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Melodrama is the second studio album by New Zealand singer Lorde, released on 16 June 2017 through Republic Records.[3] Writing for the album began as early as December 2013 and continued through "false starts, fruitless detours and stretches of inactivity" as Lorde stepped back from the public spotlight, taking shape after her breakup from her longtime boyfriend James Lowe in 2015.[4]

Melodrama has been described by critics as a loose concept album that explores the theme of solitude, in the framework of a single house party with the events and moods that entail it.[5][4][6] Lorde wrote and produced the album alongside Jack Antonoff, with additional production contributions from Frank Dukes, Malay, Andrew Wyatt, Joel Little and Flume, among others. The album topped charts in New Zealand, Australia, the United States and Canada.[7] Melodrama received widespread acclaim from critics, with some publications citing it as the best album of the year.[8] It also received a Grammy Award nomination for Album of the Year at the 60th Annual Grammy Awards.[9]

Background and recording

Jack Antonoff (pictured) co-wrote and produced a majority of Melodrama with Lorde.

In December 2013, Lorde announced that she had begun writing material for her second studio album.[10] In June 2014, Lorde said that her second studio album was in its early stages and that, so far, it was "totally different" from her debut album.[11] In November 2016, Lorde posted a Facebook update that read: "Writing Pure Heroine was my way of enshrining our teenage glory, putting it up in lights forever so that part of me never dies, and this record – well, this one is about what comes next. ...The party is about to start. I am about to show you the new world."[12] Lorde revealed the title of the album on 2 March 2017.[13] The album was recorded over an 18-month period with co-writer and producer Jack Antonoff.[14]

The album is about a "grapple with loneliness" in the aftermath of a break-up, according to The New York Times.[4] In the article, Lorde mentions that "Melodrama wasn’t a 'breakup album" and stated that "it’s a record about being alone. The good parts and the bad parts, dealing with themes of heartbreak and solitude".[4] She did, however, call "Green Light" a traditional break-up song: "with all of my favorite artists, I’d much rather hear a story about the breakdown of a marriage than do the Googling about it. I love when artists are more mysterious".[15]

In an interview with Vanity Fair magazine, Lorde discussed content of the album, as well as the title Melodrama, an allusion to Greek tragedy and performance art.[15] She stated that the title is a "nod to the types of emotions you experience when you’re 19 or 20. I had such an intense two years, and everything I was feeling—whether it was crying or laughing or dancing or in love—each of them felt like the most concentrated version of that emotion. I also have a love of theater and I love drawing a parallel with Greek tragedies. But there’s definitely an element of tongue-in-cheek; it’s very funny to title your record Melodrama".[15] Furthermore, she drew comparisons between this album and Pure Heroine, particularly in terms of the stylistic departures between the two: "it's a little more stylized than the first one. It’s really a collection of moments, thoughts, and vignettes when I said to myself, “Don’t forget this.” And it wasn’t until I went through heartbreak, and moved out of [my parents'] home into my own house and spent a lot of time totally alone, that I realized I do have very serious, vivid feelings I needed to get out. Working with Jack Antonoff opened me up to feeling a lot; he was the perfect person to help me do that".

Composition

"It's a break-up album, interspersed with a young woman's subsequent pitfalls with parties, emotion-less hook-ups and fame. Her most startling moment is the piano ballad Liability, where Lorde opens up about her intensity driving love away."

—Josh Leeson, The Herald[16]

Lorde composed the songs on Melodrama in New Zealand. She described the album as addressing themes of heartbreak, solitude and loneliness.[17][18] A majority of the album was written at the piano and took inspiration from Paul Simon's 1986 album, Graceland, Don Henley, Tom Petty, Phil Collins and Joni Mitchell.[19] Lorde worked on the album in Jack Antonoff's home studio in New York City.[18] According to a New York Times article, the singer has a "neurological condition known as sound-to-color synesthesia", and devised color codes to each song.[4] It is also noted Lorde wanted to explore a "cathartic mode" for the album.

