seems deftly crafted and has a pretty unique sound. Though Liability and Perfect Places are probably strongest, nearly everything here is engaging.
Like if Taylor Swift and Regina Spektor had a baby
This was everything I expected and wanted it to be what an awesome songwriter she really picks up on some universal feelings and experiences that are lesser-explored and loves to explore them in her songs which I find really cool. If she only didn't sing with the speech impediment voice lmaooo
I’m just a sucker for pop, man. It’s a 4.5 that I’m gonna round up to a 5. It’s just a really fucking catchy album; there’s a lot to be said about Jack Antonoff’s influence (for better or worse) on so much of modern pop, but when he clicks perfectly with an artist, it’s easy to ignore those production quirks and just get a great feel for the music. Lorde’s vocals and lyrics on this album do a great job of distracting from those quirks in a way that makes her really shine on this album. I do think she gives a more authentic view of herself on Pure Heroine compared to this album, but they’re intentionally tonally different. Even though I think I still prefer aspects of Pure Heroine more, this album is just full of bops, and it’s got an extremely infectious energy. Oddly, my standout on this album is Liability, which is the least boppy of them all, but it’s just an utterly beautiful piano-driven song that brought me to the verge of tears. I can feel how this album did influence the direction this style of pop music would take; you don’t get to a Billie Eilish or an Olivia Rodrigo without this sort of album, in terms of its soundscape, its lyrics, and to some degree, its marketability. This style is starting to feel a bit overplayed now, but Lorde really makes it work for herself here, and I’m glad I listened to it. I feel pretty good going for a 5. Certainly no less than a 4.
After an unprecedented effect on the pop music landscape with her debut Pure Heroine, Lorde wanted to expand her artistic reach with her second album. Quite simply, that effort paid off in spades. From a production standpoint, it's impeccable as she made full use of Jack Antonoff as her producer this time. Together, they took the pop satire from her previous effort and added better framing, stronger melodies, and greater influence. Lorde's intense delivery is expanded here from soft coos to outright belting that opens her range. Peppered throughout are just enough discordant elements to add to the intensity, such as the horns on "Sober" or the unstable guitar on "Hard Feelings/Loveless". Enough is going on here musically to serve as a fitting backdrop for the loose framework in the forefront. Lyrically, this album was written based on Lorde's experience after her first breakup. The album opens with the one-two-three punch of "Green Light", "Sober", and "Homemade Dynamite", setting the stage for a reckless party where Lorde is acutely self-aware of how inflaming such an environment can be. She throws herself in too deep for the temptation of it all which makes the heartbreak on "Liability" all the more piercing. From there, that heartbreak is processed, from the separation felt in "Hard Feelings/Loveless", to obsession in "Writer in the Dark", to the reliving of memories in "Supercut". All for her to come around at the end with "Perfect Places", reaching a point where she accepts the consequence of the reckless love experienced, but is not one to abandon it. This album takes a deconstructive approach to pop music, then comes around and celebrates it much harder. It lives up to its title, but with enough sense of humanity that makes the trip worthwhile.
Absolute fire!
This album is art. I will always love it.
DAMN SO GOOD not a bad song - but all i can imagine is lorde shushing the crowd
How in the world is this album already seven(!) years old? After a ripper debut, Melodrama catapulted Lorde even higher into the stratosphere - if that was even possible. There are so many amazing singles on this album, it's a real shame she missed out on the album of the year at the Grammys. I have also never noticed how much most of this album could have been sung by Taylor Swift. In particular The Louvre - pop this on a TS album and you would have trouble finding it out of place. Makes sense when you find out that Jack Antonoff was a producer and co-writer for the majority of Melodrama. Best: Green Light Worst: Writer In The Dark
One of my favorite albums of all time. It’s so cohesive and such a vibe, but each song is distinct and bold. The production on this album is second to none (this coming from a Jack Antonoff hater). Green Light - I remember not liking it when it first came out, now it’s such a bop. “Honey I’ll come get my things but I won’t let go” just /pierces/ me Sober - love the horns in the background And homemade dynamite is opposite of Green Light for me. I loved it, listened to it to death, and can’t get into it the same. Still great though! The Lourve - the “boom boom make ‘em all dance to it” makes me laugh, it feels out of place to me, but what do I know. Killer guitar effects though. Liability - brb, sobbing Hard feelings/Loveless - I still don’t get why this isn’t two songs. Hard feelings is one of my favorites, I could do a whole 3 minutes of that. Maybe that’s my hard feeling to sit with… The song and fading away from someone makes my heartbreak, she does such a good job of making a song sound like heartbreak feels. Sober II - I never appreciated the vocals on this one until today. Underrated hit of the album. Reminds me of Brittany Spears tbh. Writer in the Dark - The indignant win the words “I’ll love you til you call the cops on me” gives me such an image of how she felt writing those words, a little tongue in cheek but maybe hurt enough that a little serious. Super cut - this is the song I relate to most, romanticizing everything rather bitter sweetly but it’s all still beautiful. Casual afternoon crush is what I’ve always had on others. Perfect Places - had me dancing in the airport, I ate that UP
One of them albums that was on my Spotify already
A modern classic. Easy 5/5
Very very good
Probably the biggest change in my listening habits over the past decade or so is consuming much more overtly ‘pop’ music, and Lorde - particularly this album - is responsible for a lot of that. I dunno, it just pushes all my buttons. Maybe it makes me nostalgic for younger, more hedonistic and indeed more melodramatic times that were already fading fast in 2017 and definitely aren’t coming back now? Maybe it’s the sheer quantity of certified bangers, and the equally high number of emotional epics (which sometimes coalesce into ‘emotional bangers’)? Maybe it’s the seamless blend of catchy melodies and quirky futuristic production? Well whatever, it’s my kind of pop. If Lorde’s broadcastin’ the boom boom boom boom, I’m dancin’.
