Reviews (page 13 of 13)
Its a nope from me, whinge music.
Pop music, nothing too revolutionary.
I am not familiar with the LORDE, but aware of her existence. What little I have heard from her does not impress me or make me interested in her music. After listening to MELODRAMA. My first impression is my usual first reaction … I was not impressed and they was to be expected. Musically and vocally, she sounds uninteresting to me. The type of music, Electropop, does not have staying power and is not catchy or different enough for me to enjoy. Usually, I give an album about three more listens to see if musically or vocally something might grow on me. I decided to skip the repeats and concentrate on the lyrics since the title, MELODRAMA, seem to indicate that the lyrics might be more worthwhile to take an interest in. Lyrically, the lyrics are a little stronger than the music, I can see the repetitiveness in the lyrics to suggest something bigger. Overall, since unimpressed with LORDE and MELODRAMA. I see a similarity musically and vocally with TAYLOR SWIFT’s 1989. I like TAYLOR SWIFT a lot, but IMO 1989 is Taylor’s worse album. Lorde seems like a flash in the pan pop star. This does not speak to me about my life now or when I was twenty. In 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die, MELODRAMA is her one and only entry. Rate Artist: LORDE (2.5) Rate Album (Year): MELODRAMA (2017 Original) (2.5)
I don’t get this selection. Her debut album was much better.
Did not like
At least I know what Lorde sounds like now. First time I've actively listened to her and also the last time. I just don't care for this music.
Ei nyt mitään ihan hirveetä paskaa muttei myöskään pääse pysyvästi kuunteluun. Välillä ei edes tajunnut biisien vaihtuneen kun oli niin tasapaksua menoa.
Näitä kolmetoista tusinassa. 2017 duunattu levy, nii en ymmärrä etikoosuutta. Vai oliks tää tän subgenren ensimmäinen? Tylsähkö
If you've heard the song "Royals", you've heard this album. It's pretty unadventurous. She's not a bad writer, but there's no exploration of range or melody or rhythm. Didn't add.
I saw her in the festival circuit supporting this album. It’s not really my thing but she clearly has talent. Nothing on this album really stood out to me though, all just brooding love lost lyrics.
Never really cared for her voice. Songs were boring
kind of lame, the whole point of the album, as a singer, was her vocal performance and it didn’t change at all throughout the whole album, she feels like a one trick pony. she has a nice voice but it’s kinda boring after a few songs. I’ll give it a 3/10 pop isn’t for me
Not my cup of tea...but some ok sounds
Kann man prima Pixar Filme mit vertonen. But not my cup of Melodrama. 1.6
Ik hoor niet wat hier nou zo bijzonder aan is.
It's not too bad, surprisingly, but just not my kind of thing.
Better than average pop record, but doesn't do much for me personally.
Was kinda embarrassed to be listening to this, but it’s not too bad. Fell off at the end, feels empty.
meh
2 saves sur 11, sans aucun interet, shanta Billie Eilish, ça sera un 2/5
Pop moderno é muito questionável, este demonstar alguma qualidade mas é ofuscado pelo gênero em que se insere. Nota:3/10
Alright, just pop. First track was catchy. Prob a 2. Also, feels like Billie Eilish prob tried to sing like this girl.
Not too bad.
Best wel prima album, Lorde heeft mij nooit helemaal lekker aangesproken maar kan het wel waarderen
Not a big fan.
Lorde is fine enough I guess. I don’t know if she’ll still be well-known in 5-10 years. This record is mostly forgettable
Some interesting bits but ....
I would have liked this back in 2017.......maybe.....
too 2017 for my taste sorry ms. lorde
hate it, not for me at all
Well, it seems that strong lyrics aren’t a necessity for getting on this list. I don’t understand the fascination of young women with being crazy, psycho. It’s demeaning.
Попса
Trying to keep an open mind about these albums but i have NEVER liked lorde
I normally like pretentious whiny music, but this has way too many painful teenage cliches for me
Not impressed, Randy Marsh.
Inexcusably awful. If a breakup is so bad it inspires you to write an entire album, I would expect that listening would be an emotionally charged experience. Instead, I got some bullshit from the pop-slop factory and it sounds like this lady didn’t even experience any of the events described in the lyrics. I don’t want to listen to 40 minutes of half-hearted pathetic little ““““sad”””” indie girl shit.
