Reviews (page 11 of 13)
Słuchałam ją jakiś czas temu, bez większego wrażenia
This is one of those cases where I don't really like the music, but I can appreciate that it's good music.
melodramatic indeed. pop laments that catch some feels. album breezed by
Haven't heard this album. Most of the songs have a familiar, comfortable feeling. I like when a new album feels like something you have heard before.
Put everyone in alarm mode when it was released, great work for a teenager. Not something I’d listen to, but some catchy tracks
Pop
Much better than i expected
nodded my head a couple times
I didn’t really like this album, can’t really pinpoint why.
Pretty fun for pop, but a little whiney and some of the songs really blend together. Cool sound design overall.
I dont know modern pop music very well, so it was nice to get this album to expand my music knowledge a bit.
Some people have "punchable faces", on my first listen to Lorde I have concluded she has a "punchable voice". The music is anodyne and her voice is irritating. No.
I like some sounds, but the poppy bits and indie accent pull me out.
Not my thing
Pop music but with cussing. First track was p decent but rest of the album was samey and forgettable. Didn't hate it but didn't care for any of it really.
fav songs: green light polished, bittersweet, pop 30/100
Música sacada para juegos de futbol. Sin distintivo para la época, una más del montón. Solo porque no suena mal esto no es un 1.
Everything I loathe about 2010s music done competently
Eca
I didn’t get the hype then and I still don’t get the hype now
So much of it sounded so much like the rest of it. A few good moments but I'm not into this style of vocals.
Okay so the album cover is drop dead gorgeous let's get that out of the way first and foremost. That being said - I prefer artists to sing rather than talk with a backing track. Just not my taste, I feel like every time I was getting into the swing of something we hit a block and came off the rails. Perfect places and green light are kinda fun.
J'ai oublié de demander à Steph hier si je devais applaudir Lorde. Je ne trouve pas fameux anyway. Fuck le grand Antonoff.
Muy Lorde, aburrido
**an ok no album, mostly story telling.
Parece música de adolescente.
Enjoyed the 1st track but very quickly got fatigued listening to this. The production definitely feels like the main thing here, definitely the king. The production is spot on while being too much at the same time. There is the odd hook very occasionally but they are very intermittent. Look I don't enjoy this "modern pop" sound very much, and accept fully I am not the target audience for this. It's not the self confession lyrics, lots of my favourite artists do those, it's the form of delivery starting with that talking almost none singing, it just seems to be whiny teen diary delivery than much in the way of actual songs, with any musicality coming from said production. She shows she can sing but that isn't singing. Look it's not for me, that's the bottom end. If you are into this fine, just can’t imagine it being dug out in 50 years, but as said might be wrong it ain’t for me. 2 Star
šta je bliže hrvatskom albumu na ovom popisu: laibach (geografski i kulturološki najbliže, ali hrvatski, dakako, nije) ili ovo (lorde čak ima i hrvatsko državljanstvo na temelju porijekla)? vidim da je na albumu surađivao čifutkov i imam loš predosjećaj... sasvim sam ispravno slutio. prije nego što sam pročitao da je ovaj album antonofljevo maslo, mislio sam da će album biti solidan jer mi je lorde bila poznata isključivo po do neke mjere nekonvencionalnoj pjesmi »royals«. no uz čifutkova nema ničeg približnog na ovom predvidivom i prije svega dosadnom albumu koji se ni po čemu ne usuđuje riskirati. svaka pjesma dade se u svojoj cijelosti pustiti u slastičarnici i odgovarat će. velika šteta jer lorde ima dobar glas i uz dobre skladatelje i tekstopisce mislim da bi mogla svašta. ali ne, dosadni, generični pop... završna stvar albuma na samom početku zazvučala mi je kao spotifajeva reklama, to govori dovoljno
It was okay. I liked the futuristic soundscape, but this definetely not my cup of tea.
Not a fan. Loved her voice on her first album but this album didn't seem much different. Liked a couple of songs but unmoved by most of them. Greenlight and Homemade Dynamite.
Not bad and some interesting parts but not my style at all
Yikes! Not a fan whatsoever. Sounds like her new producer wanted more pop, not her style. Wasn't unlistenable so I can't put it a 1 but this was nothing to write home about
I wanted this to be better. A slightly fuller Tegan and Sara.
Drifted through this album without being particularly wowed, or dismayed.
Not my thing
Fine, I guess. Not sure if it's the instrumentation, or else maybe all the songs were written in quite a similar way, but overall this feels kind of mechanical. Lyrically, it left me pretty unmoved.... Perhaps unsurprising, given I'm a middle aged man. Some of the vocals, I did like, actually. Also, I feel that if the songs had more room to breathe this would be a much better album.In summation: a kind of a cross between The XX and Lana Del Boy but nowhere near as good as either.
From heartbreak and break-ups to loneliness, young female singer-songwriters are shaping the themes of pop music. For some, anger, revenge, disappointment and bitterness are also part of the mix. However, I think for Lorde it stays at heartbreak and sorrow. Her music is very much of the moment. But none of that interests me in the slightest. I hate to sound like an old white boomer, but this music is as ordinary as it is trivial. Goodness, I was so bored. But I suppose I’m not the target audience either.
I have heard one Lorde song, and I enjoyed the music, but I feel like her voice is going to irk me. I’m not a fan of singers singing in a style that changes the sounds of words. For instance, singing the word hard, but it ends up sounding like horde. Amy Winehouse did it, Adele, I think, does it, but they are generational talents. I feel like it’s an affectation that singers, both male and female, put on to sound more like Adele and Winehouse. It screams hack to me, which is why it sounds like nails on a chalkboard. This album came out in 2017, and it may be the newest album on the 1,001 albums you must hear before you die list. I’m going in thinking I’m going to hate this, but that means if it’s even a little bit better than I’m thinking, I’ll love it. It’s just 11 songs and 41 minutes long. That's excellent news. After consulting with my good friend, Wikipedia, I've just found out that this is Lorde’s second album and it’s not even the one with the Royals song on it. Then I am truly going in blind. Oh, and I see that nerd Jack Antonoff was her main collaborator. What is he? The new Todd Rundgren? Though, at least when Rundgren was producing albums, it was just him. We now live in the age where it takes 12 people to write and produce a song, and double that for an album. Most of the time it doesn’t even include the star. I digress Track 1 is Green Light and I already hear the goofy singing style. It’s like she's copying someone else. I need to get past her voice. I’m predisposed to hate it. This was the first single off the album, and it did well all across the world, reaching 19 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The music is nice. It’s pure electronic pop. This reminds me of Robyn, and I love Robyn. Maybe I can do this. Track 2 is Sober, and I’m betting it’s not a cover of the Tool song. I like the beat. It’s very sparse, with no real music, just beats. Now the synths are coming in. Oooh, there are some fake horns in this jam. This sounds like it's going to be a summer album. Her voice still irks me, but if I focus on the beats, I can take it. Track 3 is Homemade Dynamite, and it’s more of the same: great beats and mildly annoying singing. I do love it when Lorde goes into her upper register. She does that a lot in this song. It's hard to apply her affectation when she’s singing like that. These songs are short and sweet, which adds to the appeal. Because the songs are kind of the same beat over and over with little variation, a 7-minute song would be monotonous. I love the chorus, “Blowing s**t up with homemade d-d-d-dynamite.” I see now it was the last single from the album. Great song. Track 4 is The Louvre, and the affectation isn’t so prominent on this song. I really like it. I don’t know that she’s a powerhouse Adele-like singer. Lorde is probably more like Robyn vocally. It’s a slower groove, but it still has the summer in the city feel. I really like this song. I think Lorde is turning me. Track 5 is Liability, and it starts with a Let It Be-style piano. The melody reminds me of My Chemical Romance’s Black Parade, at least the opening of that song, when he was a young boy. The affectation is back a bit, but it’s just a pretty piano melody and her voice. Wow, it stayed like that for the whole song, and by the end of it, I’ll admit, it got me feeling a little choked up. Looking at the meaning behind the song, it’s about how her fame made her a fun toy to hang around until the worst parts of fame interfered, and then she became a liability. She was always left alone and isolated. I felt that in the song, and I wasn’t even