In an interview with Variety, Lorde talked about her artistic future and reassured her fans that the lengthy four-year wait between her last album
Solar Power, and the previous one would not be a normal occurrence.When the “Ribs” singer was asked how she is developing her sound and if she might be sharing new music with fans soon, Lorde said she is working lower anyone’s expectations but still has a visible creative fire burning inside her.
“I’m actually excited to see what happens,” she said about her musical direction. I’m definitely super active and not feeling like I need to take a break to be creative. I’m feeling kind of insatiable, to be honest.
After recently apologizing for the long wait for Solar Power.
She made a direct acknowledgement of the long wait before promising her listeners said, “I’ve thrown the gauntlet down that it’s not going to be a four-year wait again, so I’ve gotta stick to that.”
Lorde on the Record’s Raw Sound and Choreographed Vision for Her Tour
The interview also turned to her recent record and how it may be directly contributing to her shows live. Lorde described her record as “very raw and therefore very unadorned,” and went on to explain how she purposely didn’t dramatize the material. She says she knew that the record’s minimalist nature would have to translate to the show.
Lorde stated that the energy for her latest tour is physical and raw, due to a conscious.
creative process that began as a kind of experiment during her now-famous Glastonbury set.
I wanted to start with the notion of connecting to my songs, said the singer , for lack of a better word, connecting on a physical level. The deep physical connection became a live experience that was even more nakedly raw than she had intended. “And then all of a sudden it was even beyond_rawer than that;, said Lorde “but I certainly spend a lot of time just thinking about stepping into these tunes on a physical basis.
In reflecting on the significant performance that helped originate the tour, Lorde called it a significant creative experiment. “I thought Glasto was so cool and really felt like a kind of little kitchen presentation test.”, she said, indicating she appreciated the mystery.
“I liked that it sort of lifted the lid in quite a mysterious…like people didn’t know.
what they were going to get” said Lorde, indicating the anticipation was just as deliberate as she was creating at Glastonbury leading to the raw choreographed live show she was again touring.
Lorde recounts the pivotal moment she made the decision to ‘go there with dance’ for her Ultrasound Tour, calling Glastonbury a “test-kitchen” for the raw, physical shows. Get up to date on her a new album ‘Virgin’, and tour dates.
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In a candid new interview, Lorde explained the direct creative link between her raved about Glastonbury set, and the much anticipated Ultraround Tour, explaining it was the cathalyst for her new work centered around raw, physical choreography.
The singer shared, that immediatly following the festiva performance.
She had an “aha” moment regarding her embodiment on stage. “My big takeaway from that was like, ‘You need to go and do some dance,’ ” Lorde said. “Because I felt not very in my body and I knew that it needed to be this freer, rawer movement – Walking off stage I was like,” you’re going to choreo, bitch.”
She described the experience as a deep exploration into her music, noting the outcome for the tour became even more exposed than intended. “And then it ended up being rawer than that, but I did spend a lot of time just trying to get into these songs on a physical level.”
Given its especially notable significance, Lorde referred to her play at Glastonbury a “very important creative incubator,” explaining that “Glasto was so cool and felt that it was a little test-kitchen presentation. I liked that it sort of lifted the lid in a very strange way… as if the audience had no idea what they were walking into.”
Lorde Ultrasound Tour, and Excitement for ‘Virgin’
This newly refined approach to performance will be on display during the forthcoming UK and European leg of the Lorde Ultrasound Tour, which is set to launch next month.
Highlights of the tour include two shows at The O2 in London, as well as teams of shows in Manchester, Glasgow, Birmingham, and Dublin.
The tour coincides with the recent excitement surrounding Lorde’s new album, ‘Virgin.
which NME reviewed with four stars, stating that the album was, a colourful mix of Lorde’s best bits and then some, Now with a newfound frankness, it intertwines all the thrilling emotional elevation of ‘Melodrama’; the glacial minimalism of ‘Pure Heroine’; and the sunny sense of freedom of ‘Solar Power.’ Let’s call it ‘Virgin’ but Lorde is just a little too willing to be completely unwrapped.
Lorde’s career has been marked by a radical overhaul of pop.
Music since her debut album, Pure Heroine. From its observant teenager to the emotional surrealist of Melodrama and Solar Power, she has expanded her synthesizer-based sound and lyrical specificity. However, her upcoming album entitled ‘Virgin’ signifies a true turning point.
It opens up an entirely new self and an entirely different sound, that stands in some ways against the very public scrutiny she now faces. After years of scrutiny that questioned whether her older works were overly produced and/or lost in their accessibility,
Lorde uses Virgin to examine who is allowed to define her.
while also intentionally not explaining her art. This is part of what makes it her most “real” and emotionally raw project yet, rooted in the reality of tension between her privately asserted truth and the public truth about her “art” that exists at its periphery.
The roll-out of Virgin began with the single
She removes the shirt and uses duct tape to tape her arms flat against her chest prior to the lyrics to the chorus. The visual is naked, obscured, and without a performance for the audience or a male gaze. It is essentially just Lorde, creating a body and voice in her own self-image.
Her active body and facial expressions convey a quiet, assertive rebellion. She told Rolling Stone that the purpose of the song was to be, “fully representative of how [her] gender felt in that moment,” which the viral fascination disregards completely.