Not always a fan of woeful heartbreak music but I love Lorde’s artful take on it. Her funky beats and beautiful melodies mixed with raw emotions and occasional dance vibes are sad and uplifting at the same time. A delightful journey of sound! She rocks.
Amazing album. I have no idea why it wasn't as popular as her first one but this one is great!! So many tasty hooks. I love this album!
Déjà cet album, très yum
Had already listened to this album when it released in summer 2017. Was a favourite of mine during that summer while I interned at DWHP. Very catchy pop songs with some nice ballads mixed in.
Always epic.
Noice. The voice, the vibes, the originality.
Awesome album
F*ing Amazing.
Rating: 10/10
Still hits in the feels. Enjoyed the influence from electropop and choral layering of vocals and piano melodies. Lyrics and themes are still on point
Mm
Echt geil, gleich gebookmarked
as dazzlingly saturated and syrupy as a perfect piece of french toast. one of the best pop albums of the 2010s. i think if you rate this lower than 4 stars you should immediately go to jail.
i honestly didn't expect to like this as much as i did. my fiancee is really into lorde so i was thrilled for her that we spun into this album, but there's a lot of depth and nuance to it. it opens strong with green light and sober, and is kind of a roller coaster after that. the ballads were a little dull but otherwise this album was great! favorites: green light, sober, liability, hard feelings/loveless, sober ii (melodrama), supercut, perfect places
Top 5 album ever imo
One of the things I'm most grateful for in life is that I was 17 and dumped by my first love the week this album came out. Even now, when I fall for someone new I get excited at the prospect of potential future heartbreak just so I can curl up under my blanket sobbing and experience Melodrama the way the Lorde meant it to be.
Album no. 9/1001 Yes! Lorde's best work (a shame that Solar Power doesn't have this sound production quality).
Lorde - Melodrama This is Lorde's second album. It's a bit of a departure from her debut album, Pure Heroin. Produced by Jack Antonoff (Bleachers, T. Swift, Lana Delray). She made this album in part due to her disillusionment with fame as well as a way to capture the heartbreak and solitude after her first breakup. I really like her first album, but after listening to this one a few times, I think this is better. So many good hooks in these songs. Plus, I love Jack Antonoff. His producing is top notch and he has a way of making a song so catchy what it stays in your head. It's hard to believe that Lorde was only 19 when she started working on this album and was 21 when it was released. 5/5
Loved every song. Really really great album.
Pop que para ser bastante comercial convencional me ha gustado bastante. Le voy a dar un 5, fíjate tú.
It’s a brilliant body of work from a woman that young. She was just given the spark
lorde is part of the coveted sophomore-album-curse-dodger list. this album really did shape my interest in music and it still holds up today. the passing of time is terrifying but i can still feel 19 when melodrama plays in my ears. it's just another graceless night fr!
Didnt know about this New Zealand singer and compositor, love it
Really liked it- have heard parts of the album before. Listened while unpacking our stuff into our new home.
1/12/24
I have loved this album ever since it released. Liability fuelled my depression for years. Thank you
Day 5/1001 Pop perfection - Lorde at her best. Her poignant lyricism and Jack Antonoff's layered production create amazing microcosms that unbelievably somehow form a project greater than the sum of its parts. Must-listen.
I've been listening to this album since it came out and it's still sounds amazing and fresh. I don't think it's gonna be all time classic but on the other hand I laughed a lot while reading some reviews stated that this is generic pop, I mean c'mon, seriously? Also cover of this album is so eye-catching, like a work of art of it's own. In the end, this is my list so light 5 stars from me.
As much as I liked Pure Heroine, I should've listened to this earlier. Lorde has an amazing voice and this album flows seamlessly.
I fucking love this album I don't even need to listen to it 5/5 stars amazing stunner top favs
Tästä tulee mieleen aivan Lana Del Ray. Ihanaa chillailua, ilman huolia. Paitsi, että onhan niitä huolia kaikenlaisia, varsinkin parisuhdehuolia. Green Light rumpukomppineen sopii hyvin lenkkilistalle. Muissa vähän liikaa himmailua lenkkimusiikiksi. Kuuntelen kyllä uudelleen:
Not interested
This came out right after I graduated high school, and my relationship with this album was basically just liking it more and more as I progressed through college and grew up. I had a record player at my college house and this was near the top of the most played list just because everyone would pick it when searching through the record collection. The music is great (obv awesome vocals, but all of the songs are overall super memorable and the perfect amount of poppy), the lyrics and the central themes are great (oversaturation of the party lifestyle, confusing relationships, etc), the production is great (basically made Jack Antonoff a known name imo). At the end of the day though, it simply bangs and will certainly be remembered as one of the best albums of the 2010s.