paying attention to the lyrics. Supposedly, this album is a concept album about Lorde’s life between the two years of her going from nobody to world-famous. I can imagine fame can be fun for about 15 minutes, then as much as people like to build you up, they love even more to tear you down. Aren't humans fun? My favorite song on the album so far. Track 6 is Hard Feelings/Loveless, and that doesn’t sound like a sad title at all. It’s another slower-tempo song. It’s not bad, but I think I’d have followed such an emotional song as Liability with a banger of a song. Later, the song breaks down into some sort old school hip-hop track about how Lorde’s generation is the loveless generation. According to some AI thingie, it’s about the part of the breakup where you start spouting nonsense like, “I never liked you in the first place!” Or, “I’m glad I broke your heart!” I guess. Probably my least-liked song or songs on the album. Track 7 is Sober II (Melodrama), and I guess this is a reprise of the earlier Sober track? This Sober has more instruments in the music, with strings added to the piano. The affectation is back on her voice, or at least I notice it more on this song. It’s fine, but it’s nothing blowing me away. This album seems more like a sad album than a dance album. After the first two or three songs, which sounded summery and fun, the last few are not fun. Maybe that’s the concept. Track 8 is Writer In the Dark and it’s another slow, heartbreaky song. Oooh, there’s a part in the song where Lorde harmonizes with her voice, and it sounds very cool. Lorde is saying to a guy, "Be careful dating a songwriter, or you’ll end up fodder for the next album." When she loves you, she loves you until you have to call the cops on her, but after she’s over you, you’ll be immortalized in song. I love the concept. The song was good, but the chorus was great. Track 9 is Supercut and we’re back to summer boogiedown, though it’s still a breakup song. Whoever this dude was, he really messed Lorde up, it seems. I guess this is how every Taylor Swift album is. Speaking of Tay-Tay, now that she apparently has found love and happiness, will she still be the same songwriter? A lot of bands or rappers who were poor and struggling don’t have that same fire when they’re millionaires and flying in private jets, you know? I wonder if Tay-Tay's fire will be extinguished? I digress. This song is fine, but I still want that one last banger. Track 10 is Liability (Reprise), and what’s the deal? Did Lorde only have like 6 songs, so they decided to split 3 or 4 of them into two parts? I don’t get it, Big Dan. The singing affectation is back in a big way. This reprise is ruining what I used to think was the best song on the album. I’m not even going to finish this crap. Track 11 is Perfect Places and it was a single. It’s a bit more uptempo, but it sounds like becoming rich and famous has quite literally ruined Lorde’s life. I feel sorry for her. I hope she was able to work through these feelings and get to a better place. The song is alright. It sounds like what I imagine pop radio sounds like these days. Overall, I thought this was a fine album. Lorde’s singing affectation didn’t totally ruin the album for me. Is it an all-timer? Far from it, at least in my opinion. But this isn’t really my style, though I am a fan of pop and dance music. Lyrically, I think the album is very good. She opens herself up and pours it all out. This album just depressed me by the end. If you are the kind of person who likes what’s on the radio these days, I’m sure you’ll love this.
Points for her vibe (which I do love), but the album itself isn't very memorable. Didn't really hold my attention.
not really into this one that much
It’s nice enough. Feels like painting by numbers. It’s all perfectly assembled but has no soul. I can’t fault it as a pop album. It’s probably I’m just too old now to connect with it. Horribly compressed sound also. 2
Not my flavor decent album not stellar
The supposed “New Queen of Alternative” making an album produced by the man who ruined pop production. 2/5
Average pop music
I remember when Lorde first came about, a couple good songs, but I have never heard this album before. Not bad 2.5 stars
Ehh... It's not as awful as I find most modern pop but it does nothing for me. At least there's no excessive autotune.
Not really a fan
Not ground breaking. Definitely didn’t hit the same as her first album did when she first appeared
Pop music with an edgy indie vibe. It is still formulaic.
Modern pop with all its standard accessories - an over-produced, manufactured quality salvaged by some hooky melodies interspersed throughout. When AI starts creating records, it will sound close to this.
Good modern pop album from Lorde
Got some boops but very one note. Late for and made therapy, lunch with Mason about work. Trimmed trees, neighbor let me use his ladder
sounds like i'm listening to a movie soundtrack, in a bad way
How did this generic thang end up here? What's so special about it?
It's Lorde. Album is very of its time. I never liked her voice and it's somewhat nice to know I still don't and it wasn't just me acting "too cool" to enjoy mainstream (at the time) music in my early 20s. I only liked Green Light and it's a shame the album started and ended so strongly with the first track. A firm 2.
I've been blissfully ignorant of 21st century mainstream pop, so i'm not sure if this is super formulaic or one of the albums that created the formula... but it's ridiculously homogenous, repetitive and 100% not targeted at me.
Nice album to listen on the car
This would be a lot more interesting if there were melodies.
4/10
noice
Mid
I don't want to trow shade over her but i cannot for the life of me stand her singing voice. There's something about it that i just. cant. The lyrics and songwriting overall aren't bad either, it's really just the way she sings.
one or two cool songs but overall douchebag music
The intro was good and catchy, but it shifted fast into Taylor. I felt that she was copying and not really in her own style. Her singen is really good paired with the synths and piano, that’s what i enjoyed the most.
I just don't get this one. Not for me.
Not her best album
It might as well be a Taylor Swift album — well-produced music, but there’s very little soul in it. 3/10
sounds too 2017. which makes sense but it aged badly
Eh... I don't know. I think this is mostly fine, but the overall style and delivery doesn't really work for me. Maybe it's just modern production, or modern pop music in general. The blurb describes this as a "maximalist departure from the minimalist hip hop-influenced production of its predecessor"... admittedly I haven't heard that album, but I am NOT getting that. This feels so minimalist in the entire delivery. Stripped back, whispery vocals and beats. Sure, sometimes there's an interesting piece of production in there, and maybe some of that layering counts as 'maximalist' in a technical sense, but that certainly doesn't translate on a general listen. It mostly feels slow and awkward. Maybe I want to feel it more on an emotional level. It feels so cold. I kind of wish she'd just go bigger and really belt out a track - but then of course that's not what this is, and I guess it's just not for me. 2.5 rounded down.
Number: 101 Date: 04/13/2027 Artist: Lorde Album: Melodrama Year: 2017 Genre: Synth Pop Rating: Notes: Before: ======= Another recent artist that I know nothing about. Wow, looks like she is pretty popular, the first track has 739 million streams on Spotify. I'm probably not going to like this. During: ======= Yep, definately not my thing. Well, let's see where this goes. Four tracks in and still not engaged. So, to pass the time, here are my favorite albums of 2017, with one caveat. I have recently discovered Hovvdy, and once I incorporate them into my lists, they will probably take one of these spots in my top 10 for 2017, probably in the lower third on the list. And just for kicks, let's see if any of these artists or in the 1001 list at all. Molly Burch | "Please Be Mine" Michael Nau | "Some Twist" Circuit des Yeux | "Reaching For Indigo" Flotation Toy Warning | "The Machine That Made Us" ShitKid | "Fish" Sweet Spirit | "St. Mojo" Kevin Morby | "City Music" Godspeed You! Black Emperor | "Luciferian Towers" The Head And The Heart | "Stinson Beach Sessions" Slowdive | "Slowdive" Nope, not a single one of these albums or artists are on The List. Eight songs in now, "Writer In The Dark" sounds a little familiar, and I'm thinking maybe I am familiar with Lorde after all, so search my yearly playlists file and find 2 tracks from her on my favorites of 2013 playlist. 2 Green Light 1 Sober 1 Homemade Dynamite 2 The Louvre 3 Liability 3 Hard Feelings/ Loveless 1 Sober II (Melodrama) 3 Writer In The Dark 3 Supercut 2 Liability (Reprise) 2 Perfect Places ----------------------------------------------------- 2.19 WEIGHTED AVERAGE (accounts for song lengths) After : ======= 2 my personal rating 1 suitability for this list 2 impact ----------------------------------------------- 1.7 composite rating
cva ma veel hetzelfde ofzo… 2,5
There is some catchy stuff here and there but there’s also some terrible breathy stuff. And some of these lyrics are truly heinous.
