Heard the brand new Lorde track? Get in. Let’s speak about it. ♫ “Child, what was that?“ ♫ “What Was That“ is from a distance this extremely exuberant electro-pop track. It feels shiny, it feels optimistic. It actually feels like Lorde is accessing a constructive reminiscence the place one thing particular occurred that slipped away from her. ♫ “What was that?“ ♫ So we’re going to speak about Lorde. However first, I feel, a be aware about Charli XCX. Final 12 months, Charli XCX launched “Brat,“ probably the most consequential pop album of 2024. ♫ “Hello, woman.“ “Yeah hey.“ ♫ It doesn’t matter what you consider the album itself, it completely reframed how pop singers are expressing themselves. And also you noticed this on the remixes. Billie Eilish confirmed up with a a lot looser model of herself, and notably, so did Lorde. ♫ “For the final couple of years, I’ve been at conflict in my physique. I attempted to starve myself thinner, after which I gained all the burden again.“ ♫ You hear Lorde speaking about physique nervousness. You hear Lorde speaking about self-doubt. She’s sneaking in a bit little bit of a preview of the Lorde we’re getting now on this new single, “What Was That,“ on that prior remix. ♫ “I cowl up all of the mirrors. I can’t see myself but.“ ♫ One of many issues that has all the time caught out about Lorde and her relationship to different pop stars is she’s all the time appeared wiser than her years. She all the time appeared extremely sharp, nearly like somebody who knew an excessive amount of. What you’re getting with this Lorde is definitely one thing of the alternative. That is Lorde at her lightest, at her loosest. It’s as if she sipped a bit little bit of that Charli “Brat“ water and integrated it again into her personal music. ♫ “MDMA within the again backyard. Blow your pupils up. We kiss for hours straight. Nicely, child, what was that? “ ♫ Now, look, you possibly can learn this one in every of two methods. In case you’re studying it optimistically, it is a liberation anthem. That is somebody shaking off the reins of all that precocity, all of that self-control, and says: I’m able to have an excellent time. Let’s go. Then again, that seriousness of goal, that a part of Lorde that all the time appeared to know one thing that her friends simply merely didn’t. I don’t know that that’s right here anymore. ♫ “Once I’m blue gentle down at Child’s All Proper I face actuality. “ ♫ Is that this new track peak Lorde? I’m undecided it’s. The factor that’s all the time set her aside is she hasn’t been terribly involved with the prevailing winds which are taking place in pop music. On this track, Lorde’s asking, What was that? However the query that she’s all the time been finest at answering is what comes subsequent.
