Her peak was small and local. It’s not on the same level as Billie or Lana and the recurrents aren’t that great either. Then her 2 albums after that flopped badly. It’s not she was on TFM/21/BD level to begin with. 

1 hour ago, Spooky Mulder said:

the kids wanted to hear her sing about su*cide but instead she served tampon commercial aesthetics. so they turned to billie

21 hours ago, Dante Silva said:

She made an error of judgement by continuing to work with Jack Antonoff, he led her too deep down the wrong sonic path. The audience were primed for more dynamic uptempo production and a less introverted take on the world around her, she instead embraced hipster culture and boho chic.

 

The sonic path she took as well as the overall creative vision were very obviously driven by Lorde. She talked about all these themes and sonic ideas at length in the album promo cycle. She literally wanted to portray introspective themes throughout all her videos and lyrics in that era, and the album did exactly that. 

 

In the same year Jack worked on Dance Fever which has many uptempo songs as well as uptempo songs for Diana Ross. Do y’all never tire of the “Jack took a meek hapless female artist hostage, and she just didn’t have the creative guts to tell him no” narrative?

Edited January 21, 20242 yr by Dephira

Lorde is not a writing camp'd popstar so her music ultimately has to reflect her life. When she made PH she was a weird, moody teenager coming into her own. When she made Melodrama, she was actually experiencing young adult life as a celebrity in New York or wherever she was. 5 years later, Solar Power reflected her slower, more introverted, more quiet life during the time it was made. I was in exactly that place when it was released, so I can appreciate the 6 songs on it that don't suck and I wish the rest of you stopped hating and got into them.

 

I fear the backlash and floppage to SP will force her to make either Melodrama 2.0 or Caroline Polachek knock-offs and it's going to be inauthentic and suck

She had Royals and Team, but she really is more of a Fiona Apple kind of artist. And that's make her so interesting.

Billie and Lorde fans should unite to fight the real enemy : Halsey 

22 hours ago, SKESTU said:

She stopped cosplaying lana

 

4 hours ago, Truth Teller said:

 

I fear the backlash and floppage to SP will force her to make either Melodrama 2.0 or Caroline Polachek knock-offs and it's going to be inauthentic and suck

I have a feeling she'll go very altpop and not quite as Green-Light-euphoria as people might expect tbh. I get strong Sky Ferreira and The 1975 vibes from Silver Moon and Invisible Ink.

 

I think Lorde's voice and songwriting styles are too unique to make her music sound like other artists' knock-offs. And I also think she's too pretentious too release anything too cookie-cutter, so I'm honestly expecting altpop greatness from her. 

40 minutes ago, Smarticle said:

On 1/20/2024 at 4:39 PM, Kayseri Mantisi said:

I'm trying so hard to not type something bad right now especially after reading the terms one hit wonder, videos on the beach, dismal, and combining these with your profile pic and username.

Girl please, if Lorde doesn’t get any success next time then  she’s  literally the epitome of the word ‘fad’. Which makes this weird hate boner with daily lame shades so ironic for Gaga
(not withstanding your Britney stanning which adds up )

 

The answer is solar power was a risk that didn’t pay off.
 Team and Green Light are such excellent pop songs though.

Edited January 21, 20242 yr by Mr. Stratus

Her music is a sensory assault with the exception of 'Royals'. That 'Green Light' song was particularly diabolical

11 minutes ago, Mr. Stratus said:

Girl please, if Lorde doesn’t get any success next time then  she’s  literally the epitome of the word ‘fad’. Which makes this weird hate boner with daily lame shades so ironic for Gaga
(not withstanding your Britney stanning which adds up )

Success as in what? Critical success or chart success? Because she is GOING TO BE successful for at least one of those, probably for both. (if she doesn't that's okay too but i'm not going to talk about that now).

 

She will never be a fad. This doesn't need any explanation.

 

Idk why you talked about Britney in your post, i'm not a Britney hater, or a stan. I can't even connect how she's related to this topic. You must be mixing me up with someone else because I never talked about her in this site before. I don't listen to her & I don't hate her basically I just don't keep up with her or follow her like that. She's not from my era.

 

My Gaga "hate" comes from her stans 90% of the time, not from the artist herself (but sometimes her too). It's definitely only problematic when you hate her though, everyone is 100x more hateful towards Nicki in this site and no one says anything which is weird.

Melodrama aged badly because it became the genesis of Jack Antonoff's bag of tricks that he recycles through.

 

It's also more a function of age. Pure Heroine and Melodrama were seen as these lyrical geniuses from a teen phenom and then you get this wet noodle from Solar Power that had very little to say. Nobody really cares what a 23 year old thinks about life in a pandemic.

Solar power was positive album which is unexpected from her.

Nothing went wrong, she hasn’t been commercially successful since her debut and it seems she’s fine with that.  

Nothing tbh. 

she turned out to be a one hit wonder

 

she a snob and full of herself

I think she's doing everything fine but she really could do with some kind of a hit again. Then again I guess "Royals" was so big that she's probably guaranteed festival spots for the rest of her life.

 

My main problem with her is how infrequently she releases music. I know she said she has already planned the exact number of albums she plans to release so I fear she'll be keeping us waiting years and years her whole career, which is a shame. 

 

On 1/21/2024 at 1:48 PM, Filpo said:

She had Royals and Team, but she really is more of a Fiona Apple kind of artist. And that's make her so interesting.

Fiona rolled in her grave.

well nobody calls Frank Ocean a flop. they have similar careers except Lorde tours.

On 1/20/2024 at 9:35 AM, JoeAg said:

oh wow 

that’s an interesting take tbh

if the only era Marina was happy was truly Love + Fear, like I’ve been theorizing, then you honestly might be onto something…

FROOT is the album that Marina made when she was happy so they lied

nothing

23 minutes ago, Ewan Chaos said:

FROOT is the album that Marina made when she was happy so they lied

OH LEGG?? wowzA!