Modern pop music is the lite beer of music, it's easy to crush a whole album/sixer but it won't leave the least impression on you. This is the Natty Bo/Rainier/Lionshead/etc. of pop, it's definitely different but the consumption is just the same.
I wish I was a pop girlie in hs so that I’d like this more
I wish I liked this more but it's quite overrated in my eyes. Her lyrics are good, the production is really good, keeps you on your toes and expecting different sounds as the album goes on, but it wore on me eventually, at least felt repetative enough that i through in the towel regarless of Lorde's emotional connection. It's all in the album title I guess.
je suis pas forcément fan, j'imagine que ce n'est pas du tout mon style de musique. et pourtant j'ai beaucoup de pop. je suis pas fan des mélodies ni des prod. c'est pas catastrophique pour autant. juste je ne le réécouterai pas
An extra star for a measurable reduction in ear bleeding compared to 'Royals'. 'The Louvre' is borderline inoffensive and lulled me into a false sense of complacency before the sudden onslaught of some of the most jarring and caustic notes ever committed in a mainstream pop song. There are moments of decent production and beats, immediately undercut by lazy simile. Nice cover.
Partially known. Mostly just all sounds the same.
Fine, and I've already completely forgotten it. I would like to hear the justification of why I needed to hear this album.
Boring pop music. Not my jam.
Not a fan. The late 2010’s was a great time for good pop music, this album doesn’t count.
This was pretty hit or miss for me. I enjoyed some of the brighter/bouncier melodies, even while they were paired with sardonic imagery (the piano roll on “Green Light” reminded me of Supertramp while “Loveless” evoked Kate Bush). Some tracks felt, as the title suggests, melodramatic. To my ears, the album does not do well separated from 2010s dance-floors. It feels like a bit of a time capsule only ten years later, even if in all fairness, Lorde is one of the architects of that sound.
Way too much production for my feeble mind....
Started well with Green Light, but then seemed to fall into this standard husky voiced dance-lite style that's been popular in the later 2010s and leaves me super uninterested.
Like it's not bad bad it's just not for me
meh, not my style really
green light, hard feellings/loveless y the louvre fueron las unicas que me gustaron, me parece que es un disco bien producido pero es todo muy artificial, no me gusta.
Not for me
This was a nice listen, but I won’t listen again.
2,5
i like the instrumentals on a couple tracks in the first half, especially the fucked up drums in parts of "the louvre" and the weird metallic squeals on "hard feelings", but other than that this one just didnt register. i spent most the second half of the album checking the track list like "damn.... theres still this many tracks left?" i've already forgotten everything i didn't mention already. im not sure if it's not for me or if its just not very good,
The lyrics come off like a prose-y teen diary: juvenile, alluding to dynamics and scenes that don't reveal much of a story beyond vague longing, but aside from the first song they do manage to float along without many clunks. Melodrama, yep. None of the songs are bad offenders, I like the production on Hard Feelings/Loveless particularly, but nothing strikes out at me as interesting or engaging. Maybe because I'm not under the age of 23. But Lorde has a strength in making repetition and similar lyrics flow without getting obnoxious, to the point of track partitions not being obvious at times, so it was an easy listen. The final song Perfect Places is where all the energy dripped off the rest of the album roast like a concentrated mid-2010s pop jus. Supercut is the one I might listen to again.
*incorrect buzzer*
With production help from Jack Antonoff, this 2017 album from Lorde is labeled Electropop. Pretty accurate, lot of electronic instruments, however, the vocal style isn’t really something I enjoy, but perhaps it will grow on me. I will say the production and writing are stellar, however. Out of nowhere, turns out I’m kind of a fan of Sober II (Melodrama); I think the trap drum kit really fits the song. Other than that one song, I didn’t particularly enjoy many of the other songs, basically just Sober II and The Louvre.
A record that makes me feel very old. I mean, it's perfectly serviceable pop, but it's just not for me. Granted, most of this list is skewed heavy to the middle-aged white guy, so I'm hardly underrepresented, but I can only like what I like...
Feels like basic radio slop on first glance, tho some of the underlying beats being a little weird/silly kinda defeats that. Sadly only a few songs ring that bell and even then they don't really capitalize on that "strong" point. Being a dude how mostly likes songs based on vibes, the only songs I could enjoy were homemade dynamite because it gave a hint of the Y2K Justin Timberlake feel and sober II because that part with the 808ish beat + the strings just tickles my fancy. All in all won't be listening to the whole album again but wouldn't want to end it all when I'd be forced to.
Not that bad but im not that into it
I don't understand the popularity. It's kinda boring. Her voice is nice. Not a fan of the synth instead of a band. I'd rather hear her with an actual band behind her. It doesn't even make me want to hear more of her. It's just kinda there. Like she's sleepy. Explains the album cover of her in bed. I guess you can judge this album by the cover.
Jack Antonoff is a phenomenal producer, but there's only so much he can do to offset the esthetics that Lorde top often leans into. Cursive singing, pick me energy, and a particularly mopey writing style, really made this hard for me to like. Jack is the reason it gets more than a 1 for me. His production is always beautiful, even if he has to adapt to suit Lorde's boom clap style of pop. Also you can really tell he cowrote this. Alot of these songs have a particular LDR NFR vibe to them, which he also cowrote.
The Taylor Swift effect 20 years from now we will be able to look back and see the amount of influence Taylor Swift had on music and realize she has- for better or worse- had as much influence as The Clash, Metallica, Led Zeppelin, Eminem, Pearl Jam and on and on. There are now catalogs of music built on her influence and generations of second level acts building off of those foundations. This is a good record. Not my thing.
Sorry, but this isn’t my kind of pop. I understand the appeal, but it doesn’t do anything for me. I’m also not a fan of her voice.
the people are going to hate this but I was not a fan. Her voice felt whiny and performative, I couldn't really focus on anything that was being said. Music was not doing enough to offset
Not my style or music
Green light- boring Sober- boring Homemade dynamite- had good flow but boring The louvre- “were the greatest, they’ll hang us in the louvre” is a real line Liability- surprised me. So emo. Reminds me of waitress. Hard feelings/loveless- favorite so far. Again, good flow but boring. Interesting transition Sober II- beat was cool Writer in the Dark- hated this one. No instruments during the bridge Supercut- boring Really well produced with nothing new to say. Feel like I’ve heard several of these songs a thousand times before by a thousand artists. Really reminds me of Taylor swift but great voice. Party music for people who are afraid of everything, or good supermarket music.
Fine.