Really liked it Homemade dynamite surprise stand out
one of my favourite albums of all time lorde is a sister that ive never had a mother i wish i had ect ect
Exceptional. Liability lives rent free in my head for years now. This album is not new for me and I often revisit because it’s truly one of the best pop albums of the 10s.
Anything by Lorde, I'm always here for it. Supercut is one of my fav songs ever.
Iconic. Legendary. Who is doing it like her? This album will forever have my heart, got me through difficult times and I appreciate it differently everytime I listen. This is Melodrama, baby!
Lordeee! Randy!
I realize i may be the odd woman out but i love me some pop music! I am willing to overlook some of the jack antanoff production issues (sometimes it just sounds really empty) to give this 5 stars lmao Also supercut is a BOP and should have been the lead single And keep in mind guys its called melodrama, the point is that its melodramatic ;)
YES! love
Lorde has such a rich voice. She deals with interesting themes on this album with a good mix of up-tempo and down-tempo bangers.
I did not realize how much I like Lorde
Oh god my aloof uni peers were right
- Incredibly well produced moody pop - The title and cover fit the album perfectly - Songs are catchy and bring back some good memories
- everything she sings sounds dangerous and important - tells an awesome story of heartbreak and drugs and alcohol and life - fantastic production - 4.5 but rounds up because life is short
Good shit
Przesłuchane 2 razy++++
Reminds me of highschool and being young
This album has a lot more energy than the Björk album I listened to. I like that. The music also has a nice floaty texture to it. I'm not getting an emotional connection, but I can lean back and and listen to all the little complexities of the work. Ok, I'm getting a bit of an emotional connection to "Liability".
Incredible, great story. Homemade Dynamite and Liability are excellent.
Great Indie record. I'm a huge Jack antonoff fan and his work just feels right the energy and hurt the Lorde felt to put into this album.
great album. Easy listen
A perfect pop album.
Heard it before?: Yea Enjoy it?: I adore this masterpiece so easiest 5 ever and probably my first on here? This conveys and deals with naturally one of life’s hardest moments and shows you how to grow from it, effortless, beautiful to a T and so so memorable, this is going to be the first vinyl I buy. Favourite song: (never been so stuck for choice but) Track 9 - Supercut
brings me to such a specific time in my life,,, this really was a moment huh
I was obsessed with this when it originally released. Green Light is such a great start the album. Liability is such an Antonoff song. I'm pretty sure there's a Bleachers song that uses this melody. 4.5/5
Great vocals paired with great production. Awesome 2010s pop music. Essential tracks: The Louvre (Playlist) Green Light Sober
undeniably great
4.5. Big college album for me so there’s some personal bias
I first listened to this album in 2018 and I loved it then, my love for it as only grown since then. The album is a breeze the whole way through, I enjoy all of the songs. Highlights include the beautiful ballad Liability, the Lourve, I could probably list every song on the album. I think when it comes to her contemporaries, this album stands out. I think it's better than anything that was going on in female pop at the time. For me, its a 5/5, beating out the likes of 1989, which, while good, just doesn't have the same flow as this record. This album is also the peak of Jack Antonoff, before the diminishing returns we have seen in the last few years with a copy and paste approach.
The perfect album of pop from the 10s. Lorde has it all here: nostalgia, regret, desire, love… great album!
feels like scrolling tumblr which overall would be an ass experience but unfortunately is nostalgic to me
GOD does this album rule
So, without a doubt this is one of my favorite albums of the last say 15 years. Melodrama is an album which centers around the breakup of Lorde's then boyfriend, and it's a story of the feelings and mindset she had following it, along with a deep introspective look at herself. Green Light basically is a proclamation of almost anger at the result, and the little they really did know each other. Songs like Sober and Homemade Dynamite show her going out and trying to party the feelings away, hooking up with a one night crush so to speak, and the excitement which first comes from doing something risky, yet rewarding at that very present moment. You can sense that even in the more playful, club and dance feel to these songs. The Louvre is where things begin to shift, a song which is more subtle, almost lighter in a way while she sings about the positives of said fling, or even interpreted as the positives of her former relationship before really diving into the introspective Liability. Lorde opens herself up against only a stark simple piano, as she heartbreakingly sings about maybe she's the problem here, and generally unreliable as a lover and a friend. Hard Feelings/Loveless is in ways the climax of the album. A song like a black and white cookie, two opposite parts with the more spacey Hard Feelings turning into almost an industrial pop banger as she sings about memories of her ex, not in a place of anger like the beginning of the album, but one of sadness in its end. Loveless juxtaposes this, feeling almost like a younger teenager's reaction to the end of a relationship, that is merely hurt and wanting to hurt the other person back. Sober II and Liability (Reprise) are almost extensions of the respective previous tracks, but done in a way which reverses the ideas of the previous two tracks. Both are slower, atmospheric numbers, with Sober II almost representing the end of the party from before, and the realization how temporary that feeling of euphoria is, while the Reprise of Liability is Lorde realizing how the party she went to does nothing for her, but that she shouldn't be too hard on herself for what happened. The entirety of the 2nd half of the album after Loveless continue this idea of moving forward as well. The stripped back Writer in the Dark as she laments the relationship but now focuses on moving on. Supercut, a highlight of mine, has a pulsing deep house beat and builds to the idea of remembering the good times but realizing it really is time to let go. And the finale Perfect Places, a soaring number which ends the party and talks about the feelings of how perfect a night may be thanks to drugs, sex, and alcohol, but how all of those are temporary. However, going to a perfect place even for a little while can help people move on. It's a stellar, beautiful pop record in so many ways to me, with a really interesting narrative for a subject many write about. The lyrics are done strikingly well, the production is wonderfully layered and complement the themes brilliantly thanks to some great work by Jack Antonoff, and overall this album will remain a favorite of mine.
