which part? when she takes ownership of her art and speaks on the process between her and her producer? or when she admits to not having or striving for commercial hits on her album? OR when she says she wants to create art that you have to dig a bit deeper into and digest? all of the above?

She really tried to run a race she was meant to lose especially when the music is not following the path you're trying to walk on. She obviously gon' put up big numbers at the end of the day 'cause pop artists fanbase doesn't give a damn about quality or anything but if she decided to drop this mid July holy f*** she would've moved UNITS

she addresses this in most of her recent interviews and commercial performance doesn't seem to be a concern for her

really just zeroing in on the "i dont even know what the smashes are now"

comes off as super contrarian yet you're working with jack antonoff who has fingerprints on "smashes" all throughout the past 5 or so years

i love lorde but i just hate statements like that lol

i don't understand everything here but since y'all are talking sales/ just to clear things up, Melo only sold like 100k first week and hasn't even been certified plat yet. she's not moving units like her pop contemporaries like you'd think and she seems more than content with that.

I don't believe the last part. You'll never shake off from me the idea that in today's era, and actually in any era, one of the thing that defines you as a pop artist is the amount of albums/streams you're selling. I don't think there's another musical lane where performances are so deeply linked to who the artists are

it's astounding how she had more buzz during her hiatus than she does now. most of her stans went back to tweeting about ribs and liability and have been pretending this rollout isn't happening. not that i don't understand, i was in denial for like a week because of the lead single but now that it's worn off i can't say i'm remotely excited for this.

sure none of the songs are terrible, in fact california is pretty decent, but none of them are worth waiting four years to drop, especially following two incredibly well written 10/10 pop albums. people didn't hold out so long for her to not even put out the best jack antonoff produced guitar album in 2021.

All I know is I'm not feeling the singles at all.

besides taylor i'm not sure how true that is. take a look

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Antonoff_production_discography

but besides chart performance or anything like that, is it just as pretentious when Lil Wayne or other artists echoed the same sentiments about not being in tune with what's hot on radio and with the kids?

oh sure it's not up to me whether you believe her or not. i'm just offering what she's repeated for years now

never a great idea to listen to singles released before the album by an artist who is very album oriented

She used to have good singles though. Even though I wasn't a big fan of Green Light

i fw the singles they're kinda boring but the vocals are nice it's good background music

NYT ARTICLE OUT ALBUM SOON

ahhhh i can't wait for some SONGWRITING and LYRICISM

i still cant believe she released the damn intro as a single

My favorite was Perfect Places. Never get tired of it.

Lemme read this interview…

sigh lol

which parts, let's talk about it

I mean a lot of my own sentiment has been echoed in these past few pages.

Whether it comes to the fumble of a rollout this has been or just the music itself.

I don’t necessarily subscribe to the idea that she doesn’t “care” about commercial success.

It’s kind of impossible to not keep something like that in mind in the position she’s in. That’s not to say she has to chase some sort of sound that is buzzing right now, but to position yourself in that kind of framing being the commercial artist she is feels a bit disingenuous because that’s really not how the industry works.

"It sort of depresses me when an album comes out and I…read all the lyrics in 3 minutes and I realize I know exactly what it is and it isn’t going to grow"

"Lorde’s Work Here Is Done. Now, She Vibes." the hell is this article title man

I'm gonna be real, you could also just not do that, like why would you spoil all the lyrics before listening to a second? That's like reading a screenplay before seeing a movie