Stuck for what to say, I went to read the Wikipedia entry, where most of my basic impressions were confirmed. Yes, Melodrama is an appropriate title for a 19 year-old’s fixations on a failed relationship and the hedonistic solution - like Amy Winehouse with a scratch wound. It reaked of loneliness and insularity, but never felt victim to the fatalism of Frank or Back To Black. Lorde just has to get it out of her system. Of course, most of us get it out of our systems in time, so, for a middle-aged man, it is a question of emotional memory rather than emotional resonance. “Don’t worry, you’ll have forgotten about her this time next week,” I tell me son. And he generally does. But he hasn’t made any records about the experiences and doesn’t have to return to old wounds as a professional practice. The Wikipedia page also mentions Lorde’s interest in Bowie and Laurie Anderson on this record. Bowie I had picked up on Liabilities descending All the Young Dudes baseline and Anderson on all the vocoders. Again, what is for the young artist an inspiration, is, for an oul fella like me, a bingo card of musical recognition. And that is the problem, less and less seems startling and revelatory to me. Certainly not as startling and revelatory as it appears to the artist. And, for the experience to work, the artist needs to be a little ahead of you, so they can guide you by the hand. That’s not a problem with Lorde here. Nor a problem with me. It is what it is. I was baffled by the Wikipedia reference to “maximalism” though. Surely this small sounding record is a bedroom production? Thin, pure synth sounds from FruityLoops. Simple keyboard rhythms that feel pieced together on the piano roll - the chord change that comes a little early on Green Light is an interesting choice. Static harmony and arrangements that focus on addition rather than progression - these are the hallmarks of contemporary music, produced on the grid and produced on a laptop. That’s fine. But don’t call it maximal, when it is as lonely, fragile, and small as the author of the record stated it was meant to be. According to Wikipedia. 2 I was going to write a thoughtful bit about the essential irreconcilability of the confessional and the dance floor. Then I thought ‘nah this isn’t worth it, I’ll just do a snippy comment’ - “Ke$ha with feelings”, which I was quite pleased with. Lorde wakes up in the night crying, Ke$ha wakes up in the morning feeling like P.Diddy. That’s the difference. Boom. But THEN I looked up Ke$ha to see what she’s at these days now that ‘Tik Tok’ isn’t played on the radio any more. Well didn’t I feel silly; singer-songwriter Ke$ha has six albums (one just out last year) and is touring with Scissor Sisters. Not only is she still out there making ‘it’ pop in general - she is helping folk get crunk using fresh material. A deeper dive revealed that Ke$ha also, in fact, has feelings; apparently never better confessed than on her Grammy-nominated album ‘Rainbow’ which was released just a couple of months after Lorde’s ‘Melodrama’. So the next question, naturally, is which Ke$ha albums are on this list? Friends, not a fucking one. Now presumably the user list will remedy this if it hasn’t already but in the meantime #JusticeForKe$ha. 1.5/5
First song is nice but the whole album sounds a bit the same
ugh. it's dance pop, so make of that what you will. it's mostly fine but nothing more. "royals" was a good song. it's not on here
Booooring. Thought this was from like 2010, but way behind its time. Ok songs i guess, just generic
Ok pop.
No Royals?
i don’t like how she sings in cursive. it’s kinda pissing me off i don’t think i’m in the right headspace to be able to enjoy this. it’s way too sad
Ratings: 5: I will happily play this album anytime 4: I may occasionally play this album of my own free will 3: I will happily listen to this if someone plays it in the background 2: I will tolerate this if it is playing in the background 1: I will leave the room if someone plays this in the background Just not my thing.
Good pop music. But completely unisnspired and bland if youre trying to discover music.
spoko muzyka, ale gorsza ocena ze przekaz popularyzujący niekonstruktywne społecznie postawy
Decent, nothing special though.
It was OK. Her style of singing is really not for me.
This is a flip flop for me (describes my state of mind listening to it). Another aspiring artist that had potential in my eyes down the drain. I like her deep connecting tone, the emotion, the atmosphere, and potential depth. The reality is that is an exceptional titillating sound bite of an otherwise jarring pop album. "Homemade dynamite was crap" and any song that states "You got to catch the boom boom boom and make them all dance to it" wont help that's for sure. "Liability" - Got close to my opening brief but it's not a consistent in the album sadly. "Hard Feelings/Loveless" had an amazing grating section of synth sound. Again those 2 celebrate what can be great about this album. I just don't get it you have "Hard Feelings/Love" which sounds like K Pop with a fake girly accent. Its just nasty. Ironically another OK song is "Writer In the Dark" largely due to it being a highly stripped back song which is simply her voice and a dankly played piano. infuriating album quality but ultimately just a standard pop record and not a good one due to the over zelous production.
I can understand why people find this compelling. Lorde performs with more depth and personality than your average pop singer and she has a unique style to her voice and delivery that has a surprising rawness. This is also lyrically quite strong, often darting off in unexpected directions. My issue with this album is that it conforms to all of the clichés of modern pop music production. Moving from early albums on the list to this is quite a jarring experience, there are far too many canned sound effects, quantized drums, and too much vocal processing. It's all too perfect and precise, stripping out all artistry and personality. This sounds like a product, not a performance. The fact that any of Lorde's individuality still shines through this studio "enhancement" is a testament to her strength as an artist. If this was recorded in the seventies, maybe I would be talking about her in the same terms as Sandy Denny or a Joni Mitchell. As it is, I predict that this will not stand the test of time.
Unfortunately this sounds like so much of the pop coming out in the last 10 years. It has no unique identifier. Happy she found success, but it aint for me.
at least she didn't use that annoying autotune effect
Meh
Тоді я не дуже розумів популярність цього альбому, а тим більше зараз для мене Мелодрама звучить якось аутдейтед. Дуже не моє, оця поп-музика 10х, не знаю. 2.5, ближче до 2.
Decent album
I prefer her more poppy work.
Prior to this, I had already liked the song "Royals" by Lorde. I think this was played on Alternative Rock radio a lot when it first came out (in 2013). That's the only one though, and I never spent any time diving into the rest of her stuff. Thoughts while listening to this... I kept wondering why so many pop singers of the last decade or 2 have such a "breathy" singing style where they pronounce words in a strange, "chopped" / "talky" way. I found out that it's called "Indie Girl Voice" or "Whisper Pop". It's the kind of thing I hear when out and about in stores etc. and I'm always wondering why so many women artists sing like this. I find that it can be a very annoying affectation. Lorde didn't innovate it - it looks like singers like Bjork, Regina Spektor, and Lana Del Ray probably started this and Lorde followed in this tradition and helped popularize it along with others like Selena Gomez. Learn something new every day. I'm sure there's a lot more to this that I am missing. I do like that many of her songs are NOT the standard verse/chorus/verse setup of many pop songs "Writer In The Dark" had a very Tori Amos feel to it. I like the songs that are piano based the most. Ended up liking "Liability", "Hard Feelings/Loveless", "Writer in the Dark", and "The Louvre" I'd probably relate to this more if I was a sad, 20-something girl - but I do respect her artistry. I should add that I can't tell how much of this is her doing or the producer guy who looks like he also co-wrote most of the songs. Liked songs on Spotify: 4/12 Rating: 2/5
I don’t know. Lorde’s music isn’t my favorite. As I listened the music seemed overproduced. Each song had some music switch. It got boring after the third or fourth song. She and Jack Antonoff wrote some decent songs but not for me.
não é muito meu estilo, mas a produção é muito boa
Неплохой поп альбом. Он вычешен на максимум и звучит, как и любой другой поп альбом, чисто, больше всего запомнилась песня hard feelings.
not really my taste
I couldnt get thru half of the album
Break up angst ugh. I don't love her voice. She is a creative songwriter and the production is interesting i.e. her multi track vocals.
green light is a serious jam. not sure about the others.
Just not my thing.
Pas un gros kiff même si ça s'écoute bien. Le premier titre "Green Light" est finalement mon préféré.
Klinkt erg gedateerd.
