Lorde’s SolarPower is a weird, meandering album that is an exercise solely in fulfilling her own desires
Photo: Ophelia Mikkelson Jones For Lorde, following up her 2017 sophomore album, Melodrama, was always going to be an impossible task. While entitled fans begged for more Lorde now, Lorde went offline for so long that her Twitter account was briefly deactivated because of inactivity. At one point, she even disappeared to Antarctica to learn about the climate crisis. This isn’t a surprise, of course — it’s a pattern.
The result is Solar Power, a weird, meandering album that is an exercise solely in fulfilling her own desires. Speaking to the New York Times last year, Lorde dismissed any idea that the album could be a smash, saying that she felt like she “could just chill out and flex a little bit.” Solar Power opens with “The Path,” which sees Lorde turning away from a life that’s been thrust on her: “Teen millionaire having nightmares from the camera flash / now I’m alone on a windswept island.
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