Many critics proclaimed "Melodrama" the best pop album of the year so far, in no small part due to 20-year-old Lorde’s growth as a songwriter and an artist. Many critics proclaimed "Melodrama ...

So on her follow-up album, “Melodrama,” Lorde, 20, still wants us to think of her as someone in a state of opposition. “I hate the headlines and the weather,” she sings in “Perfect ...

In the most shredded moment off Lorde’s new record, Melodrama, she sounds nearly defeated. It’s just four words, the opening line of “Liability,” the second single off her sophomore album ...

‘Melodrama’ was the sound of a young woman about to go out into a world that kept pulling itself from under her feet. Released five years ago this week (June 16), the second album from ...

About two-thirds of the way into the three-minute “Homemade Dynamite” from New Zealand pop star Lorde’s second album, Melodrama, there’s a moment that captures both (a) what makes the 20-y ...

Being a fan of Lorde since she dropped Pure Heroine in 2013, I’ve long awaited the release of her latest album, Melodrama. During the four year interim between records, so much has happened.

Melodrama takes the old formula, mixes it up and adds another step. Vocally, Lorde stretches herself to embody a distinct feeling on each song. Her voice starts husky on the first track, but by the ...

"Melodrama," Lorde's first album in four years following the debut that made her a star with its hit single "Royals," is finally here. Released on Friday, it's getting great reviews so far.

Lorde started writing Melodrama – alongside Bleachers’ Jack Antonoff, the Max Martin of Gen Z – in a “fog of grief” after the end of her relationship with the photographer James Lowe.