This makes me kinda uncomfortable. I don’t think I should be listening to this
Erster Eindruck: greenn liigghhtt Lieblingssong: „Green light“ „supercut“ (Lieblingszeile:) „Are you lost enough?“ Overall Rating: 4/10 Andere Anmerkungen: die beiden Songs mag ich wirklich gerne, aber die anderen haben mich lowkey nicht überzeugt, hab irgendwie echt mehr erwartet, dabei fällt es mir echt schwer lorde nur 2 zu geben
Cursive ass voice
Teleported me to a Target fitting room 2/5
Is this a great Taylor Swift impression or is Taylor a great ventriloquist
I don’t get the glick with Lorde. It feels very generic to me and just makes me think of that meme where she shushing everyone to sing out of tune but in pindrop silence. She seems great and I love the new song “what was that” (which isn’t on this album), not because it’s a good song, but it is a great vocal stim. This album doesn’t even have that :/
Just can't really get on borde with Lorde, the over-earnestness of the vocal is hard to get past, every word annunciated as if it's extremely important, but really never going that much deeper than the surface level in terms of content. Though I wonder if I might feel differently were I closer to the kind of age Lorde was when she wrote it, and whether there's just too much of a gap in perspective that makes this harder for me to engage with.
2.5
The name "Melodrama" basically sums up this album. It's exactly what I would expect a 14 year old girl would want to listen to while she cries about her girlfriends being mean while her boyfriend won't keep asking her for a handjob in the car, then quietly cutting her wrists just so she can feel something.
I wish I liked this record, as I've often seen it praised. Green Light's hook is good, but Hard Feelings sounds like the Cbat song (iykyk). And I don't like that damn cover!!!
2.5
Green Light is a good un. Decent housy groove when it pops in after a minute or so and build-up throughout is very rushing n euphoric. Really banged when it debuted at Glastonbury 2017 and still makes for decent BBC Glastonbury ident music. The songs after it are just not up to the same standard and are more of an amber warning. The beats and backing music feel way more basic, bare bones and not as interesting and the lyrics are all just variations on a theme of Justice Tthhee Ppaarrtty. Homemade Dynamite is more like Homemade Damp Squib. Also Lorde’s voice is pretty annoying to be honest, like a cross between Taylor Swift and Lars Ulrich. 2.5 stars.
Wasn’t a fan, though I enjoyed the first track
It seems that when female recording artists share the same producer, their music sounds interchangeable to me. I'm not immune to a well-tuned pop song, but I'm also not impressed either.
Not for me but understand why people like it. Decent for what it is.
• not the biggest fan • probably won't add any of the songs to my playlist :,(
I really enjoy Royals but I cannot get enthused about any songs on this album
Lorde is clearly very talented but I just don’t enjoy this type of music all that much.
Yes, of course contemporary artists also belong on this list. In that sense, Lorde was probably inevitable. According to Wikipedia, she is a singer-songwriter, and as long as she sticks to that (e.g., in “Liability”), it's reasonably listenable and her unusual voice comes into its own. Unfortunately, most of the tracks are accompanied by random electronic beats, and Lorde sings in registers where she doesn't sound so good. Much of it reminds me of Björk—a respectable artist, but one whose music I don't usually like.
This is grating. Drags on and really just not for me. Some parts stick out but overall 2/5.
The good: slick production, vocals are a little sad, the cover is nice, easy to listen to. The bad: a bit formulaic, a bit samey, a bit boring. Most positive reviews seem to be from those who have youthful nostalgia for the record. I feel bad if this was the best the kids of 2017 have.
мнн не зашло perfect places неплохая
Didn’t find it particularly interesting
Definitely a unique and beautiful album but not my taste.
The overproduction on this killed it for me. She's got a great voice. Just let me hear what it actually sounds like. Yeah, I'm an older generation than this is meant for, but I don't think that was the issue. I actually think there were some good songs underneath and some heartfelt lyrics... but the over-processing of her voice blanketed over the humanity. Not in an artistic way of adding distortion to make a statement of pain or dehumanization or anything, because that's not what the songs were about and it was the same effects on every song. Tough to rate. I think it's better than a 2, but I feel like a 3 may be overly generous. 2.5 maybe.
Day705 - oh boy if i had to say one nice thing about this album i guess supercut was ok
The only problem with hearing records you're not familiar with 10, 20, or 30 years after they were smash hits is that they are either ground-breaking masterpieces that everyone and their brother ripped off in the following couple of years or they are one of the many other records that ripped off some other ground-breaking act. Either way it can be easy to dismiss it as trite, over-played and over-rated. I expect Gen Z and Gen Alpha feel that way about Nirvana and grunge. Or Metallica and metal. Or Tears for Fears and 80's new wave. I feel like this is overproduced club-lite stuff that influenced and is influenced by every other thing heard in pop music these days. I can see the Kate Bush comparisons sometimes. Arrangements have that epic, synth-full, multi-tracked, reverb-drenched wall of sound paired with melodramatic lyrics full of ennui and teen angst. At least it doesn't have that crappy cranked autotune. She seems to have a good voice. This record doesn't do much for me, but being an old GenX guy, I am very much not the target audience.
Album review 019 Melodrama by Lorde (2017) Rating 1.5/5 The album title, Melodrama, is apt but the album itself sounds like it was written by a focus group with the objective: “write an album that appeals to 14-year old girls (or boys) who are feeling sorry for themselves after seeing the boy (or girl) they fancy ask another girl (or boy) out”. One-dimensional tedium, without a single memorable song.
not 4 me
Clearly a talented musician but I’m just not her target audience, the lyrics don’t really talk to me. I feel the music is somewhat like Gracie Abrams’.
Meh.
A couple nice tunes but mostly a boring slog. Most of Lorde's lyrics are so cringe I wanted to crawl out my skin
Säkert någon som tycker om men det fungerar inte för mig när popartister gör den där indierösten där de pratar bebisspråk
Catchy songs but just not for me.
Extremadamente genérico y olvidable. Pero al menos tiene un buen trabajo de producción y los arreglos son minimalistas, por lo que el álbum no se percibe molesto, simplemente no destacable. Me gusta la atmósfera melancólica que genera, es algo que me interpela generalmente, pero la temática de escribir un álbum después de una ruptura de pareja es un cliché difícil de sortear, y este no es una álbum que lo logre. No entiendo muy bien porqué estaría incluido este álbum en la lista.
The music is fine. Her voice and the affectation she does is so, so obnoxious
Not horrible, but not outstanding against others.
helt ok, inte wow
i dont know
Top 3: 1. Sober - Pop padrãozinho 2. Green Light - Pop padrãozinho 2 3. Homemade Dynamite - Pop padrãozinho 3 Bem que falam que gosto é que nem c*... Achei um álbum totalmente enjoativo, fraco e sem tesão nenhum. Talvez seja o conceito do álbum, visto o nome, mas pessoalmente não me agradou. Pra não falar que é completamente descartável (o que seria injusto), as 6 primeiras músicas variam de ouvíveis à legais, depois disso terminar esse álbum gostando das músicas é uma tarefa quase homérica.
Just seemed like wallpaper
I couldn't really tell you why, but I've just never been into Lorde. I like the moodiness of her music. It's pretty and well produced. I'm not really all that fond of her voice admittedly. I hesitate to call this bad. It's clean, it's pretty, it's well done, but ultimately just not really for me. Guess Royals got played one too many times for me as a teen.
Don't love. Don't hate. The breathy singing voice is similar to other artists; I am not a huge fan. Liked a couple upbeat songs but overall the tracks don't inspire a second listen. Listened before? N Saved tracks? N Favorite tracks? ⭐⭐ Didn't hate it
So this is where that baby talk singing came form huh? Her version isn’t as annoying as other but it got really distracting at times
Nestled comfortably between Hobbiton and a militant Covid response sits a third cultural juggernaut which shared with the other two an uncanny ability to hold a mirror up to the New Zealand character while simultaneously defining it. Never before has a nation’s reputation been so thoroughly captured and enshrined in the eyes of the world forever.
Was okay, too poppy
Very melodramatic? I liked the starting track but the rest droned on. I recognize Antonoff's signature production style, but maybe the lyrics just didn't carry for me? Tracks to Track: Green Light
Not really my thing. I appreciate Lorde’s haunting voice but I didn’t necessarily enjoy it or the album as a whole.
