Lorde: âItâs my joy to be patient zero on a harmony virus.â Photograph: Ophelia Mikkelson
She quit social media, embraced the feral and grieved for her beloved dog. Now rejuvenated, Lorde is back with a nature-inspired new album â though she tells our writer thereâs a sinister side to its sunniness
Fri 25 Jun 2021 01.00 EDT
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Lorde, in case it wasnât obvious, has made her name on glorification. Ella Yelich-OâConnor was an aristocracy-obsessed 16-year-old when her imperiously cool debut album, 2013âs Pure Heroine, elevated suburban New Zealand adolescence to pop echelons in which those kids had never previously seen themselves. In 2017, Melodrama cast post-breakup hedonism in glittering synths, dramatising one fabulous night on the cusp of adulthood as if it were Greek tragedy.
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