Creo que el pop es de mis géneros menos gustados, honestamente, pero éste álbum en particular no me gustó para nada. Rescataría: Writer In The Dark y Perfect Places.
Antonoff. Sounds exactly like the Taylor swift records.
Meh
I did not find this particularly interesting.
If she sang in a different language I'd enjoy it more. The lyrics are bad.
Ok, so the wife strays on the televisual entertainment every now and then after a hard's work will sneakily put on something like Emily in Paris or Younger. At the denouement of an episode when they hug and something has been learned, or they are walking in the rain or looking out wistfully on a sunset in an urban setting they play one of these songs. So you know it will be low key, quietly contemplative, some pianissimo, then it BUILDS TO AN EXHULTANT CRESCENDO AS WHATEVER GRIEF HE DID IN THE BEDROOM IS DISSED AND ORDER IS RESTORED! Phew, nearly got into that just thinking about it. In terms of songwriting the 21st century has lost lost the art of surprise, how strange the change from major to minor, there's no move to a minor seventh nothing. And the trite miserable been there done that lyrics, spare me. What a load of hackneyed rubbish, and I don't care what context this has emerged in and no I don't know who she is and no I don't care. And yes she no doubt has a gazillions hits, it can fuck off.
Move along, nothing to hear here
Boring and stupid
Gave up halfway through, just awful
My sister likes this, so I’ve already heard it far more than I ever wanted.
There isn’t too much out-and-out pop cack on this list, but this definitely falls into that category. Not sure what the critics are thinking with this one.
generic popslop
I really don’t think it’s cool to hate on lorde but she leaves us no choice. I like her in theory too - her whole dancing like nobody’s watching bit (not in a Taylor Swift “this is me at my most vulnerable brought to you by AMEX” sort of way but an actual sincere way that I believe) but it’s just too bad that she does in fact suck I will say this album clearly made a fucking impact on pop music. I assume this is one of the first few instances of Olivia Rodrigo ultra-specific songwriting (IMO the worst thing to happen to pop and indie in the last couple decades). The production is obviously quite ambitious for a pop record which I know is partly why this part of the 1001 canon I feel myself dozing off and enjoying it a bit at times (at least not hating it) but a lyric goes by and I am reminded of the insanely cheugy lyrics and cringey delivery
shit
More Randy Marsh and less Taylor Swift.
Could be any one of a number of female pop singers. Maybe it's the lyrics that make it special. Who knows. Because the production is so generic I won't be spending any more time listening. I gave Mars Volta 1* yesterday but at least they were trying to be themselves. Lorde isn't even trying to do that. 1*
nah
geit so
come ascoltare ellie goulding, concettualmente la stessa cosa inascoltabile per me
I very heavily dislike this album. I very much want to like what im listening to, but i disliked almost every song. was literally tortured by it
Man corporate songwriters straight up don’t give a fuck anymore. How is this autotune heavy I’m-so-soulful-about-being-uninteresting vocal on here? This is why I avoid hearing modern pop. Hilariously terrible.
Shits ass
doodoo
Bad, boring… 2 notes songs… rubbish! C’etait difficile de ne pas zapper…
I dislike this like taylor swift and charli xx on crack
i just dont like any songs this lady makes
Green Light
Album I would replace this one with: Tame Impala - Innerspeaker (2010) 5/5
It's important in this post-truth world that we be as honest and straightforward about things as we can be. With that in mind, I can say without fear of straying into mendacity that this album is dog shit wrapped in cat shit. She lost me early doors with the lines, "those great whites, they have big teeth, hope they bite you". Carole King she is not.
Pretty grating. Not for me
I'm good
Yay another female artist!! But this is lowkey my least favorite type of music (sorry Lorde).
I honestly did not enjoy this album and gave up listening fairly quickly :)
Really don’t care for whatever the vibe is here. The exactness with which it emulates (or presages?) the very particular and sometimes cloying sound of Taylor Swift irritated me often.
