Many critics have 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 artist.

Getty Image. Lorde‘s titanic new album Melodrama snagged the top spot on the Billboard 200. And the only person more overwhelmed than Lorde’s fans (in their defense, the emotions dug up by ...

‘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 Lorde ...

Melodrama is utterly time-specific, but do not misread its confines as the narrow or shallow. Understand: You will never be able to divorce this album from the way pop sounded at the end of Lorde ...

Pop phenom Lorde is about to graduate: Her long-awaited sophomore album Melodrama is out June 16. Ahead of its release, here's everything we know about the record. Lorde returns after a break from ...

Yet “Melodrama,” which Lorde made primarily with producer Jack Antonoff, is full of moments in which she claims she’s falling apart, barely able to keep herself together — a self-styled ...

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 ...

All right, guys. Put aside everything you think you know about Lorde's upcoming album, Melodrama, because clearly there's much more to it than any of us may have realized. In an in depth profile ...

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.

Lorde was all of 16 when she took the world by storm with “Royals,” a career-defining breakthrough hit that spent nine weeks at No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 on its way to going 10-times ...

Something else is different: While 52% of U.S. album sales for 2017’s “Melodrama” were physical, according to Alpha Data, Lorde resisted a CD release of “Solar Power,” demonstrating her ...