1 hour ago, folkloreking said:

Any tea about an announcement soon? Friday release?

 

The way like a week ago I was about to post in here that I thought the album may not be coming out this year oh Lorde we love you

Perhaps I'm the last person to notice, but Lorde now appears to be represented by Global Music Rights (GMR) for her music publishing.

 

 

https://globalmusicrights.com/artist/1423598

 

She used to be with ASCAP and I was just checking ASCAP and BMI sites to see if there were any new Lorde songs registered and noticed the change. On the APRA AMOCS NZ site, it seems to list UNIVERSAL/MCA MUSIC PUBLISHING PTY LTD, so I'm not sure how that fits in with the GMR affiliation.

 

Edit for people searching for credits/new songs.

 

Jim-e Stack is affiliated with BMI, so you can search the BMI repertoire:

https://repertoire.bmi.com/

 

Writer/Composer: stack

Performer: lorde

 

Songs where Dev Hynes is the co-writer might be more difficult to find, as he is listed by BMI as having no affiliation.

He is sometimes credited as Dev Hynes or Devon Hynes.

Quite a lot to catch up one with new single "What Was That" and album Virgin.

 

What Was That is her new single.

Release date: 24-Apr-2025

 

The ATRL thread is here:

https://atrl.net/forums/topic/501967-lorde-what-was-that/

 

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Was_That

Genius: https://genius.com/Lorde-what-was-that-lyrics

 

 

Virgin is her new album:

Release date: 27-June-2025

 

The ATRL thread is here:

https://atrl.net/forums/topic/503694-lorde-virgin/

 

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_(Lorde_album)

Genius: https://genius.com/albums/Lorde/Virgin

 

Album pre-order available through the lorde web site:

https://www.lorde.co.nz/

 

Spotify pre-save:

https://open.spotify.com/prerelease/39h4IrtmJLPFBU7bk5VjcD

 

In other news, Lorde is going to be at the Met Gala. I'm not sure if anyone has made a Met Gala thread or not, since the site is so slow to load right now.

 

https://pagesix.com/video/inside-scoop-on-met-2025-guest-list-stevie-wonder-walton-goggins-lorde-more/

https://www.indy100.com/news/whos-on-met-gala-2025-guest-list-walton-goggins-lorde

https://www.elle.com.au/culture/entertainment/met-gala-guest-list-2025/

 

Her first Met Gala appearance in four years:

https://x.com/Lorde_fix/status/1919560157408968969

 

Media/fashion magazine coverage:

https://www.elle.com/culture/celebrities/a64669646/lorde-photos-met-gala-2025/

https://www.glamour.com/story/lorde-met-gala-2025-look

https://www.harpersbazaar.com/celebrity/latest/a64674275/lorde-red-carpet-photos-met-gala-2025/

https://www.vogue.com.au/culture/red-carpet/lorde-met-gala-2025/image-gallery/f295203ceddc70967baf71c47ba7f124

https://www.instyle.com/lorde-duct-tape-bra-met-gala-2025-11728728

https://people.com/met-gala-2025-lorde-nearly-naked-look-11728759

https://www.thecut.com/article/lorde-wore-a-magic-thom-browne-bandeau-to-the-2025-met-gala.html

 

Some non-Virgin album and non-Ultrasound tour related news. Following the surprise listening party for "Man Of The Year" in Auckland, Lorde attended the Aotearoa New Zealand Music Awards in Auckland the following night.

 

Aotearoa New Zealand Music Awards:
2025 : Single of the Year : winner - "Girl, So Confusing featuring Lorde" (with Charli XCX)

 

https://x.com/TheLordeCult/status/1928595858477523178

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/icymi/562561/aotearoa-music-awards-2025-all-the-entertainment-and-winners

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/2025-aotearoa-music-awards-six60-named-aotearoa-charts-icon-lorde-scoops-single-of-the-year-and-makes-surprise-appearance/PLR43T6545CZBMDGTX6IUC3HRA/

 

I'm not sure if this has been posted elsewhere.

Lorde on 'Man Of The Year', collaborating with Jim-E Stack & 'Virgin' album teasers (triple j interview):

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiZ3YxqNvQ8

 

Someone thread Christine and the Queens drags Lorde bc I have no idea why they are coming for her 

14 minutes ago, Archetype said:

Someone thread Christine and the Queens drags Lorde bc I have no idea why they are coming for her 

what happened?

Ribs is now certified Platinum in the UK

 

https://www.bpi.co.uk/award/17662-3846-1

16 hours ago, Kayseri Mantisi said:

what happened?

Christine/Redcar/Rahim or whatever they are going by right now posted a long note on IG stories dragging Lorde for copying them.  

I'm not sure if this belongs in any of the song or Virgin album discussions, since this twitter thread is one interpretation, and Lorde can speak for herself about her gender identity and might have more to say in some of her other songs or interviews.

