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Lordefans, prepare yourselves — new music may be coming sooner than you think.
The “Green Light” singer, 26, revealed that she’s been hard at work on her fourth album — and that despite the lukewarm critical response to herlast recordSolar Power, she’s relieved to not feel “pigeonholed” a decade into her career.
Lorde (real name Ella Yelich-O’Connor) opened up about her creative process in an interview with the New Zealand outletEnsemble, and explained why it’s taken her “quite a while” to begin work on her next project.
“I do a lot of research, I write a lot down. Sort of a big chunk of work before I actually start writing music,” she said. “It’s been super exciting and I feel excited about what’s coming.”
Though the star said it’s “always my intention to move as quickly as I f—ing can,” she acknowledged that the rush takes “different forms.”
“This one, I really am trying to. I don’t want to wait, you know, so take from that what you will,” she said.
Upcoming new music will follow 2021’sSolar Power, which saw the Grammy winner embrace a folkier, more laid-back sound than its synth-heavy, heartbreak-focused predecessorMelodrama, which was released in 2017.
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Critics were also torn on the record;Entertainment Weeklygave it a B, saying it had a “subdued quality,” while the British online magazine The Line of Best Fit took it further, callingSolar Power"somewhat of a swing and a miss."
“Obviously, some people liked it, some people didn’t like it. I think the third album is like always a real… you do sort of cross over in a way, you know, you’re not new anymore, and also you want maybe different things,” she said. “I had real things I wanted that I just had to do with that album, and I feel more clear and calm for having done that.”
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In a newsletter sent to fans in June, Lordecredited the album with helping her"work through some big personal stuff," and said that since the release, she’d experienced “the highest highs and the lowest lows” of her life.
Still, as she explained to Ensemble, it was something of a relief following the overwhelmingly massive response toMelodrama.
Lorde — who rose to fame at just 16 with the release of her debut albumPure Heroine— has spent the last year touringSolar Power, a trek she called “rewarding,” especially after seeking out therapy to help her conquer her debilitating stage fright.
source: people.com