When it comes to pop I don’t think it gets much better than this and that’s why it gets a 5. Exceedingly listenable, excellent production, lyrics on point, and it doesn’t feel too long or repetitive which is my gripe with most pop albums. One note is that Green Light is an odd choice for an opening song - it’s so big it feels like a closer. But other than that this is a strong album that elevates the genre.
This album shows how great ambitious pop be! The arrangements were really interesting (The horns arrangement on "Sober". Wow!) and the album as a whole sounds pretty unique. Having said that, I do think that some of the songs start to sound a little similar towards the end. I also don’t think "Green Light" should’ve been the first track, as it was not one of the more musically interesting ones and does a disservice to the rest of the album by being the opening track. Ultimately this was still great all-around and Lorde clearly built on what she did on her first album here and you can definitely hear the growth between those albums. Would do a 4.5 if possible. Favorite tracks: Sober, Homemade Dynamite, Hard Feelings/Loveless, Sober II (Melodrama)
Own on Vinyl
4.5/5
Easiest review ever
This is the good stuff. First 5-6 songs are an all time way to start and album, and I wish Perfect Places had a 3x longer runtime. Such a well constructed album, from the production, to the moody lyrics, to the great cover art…even melodrama is such a good name for an album.
Omg what a discover! I’m in love hahaha
Bombové. Green Light je mega banger. Občas trochu pokulhává produkce. Ale i tak parádní 9/10
Esta bueno para background, pero para guardar canciones me dan huevitas.
Pre-2017-me was a difficult beast, with an uncontrollable superiority complex around music. When I was a teenager, I refused to listen to anything that wasn't the Beatles until 70's prog became a perfect vehicle for my holier-than-thou intellectualising. Six years and one stint in a Genesis-worshipping prog band later, and I'd made tentative steps towards pop through offbeat, alternative artists (Kate Bush, Talking Heads, Magnetic Fields), but still rarely ventured into the uncharted waters of post-millennium music. But then, in April 2017, on came "Green Light"… and somehow I felt it was time to change. Maybe I was drawn in because Bowie had proclaimed Lorde as the future of music. Maybe it was the multi-layered composition, building up perfectly over the first minute. Maybe it was those seismic tom fills before the chorus, sounding straight out of "Hounds of Love". But I was quietly hooked, and from then I just kept sinking deeper. With each new release, I found something else to love. The haunted, broken and beautiful songwriting behind "Liability." The cathartic chorus of "Perfect Places", both wistful and euphoric. And, when the album came out, I became head-over-heels. This is Lorde's crowning achievement, full of danceable hooks, wry humour and abject heartbreak, sometimes all in a few lines (see "Homemade Dynamite": "we'll end up painted on the road, red and chrome, all the broken glass sparkling… I guess we're partying"). It's also Jack Antonoff's finest hour, with countless ear-grabbing production choices and instrumentation (horns and bongos in "Sober", grinding metal synths in "Hard Feelings", sudden cuts to a capella at various points in the record). Tight, focused, emotive, cohesive… "Melodrama" taught me a lot, but mainly opened the door to pop music not as something to scorn, or covet as a guilty pleasure, but something to savour. Pop can make you want to dance- like the choruses of "Green Light" and "Homemade Dynamite"- or it can make you want to curl up and die like "Liability" or my album favourite "Hard Feelings / Loveless". It didn't die in 1986, the next generation are not out to desecrate music, and lovesick 2010's ballads can still be thrilling, heart-wrenching works of art. I am just a few months older than Lorde, and was going through my own period of growing up at the time of "Melodrama"'s release. Nowadays, I still have a little whiff of a superiority complex - many of my reviews will show you that - but I like to think I'm getting better. And I owe a huge chunk of that to Lorde, Jack Antonoff and "Melodrama". What a perfect place.
Duh
The decision to root the majority of this synth pop album in piano is what makes it feel timeless yet very much a product of the 2010s. It works really well. The album art captures the essence of the album in its composition and color choice. Favorite tracks: Almost impossible to choose, but likely between Liability, The Louvre, and Loveless. 5/5.
A modern day masterpiece
Bit of a surprise for me, but I really dig it.
Captures what it’s like to be a young person-and especially a young woman-in the new millennium better than almost any other young artist today. Lorde is a rare talent.
haunting, deep electronic melodies with a fantastic voice that isn't overbearing. Never knew I liked Lorde this much.