I dunno. I think I'm just old. But I'm not that much older than Lorde is... I like her voice, and the stacks of wide ranging harmonies is interesting. Lorde's lyrical content is fine, but boy is the music itself just a bore to me. Played out progressions that I'm sick of hearing over and over again. And even with the former point about lyrics, as the album goes on, I'm getting sick of hearing about another breakup despite how evocatively the entire affair is described. I can only hear so much about one thing before I start asking you to talk about something else, anything else, regardless of how much color you put on it. Listening on youtube and one of the comments on the last track of the album said that it was the most beautiful song they had ever heard. Someone on track 7 said, "This is the hardest shit ever. My fav lorde track. Gangsta af". Gangsta af, they said. Couldn't believe that one. Someone called it neo-soul! More than one thing to unpack with those last two comments. Different worlds for sure. The album isn't meant for me in the slightest, and that's alright. It just did not land.
This one is just not for me.
Terrible. Uninteresting gimmicky overproduced teenage girl pop.
вообще мимо….альбом как будто состоит из тех самых песен, которые включают в масс маркетах…мимо
I ain’t listenining to ts
Won’t slate it too much , just wasn’t that enamoured with it all in all felt a bit samey to me through most of it
Only thing I know of Lorde is her song Royals which used to play on the radio constantly back in 2013/14 when I worked in a factory so it did my head in.. But I'm entering this with no bias and open ears! Got to track four and all a bit samey so far, nothing standing out and making me pay attention, perhaps the lyrics are those songs saviours? The music writing and production is very minimal and low effort in my opinion. This doesn't seem like art for arts sake but rather a product for radio play. This would fit nicely in the background at any supermarket. I was hoping for something with some dynamics, tempo changes , key changes, textural changes, instruments but no. Every song follows the same minimal electronic style. For me a great album should have variation in some of the above ways and more. Not for me at all.
The lyrics were so cringy, she has a terrible case of indie voice syndrome, and the instrumentals were extremely bland. I have no idea why this album is on this list but Pure Heroine isn’t
Not for me
Not very memorable.
I did not care for this. What’s up with the weird baby voice? I would rather listen to The Black Album.
ZERO
Very boring album, i can't remember any catchy song. Just a gray mass Rate 1/10
It was so cringe im sorry
I don't like this Album
Was expecting the Finnish Metal band who won Eurovision many years ago. So this was a major disappointment.
Not for me. I had heard some good chat about her latest album and so was interested to hear this. I was expecting a brilliant song writing voice. I don't think I'm the target market though. The lyrics are squarely around themes that concern young adults. I find the production really interesting in parts but overall a little thin. The breathy vocal feels a little affected. Massive credit to her for accomplishing this popular record at such a young age, it's just not working for me in particular
This is the tired techno algorithm that been put out by the Disney channel pop. There are a dozen female artists that seem to be churning out the same stuff.
I've never knowingly heard anything by Lorde before. I have now though, so... thanks? I suspect if I was fifteen rather than 53, this record might mean more to me than it does. As it is, it seems unremarkable and entirely forgettable. The world seems to be awash with records exactly like it.
Millennial women break album painful to listen to
I only listened to one song but just isn’t for me at all, sorry Lorde
Unmitigated crap. I can honestly say I am not a poptimist.
Not bad, I can see why people like it, definitely doesn't have its place in the 1000 best albums though
Another 1.
Just not something I vibe with. Like just no
Found it really dull
Not my thing. Didn’t make it thru it.
Sorry no
i've not had to listen to any minge music for a long time. does she have a speech impediment or is she actively singing like she's deaf? either way this is so bad i want to put the names and addresses of everyone i know on to here so the they can be associated with my terrible prose.
This is certainly an album I could've done without hearing before I die!
I don't think it's bad necessarily, I just don't really like it.
Worse than Alanis. Canada: 1 New Zealand: 0
Oh no… I dont like it!!!
the meme is so funny; cuz that's your whole life. that bitch is so pick me i would rather poke my eye till it pops out into my skull then ever listen to the motherfucking dumbass bitch. no body wants your antisemitic ass to make a sound. I’d rather wrestle a crocodile in a thunderstorm while wearing noise canceling headphones and screaming the alphabet backwards than ever listen to that horrble person.
Not rateable. Shit. Hated jt
Another teenage girl's diary entry with a drum machine, synth noises and masses of reverb. What happened to musical instruments?