Though it has been denied by Lorde,[20] Melodrama has been described by critics as a loose concept album.[5][6] Lorde has stated Melodrama only has a loose narrative.[20] It explores the theme of solitude, in the framework of a single house party with the events and moods that entail it.[4] Pitchfork has called the album a "pop record full of grief and hedonism".[21] Emily Reily of Paste described it as an "electropop triumph".[22]

Melodrama opens with "Green Light" which is an electropop, dance-pop, and post-disco song.[23][24][25] The song features titular metaphors with reviewers interpreting the "green light" as a street signal that gives the singer permission to move on into the future.[26] "The Louvre" has been described by Entertainment Weekly as a song about the early stages of a casual relationship "doomed to fail". The song starts with Lorde's voice accompanied by a guitar, before becoming "a storm of glitchy electro-pop".[27] "Liability" is described as a pop piano ballad,[28] with Graeme Tuckett, writing for Stuff New Zealand, stating that "Liability is a break-up confessional, a diary entry of a song. It reads raw, stripped back, nicely under-produced – just a ballad-ish piano to accompany Lorde's voice this time – and particularly well sung."[29] "Hard Feelings/Loveless" has been described as a two-part, self-aware breakup song that takes the "crazy ex-girlfriend" cliché to "Fatal Attraction-esque extremes".[27][30] Slant Magazine's Sal Cinquemani described "Hard Feelings" as an "industrial-infused" song, and "Loveless" as "the most shamelessly poppy track that Lorde has recorded to date, peppered with prickly bon mots".[30]

Singles

Lorde announced the album's title via Twitter while simultaneously releasing the lead single, "Green Light", and its accompanying music video, on 2 March 2017.[31] The song peaked at number one in New Zealand,[32] number 19 on the Billboard Hot 100,[33] and number 20 in the UK.[34]

"Perfect Places" was released as the second single on 1 June 2017, while its accompanying music video came up on 3 August 2017. It impacted American modern rock radio on 6 June 2017, as the second official single.[35]

"Homemade Dynamite" was confirmed as the third single from the album, after Lorde performed the song on the 2017 MTV Video Music Awards on 27 August 2017.[36]

Promotional singles

"Liability" was released as the first promotional single from the album on 10 March 2017. "Sober" was released as the second promotional single on 9 June 2017.

Release and promotion

See also: Melodrama World Tour

On 11 March, Lorde performed "Green Light" and "Liability" on Saturday Night Live to positive reviews.[1][2] Lorde debuted two new songs, "Sober" and "Sober II (Melodrama)", at a "tiny pre-Coachella gig" at Pappy & Harriet's on 15 April. She also debuted "Homemade Dynamite" during her set at Coachella the next day.[37] Lorde also performed "Green Light" at the 2017 Billboard Music Awards on 21 May.

On 30 July, Lorde made an appearance at the Fuji Rock Festival in Niigata, Japan.[38]

The Japanese edition of the album features a bonus track, "Green Light (Chromeo Remix)".[39]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
AnyDecentMusic?8.7/10[40]
Metacritic91/100[41]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[42]
The A.V. ClubA[43]
The Daily Telegraph[44]
Entertainment WeeklyA[27]
The Guardian[45]
The Independent[46]
NME[47]
Pitchfork8.8/10[21]
Rolling Stone[48]
ViceB+[49]

At review aggregate site Metacritic, Melodrama has an average score of 91 out of 100, based on 33 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".[41] Sal Cinquemani of Slant Magazine gave the album a rating of 4.5 stars out of 5 saying "[Melodrama] simmers and builds from track to track, loaded with unlikely hooks", and "it's cathartic, dramatic, and everything else you could want an album titled Melodrama to be".[30] Will Hermes of Rolling Stone rated the album 4 out of 5 stars, stating, "Lorde's writing and fantastically intimate vocals, ranging from her witchy, unprocessed low-register warbles to all sorts of digitized masks, make it matter."[48]

Nolan Feeney of Entertainment Weekly gave the album a rating of 'A', writing that "Lorde makes partying sound holy" and that "the shape-shifting compositions give Melodrama a richer, more dynamic palette than the muted, minimalist beats of Pure Heroine". Feeney also notes, "The tracks are in constant dialogue with themselves: Motifs of riding in cars and the "ribbons" that bind her to a lover repeat throughout the album, adding layers to the story."[27] Pitchfork writer Stacey Anderson writes, "Lorde captures emotions like none other. Her second album is a masterful study of being a young woman, a sleek and humid pop record full of grief and hedonism, crafted with the utmost care and wisdom."[21] Slant Magazine wrote "whether it's a party record disguised as a breakup album or a breakup album disguised as a party record, it's cathartic, dramatic, and everything else you could want an album titled Melodrama to be".[50]