I'm a pophead, and this is a perfect pop album.
This is the type of pop music I like - very emotional. It flows really well - especially the climactic ‘Writer In The Dark’ into ‘Supercut’. It feels very genuine.
Great
Favorites: -Green light -Writer in the dark -Supercut -Perfect places
Look. As a late 20-something, you best believe I have a Spotify playlist dedicated to sad girl music like this. Melodrama is sad but also danceable, it's emotional but also has bite. I feel the music, regardless of whether or not I've experienced exactly what she sings about first-hand. And Lorde, although not necessarily the best singer, sounds great here. She shows off the different qualities and emotions of her voice, and despite sharing some similarities to the 𝓬𝓾𝓻𝓼𝓲𝓿𝓮 𝓼𝓲𝓷𝓰𝓮𝓻𝓼 of the indie genre, she doesn't drop into the pitfalls of oversinging, over-enunciating, and just generally sounding annoying. I liked this one a lot, and maybe I should look into her music (past the singles) more. Standout tracks were Green Light and Homemade Dynamite.
Break up blues!
Love this album to death
Really damn good!!
I - 10 II - 9 III - 8 IV - 8 V - 10 VI - 8 ---------- VII - 7 VIII - 9 IX - 9 X - 6 XI - 10 PROMEDIO 1RA PARTE: 8.8 PROMEDIO 2DA PARTE: 8.2 PROMEDIO TOTAL: 8.5 NOTA FINAL: STRONG 9
Amazing
Много написала, но все удалилось :( По звучанию мне прям попал в sweet spot. По смыслу хз.
Офигенная поп-музыка, которая цепляет лирикой и аранжировками. Чувствуешь, что альбом отточено звучит и Lorde прекрасно понимает себя и свою аудиторию
Probably not a popular choice but it’s my favorite album of hers.
Really great pop album that I did not like much upon its initial release.
I remember being excited for this album when it came out because I liked Pure Heroine so much and then being disappointed after only listening to green light but 15 year old me was clearly a dumbass because 21 year old me thought this album is excellent. It's dreamy, nostalgic, and sad all at the same time while also being a pioneer of the type of female pop music that's been done to death at this point. I love Sour but there's no way Olivia Rodrigo is where she is without stuff like this. Perfect places, green light, and super cut are my favs but mainly perfect places.
Masterpiece, a classic for me
I love the dynamic loves she has. It's beautiful and sad at the same time. Super boppy.
As a someone who barely makes the cut to be a Millenial, this album is fantastic. The production threw me for a loop when I first heard it back in 2017 and holds up pretty well. Lorde's lyrics really encapsulated how I felt during my college years.
When we talk about the top 10 albums of 2017, this better be among that list because Ella went INNNNNN. Let's start with the iconic Green Light, Jay Gatsby could never amount to this level of icon status Sober is my drunk anthem and the BRIDGE Jack Antonoff gets a lot of hate but he has solidified his main pop girl status with this Homemade Dynamite is so smart, so teenage self destruction The creativity of the titles are so camp I am so upset she lost album of the year to that MJ impersonator Anywho, The Louvre always has me in my feels I am approaching my 19th birthday and I am so excited to feel this album course through my veins Liability, interlude and title track are all precious Writer in the Dark almost had me admitted to a psych ward, I'm not kidding I lost weight from crying to this masterpiece I am so upset that I am listening to this when I should be studying for my exams ahhhh Hard Feelings is going to put me in a coma, it's so depressing ahhhh Gotta love shaking some ass and that is what Loveless came to serve, she's putting the shrimp on the barbie, a party girl to her COOOREE. I love how all over the place the album is, it is so confined to this one house party but she travels through so many locations with her words. A WRITER. HER PEN'S INK WILL NEVER RUN DRY. Jesus literally talks about this in the bible Supercut and Perfect Places deserve a Pulitzer and nothing less. That joint smokes too hard I imagine a tv show ending every time I hear Perfect Places and I kind of covet the loneliness and euphoria of a highschool party, no matter how lame. I want it bad. Ella congrats for creating such a masterpiece, this will surely be going in the Louvre. Rest assured Queenie I wish women got more credit. The production is bomb but y'all already knew that
it's not an exaggeration to say that this is one of if not the best pop albums of the past decade and change. this shit rocks green light is a hell of an opener. lorde has a habit of making really impactful full albums and having certain songs (royals, green light) pulled away from the work as a whole and taken into the greater pop culture lexicon. green light as its own song is fucking fantastic, but it's also a really great opener for the picture lorde is trying to paint on melodrama, the picture of living life as a young woman feeling a full spectrum of emotions i love this album, you should too - it's really accessible (intentionally) while also bringing some really interesting and complicated musical stuff into the mix. all-time pop record right here
Never really paid much attention to Lorde before, but this album slaps!
A real moody and emotional affair, you can feel the teenage angst all throughout the tracklist, melodrama is a perfect title. The story telling here is very relatable whilst still remaining personal and interesting. The real highlight for me is the the anthemic opener Green Light with its thumping drums and catchy piano melody. A fantastic pop song in so many ways. The rest of the album is consistently great as well. The intrumentation is used intelligently throughout with tracks never sounding too busy but still interesting. I particularly love the horn section on sober and Lorde's hushed vocals work well throughout - a vocal style that has become very popular in recent years. I'd go as far as to say Melodrama is probably the best mainstream pop album of the 2010's. While her debut arguably had a bigger cultral impact, this was her creative peak.