Not my thing
I've heard this one enough times at work through one of my former colleagues incessantly playing the CD (that I bought for them as a birthday present 😬😬), to know there's absolutely nothing for me here. Time is precious, and I don't need any "not like the other girls!!!" shite in my life.
Nope... 2 listens of this and I can't remember any bit of any song from it. Bland pop music, nothing much else to say.
More boring insipid modern pop music. Reminds me of Taylor Swift, but not as fun. Just... Shit.
Poppy, lyrics pretty boring and reductive
Not my thing
love the voice but painfully boring
Just not my style. Gave it a one for effort though.
Nej.
boring
I was a "girl" in my early 20s when this came out so I was the target audience and I can still say - Oh my god it's soooo boring I don't even care if it's well-produced.
Meaningless pop drivel. Melodrama is the perfect title.
lowkey album mi se nije svidio. Nisam pretjerani fan ovakve glazbe, Lordein glas je veoma unikatan i sviđaju mi se njene iconic pjesme, no ovaj cijeli album je takav miss tematski i tekstualno. Naravno, ovo je samo based off of one listen, stoga ne znam jeli ima neko dublje značenje u glazbi. Svakako, nije mi bilo nešto. Najbolje pjesme su mi bile The Louvre i Sober II, ostalo je mehhhh.
2/10
Too often the opening of this browser is followed by an exasperated sigh. It just escapes from me. The additions to this list in the years since the original book’s release have caused me great pain thus far. From that Beyoncé greatest (s)hits fiasco, to a Taylor Swift record, now we move to the most indie coded of the pop princesses, Lorde. I don’t care about this. I could go my whole miserable life without hearing another Lorde song and fade into the nether realm without batting an eye. There are so many games to play, books to read, things to do. But sure, let me spend 40 minutes listening to a pop album in order to satisfy my completionist mind. With an introduction reminiscent of a disgruntled court jester, you may take the stage your Lordeship. I shall slink off with my shoe bells jingling softly. Green Light - Oh I’ve heard this before. This was a horrible era for music. This plays quietly before a work presentation in a local playhouse that you have to go to. Red light. Sober - I wish I wasn’t. That was a long song. Whoa. That was weird for a second. Now it’s like the Zootopia theme song except evil. More songs about dancing. Oh Gawhawd moy hawart. Why does she sing this way? Homemade Dynamite - Napoleon Dynamite. I need to watch that movie again, but I feel like it holds up. It’s a brand of millennial humour, but I think it’s aged well. Who knows? Maybe I can try to replay it in my head to dissociate from this album. The Louvre - Why is this song named after an art museum despite featuring the repeated refrain of “broadcast the boom boom boom and make ‘em all dance to it.” I think I just spit up a little bit. Liability - I’m sure this is very meaningful to Lorde. The words seem well crafted but they don’t speak to me. Why would they? Hard Feelings/Loveless - Hey, I like the part with no vocals! That’s something. Great. Unfortunately everything else stays mired in the same stench as the preceding tracks. Oh good, it switched into one of the worst songs I’ve ever heard. Sober II (Melodrama) - Lorde, we need a title track. Can’t it just be that second sober song? Uhh I guess that’ll have to do. For both a track review and a bit. Writer in the Dark - Who cares? Supercut - SuperCard of Honor. That’s what she’s saying, right? Let’s watch classic ROH instead of listening to this. Great idea. Gotta find that match between Danielson and that big Morishima guy. Liability(Reprise) - We don’t need a reprise. At all. We need a reprieve, but a reprise? Never. Perfect Places - Gelatinous mass looms. The nourishing sunlight blocked ushering a sickening chill. Screams are cut off by silence as the form glides into apocalyptic vision. A life form that should not be threatens bloodshot human eyes. Revolting proliferation of cells. The ultimate malignancy. No objective, no prisoners. A planet absorbed. A lifeless frost envelopes our besieged earth. A planet absorbed, all life vanquished. Yeah this sucked. Depressed, teenage girl breakup songs. Maybe early 20s. I am an old man at this point. At least this album made me feel that way. It’s funny that this album is everything Taylor Swift would end up doing for the next few years. Couldn’t she have copied something cool? Check out Chat Pile. Maybe sludgy noise core will be the next “era.” I’m done with this. Fuck corporate pop. 0 HIGHLIGHTS: HOIUGHHHLOIGHTS
i do not lik
Teška komercijalna dosada. 1/5, 1.5/10
Really really really shit pop Cant believe this is in this list
Modern pop schlock. Not even her breakout album.