Writing for Drowned in Sound, Joe Goggins stated: "[Lorde] is intensely self-aware and, accordingly, is able to take all the inelegancies of youth–the stumbles out of nightclub doors, the clothes strewn across the bedroom floor, how apocalyptic that first heartbreak feels-–and turn them into something exquisite".[51] Kitty Empire of the Guardian suggests the album is a balance pull of between commercial pop element and Lorde's artistry, writing that the album is a "yielding glossy ear-crack that will burn its way through Spotify playlists, while retaining Ella Yelich-O’Connor’s signatures". Empire also commented that Ella has grown from her minimalist aesthetic in her debut album, and the themes of fame, heartbreak, partying and self-analysis were well handled in Melodrama.[52] NME named the album its 2017 Album of the Year.[53]

Accolades

Publication Accolade Rank Ref.
AllMusic AllMusic Best of 2017 —
[54]
The A.V. Club The A.V. Club's 20 best albums of 2017
17
[55]
Billboard Billboard's 50 Best Albums of 2017: Critics' Picks
3
[56]
The Boston Globe Terence Cawley's best albums of 2017 —
[57]
Complex The Best Albums of 2017
44
[58]
Consequence of Sound Top 50 Albums of 2017
1
[59]
Cosmopolitan Best Albums of 2017
1
[60]
Dazed The 20 best albums of 2017
4
[61]
Drowned in Sound Favourite Albums of 2017
28
[62]
Entertainment Weekly The 25 Best Albums of 2017
1
[63]
Exclaim Top 20 Pop & Rock Albums of 2017
4
[64]
Fuse The 20 Best Albums of 2017
9
[65]
The Guardian The Best Albums of 2017
4
[66]
Highsnobiety The 25 Best Albums of 2017
3
[67]
The Independent 30 Best Albums of 2017
2
[68]
The Irish Times The best albums of 2017 —
[69]
The Line of Best Fit The Best Albums of 2017
11
[70]
Loud and Quiet Top 40 Albums of 2017
7
[71]
Mashable The 10 best albums of 2017
5
[72]
The Nation The Best Albums of 2017 —
[73]
New York Daily News The 25 Best Albums of 2017
3
[74]
The New Zealand Herald The best albums of 2017
2
[75]
Newsday Best albums of 2017
3
[76]
Newsweek The 17 Best Albums of 2017 —
[77]
NME Albums of the Year 2017
1
[78]
No Ripcord The Best Albums of 2017
1
[79]
NPR The 50 Best Albums of 2017
5
[80]
People 10 Best Albums of 2017
3
[81]
Pigeons and Planes Best Albums of 2017
3
[82]
Pitchfork The 50 Best Albums of 2017
5
[83]
PopMatters The 60 Best Albums of 2017
2
[84]
The Best Pop Albums of 2017
7
[85]
Pretty Much Amazing The Best Albums of 2017
1
[86]
Q Q Magazine's 50 Best Albums of 2017
4
[87]
The Ringer The Best Albums of 2017
2
[88]
Rolling Stone 50 Best Albums of 2017
2
[89]
20 Best Pop Albums of 2017
1
[90]
Rolling Stone Australia 50 Best Albums of 2017
2
[91]
The Skinny The Skinny's Top 50 Albums of 2017
3
[92]
Slant Magazine The 25 Best Albums of 2017
7
[93]
Spin 50 Best Albums of 2017
4
[94]
Sputnikmusic Staff's Top 50 Albums of 2017
6
[95]
Stereogum 50 Best Albums of 2017
1
[96]
The Stranger Top 10 Albums of 2017 (National) —
[97]
The New York Times Jon Pareles' Best Albums of 2017
7
[98]
Jon Caramanica's Best Albums of 2017
10
Time The Top 10 Albums of 2017
5
[99]
Time Out The best albums of 2017
6
[100]
Uncut Uncut's 75 Best Albums of 2017
18
[101]
Uproxx 50 Best Albums of 2017
1
[102]
USA Today USA Today's 10 favorite albums —
[103]
Variety The Best Albums of 2017 —
[104]
Vice The 100 Best Albums of 2017
10
[105]
Vinyl Me, Please The 30 Best Albums of 2017
5
[106]
Vulture The 10 Best Albums of 2017
8
[107]
Yahoo! The best albums of 2017
5
[108]

Commercial performance

Melodrama debuted at number one in New Zealand,[109] Australia,[110] Canada,[111] and the United States, where it debuted with 109,000 album-equivalent units of which 82,000 were pure album sales, making it her first number-one album in the country.[112] In Australia it debuted at number one with first-week sales of 12,001.[113] The album entered the UK Albums Chart at number five, selling 17,026 copies in its first week.[114] In the US, the album dropped to number 13 the following week.[115]

