Reward the Lorde: Her subsequent album is on the horizon.
Lorde, 27, rocked a pair of AirPods Max headphones in pictures uploaded by way of Instagram on Sunday, December 17. Whereas lounging in pajamas on the ground, the singer (born Ella Yelich-O’Connor) famous within the caption that she was “listening to myself.”
Followers had been fast to sound the alarm, leaping to conclusions within the feedback part. “Mother is coming back,” one consumer wrote, whereas others added, “OH MY GOD” and “ALBUM ANNOUNCEMENT WHEN.”
When one commenter stated, “L4 SEASON IS UPON US,” Lorde stepped in to make clear. “We’re not CLOSE close(sic) you guys…,” she wrote. “I’m just getting so hype and needed to let u know.”
She additionally instructed followers they need to “start [your] excitement on a low flame and bring it up to a gentle simmer” as a result of she was “building stamina for this chapter.”
Lorde’s Instagram has been wiped of all however two posts. Together with the current pajama pics, her feed contains a gallery she uploaded on August 10, which exhibits her cheekily swimming in a pool in Oslo, Norway. “After the show, we went swimming,” she wrote. “These times are beautiful, and they freak me out, and there’s so much to tell you. No, this is not the start of anything out there, just want you to know there’s a light on inside me .. show it to you soon.”
In October, Lorde was noticed by a fan whereas using the subway in New York Metropolis. “Anyway, I met Lorde yesterday and let her know that she wrote Melodrama for me specifically,” wrote the fan, who shared a photograph of the twosome collectively. The “Royals” singer had her AirPods Max for the experience, a element that didn’t go unnoticed by one fan account when resharing the photograph.
“The last time she was [seen] with headphones in NYC trains in 2017, she was testing her own album,” wrote the account. Days after the submit went up, Lorde commented, “I was, in fact, listening to myself.”
Lorde’s final album was 2021’s Photo voltaic Energy, which reached No. 1 in her native New Zealand whereas peaking at No. 5 in the USA. The album obtained blended evaluations, with Rolling Stone saying that Photo voltaic Energy “largely meanders through the anxiety, a bit of a relatable smooth brain approach to all that’s going on in the world.”
In September, Lorde shared an open letter by way of Tumblr during which she obtained candid about her well being struggles. She wrote that her “body is really inflamed. It’s trying to tell me something, and I’m trying to support it, but nothing seems to help, and I get frustrated.” Lorde claimed her intestine wasn’t “working properly,” that her pores and skin “is worse than ever” and that she’s been “sick half a dozen times” this 12 months.
She additionally wrote that she would translate this expertise into her subsequent album. “Every time I put something into words just as I see it, set it to the right music, a knot comes loose in me,” she famous. “But it hurts too, confronting the knots. I’ve made enough records to know that this feeling of my skin coming off is part of it.”