 

https://x.com/braedenlorde/status/1918640861870424367

 

TLDR: Lorde appears to have stopped taking a medication that might have been prescribed for acne, but can also be used as an anti-androgen (testosterone blocker). When she writes about feeling more masculine, she is feeling the affects of increased testosterone, which she describes as being "someone more like myself", the feeling of living with a testosterone level that might be natural for her.

 

Of course no-one has to show a medical reason for the way they are feeling.

 

Edit: please see the triple j interview for a different perspective.

She talks about going off her contraceptive pill as being a major trigger for hormonal changes.

VIDEO: Lorde breaks down new album Virgin with triple j's Lucy Smith

 

 

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Lorde sits down with triple j's Lucy Smith to deep dive into 'Virgin', including cover art decisions, how it compares to 'Solar Power', album tracks like 'GRWM' and 'Shapeshifter' and leaving a legacy.

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00:00 Intro

00:07 Returning to Australia

00:24 Feeling understood by Australian audiences

00:45 Connection to triple j 01:15 What she loves about 'Virgin'

02:29 The turning point while creating 'Virgin'

03:55 Honouring her inner child

05:06 "Second Puberty" and coming off birth control

05:55 'Hammer'

07:29 Choosing album opener

08:14 Accepting technology after 'Solar Power'

09:53 Customising her devices

12:23 Collaborating with Jim-E Stack

13:26 Early 'Virgin' sessions

13:56 The production language of 'Virgin'

16:30 The permanence of an album

17:32 Fabiana Palladino and early album ideas

19:19 How 'What Was That' drove the album

19:53 How 'Virgin' was inspired by Radiohead

20:30 "How does it feel to be right?"

21:49 'Shapeshifter'

23:39 Changing to try and feel loved

25:02 Percussion on 'Virgin' versus 'Melodrama'

26:56 Vocals on 'Shapeshifter'

27:58 'Man Of The Year'

30:38 Bravado, taking up more space and "the ooze"

32:44 Stream of consciousness lyrics

33:29 'GRWM'

35:05 Playing with silence on 'Virgin'

36:00 Intergenerational experiences of Women

37:28 Cover Art

37:52 Is there a line that surprised her?

38:51 Playing 'Virgin' live

39:29 Australian tour?

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-27/lorde-triple-j-interview-video-virgin-shapeshifting-womanhood/105465548

 

Vogue Australia: The world according to Lorde
https://www.vogue.com.au/culture/features/lorde-2025/news-story/68c88034a6a6de93336c0e7a4af01f25

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Short archive URL: https://archive.ph/226vT

https://web.archive.org/web/20250630111203/https://www.vogue.com.au/culture/features/lorde-2025/news-story/68c88034a6a6de93336c0e7a4af01f25

 

It's such a pleasure watching her grow up as a woman and as an artist. VIRGIN is so amazing. Her discography truly is incredible. I used to dislike Solar Power and think it was a stain but even though it's nowhere near the perfection her other 3 albums are, it's very solid!

Vogue Australia: How we grew up with Lorde, and she grew up with us

https://www.vogue.com.au/culture/features/lorde-opinion-growing-up/news-story/46bad2da2bc15b8f2d5bb6ea97772c69
 

From teenage heartbreak to existential crisis, growing up was messy. Luckily, Lorde made the chaos sound so sweet.

 

 

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This is their second Lorde article for June/July 2025

In case some people have access issues: https://archive.ph/myWmA

 

Big day!!! 
 

 

We should repopulate this thread!!!!

Lorde went to watch "John Proctor is the Villain" on Broadway.

 

She appears to be back in the US and went to see the play. In this Tony-Award nominated play by Kimberly Belflower, starring Sadie Sink, Lorde's "Green Light" plays a very important role.

https://x.com/LordeUpdatesBR/status/1943853279667953794

https://x.com/carovidsz/status/1943849188137095559

 

Some background on the play and the role of "Green Light" can be found here:

https://playbill.com/article/how-kimberly-belflower-got-lorde-to-sign-off-on-using-green-light-in-john-proctor-is-the-villain

 

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For Belflower, as for generations of American high schoolers, The Crucible was always interpreted through the lens of John Proctor as a hero who is unfairly maligned by Abigail Williams.

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Spurred by Woody Allen calling #MeToo a witch hunt, Belflower began researching the real history behind the Salem Witch Trials, which led to her re-reading The Crucible. She saw it through new eyes, realized how disturbing it was that John, a middle-aged man, cheated on his wife with a teenage girl, and then threatened Abigail when she dared to speak out.

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"I heard myself say out loud to my dad, 'It's crazy, because it really feels like John Proctor is the villain.'"

