I mean we probably won't get another album for another 4 years so might as well.
Lorde - Solar Power
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Despite my relative defence of the album, she needs to put out a new video, yeah. Now it’s actually winter, she’ll need to work harder to make me feel the summer teas again. Maybe a few cute remixes of the previous singles wouldn’t have gone amiss, too.
The album was very much not for me and that was ~obviously hard to swallow at first. I mean going from the lyricism of Melodrama to whatever she was trying here was an unexpected drop even as I was in with the new sonic direction. Ultimately the bitter taste in my mouth seems to linger based on how much more time and space this album got and will continue to get based on her name. There isn’t a hidden great Lorde album here, there isn’t even a good album here objectively. I’m trying not to stomp on everyone who has enjoyed it (something my previous posts here lacked) but as a genuine fan for whom lyrics are the key to Lorde’s genius for me, this album makes me wish the next 7 years could pass a little faster
The album is basically
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omg
I hated the album, I forced myself to make it my guide through a tough phase because well it is Lorde and I wanted to see the sun again. I got happy again and kept trying to keep it up.
The album really is a pointless pile of shit. That's fine after something so outstanding like Melodrama. I am surprised though that the fall was that deep and the landing that hard. Nothing here is really worth any time. Sure Mood Ring is cute and sure some lines are smart but overall this is a complete non event.
I wonder how people still make time to listen to this when there is so much music for every situation in live that is lightyears ahead in every single way. Lorde herself outdid herself before. And it is not about 'where are the bops'. I think everybody would be fine with a bop free Lorde album if it would showcase what made her great. Nothing of it is here.
As I said I really forced this onto me and really felt for a moment that I love it just because I wanted to love this so much. But I honestly don't. I do not understand how people like this album at all anymore. I gave it a spin last night and it is an artist being completely creatively bankrupt.
The album really is a pointless pile of shit. That's fine after something so outstanding like Melodrama. I am surprised though that the fall was that deep and the landing that hard. Nothing here is really worth any time. Sure Mood Ring is cute and sure some lines are smart but overall this is a complete non event.
I wonder how people still make time to listen to this when there is so much music for every situation in live that is lightyears ahead in every single way. Lorde herself outdid herself before. And it is not about 'where are the bops'. I think everybody would be fine with a bop free Lorde album if it would showcase what made her great. Nothing of it is here.
As I said I really forced this onto me and really felt for a moment that I love it just because I wanted to love this so much. But I honestly don't. I do not understand how people like this album at all anymore. I gave it a spin last night and it is an artist being completely creatively bankrupt.
I think calling the album creatively bankrupt is going a bit far. The songs are not that great but that something different than creative bankruptcy IMO.
They feel uninspired, if there is a theme or a world she wanted to built it is so loosely it’s a card house at best.
There is no distinctive Lorde sound here, no core that tells you something about the artist. I don’t expect a Cheryl Cole album to give me some proper insights but Lorde did a lot before and is again trying to do something here - including the mails and CD boxes without a CD.
It’s right that her creativity is there somehow. It just somehow adds up to absolutely nothing.
Right, how do you harbour such…vitriolic thoughts about an album that honestly, doesn’t warrant neither ends of extremities? There’s being disappointed and then there’s… that. It’s bizarre. This album is nowhere near as earth-shattering or a statement piece as Melodrama was for sure, but it’s a cute moment and I reckon it will get more rotations out of me with summer finally starting down under here.
Just say you don’t like it is enough.
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You act like she killed your cat or something. So she released an album you didn’t like, and??? It’s getting more than a little weird…
Im disappointed. They all have shitty moments. I don’t think it’s wrong to name them.
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I wonder what is next for her? This era is effectively dead commercially speaking and there isn’t the critical acclaim to keep it going like there was for Melodrama.
She’s going to really struggle if she waits another four years to put out the next album. Her career is basically on life support at this stage.
She’s going to really struggle if she waits another four years to put out the next album. Her career is basically on life support at this stage.
This album is perhaps her plainest and most direct when it comes to giving you insight into 'who she is', though. (Not that such insight is indicative of quality)
You're just not interested. Which is fine.
I think the word 'vitriol' used in posts above is correct. We all get up in our feelings about some artists and releases, usually out of disappointment (read: Me and Star-Crossed) because we previously invested so much (of ourselves) in that artist's previous work. But the intensity of anti-Solar Power sentiment (ell oh ell typing that) is weird. As mentioned, it's such a non-event that it's obviously innocuous, completely harmless.
People keep citing Mood Ring as a saving grace, and I get it, but it reads like you were expecting a record full of what would essentially be radio singles. THAT is what you thought the album after Melodrama would be? Because everything to me pointed away from that. And here we are. It's pop, but not as you know it. She seems like a real artist's artist (bleurgh) in that she does exactly what she wants, for better or worse. And there's good helping of both of those feelings on the record, for sure. It's probably not an album of the year as many expected, and I guess..the vitriol is because you'd already started designing your instagram story Top 10 countdown layouts and she's been so rude as to not live up to the static image you had of her? Or...?
I find your assumptions quite irritating. I did expect all but radio singles and couldn’t care less about posting Lorde song’s to my Instagram.
It’s funny that if you just think an album sucks that you’re just an undereducated idiot yelling for bops. I didn’t and do not. Going by what she delivered so far I expected quality. Something that Solar Power is missing. Obviously it’s subjective but the “you just don’t get it” take is embarrassing.
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