Oh god. I am disinclined to acquiesce to your request. This album made it to #1 in the US. Apparently. It’s just Taylor Swift. The production is the same- the rhythmic shifts in the vocals between the verses and pre choruses. The Big Choruses. Man. I’ve never heard this album before but I’ve heard it a million times. Argh. TWO STARS
Fine
My first thought when I saw this on the list was that this must just be a bunch of old guys picking some new pop album at random to show they are hip with the times. It could have been this or just as easily Billie Eilish. The songs aren't bad, just kind of generic. I had one of those long play ads come up before one track, a perfume add with music, and couldn't tell the difference--I thought it was a song on the album. Anyway, not terrible, but not my thing.
I have no opinion on Lorde’s music. This did little to change that.
eigentlich no kuul, aber alles in allem chli langwiilig und wie si singt gfallt mir nöd so guet..
Well-produced, but not very interesting.
I swear a lot of the positives I have to say about this album get ruined as soon as I start to think positively about the album. My number two pet peeve in music is pop artists swearing just once or twice per song to seem hard or strong or something. It's just annoying and it shows up constantly in this album. I guess she says shit more than twice in Homemade Dynamite, but it's really only to get us to say it along with her in the chorus. Some of the harmonies are cool and I did genuinely like Liability until I saw that there was a part 2 (speaking of which, why did she think that two songs were good enough to warrant a part 2?), but as a whole this album feels like every other pop album I thought I was going to like until I listened to it and realised that it sounds like every pop album I thought I was going to like. For the record, I can also swear exactly once in what I'm writing to prove an imaginary point to myself.
*gasp*. Hoo boy, it feels good to breathe again. I used to dislike these 2010s picks for being milquetoast and shitty, though I've recently come to appreciate them. After working my way through a quarter of the underwater cavern which is this list, it feels good to rise to the water's surface once again and engage with something that is easygoing and likeable. I've heard of Lorde before, though I can't think of a single song of hers off the top of my head. I may as well be going into this blind, though knowing my luck I'm gonna be jumpscared by a radio hit within the next forty minutes or so. Yeah. I mean, it's a contempop album. I find it hard to believe that anyone feels strongly about this subgenre of music and I struggle to find reasons for why this brand of pop is worthy of immortalisation in the first place, but I enjoyed unplugging for a while. I wouldn't be surprised if Lorde helped popularise this brand of dulcet pop vocals, though truth be told they don't do much for me. The instrumentals don't really work, either. The smudged, subdued, atmospheric sound would be a hell of a lot better if the vocals were appealing to me, though neither wind up working, sadly. Ah, jumpscared immediately - I've heard "Green Light" before. Not a bad tune. Lorde's vocals are a little weak during the verses, though the song comes together nicely during the chorus. The album goes out to lunch for a little bit (with the exception of "Loveless"), but it comes back with "Writer in the Dark". Pretty nice song. The vocal style is unique, and I enjoy how it intensifies during the chorus. Piano ballads are always a weak point of mine, and I enjoy the other musical embellishments which hang in the background, too. Normally I would bemoan my inability to read the entries for these newer albums, though I have recently pilfered some newer editions of the book from my local digital book store. Hmm. It's not in any of my downloaded editions. I spent all that time vaulting over digital fences to get away from the cyberpolice and for what? Wikipedia reveals that this album is critically acclaimed and commericially successful, but I'm snipping the fuck out of this entry. In place of this album, I humbly submit The Magnolia Electric Co. by Songs: Ohia for inclusion on the list.
Geht so
I didn't hate this as much as I expected, but wouldn't choose to listen again. The production / sound is awesome though
Actually enjoyed it more than I thought I would but still rounding down
Me: "Oh cool! A Lorde album I never knew she made! I loved her debut Pure Heroine." (after 20 minutes of listening) Me: "Wow, Lorde sounds exactly like Taylor Swift and has completely lost her unique sound and voice." (reads notes on Wikipedia about this album) Me: "Oh, she teamed up with Taylor Swift's writer." *wonders why this album is on this list* 2/5
One more pop album but quite new. Ok, so it might be interesting. But not really. Once again one of these albums where you wonder why it is on the list. The music is quite nice. But it's simply pop music. Best case it will not be forgotten in 2030. It's certainly not one of the albums which you must hear before you die.
3/10 I went into this album hoping that I’d be opened up to something great that had passed me by because it’s not in the typical genres that get recommended to me. Unfortunately, any good will I had was fairly quickly decimated by the horrific production style of Jack Antonoff, who has seemingly never heard of the term nuance. I assume his middle name is Anton, so he shall henceforth be referred to as Jack Off. Underneath a lot of the production fuckery, there are actually some decent tunes in here. There are some nice vocal hooks, some good pieces of rhythmic delivery and some promising musical structures, but there is literally no dynamic across this album at all. It’s like Jack Off has just pumped every track through a maxed out compressor and then a brick wall limiter, programmed every note of the synths, samples and drum hits at full 127 MIDI velocity and then cranked Lorde’s vocal so loud that it completely dominates the mix. It’s actually painful to listen to. This production style really doesn’t help Lorde’s vocal delivery either. When she drops into that indie-girl, infantilised, breathy, ‘can’t pronounce my Rs properly’ voice, it’s made worse by the fact that it’s so in your face. She clearly has a decent voice, but she insists on putting on this affect that just drains my tolerance and rubs me up the wrong way. But with all of that said, this album has actually left me moderately interested in taking a listen to a Lorde album that Jack Off had no hand in, because it feels like there might just be something in there worth hearing. And for that, it gets a slightly better rating than I was expecting after the first couple of tracks. Green Light - There are bits of this that I like, and bits of it that I really don’t. The dance piano chords that are completely lacking in dynamic are awful, and I just don’t gel with the club anthem sound at all. When things are stripped back, it’s pretty good, with a nice pulsing but restrained bass. I also find that she sings in a style that sort of drifts in and out of this weird affect that seems to have become popular. It’s kind of an infantilised breathy talk-singing that is common among female indie-pop vocalists. Sober - This is a bit better off the bat, but I feel like it’s going to get worse. Oh, it has. What the fuck are those horns? Other than those, it’s actually not bad. I feel like it tries too hard to force a driving beat in, and this would work better as something more restrained. I can feel a bit of Björk influence here, but it’s been given way too much of a pop sheen. Homemade Dynamite - More indie-girl singing. Again, there are elements of this that are decent. Some of the rhythm in the delivery of the vocals is nice, but it’s all just so overproduced that there is no dynamic range to this at all. Some of the synth sounds are crap too. The Louvre - How is it possible to pronounce your Rs as Ys? And what the hell is that “broadcast the boom, boom, boom” bit all about. Crap. There are elements of the sound design that are actually ok here, but it’s all so compressed and limited that it just becomes a brick wall of sound that has no nuance at all. Liability - This is actually quite nice, and she reins in her voice affect except for in certain places. But by god, how compressed is this vocal? It’s had every bit of dynamic range punched out of it, so the emotion is forcefully stripped out of the track. Hard Feelings/Loveless - The theme of this album strikes again. Some decent ideas, and if produced with a sympathetic nuance, something half decent could have been pulled out of this, but it feels like a half-baked idea that’s overproduced to the point of being almost unlistenable. And then, apparently this is the same track? It’s not. And it’s shit. The singing is worse. The production is worse. And it seems to bear no relation to the rest of whatever this track is. Sober II (Melodrama) - Go and listen to a Joga by Björk. Hear the subtlety in the string arrangements and the dynamic range that builds through the track, combined with the airy clarity of the vocal performance? Yep. None of that here. Obviously, this is not the same track, but there could be a half decent track hidden in here, but it’s just smashed over the head by Jack Antonoff, compressed to fuck and buffed with in your face sample choices. Writer In The Dark - Did they put the microphone literally inside her mouth? Mouth noise (that you can almost hear the automation cutting out between phrases) and compression galore. Vocals way too loud that it’s distracting. It’s supposed to be an emotive ballad, but it’s more like someone drunk and shouting in your ear about how sad they are. Again, a production that I’m struggling to pick out the actual song from. Supercut - A boring indie-rock song turned into a (yet again) over compressed, dynamically strangled club track. Big bucket of uninterested. Liability (Reprise) - As with the earlier version of this track, there’s actually something of value in here somewhere, but it’s clouded by this producer who is continuing to completely throttle every one of these songs. Perfect Places - Another attempt at an arms in the air club tune. That piano that echoes the vocal line now and again is so low effort, it’s unbelievable. This is a bad, pedestrian song made worse by Jack Antonoff.
