Tag: lorde
Best Albums of 2025
Compared to the movies released in 2025, there’s no denying that the musical offerings were slightly more exciting and arguably more billable as being part [Read More…]
If You Need a Hit, Robyn’s Gonna Give You It With “Dopamine”
Well before Lily Allen and Lorde were disappearing from music for long stretches of time (though the latter never extends her absence past four years), [Read More…]
Grief, Place and Lost Youth: The Dominating Themes of Blood Orange’s Elegiacal Essex Honey
Like Kali Uchis with Sincerely, Blood Orange’s (a.k.a. Dev Hynes) latest album, Essex Honey, is entirely colored by the death of his mother. An event [Read More…]
Miley, Kesha, Lorde, Lady Gaga, Charli XCX and the 00s: Ava Max’s “Lovin Myself”
With Don’t Click Play, Ava Max’s upcoming third album following 2023’s Diamonds & Dancefloors, she’s offered up a wide array of “sound palettes”—or “sonic landscapes,” if you [Read More…]
In Honor of Laufey’s “Snow White,” A List of Songs About Beauty
With the release of Laufey’s affecting single, “Snow White,” it’s worth looking back on some of the various other songs that women (the gender most [Read More…]
When “Full Transparency” Becomes Both Pretentious and Outright Wasteful: Lorde’s Virgin CD Issue
One would assume that at least part of the reason for Lorde securing the number one album slot in the UK (for the first time) [Read More…]
Lorde Goes Deeper and Deeper on Virgin
The road to Virgin release day has been a long one. Not just the creation of the album itself, which Lorde, in her synesthetic state, describes as [Read More…]
Look Out, Pigeon Lady From Home Alone 2: Lorde Brings Down the “Hammer” in a Video That Comes Across as a Coming-of-Age Movie (But Like, An A24 One)
Lorde’s slow-burn reveals of what the music from Virgin, her upcoming fourth album, will sound like have been as measured and carefully considered as the music [Read More…]
All Hail the Princess of Power
Following the Lorde pattern, it’s been four years since MARINA’s last album, Ancient Dreams in a Modern Land, came out. Before that, there was a mere [Read More…]
The Gender-Broadening of Lorde: “Man of the Year”
Like her friend (though the two haven’t been spotted together lately), Taylor Swift, Lorde has been fond of wielding “Easter eggs” in the lead-up to [Read More…]