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In the final scene of John Proctor, Shelby and her friend Raelyn (Amalia Yoo) lead their class in a dance set to "Green Light" by Lorde. And yes, Belflower successfully got Lorde to sign off on the usage—by writing a heartfelt letter explaining why "Green Light" was so important to her, starting with when that song first came out and Belflower listened to it on repeat for two hours.

More here:

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/john-proctor-is-the-villain-lorde-girlhood-1235325093/

https://www.marieclaire.com/culture/john-proctor-is-the-villain-music-kimberly-belflower-interview/

https://www.elle.com/culture/music/a65133773/green-light-lorde-song-john-proctor-is-the-villain-kimberly-belflower/

 

On 7/13/2025 at 1:25 AM, bielneira said:

We should repopulate this thread!!!!

We should, but everyone appears to be posting in the Virgin album thread. There are probably a few things that warrant cross posting, like this BBC interview which sheds some light on the the inspiration behind song-writing and sound of Virgin and also maybe explains some of the things that changed between Melodrama, Solar Power and Virgin.

 

BBC Radio 1 interview: "I never thought I'd make music again" - ‪@Lorde‬ on losing and rediscovering herself

 

 

00:00 🎤 Welcome Lorde | Post-Glastonbury Vibes

00:58 🎶 First Live Album Performance | Glastonbury Highlights

02:02 💔 Turning Emotional Complexity Into Pop Hits

03:08 ✍️ Writing "Favorite Daughter" | Raw Songwriting Process

04:50 🧠 Pressure, Perfectionism & Family Expectations

07:11 👩‍👧‍👧 Maternal Themes & Late-Night Creativity

08:31 🚫 "I Never Thought I'd Make Music Again" | Creative Burnout

10:00 🔁 Rediscovering Creativity Through Healing

11:07 💌 Fan Connection & Protecting the Album Leak

12:01 🕺 Dance, Physicality & Emotional Release

14:21 💖 "I made an attempt to romance myself" | Self-Love & Independence

16:56 ⚧️ Exploring Gender Identity in Music

20:06 🎛️ Sampling "Morning Love" by Dexta Daps | "Current Affairs" Breakdown

22:15 🎙️ Writing "Grown Woman" | Voice Memos & Vulnerability

24:29 🔍 The Search for Self | Losing & Finding Identity

25:01 🎭 Pop Outsider | Freedom Through Artistic Detachment

26:35 🔄 "David" & "Hammer" | Album Loop & Narrative Structure

28:50 🗣️ Power Dynamics in the Industry | Saying It All

30:05 🤝 Collaborating with Justin Vernon (Bon Iver)

32:10 🌟 Final Thoughts | The Power of "Virgin"

Some connections between songs.

 "The Lourve" from Melodrama:

    Half of my wardrobe is on your bedroom floor
   Use our eyes, throw our hands overboard

  

 "Stoned at the Nail Salon" from Solar Power:

     Got a memory of waitin' in your bed wearin' only my earrings

 The song appears to have been written quite early in the song-writing for Solar Power:

 

Lorde began writing the fourth track, "Stoned at the Nail Salon", six months after finishing the Melodrama World Tour, and recorded it in Antonoff's home studio. A contemplative folk ballad, the song was borne out of insecure feelings of fading into irrelevance and becoming out of touch with pop culture."^[53]

Lorde confirmed these songs were connected in one of her email newsletters and said "those two lines you mentioned were actually set in the same bedroom."

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SCWWTS Matthew sent a lovely thoughtful email pointing out some of the linguistic connections between songs — lines like 'half of my wardrobe is on your bedroom floor' and 'got a memory of waiting in your bed wearing only my earrings' — he asked "Are these bonds/connections/evolutions between your songs — now spanning three albums/eras and almost a decade — intentionally crafted, or is it more of a spiritual, subconscious thing?" Great question Matthew, they're almost always intentional. I really love building in those little links and connections between past eras, and I try to be really careful and intentional with how I use language in songs. For example, there's a moment on Solar Power I rework the 'every perfect summer' line from Liability — which invokes the original source while giving it new meaning for a new life stage. And those two lines you mentioned were actually set in the same bedroom. You clever thing.

Her email comments can be checked here:
https://lordeemailarchive.tumblr.com/

 Looking at "The Lourve" she calls her lover a crush and sings:

     Our thing progresses, I call and you come through
    Blow all my friendships to sit in hell with you
    But we're the greatest, they'll hang us in the Louvre
    Down the back, but who cares? Still the Louvre

This suggests that she is talking about someone new, she calls the relationship our thing and in another line says he is not my type and implies that her friends might not approve and while she likens it to a work of art, there is suggestion that it would be hidden down the back for some reason.

Spoiler

The reason that it would be would be hidden "down the back", is that people would not have approved of the 17-year age difference between her and her new crush, Justin Warren a Universal music executive she first met when she was much younger.