This list just keeps disappointing me. Look, I have nothing against Lorde, this is not such a terrible music or anything, but c'mon, so many great artists are left out from this list, and it seems like the author of the book went to Wiki and searched for best-selling albums and billboard mainstream charts. This is already much better than that Spears debut nightmare, but after a few songs this just gets so similar, can't remember a single song and hate this type of production drowning everything in reverb and there's no dynamic range here at all, sounds too pristine and sanitary. 2.0 at most, maybe less.
Meh. Just meh. Very sadgurl core, but not in the way I'd enjoy feeling sad to songs There was maybe one song I genuinely enjoyed?
Meh, not a big fan
Not a fan
Ok album, gode rytmer men til den kedelige side… en flad udgave af hendes monster hit (rule the world)
That first song Green Light was such a bop and got my hopes up high, but everything after it was pretty mellow and/or whiny. Oh well.
pleasant enough to listen to while working but nothing notable in here. Sounds a lot like others around this time.
Ouais bof ça me manque pas trop ces années de musique
Is this Lorde? Yes? Ok, she pretty good, 3 stars... Wait, does it have Royals on it? No? Ok 2 stars.
I really didn't care for this much; just too samey and one paced
So far not my cup of tea. It sounds like the kind of music you would hear in a prom scene of a young adult movie. Nothing new.
I could see myself buying this record for its art alone, but now I've gone and heard the album. Sigh. Credit where credit is due, Lorde has a lovely smokey voice and an obvious knack for the pop sound. I hadn't heard anything on this project, and by the second listen I could really understand the value of her song writing ability. I'm not a fan of that commercial, ready for radio sound, so I can live without listening to this ever again, but I can still acknowledge the effort. I can see why the art is a literal painting, it ties in well with the quality of the production. 2.4/5
Objectively really good, but it just doesn't do it for me unfortunately
Not for me
1.5
2.5
Sounds like it's trying very hard to sound modern and cool. The production is good, the lyrics & composition are trying so hard it sounds kind of pathetic. This is an album that tries to ride on the wake of better, more authentic albums, and will ultimately be forgettable.
Well.
Ok
Meh
Really got tired of her breathy sing/talking. Wasn’t an enjoyable listen. Maybe royals was supposed to be just a one hit wonder. “I am Lorde, ya, ya ya” - Lorde, Randy Marsh
Feels like an Indie hit but done in a real pop way and that really detracted.
Boring, predictable, pop music. Sorry Lorde - just not my vibe.
Bangers
She’s got a very soul full voice…but it doesn’t land quite as powerfully as some others.
Ah yes, album koji je inspirisao *onaj* powerpoint. Muzički, cijeli je dramatična pauza sporadično isprekidana generičkim beatovima i/ili nabrajanjem.
Lorde isn’t for me
Not my style. My coworker who lives the Hamilton soundtrack loves this album. It reminds me of a musical.
Not for me, musically or lyrically.
This album made me feel old when it came out and I was only 26. Still doesn't connect but "The Louvre" is a standout track. I'm just not into the High School Musicalesque soul-bearing lyrics and vocalizations.
If pop music were ‘The Simpsons’, Taylor Swift would be the Plow King, clearing the way for all of her facsimiles, like Lorde. But unlike ‘The Simpsons’, there’s nothing for me here
Came to it optimistic, got bored quickly 2
the songwriting isnt even bad its just abt stuff i absolutely do not care about and i just am not a fan of the overall sound idk 4/10
Pouty, throaty, pixie, wispy inspirational pop. My least favorite genre. I could live 1001 years and be content never hearing this album again.
Album name matches the music for sure. Sounds like it’s written for a performance. Kinda bland on its own.
Surprisingly decent. But not great
Pretty generic and boring, imo
Save the drama for your mama! I'm sure this is fine, but it isn't for me.
It was fine. Everything lately has been very meh. Its all okay, just nothing is really hitting me in the face. While I couldn't make any of this, it all just sounds mediocre and not memorable.
2.5
Unremarkable really. The music is over produced and sterile, the thumping bass annoying in too many spots, and the breathy style of exhalation singing is dry and boring. The lyrics wanna feel smart but come off self-obsessed and pretentious much like Lana del Rey. Highlights were (xxxx and xxxx). But honestly, I just don’t get it. 2/5
old lorde was better, but shocked its on the 1001 list, the 2017 album finally something pretty new.
creo q es la primera vez que escucho algo de Lorde. Si estuviéramos en 2017 seguro que me gustaría más lol Siento que puedes hacer como "una coreografía de vasos" con todas las canciones de este album *insert picture of kyle maclachlan* hard feelings/loveless es una placentada Supercut es la única que había escuchado, esa no está tan mal bah 1.5/5
Meh
OK.
Artiste inconnu. Encore un album de chanteur/chanteuse sans intérêt. Pas désagréable mais pauvre musicalement. =>2/5
Not terrible but it felt like each song balanced on a single catchy phrase and not too much else.
I don't know, I'm not a massive fan of this. I really like some songs from Lorde's solar power album. This one feels so weepy.
bershka vibes
Just ok. I guess I’m just too old.
Just breathe
Decent album but some of the tracks had a quite repetitive sound and vibe. Pure Heroine is still her best work by far. 2.5/5
Nope
1. Green Light - 8 Cookie cutter pop. Musically it's good and I'm a HUGE house music fan but I don't like the ebb and flow between really rigid verses into the way more shapeshifting vocal bridges into choruses. Vocally I feel like the track is all over the place at times but once you run through the whole song you can kind of see the intention in the different tempo of lyrics. It just makes me wishing there was more to it. Background vocals add a lot of great sound to the track. 2. Sober - 5 It's okay. Lyrically it's pretty boring. Musically it's okay but the tempo change leading into the outro doesn't fit really well together on the track. 3. Homemade Dynamite - 6 Beat is amazing during the choruses but lyrically this is dreadful. Shame because musically this sounds incredible. Easily could have been a 10/10 if the vocals were any sort of quality. 4. The Louvre - 1 Remember when Ke$ha was towards the top of the charts and it was a really terrible standard of music and people only realized this ten years later for some reason? Welcome to that revisited in 2017 with this track. Lyrically it's either extremely repetitive, completely dull, or just drivel. Musically it's just as dull. 5. Liability - 2 First verse was very rushed with the lyrics. Musically there's not much too it and there doesn't need to be, it's a slower song. The piano sounds just fine, but a track in which it's the only instrument means the vocals are emphasized even more and they're just not very good in terms of their lyrical writing. 6. Hard Feelings/Loveless - 6 Miles better track. Instrumentally/musically Hard Feelings is absolutely brilliant. Not sure why this needed to be a joint/combined/double song and not just 2 separate tracks, which is a shame because Loveless is such a dip in quality compared to Hard Feelings. Hard Feelings would be a 9 or 10 out of 10. Loveless is 1. Loveless is completely uninspiring in it's lyrics, which are by far and away the weakest part of that half of the track. 7. Sober II (Melodrama) - 4 Entire second half of the track is just the same lyric repeated over and over and over and over again endlessly. Beat is awesome on the track in the opening half and the build up to the strings is absolutely stunning. But the song itself I could do without. 8. Writer In The Dark - 4 It's an average song. There's not enough there for me to enjoy it but it's not poorly written like other songs on the album tend to be. It's too much of the Lady Gaga/Billie Eilish style for my personal tastes. 9. Supercut - 6 It's a slow burner. Opening minute is a drag to get through but when the song really opens up 2 and 1/2 minutes in it becomes enjoyable. Song does on for way too long but the instrumentals on the final minute during the drown/fade out aren't bad and you can live with the over-extended outro because of it. 10. Liability (Reprise) - 7 It's a decent reprise. Meant to be a pass over track given it's a reprise, you can really enjoy it one your way to the last sound. Sounds excellent. Having said that, this should have been the last song on the album and would have been a great way to close it. 11. Perfect Places - 5 Track was probably written specifically for radio play and it's very easy to tell that but the way the octaves change on the chorus with the sort of gospel like choir signing of it alongside Lorde. Outside of that the track is just generic 2010s pop. Nothing special about it. Average Rating: 4.91 Adjusted to a 5-Point Scale: 2.45 Rounded Down: 2-Stars
Unique voice. Music not necessarily as great as her first album.