not my style, i can appreciate the technique but i don’t like the genre (personal preference)
Self indulgent horseshit
Not for me
😞
Her second album. Argh ! Three days in a row. An album of... I love you, I hate you, I'm bitter, I'm better than you, I moved on, I need you, I made out with a guy tonight now I'm crying in the back of the cab. And I made an album about it all using my laptop blah blah bland.
What I did listen to.. awful 😣
Nope. Too much pop for my liking.
If I could rename this album, I'd call it 'Misphonic Triggers'. Alternating between straining to defecate and attempting to summon a cat, her whiney tone makes me want to pierce my own eardrums. How on Earth is Lorde in the top 300 artists on Spotify? I suppose 'popular' has never truly equated to 'good'. To sum this album in a word: horrible. It's the first album I've encountered so far that I have had to turn off. I tried. I really did, but by the time I got to the fourth whispering whinge, I'd had enough.
Just bad all around, not much to grab onto here
Is dit wat populaire muziek tegenwoordig inhoudt? Lekker depressieve pop
Não compensa
Sad pop does nothing for me.
Typical pop record, not impressed
Holy shit that sucked donkey balls
Courageous. Raw. Wow. Not really. This sucked. She sucks at singing. She sucks at pronouncing. The only thing spot on was the title of the album. Melodramatic BS. The only people that enjoy this shit are overly fragile infants who live in self pity.
I like the catchy keyboards Edit Mar 17 2026: 3 --> 1. I really don't like the vocals
Shit
Aw hell no, I don't want to listen to randy marsh...
Very standard stuff, I didn't like the production at all, it was over the top and more often than not didn't accompany the music and its direction in terms of overall feel. The lyrics were often corny as hell too, take "the louvre"(production wise a mess too). Overall glad the album was done, the only good thing was the powerful intro, which was ultimately followed by a landslide of sloppy work. Favorite track: Green light. Overall score: 1.8/10
Nice
23/1001 Jesus this record was bad. Like really boring and basic pop music bad. Wanted to stop listening after only a few songs but I persevered, sadly it didn’t get any better. 1,5/5
nawet nie przesluchalem, pop
Could not finish it
I do not care for lorde and I do not have love for this
Come out Jack Antonoff I know you're there I just wanna talk
I can't stand this brand of singing, it's hard to articulate it. But it's a highly affected, distorting of most vowels. Ellie Goulding is a bastard for it too. It's known as IGV (indie girl voice) or Indigo voice. Green Light is full of it, and full of rubbish lyrics too, “but they bite-chu” lol. The beat in Sober reminded me of that Gotye hit, what a geometric headache that song and video was. Liability is just My Chemical Romance’s ‘Welcome To The Black Parade’, which of course is also derivative of many other songs, but this feels like blatant lift and shift in style and arrangement. She of course went on to rip off George Michael, Primal Scream and various others for that Solar Power single. Supercut made me want to smoke. I think it conjured memories of both Richmond Super Kings and Silk Cut. I'd gladly eat a sleeve of two hundred cigarettes than listen to another Lorde album. I can't believe the audacity of having callbacks to earlier songs and a reprise! As though this is an album with any artistic merit whatsoever. The album is a pile of piddle laced with forgettable songs, phoned in production, and totally benign songwriting. I seriously hate churned out, manufactured toss like this. It's completely devoid of personality.
She seems to be both very melancholy and very sleepy. She just woke up and has been informed her boyfriend left her and she needs to sing the song about it before mark antonoff will let her get out of the bed. He’s hitting a few basic progressions on a keyboard by the bed and just telling her to sing her thoughts as they occur - we have to finish this album by 930 at the latest so I can get to Miley Cyrus house.