Oh, this was excellent. I should have listened to it before now.
idk yet
J'essaye d'être objectif mais le biais d'exposition est trop puissant
Qué grata sorpresa me llevé con este disco. De sólo conocer Royals, ahora me interesa saber más de lo que ha hecho Lorde en su carrera. Su manera de cantar no es impresionante pero no tiene que serlo. Las letras son muy buenas y los arreglos interesantes sin caer en lo exagerado e hiperdetallista. Me estuve debatiendo entre subir o bajar este 4.5 ya que me gustó mucho aunque tampoco es un disco perfecto pero sí pienso volver a escucharlo y ponerle más atención a la artista en general así que sí, se lleva su 5. Songs: Writer in the Dark, Liability, Perfect Places
Worth a re listen, elements of Kate Bush
Pop que para ser bastante comercial convencional me ha gustado bastante. Le voy a dar un 5, fíjate tú.
Iloinen yllätys aiemmin minulle tuntemattomalta artistilta. Tämä oli oikein miellyttävää kuunneltavaa. Lorden äänenkäyttö oli monipuolista ja biisit olivat sopivasti hieman taiteellisia, mutta ei kuitenkaan överivaikeaa kuunneltavaa. Jossain siellä Bat for Lashesin ja Regina Spektorin välimaastossa. 5/5
Me gustó bastante, estrellita
+5
I listened to this album closer than some other albums because I wanted to find a reason not to rate a Lorde album 5 stars. There wasn’t a track on here I didn’t like. I have no excuse to give this leas credit than it deserves. The lyrics are clever, the music is catchy, I like the beats, the synths, and the vocals are delivered really well. Overall it’s an album that is filled with good tracks that are fun to listen to.
bello!
I didnt even know she had a second album
I have heard of Lorde. Haven’t heard any of her music. She has a great voice: husky and sexy. Sparse music. Mostly electronic. All the songs are good. A very good album. Four stars.
(84/100)
A good effort, Lorde keeps within her normal vocal range, with similar beats but a good diversity of outcomes on each song - good album overall, I'd give it a listen again!
After knowing of this album by reputation only because it was well reviewed when it released I was underwhelmed. It rings very loud of aaa pop album status with its overworked production at the same time Lorde's vocals aren't dynamic enough for me. It's not until the last half of the album any track has vocal notes firmly in the treble clef. I favorited one of the singles but overall this was very good but not great to me
Pas beaucoup d’amour pour Lorde ici! Je ne dirais pas que l’album au complet m’accroche complètement, mais les singles sont excellents. Perfect Places pour fermer l’album c’est parmi mes chansons favorites
Incredible pop with a modern sound and relatable lyrics
Jeg foretrekker Pure Heroine, men dette er solide saker.
Gjenomført og bra plate. Hadde bare hørt et par låter av henne før. Men dette høres jo veldig ut som en Tylor Swift plate.
Emotions from a house party, jack antonoff collab Green light
Loved this. It doesn't sound much like anything else I've heard, except perhaps Imogen Heap.
melodrama is definitely more fleshed out than pure heroine but it does not have as strong of an emotional and musical 'grab' as pure heroine
Happy to see this one come up. Great album but a great artist. David Bowie himself appreciated Lorde and saw her as an inspirational and unique individual. Who can argue with that?
I liked it, good album
I dug it
Oh thank god
Very interesting listening to this at the same time as famesick. Looked up the Wikipedia of this and her ex she wrote this about shares the name with a nz rugby player and I got excited for a fun tidbit to pull out- he’s just a photographer :(. Not a huge fan of the album otherwise. Specific rating - 3.8 Fav song - Green light Least fav - sober
I'm exactly the target audience for this album and I've been targeted well. I mean it's literally an album about being an overdramatic Ella in your early 20s/late teens. I love Writer In The Dark but I always think about the videos of her shushing the audience at her concerts so she can sing it without them. Favourite song: Liability (or Supercut, mood dependent) Least: Hard Feelings/Loveless
Not bad, don't know if it's the fresh air because its pretty rare to have a more recent album, could drop in rating depending on context.
4/5 7.55/10 not a lorde fan but some songs good.
Leuk album
Wow, so good. I dint think I was going to like this, but it I did. She's almost up there with Lana I think. It somewhat reminded me of Lola young and the last dinner party. So I guess Lorde has definitely inspired some other artists.
So it's pretty much just Midnights by taylor Swift but a few years earlier. Really great production, a little bit samey though, doesn't really take you on a journey, but immaculately crafted modern pop
4/5
(Light 8/10) A marked improvement over Pure Heroine, an already mature-beyond-her years Lorde improves on her minimalist alt-pop formula with help from Jack Antonoff, creating a very compelling piece of work that plays very wholistically from Track One to Eleven. While a few songs were a tad derivative of her peers; E.G. Lana and Taylor, overall Lorde's lyricism and storytelling make up for any similarities in the aesthetic I've noticed. This is one of those records you can't shuffle, very good listen.