Good voice.
Y'know I could almost get into the diary of a privileged young girl and the difficulty of loving and being loved but there is practically nothing going on musically here. A little basic synth kit beat behind it but this is almost all just the singing and maybe a little 1st year guitar or piano behind it. If this was going for lofi it doesn't have the rhythm or groove really. I'm not a huge Taylor Swift fan but what does Lorde do that Taylor Swift can't do 10x better?
I thought I'd like this but I really didn't vibe with it at all. All felt a bit flat to me, and unfortunately got a little sick of the vocals midway through. Sad.
Not my thing
My nieces would be so angry at me
Album art: 3
2.0 - Weak
Pop album, I understand it but it’s not really my thing. They just kinda blend together
This has to be the most overhyped pop album of the 2010s, if not of all time. It all sounds so ordrinary, the vocals are all over the place, the songs mean to sound deep but they're mostly the same old thing we've been hearing in pop music since the 80's. And this was compared to Kate Bush? Really? Also, this album made Jack Antonoff the most sought-after mainstream producer and although I do enjoy some of his work with artists like St. Vincent and Lana Del Rey, his overall impact in the mainstream music landscape was to make it grey and duller. I didn't get this record's hype in 2017 and I still don't get it now. Key tracks: Green Light
I was expecting this to be the new kind of pop that is actually quite good. But unfortunately this is just not a good album, it’s filled with musical cliche and has no standout moments.
Easy listening pop, but one of the greatest? I don't know about that.
Yeah not bad. Not sure who's listening to this other than middle class teenage girls in their giving the finger to their parents after Ben told they can't stay out past 11pm
A cocktail of some great influences that meet in the middle of the road - hits of some interesting edginess but it's been somewhat sandpapered down.
The lyrical theme aside, hardly anything about the album stands out. It feels like pop with a P. I suppose if you don't connect to its theme it's just another album.
Ehhhhhh not for me - too poppy and whiney
Boring and so put on
For a someone battling for space in the teen market, Lorde takes a lot of risks. She sings songs that are not pretty, in a croaking voice, and that ask big, difficult questions. Her outlook is one of a sliver of hope peering out of a full sky’s worth of dark clouds. She rejects lighthearted fun in exchange for a fuller experience. Still, she employs so many 2017 tropes as to leave the songs feeling outdated within less than a decade of their release. And, worse yet, the music itself is unmemorable. You couldn’t sing one of these songs even 10 seconds after it ends. A worthy listen, would not bring it home.
A very boring album
carino!
Sleepy
Not a fan of the whining speak singing she does. It’s pretty annoying. That being said if it was 15 years ago and I heard this while shopping at Forever 21 I wouldn’t have been too mad about it. I get it, it’s just not for me.
A nicely produced record, though a lot of the songwriting is very run of the mill. I found it hard to be impressed by any of the instrumentation or performances on here. By no means bad though. Best Tracks: - Homemade Dynamite - Green Light Worst Tracks: - The Louvre -Writer In The Dark Rating: 4/10
A couple of okay tracks, will probably give it another listen
Not even the best lorde album
Melobooorrring
Green Light is an okay pop song. But this album is very forgettable. The same vocal delivery and tone on every single song.
It’s fine. Good maybe. But not my cup of tea.
This album is good at putting me to sleep but otherwise not much else.
So algorithmisch härgstellti musig esch halt absolut ned mis ond ech ha scho fascht e chli en Abwehrhaltig gäge settigi entweckelt. Au das albom esch doch relativ langwiilig ond ech fühle mech als ob echs scho vel z vel ghört ha obwohl ech wahrschiindlech die meischte lieder no nie ghört ha. Es chönnt aber schlächter sie wel ech zom teil die positive Vibes ond gwössi konzept doch no fühle.
"bet you rue the day you kissed a writer in the dark" i.. don't like this at all. basic synth drumbeat, melodramatic (>_>) and frankly bad lyrics, positively radioactive with "baby's first breakup" vibes. Lana does it so much better.
Not for me
Lite för seg för mig. Bara en låt som jag gillade
Meh
Homemade dynamite already knew and it is a banger. Greenlight overrated pop slop. Her singing gives me the shits
There's some composing ability here, but I'm not into this over-produced pop.
Rendez-moi ces 45 minutes.
I am Lorde, ya ya ya!
Lorde ist unvergesslich mit ihrem ersten Hit Royals, aber dieses Album ist für mich zu aufgeblasen und arrangiert.
Moody pop
So so
I really liked the Charlixcx song with her on recently but I guess it doesn't extend to this. The beats totally lack any sort of humanity, and are really cheesy at times. The vocals are very annoying, I feel like if they were less over the top (like it feels like she's putting on a voice) they would be so much better. Not really gonna comment on the lyrics, they aren't outrageously bad, and some were consciously funny (like the one in the Louvre. Feels like Taylor Swift reputation but worse in every way. Favourite song: Favourite places (I like the chorus on this one - I feel like its unapologetically pop which the others aren't). Overall around 4/10
2011 boom-clap beats and indie Taylor Swift voice combine with dogshit stupid lyrics to make… whatever this was. Who put this album on here? I liked Supercut, but only a little.
Fav tracks: The Louvre Liability Writer in the Dark Supercut Imagine if the choruses were all good this could’ve been an almost perfect album for me huh. High 2. ——— Ok let me write this as I listen to it Green light: I like the verses hate the chorus lol Sober: I wanna like this. I don’t sadly. Homemade Dynamite: I like the verses dislike the chorus?? Is this going to be a pattern I hope not.. The Louvre: I louvre. Liability: I love a lot. Hard Feelings/Loveless: hard feelings is mid. The break is cool sounds like white lotus lmao. Loveless continues the white lotus nice, I like this part I think. Sober II (Melodrama): almost had me before the trap beat kicked in. Eh. Writer In The Dark: I like this a lot. Supercut: I love a lot. Liability (Reprise): I like this it’s nice. Perfect Places: Ok ending with another “I like the verses hate the chorus” song, cool. Glad it wasn’t a recurring pattern at least.
Bland, samey all the way through, sterile production. Not sure what qualities merited this album’s inclusion on this list.
'Melodrama' seems like the perfect name for an album of shameless Gen-Z cliches and first-world problems. I just can't raise much enthusiasm for it. Maybe she's got a good voice but it is so overproduced and autotuned that I can't really tell. One listen was more than enough.
Loves Lorde's sound, and individual songs are all generally pretty great, but it doesn't come together into an interesting album, or one that I would ever listen to intentionally.
decent