Track listing

Melodrama[116][117][118]
No.TitleLyricsMusicProducersLength
1."Green Light"
3:54
2."Sober"Yelich-O'Connor
  • Yelich-O'Connor
  • Antonoff
3:17
3."Homemade Dynamite"
  • Yelich-O'Connor
  • Lo
  • Jakob Jerlström
  • Ludvig Söderberg
  • Frank Dukes
  • Lorde
  • Harrell[b]
3:09
4."The Louvre"Yelich-O'Connor
  • Yelich-O'Connor
  • Antonoff
4:31
5."Liability"
  • Yelich-O'Connor
  • Antonoff
  • Yelich-O'Connor
  • Antonoff
  • Lorde
  • Antonoff
2:52
6."Hard Feelings/Loveless"Yelich-O'Connor
  • Yelich-O'Connor
  • Antonoff
  • Lorde
  • Antonoff
  • Dukes[a] ("Loveless")
6:07
7."Sober II (Melodrama)"Yelich-O'Connor
  • Yelich-O'Connor
  • Antonoff
2:58
8."Writer in the Dark"Yelich-O'Connor
  • Yelich-O'Connor
  • Antonoff
  • Lorde
  • Antonoff
3:36
9."Supercut"Yelich-O'Connor
  • Yelich-O'Connor
  • Antonoff
4:37
10."Liability (Reprise)"Yelich-O'Connor
  • Yelich-O'Connor
  • Antonoff
  • Lorde
  • Antonoff
2:16
11."Perfect Places"Yelich-O'Connor
  • Yelich-O'Connor
  • Antonoff
3:41
Total length:40:58
Japan bonus track[119]
No.TitleLength
12."Green Light" (Chromeo Remix)4:09
Total length:45:07
Spotify bonus track[120]
No.TitleLength
12."Homemade Dynamite" (Remix) (featuring Khalid, Post Malone and SZA)3:34
Total length:44:32

Notes

  • ^[a] signifies an additional producer
  • ^[b] signifies a vocal producer
  • ^[c] signifies an additional vocal producer

Personnel

Credits adapted from the liner notes of Melodrama.[121]

  • Lorde – vocals, production, executive production
  • Jack Antonoff – executive production, production (tracks 1–2, 4–11), mixing (track 6)
  • Brandon Bost – assistant mix (tracks 5, 7–8, 10)
  • Tom Coyne – mastering (tracks 1, 5)
  • Frank Dukes – production (tracks 1, 3, 7), additional production (tracks 6, 9, 11)
  • Jean-Benoît Dunckel – additional production (track 9)
  • Greg Eliason – assistant engineer (tracks 1–4, 6–9, 11)
  • Tom Elmhirst – mixing (tracks 5, 7–8, 10)
  • Eric Eylands – assistant engineer (tracks 3–7, 10–11)
  • Flume – additional production (track 4)
  • Serban Ghenea – mixing (tracks 1–4, 6, 9, 11)
  • John Hanes – engineered for mix (tracks 1–4, 6, 9, 11)
  • Kuk Harrell – vocal production (tracks 1–3), additional vocal production (track 7)
  • Joel Little – production (track 9)
  • Malay – production (track 2), additional production (tracks 4, 9)
  • Barry McCready – assistant engineer (tracks 1–2, 4–11)
  • Randy Merrill – mastering (tracks 2–4, 6–11)
  • Brendan Morawski – assistant engineer (tracks 2, 6)
  • Seth Paris – assistant engineer (tracks 2, 8, 10–11)
  • S1 – additional production (track 7)
  • Ben Sedano – assistant engineer (tracks 7, 9, 11)
  • Laura Sisk – engineering
  • Joe Visciano – assistant mix (track 5)
  • Andrew Wyatt – production (track 11)

Design and management

  • 12:01 – art direction, design
  • Jonathan Daniel – management
  • Trieste Douglas – A&R administration
  • Sam McKinniss – cover artwork
  • Bob McLynn – management
  • Ron Perry – A&R
  • Alex Sarti – management
  • Theo Wenner – photography
  • Rebekah Woods – A&R administration
  • World of McIntosh Townhouse – pool shots

Charts

Certifications and sales

Region Certification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA)[149] Gold 35,000^
Canada (Music Canada)[150] Gold 40,000‡
New Zealand (RMNZ)[151] Gold 7,500‡
South Korea (Gaon) 514[152]
United Kingdom (BPI)[153] Silver 60,000‡

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

See also

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