When “Solar Power,” the first single from Lorde’s long-anticipated third album, dropped on Thursday, the internet rapidly filled with multiple references to previous songs it evoked, most prominent…
’s “Freedom 90” and the less-globally-known “Loaded” by long-running British rockers Primal Scream (along with the Eagles’ “Seven Bridges Road,” Kate Bush and others.
In an interview airing today on Apple Music 1, Lorde explains to Zane Lowe that the inspiration for her song came from Primal Scream, but that the group’s frontman Bobby Gillespie gave his blessing. “Solar Power” was written by Lorde with longtime collaborator Jack Antonoff. “I had never heard Primal Scream in my life, I’d been told to check them out,” she tells Lowe. “I wrote the song on the piano and then we realized, it sounds a lot like ‘Loaded.’ It’s just one of those crazy things that like, they just were the spiritual forebears of the song. I reached out to Bobby and he was so lovely about it — he was like, ‘These things happen, you caught a vibe that we caught years ago.’ And he gave us his blessing.
“All my years of songwriting have shown me these things can happen,” Petty said in a statement at the time. “Most times you catch it before it gets out the studio door but in this case it got by. Sam’s people were very understanding of our predicament and we easily came to an agreement.
Michael’s “Freedom 90,” which was originally released on his “Listen Without Prejudice, Vol. 1” album several months after “Loaded,” shares a similar chorus, piano hook and chord progression that was remarked upon at the time but apparently never verged into legal terrain. Hear all three songs below.
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