music news Lorde confirms Dev Hynes rumors for the first time, posts several studio pictures

[Letemtalk]

On 4/23/2024 at 5:39 AM, vale9001 said:

Her fans being so rude to Jack the most pointless thing ever. Cause the most panned thing of solar power were lorde lyrics and the whole concept. Plus you all should have more respect for your fave impact on the production side. It's too easy to say great thing for Melodrama and acting like this for solar power when Lorde herself said after melodrama was very overproduced and intense she wanted to give to the songs the unfinished shades on production (what some critics didn't like it). She decides, the producer executes. If you don't know how it works. Oh and Lorde is even a co producer. 

 

i can understand @Blue Rosecause its standard is beyoncè don't write the songs and "co produce" with different 17 co producers for song. But lorde is a singer sonwriter makes music with just a collaborator, her impact on the work is big. It's not something go on and on and on on 1800 hands. 

 

No one is disputing that she was looking for a different sound and someone has already corrected you on the lyrics (no they were not panned).

 

Mid 2017 - she does an interview with Marc Maron and talked about being inspired by guitar music.

 

Late 2017/Jan 2028 - she does an interview with Billboard magazine, and instead of the Melodrama party look, she is giving off a folk-Lorde/back to nature aesthetic.

 

 

Mid 2019 - Lorde is back in the US visiting her friend Cassie David and working in the studio with Jack. In this same visit she showed him her demos of what became "Stoned at the Nail Salon" and "Solar Power".

 

Early 2020 - Jack comes to New Zealand to work on the album with Lorde. This was just before the pandemic and they worked in Neil Finn's studio. Later on, she talked about them finding the signature sound she wanted for the album when Jack played a 1965 Fender Jaguar at the studio.

 

August/September 2020 - she was seen in Cassie David's IG in late August 2020 and also in NYC in September with Jack's girlfriend Carlotta Kohl, so it appears that she came back to NYC and finished off most of the album in that visit.

 

March 2021 - the album appears to be finished and she records her music videos on an island in New Zealand, not far from Auckland city.

 

July/August 2021 - as the date of the album release comes closer, critics are tiring of Jack and complaining about a series of albums and songs with guitar-based/acoustic production and they start writing articles about how many Jack Antonoff produced albums and songs sound like other Jack Antonoff albums and songs, including "Stoned at the Nail Salon" and the outro of "Solar Power".

 

The problem wasn't her change of sound, it was Jack's complete lack of originality and integrity.

 

Spoiler

we don't need to go into Green Light which got recycled around the same time

[Kayseri Mantisi]

What do you think about her being back in NYC with Jim-E Stack & Dev Hynes? @Letemtalk

 

Maybe the album is not finished yet like we thought  or maybe she decided to change things or record more

[Letemtalk]

36 minutes ago, Kayseri Mantisi said:

What do you think about her being back in NYC with Jim-E Stack & Dev Hynes? @Letemtalk

 

Maybe the album is not finished yet like we thought  or maybe she decided to change things or record more

Most logical answer is that they are still working on the album.

 

Ray Suen has toured with Lorde during her last two tours and right now he appears to be going on tour with Vampire Weekend. He's not only a multi-instrumentalist, but he wrote the parts for the string sections and other players on the Melodrama tour. This is when they had live strings and brass instruments at Coachella and several other festivals.

 

Taking a look at their website, the Vampire Weekend tour is going to continue for most of 2024.

 

This might means no Lorde on tour in 2024, unless they've found a replacement for Ray, or perhaps the new album is more electronic and his skills aren't needed so much this time around. He didn't do those smaller summer festivals in Europe last year either.

[Kiel D-01]

Gives me hope, hopefully the album is 100% Jack Antonoff free. 

[Reflektor_Creep]

We thank Jack for Melodrama, but he no longer has any new ideas and the few he has, he repeats them with other artists. That's why The Variants Department sounds monotonous. 

 

Exciting that she works with Dev. 

[Joesuxx]

On 4/22/2024 at 7:31 PM, vale9001 said:

Please her first album wasn't that acclaimed. People liked her cause she was "against the mainstream course of music" and she was young and promising, but her album wasn't and this not like an acclaimed album or considered a stand out in pop music.

 

 

 

 

Are we for real? Your previous post said her lyrics were the problem, and now we're gonna say that her first album, that she started writing at fourteen wasn't praised internationally for its penmanship. She had 14 songs in the world and David Bowie was calling her the future of music. You can use whatever comparison you wish to defend Jack, but he's deliberately been washing his sound down since folkore. Wether he's deliberately doing this so everyone sounds like Taylor and she can be called a trendsetter or if he's doing this for other reasons who knows. All we say is throwing his work with Lana post NFR into the mix isn't really the flex we thought. Chemtrails, BB, SP etc literally all follow this trend of having a small percentage of stand out tracks amongst a load of filler fodder. The issue isn't the lyrical content. As for DF again the majority of stand out songs comes from the early sessions with Dave Bayley. Just say Lorde isn't for you and have done. You're also no critic and everyone's excitement here doesn't need to be dampened by audiences tired of the same stale production, it's been years.