I guess she’s got a decent singing voice. But the slow, quiet and breathless songs just don’t do it for me. Add the cursing and general simpering about their broken relationships, and it’s a pretty good snapshot of today’s anxiety-riddled woke white females. Lorde leads the way. It’s a yuck. I much prefer the Madonnas and Britneys and Taylors.
Awful
Not a Lorde fan at all!!!
Had to stop listening to this one it was so boring. Boorring.... Boooorriiinnggggggg
Too much drama
No va
No
Like poor karaoke. No structure to verses/stanza. Tone is terrible.
Η κλασσικη ποπ white-girl coded. Στιχοι που ακους σε καθε αλμπουμ ποπ για χωρισμους κ τετοια. Target group 20αρες που ακουνε mainstream. Αρκετα βαρετο Rating: F+
This Lorde album feels more inconsistent than her previous effort PURE HEROINE. Album felt algorithmic. I'm also not a fan of her singing style. None of the tracks stood out to me as bangers that had instrumental and vocal ideas that really captured my attention. While critics lauded her for more mature songwriting subjects on this album, I felt the subject matter on this album actually felt a bit more, please forgive me, sophomoric. On PURE HEROINE she explores her own views on class, wealth, and gender, and on this she explores breakups, hookups, and crying in her taxi. Most of it didn't quite evoke anything for me. I did enjoy the "Hard Feelings" half of "Hard Feelings/Loveless" when it felt like not only the lyrics came together but the sonic ideas got some bold risks, but then it was gutted when the conventional arrangement of "Loveless" began.
Lorde has a very unique voice in the world of pop. She is super interesting compared to other pop artists that I have grown to dislike. That being said, pop just isn't for me. It is the epitome of why I dislike modern popular music
Uninteresting
rich kiwi girl pretending to be poor sings all songs and melodies in the same way and calls it an album. Meh.
First run through, I thought it was of interest. Second run through, I realised it wasn't. Disposable, unremarkable. forgettable, pap-pop
Not interesting Quite bad
Not for me
Hate Lorde. Sounds like a cat being strangled underwater.
Not my style
Of all the pop albums to be released in the last ten years, this one makes the list??? The lyrics of the first are atrocious and the rest of the album gets a tiny bit better from there. Classic record label songwriting at its best right here.
This album is painfully bland, and incredibly uninteresting. I hate to say it, but it's just lame, pathetic almost. I know from her other work that Lorde can make good music, but this just isn't. It doesn't feel in any way engaging or novel. Perfect Places was okay, but not nearly good enough to make up for the incredibly milquetoast work of mediocrity that made up the rest of the album.
This is #day15 of my #1001albumsyoumusthearbeforeyoudie challenge, and... another plastic poo-poo pop. Has the world gone flat? What's wrong with the list at this point? Or, is it just me? This is easily a 1 out of 5. I guess I'll go and listen to "Flowers" by Miley Cyrus. Unlike shit that I just syringed into my ears, that song makes me feel. Looking forward to #day16.
music for the disney tween in your life who’s finally old enough to watch adult swim
Vish, que som ruim, sem sal, sem graça, sem alma, sem nada. Botou a batidinha no computador e mandou a melodia que a molecada do tiktok gosta. Ruim com força. Música de moleque que ganha a batalha no Fortnite e faz uma dancinha andrógena.
not for me.
Meh. Not much there to hook me. There is a bit of a sameness floating here. The production is mostly irritating in that I hear that kind of sound blaring out of car windows on a regular Thursday evening in my neighbourhood. If I already feel forced to listen to it when I take a stroll in the city, I definitely do not need to listen to it more before I die. Thanks, but no thanks.
Bland.
Good lord
I never feel older than when I listen to modern pop music. I just don't get it. Lorde's lazy whisper-talk-singing style annoys the ever-loving bejeezus out of me. WHY CAN'T YOU PRONOUNCE YOUR 'R's???! What is "Widah in da dawk?" Why does everything have to be overly dramatic? (Yeah, I know what the title of the album is.) I'm also not a big fan of profanity in pop songs. Again, I'm probably showing my age here. One of my personal rules is if I yell "Shut up!" multiple times while listening to an album, it's getting a 1/5. I call it the Radiohead rule. It applies here. So, is there anything good here? The album artwork is nice. Favorite track: Supercut?