Really strong collection of chunk synths and modern pop ballarding. Great
I like this album.
Nice and cozy
Great pop and experimental tracks fuse togheter, really cool
I thought this album was awesome! Just the right amount of production, one of the better pop albums that I've heard.
Really, really liked it, will listen to it one more time to pick my favourites, but she was definitely a revelation with this album 😍
Good stuff. Opening track is a banger. Lyricism is very good and it’s musically interesting. Sometimes could be considered a bit samey, would have liked a bit more variation around the feel, but still very good.
me gustaron todas las canciones... buena para una sesion en el gym
Slay
Najs kanske ska lyssna mer på Lorde, 4/5!
Not bad for a Colorado geologist/weed farmer.
she's got such a piercing voice and it's great!
Great album with great production. An obvious departure from her first album, with a lot more going on, but it works, and it works well.
Recommend
Singer songwriters are in my wheelhouse, but this one still surprised me. I enjoyed it a lot - quite good.
would give 3.5, idk kinda cringe (?)
I was slightly surprised to see this album on the list, as I remember it being popular but I don't particularly remember critical acclaim. I already loved several songs on this album, including the heartbreaking Liability and the rejuvenating Perfect Places. Planning to add this to my collection.
This album surprised me, it was pretty good!
great excuse to finally listen! green light is definitely the least good song on this album, seriously underrated track list
Bra men minns som bättre. Knsk mer bangers på Heroine
All very catchy
Lorde is a difficult artist for me. I like much of her music, but she strikes me as an artist who takes herself too seriously. Maybe she comes across as lacking humility? I can’t put my finger on it. Something about her just irks me. I don’t particularly love her voice, but when it works, it works incredibly well. With all that said, I rather enjoyed this album. Many of the beats were interesting, most of the songwriting is quality, and it took me on an emotional journey. I’m also a fan of Jack Antonoff’s production style overall. I really love the album artwork as well. I wouldn’t say I’d reach for the album as a whole to listen to regularly, but I did save some tracks to my favorites playlist.
Wish the ratings were out of 10. Also wish it was Pure Heroine instead of Melodrama
Notable Textzeile: All the nights spent off our faces Trying to find these perfect places What the fuck are perfect places anyway? Mir gefällt diese federleichte Mischung von Gitarren, Beats, Klavier. Dazu auch die Stimme, die öfter tiefer und voller klingt als sie eigentlich ist. Klar, da sind viele Rezepte der zweiten Hälfte der 10er wie man sie auch von anderen Female-Pop-Singer-Songwriter kennen, aber nothing wrong with it wenn die Ausführung so gut gelingt. Die Texte finde ich in ihrer Offenheit für alle Teenies der Welt anschlussfähig zu sein trotzdem sehr schön in ihrer unaufgeregten Art. Sehr schönes Popalbum. 3,5 wird zu 4.
Okay, einerseits finde ich ein bisschen komisch, wenn mir Musik gut gefällt die offensichtlich nicht auf mich als Zielgruppe formuliert ist, andererseits ist Jack Antonoff auch Jahrgang 1984 und der hat song credits auf jedem Song. Fantastisches Songwriting, super Produktion, schon eins der besten und am klügsten gemachten Pop Alben der 2010er. Reicht es für ne 5? Knapp nicht für mich, weil dafür die Variation zu klein ist und es dich einige Filler gibt.
Very Taylor swift like. They share the same producers and writers
Hats off to anyone that can get Pseudoephedrine into a lyric. Nice pop album. Good voice and (it must be said in this day and age) great to (seemingly) not be tainted by autotune. She appears to be an actual talent.
A concrete part of being a teenager is Lorde.
Relaxing and energetic at the same time. I hade to re-listen thrice.
There are some really good songs on here, Green Light, Sober, Writer in the Dark, Perfect Places. But also lots of others that feel more forgettable. Overall I don’t like it more than Pure Herione. Probably more like a 3.5
Cool vibes. Good production
Lowk fire
I liked this a lot. Much more than I thought I would. Four stars
I like to split some albums on strength of concept and strength of execution; and this one nails both in the supercharged emotion of a teenager. It has bops, it has slow songs, it has ballads, it has sadness. It’s a come down in emotion and production from the first but keeps the core things. Lorde is such an incredible vocalist and it really shows her range here. While that youth csn been an asset it does occasionally drag, but otherwise just perfect pop album. Also Jack Antonoff putting up fucking Steve Nash levels of pop music assists, the goat.
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Pretty decent, not as good as her first album but still pretty good!
sUpErCuT oF uS 4
Love this series of grooves. I miss some of the remixes released later. A great album from a great artist.
I was very excited when this came up. I really like what I hear on the radio from Lorde, I've just never gone an explored this record. She has a relatively different style, which makes her a fun listen. Amazing how she can blend ballads into dance music almost seamlessly. Her voice is cool, even if it's not an amazing instrument. Still, the way she approaches songs is fun and interesting. I could get why some might say the moodiness might be a bit heavy handed, but this didn't bother me at all. At times she has a pretty staccato style, reminded me a touch of Ed Sheeran who can do something similar. That said, she's totally unique, which makes her very engaging. It's incredible that she can be somewhat minimalistic but still create a cool, full sound. I've always liked Green Light, really excellent track. Plenty of others to like on here, including The Louvre, Perfect Places, the reprise of Liability (better than the original, albeit shorter), and Hard Feelings/Loveless. An excellent record. 4-stars.
