Lorde: Behind the Melodrama Podcast
1) Green Light
"I always want to run toward the thing that feels challenging and scary and exciting, and that didn't feel like a drum beat and a vocal anymore. Because those types of songs had been number one on the...Show More
2) Sober
"I feel like the essence of Melodrama is 'We present that we just don't care / but we care'. We fucking care! and I'm going to show you. This record is a document about that care."
3) Homemade Dynamite
"Sometimes it is just about having your arms around your friend's shoulders and being drunk and being into the same song."
4) The Louvre
"I wanted to [give the feeling of] just like the big sun-soaked dumbness of falling in love and it’s like your whole head is like glue, it's amazing. It is like drugs. It’s like 'I just want to be by ...Show More
5) Liability
"I'm so aware of the thoughts that are so potent in a moment and then, in the light of day, you're like, 'Alright, I was being a bit of a drama queen there, but it's all good, I'm over it.' But I went...Show More
6) Hard Feelings/Loveless
"I was basically speed-dating different producers and songwriters in LA and hating it. And then I walked into a room with [Jack Antonoff] and just felt like home. I was like, 'Oh, yes. I want to be ar...Show More
7) Sober II (Melodrama)
"I felt more aware of my age than I ever have making a record. I was in these moments of just being gripped by an emotion and I was like 'I'm feeling this because I'm 20 and everything's fucked-up ins...Show More
8) Writer In The Dark
"It's not a historical document. It's not a police record. It's not journalism. I didn't go to journalism school. I'm a writer. It's about what I felt and sometimes you can feel an element of guilt or...Show More
9) Supercut
"I felt the way I used to feel when I made music as a kid and it felt like I could cry because it's such a relief to get out how you're feeling for the first time. I remember being like 'Oh my God'. I...Show More
10) Liability (Reprise)
"I went into thinking I knew what I was doing and thinking I knew exactly who I was at that moment and what I was going to do and the process has been very confronting and intense and awesome and emot...Show More