In "Stoned at the Nail Salon" she is singing about an established relationship, although she is foreseeing a time when they divide up the papers, she says she is still crazy about him.

    Got a memory of waiting in your bed wearing only my earrings
    We'd go dancing all over the landmines under our town
    But the sun has to rise
    When it does, we'll divide up the papers
    Two former hell-raisers
    I'm still crazy for you, babe

 There is really only one person that can mean. In her Document Journal interview in May 2025, she talked about an end of a seven-year relationship, which we know ended in 2023.

https://www.documentjournal.com/2025/05/the-magic-lives-close-to-the-edge-lorde-and-artist-martine-syms-on-the-beauty-of-the-self/

Subtract seven years from 2023 and that takes us back to 2016 when she was writing "The Lourve" and other songs for Melodrama, so everything lines up. Solar Power songs "Stoned at the Nail Salon" and "The Man with the Axe" are referring to the same person.

So are several songs in Virgin, including "What was That" and "David". There is also a couple of references to him on "If She Could See Me Now", although those songs are written from a post breakup perspective.

 On "The Man with the Axe" she sings:

   I should've known when your favourite record was the same as my father's, You'd take me down

In Mid 2017 - she did a WTF podcast with Marc Maron, episode 844, where she talked about being inspired by guitar music and a lot of artists from the classic rock/folk rock era. Quite a lot of the things she talked about in that interview from 2027 turned up in Solar Power or were an influence on Solar Power.
http://www.wtfpod.com/podcast/episode-844-lorde

Perhaps it isn't a stretch to suggest that the sound of Solar Power was significantly influenced by her much older partner and his favourite records. Maybe even the blonde hair we saw for a while was something he liked, but most of time it didn't looked right on her. So it does make sense when she referred to some aspects of the Solar Power era and said "actually, I don't think this is me."

This doesn't mean everything from that era isn't her, without the Solar Power era there would be no Virgin album and her mid 2023 festival look and concert setlists were great, almost the right balance between Solar Power and her earlier eras.

 

 

Of course we now know she was going through a difficult breakup and an eating disorder around the time of those 2023 shows.

From "David" she sings:

   And once I could sing again, I swore I'd never let myself sing again for you...

I'm pretty sure we will never see a live performance of "The Man with the Axe" and I'm wondering how many Solar Power songs we will get on her upcoming tour. Perhaps she might skip "Stoned at the Nail Salon" too. Even "The Lourve" could be missing from the setlist, although a lot of fans might complain about that one.

Solar Power will always hit different during summer  I also love how the vinyl keeps surprising me with vocals I don't hear on streaming.

does anyone else realize that she disappeared again? 

She had a week off, so hopefully she will be a little more visible leading up to the beginning of her tour.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DMsj8a1zktu/

 

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Had a week off. I'm a living creature again, warm, wet and fertile () Just had to scrape everything off, stop wearing clothes and let nature rock my ****. Trying to stay human, even when it tastes bitter. That's the mission, to stay human, taste it all, sing about what we've tasted.

https://x.com/LordeHaus/status/1950219357709074909

 

Edit: With all these lyrics about ovulation and talk about being fertile, I'm wondering which is coming first.

She often talks about wanting children one day. Will she first announce L5 or a baby?

She appears to be taking a holiday in Croatia (her bikini picture from more than a week ago was probably from somewhere else).

https://x.com/Lorde_fix/status/1953975005681004746

Mid August updates from Croatia.

https://x.com/Lorde_fix/status/1954777870393552981

https://x.com/Lorde_fix/status/1956161522474082487

https://x.com/Lorde_fix/status/1956161312658219094

 

IG post from Sonja:

https://www.instagram.com/p/DNM9tKBSzQH/

 

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Me & my gorgeous fam went to Croatia for my 60th. Honestly this has been the best holiday I have ever had.

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Thank u Ella from the bottom of my heart for making this magical holiday happen for all of us ❤️🙏❤️🇭🇷🌞🌞🌞🌊🌊🌊

She appears to have sold her property in Ponsonby, Auckland.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360676744/kainga-ora-cant-subdivide-4-million-ponsonby-state-house-property-without-council-permission

 

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last year, Lorde sold her luxury villa next door for $4.3 million

Sold in May 2024 for NZ $4.3 million.

https://www.qv.co.nz/property-search/property-details/135120/

https://homes.co.nz/address/auckland/ponsonby/20-trinity-street/Blak

 

You can see from the link above she purchased the house for NZ $2.84 million in August 2015 when she would have been 18 years old.

From my understanding, she didn't move in right away, perhaps not until early 2016.

 

This means that her apartment in West Village is probably her main home now.

This might be good news if she is going to be spending most of her time close to the producers and studios she needs to make more music.