30 seconds in and I know I’m going to hate this. I hated it
Did not enjoy this
Yikes
I’m obviously getting old as this sounds like much of the current line of female pop, I couldn’t tell the difference between a Lorde song and a hundred other chart songs. Forgettable.
I already knew what i would think of it before I listened to it
Not m'y cup of tea
Like being waterboarded with glow stick liquid
Nah
It always seems to me that music from this time period (late teens, early 20s) has this very particular sound that I really dislike. I can't quite put my finger on it, but it feels like it's trying to hard maybe? Anyway, didn't like this one. it was bland and generic to me.
When this came up I immediately thought of that video of her shushing the crowd!! This album’s fucking dreadful. Sounds like someone who got famous through TikTok and made a record with their parents money.
Wasn’t for me. Listened to the first two tracks, but sounded like an awful attempt at Lana Del Ray.
Boring
Not for me
I disliked her style of singing, the whispering style. The breathing in got distracting. Instrumentally the album was boring.
I can't listen to a 17 year old musical heiress sing about unrequited love.
Not good
Ok. This album was the first bad one I have gotten. I can understand maybe why it’s here- to show lordes struggle with addiction, but none of the songs were anywhere near “great”. Album was boring, whiney and repetitive.
Repetitive
Meh.
my first experience with lorde is when tilly told me that lorde is her favourite artist, and that she is really good. i listened to lorde and did not like her +my first reaction to the 1st song was to start tearing up because i couldn't believe i was listening to lorde unironically +definitely a RADIO ARTIST -- she is not someone i would listen to elsewhere +not a fan of techno pop +so many sounds, yet so BORING +listening to this feels like a joke i can't believe i sat through this album. so boring. all the same. the songs weren't even good. 2.5/10
1. green light - 1 2. zober - 0 3. dynamite - 1 4. the louvre - 1 5. liability - 1.5 6. hard feelingz - 1 7. zober 2 - 1 8. uuriter in the dark - 0 9. zupercut - 1 10. liability - 1.5 11. perfect placez - 1.5
0/10
Instantly forgettable
not it for me
sad/angry white girl playlist
Right so I’m going to start this review by saying I’ve been for a Christmas night out with friends today so have a few cocktails in me. Therefore, my review might be a bit more stupid than usual. So about Lorde. I really liked Royals when then came out. I even made a cover of that song in my spare time. I thought her other songs were naff though. Songs I already knew: none Favourites: Green Light This feels like a prime example of a great voice not being enough to make great music. There’s so much more needed, and yet there wasn’t much else to be found here. It wasn’t awful, but it certainly was quite boring. Halfway through the album, I was already waiting for it to finish. After writing that out, I guess it does actually mean the album was quite awful after all. If an album makes you bored, that ain’t too great is it? Bye then.
Don't care. This was a catch up album.
Sorry Zoomers/Gen Y, I was like 50 when this came out so it's one of the worst things to ever happen to me. I AM sorry it's not King Crimson or whatever
Until this album I never really gave Lorde the time of day if I'm being honest, and after digging into this thing yeah idk.. it had some songs that I did enjoy (mainly just 'The Louvre' if I'm being honest) other than that, maybe I would of enjoyed this album more when I was like 13 and young but.. just not my thing. I'm more of a fan of Ethel Cain or Cryomancer when it comes to new aged female singers, this is a bit too.. idk. Not really my style. Again, I did enjoy 'The Louvre' but other than that.. I wasn't really a fan of this album. Overall: 1.3/5
Can't get past the vocal style, not for me at all.
I was sadly disappointed with this. I only knew her for the Royal song, and was looking forward to more in that vein, with strong vocals and feel... but it all just had a generic pop middle-of-the-road radio station feel about it. Such a shame
For some reason everything about this album annoyed the shit out of me
Dränerade min glädje och energi. Helt enkelt väldigt tråkigt
Tråååååkigtt
Försökte plugga biologi när jag lyssnade, men kunde knappt koncentrera mig för albumet var så dåligt Sämsta låt: Hard feelings/loveless
Nope, production is incredible but lyrically this is pure garbage, Lorde... No Thanks :)
Pish
Very samey with the framework being quite dull itself.