Ok this album artwork is sickening. Glad to see some female pop on here.
This album has A LOT more to it than Liability. Also, just found out Lorde is a New Zealander. Hows about that?! Would listen again!
de lo mejor que hizo Lorde
I'm on the younger side of list-delvers here, but I remember distinctly when this album dropped. It absolutely ran through the university dorm I was at in 2017 like the killdozer. The guy in the room next door claimed to have met her at a party once. This, Blonde, and Currents were the anthem of my first embarkment into adulthood, and so I feel like I can't reasonably look at this album with anything but violently rose-tinted glasses. It's a very well-produced album, and Lorde has such a beautiful, smoky voice. Lyrically solid, and a decent swathe of variety. Been ages since I listened to breakout-hit Pure Heroine but I recall this being somewhat about the same level of quality. It's definitely bigger and more pop-py. The waves of electronic-inspired pop production led by female artists over these last few years, somewhat inspired by Lorde's success, has been a blessing. Melodrama is wall to wall excellent pop singles that deserve the regular radio rotation they seem to enjoy down here in Australia. Fav tracks: Green Light, Homemade Dynamite, Hard Feelings/Loveless, Supercut
"But my hips have missed your hips/So, let's get to know the kicks/Will you sway with me?/Go astray with me?" - Sober Homemade Dynamite é sobre o que todo jovem já viveu, ou quer viver: sair, encontrar gente, festejar, beber e fazer sexo, uam noite caótica entre jovens, onde tudo pode dar errado e você só vai... O álbum descreve a ida à uma festa em casal, a volta sozinha depois de uma briga. Eu ouvi esse álbum umas três vezes seguidas, foi ficando cada vez melhor depois do estranhamento onde eu analisei mais de perto as letras. Eu gostei principalmente de "Hard Feelings/Loveless" e "Writer In The Dark"
There’s enough stylistic variety here to impress even the biggest skeptic and yer there’s also a lot of coherence
enjoyable, not all as poppy as some of her tracks (green light) but very listenable
Gen X'er here. Just found out I'm going to be a grandfather (which I'm excited about, BTW) and wondered where the time has gone. In a way, I get that same feeling from Lorde on this album. She pines for the better times of a relationship that has ended, yearns for the newness of infatuation, celebrates the adrenaline rush of the party life but explores its emptiness as she comes down from the high and embraces the solitude. I'm amazed to be typing these words about a quirky artist I knew only from the ubiquitous Royals and the recent, subpar Solar Power. Definitely some Taylor Swift vibes in some tunes (maybe the Jack Antonoff connection?) and in the lyrics of songs like Writer in the Dark. Appreciate the cleverness of The Louvre. Vocally, I get some of the Kate Bush comparisons. I listened to this twice through and found it enjoyable. High 3 for me, so I'm rounding up.
Unfortunately I can’t give an objective vote, since green light started playing I wanted to cry because of nostalgia
Lovely voice
8.5 / 10
I liked this album. I though it was well put together, with great opening and closing tracks. I enjoyed almost every song. However, I inexplicably find myself disliking Lorde herself. Every song paints her in a very unflattering light, at least from my point of view. I just have no empathy for her, which definitely affected my listening experience of this album. Overall, I still liked the album itself quite a bit, and for that it gets this rating. Four stars. (Favorite track: Green Light.)
I actually really enjoyed this album, and wondered how it did not get more airplay when it came out. I would listen to this album again.
Destined to be overshadowed by it's fantastic lead single, but actually full of bops 4
I know she's not for everyone, but I've always been a fan of Lorde. I think this album does a great job of showcasing some different styles, while building off what she established on her previous album. It's an album where I never skip a track, they're all so good!
I like the lyrics of her songs. I can see the soul behind it.i also add some songs to my Playlist like green light and sober 2
What a difference 15 years makes in pop music. The pop that was coming out in the early 2000s exploded during that time, but wasn't my taste at all. Fast forward and my I'm digging a lot of the pop from the mid 2010s on, like this album. I enjoyed every track on here. Its not quite perfect, and I admit, I liked her first album Pure Heroine more, but this is just a really good pop record.
Strong 7
Favorite track/s: Perfect Places, Green Light, Supercut, Green Light Least favorite track/s: N/A
This is a very good sophomore album with some slick production work by Jack Antonoff. It’s a good blend of pop and electropop that was popular in the 2010’s. Green Light is a catchy, upbeat pop song to start the album. The Louvre is another favorite of mine. Writer In The Dark really captured my attention. It’s a piano ballad with a beautiful string arrangement, very orchestral. The closer of the album, Perfect Places, is another song with a catchy chorus that I enjoyed.
Really enjoyed this one. Much more Art (ie weird noises) than I was anticipating.
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This goes down so easy, besides Sober (II) (sounding like a generic trap beat) even the less in your face songs keeps bringing your attention back with interesting production choices, unique melodies / phrasing that you can only hear from Lord.
Great voice and fresh sound