Including this album but not Pure Heroine is pure insanity. That album was amazing, and beyond that it was SUPER influential. By comparison, Melodrama is just a generic pop album. It's fine, but not anything noteworthy.
HUH?? maybe something for little girls to listen to
This feels like a record exec justifying an expensive studio. I don’t get the appeal of all high-mid, breathy vocals.
Literally none of the songs of hers that are halfway decent. If I was a preteen girl I would love this album. Smack dab in the middle between T Swift and Billie Eillish.
Dogshit this is a terrible website
Overproduced pop and bad singing
Detta är för mig helt ointressant. Kanske många andra skandinaviska cismän i medelåldern känner så.
That's two break-up albums in a row from the generator. This one is some generic pop. I paid nothing to hear this album, but still I feel I got ripped off for my time.
Hard NO!
Couldn't bring myself to enjoy even a single song on this album
I am Lorde, ya ya ya.... I don't hate it..... But it's not for me, wouldn't choose to listen to it. Probably not bad as far as pop albums go
meeeh
I don’t think I noticed the change from one song to another. Actually I didn’t notice when the album ended and another started playing.
This was very, very bland for me, and I didn’t take to what she was trying to do with her voice. There was one song that made me think she was trying to be the granddaughter of Tori Amos. Disappointing, really.
boring
Huh, well, alright then. Maybe I should listen to her first album and reserve my full judgement until then. Boring instrumentals and a good voice. 1.5/5
Recency bias.
One big fat cliche, not even very well done or orginal.
Derivative nonsense.
Idk why i listened it. Wanted to rate 0.
I have enjoyed Lorde songs in the past (Royals) so was expecting more from this. It sounds like generic modern electronic pop with a slightly quirky voice. Bland, shiny production and lyrics that really don't speak to me. The sound is monotonous in both the backing and Lorde's voice - there's some variation in mood and tone in Hard Feelings, but the voice doesn't really change. Not sure I am the target audience for this album, to be fair.
Jeden z najnowyszych, a jednoczesnie najgorszych pozycji na liscie jak na razie, plyta z 2k17, bedaca drugim albumem w dyskografii nowozelandzkiej artystki Lorde, ktora chyba tworzy w hameryce, bo tam wszystko bylo nagrywane, o ile czemu jest to najnowsza pozycja jest raczej oczywiste, to laur najgorszej zapewnia sobie swym wyjatkowo radioprzyjaznym brzmieniem, przez 40 minut czulem sie jakbym sluchal radia bez reklam, jesli discog okresla plyte jako indyjski pop, to jest naprawde popowo, dodatkowo mozna dodac elektropop przez nadmiarowe mordowanie synthow na drugiej stronie krazka i artystyczny pop, bo to jeden z tych numerow co nie o dupie maryny graja, tylko o prawdziwe ciezkich problemach z jakimi artystka sie zmagala. super wyglada personalny chart takich guwno albumow, artystka jako glowny producent i 69 dodatkowych producentow mikserow ludzi technicznych, nie ma miejsca na jednego grajka instrumentowego, cala muzyka jest klikana w komputer, pewnie dlatego tak drenuje z energii taki odlsuch, zdecydowanie najgorsze co mi sie przydarzylo od poczatku listy, nie ma na czym zawiesic ucha, musze sprawdzic czy lorde to mainstreamowa artystka znana wsrod polakuf, bo jakos nie kojarze, cale szczescie, zadnego z kawalkow, ale to ten poziom gdzie muzyka brzmi tak samo u roznyych artystow, brak plejkowego picka i do mulu z takim krazkiem
Cool album cover, fits her sexy voice. I love her raspy voice. Almost like a young Amy Winehouse. But like her later stuff more. But gotta start somewhere and she did a lot of growing till current hits
Not for me.
1.5 is all this is worth at best
There are 1001 4 and 5 star albums in the history of recorded music. The tendency for this list to have albums as unimportant and average as this suggests that there is no real system for determining the albums on this list.
Had to turn it off after a few songs. Did not like the voice, and found the music boring if not irritating. Not for me.
I found the vocals extremely annoying and lyrics read like they’re written by a 12yo filling in her diary. This is not a classic album in any sense of the standard prerequisites. 1 Star!