Lorde shared “What was this”, its first original solo track since its release Solar energy In 2021. The single was teased through a series of cryptic publications on social networks, vocal notes and audio extracts, and Talia Chetrit turned the cover. Watch the video of the new song below.
“What was that” made his debut live Tuesday when Lorde sang on the track of the Washington Square Park in New York while playing the song on a small speaker. A few hours earlier, New Zealand pop star sent a mass message via her fan text line that she would appear there: “Meet me in the park this evening 7 pm-x x.” However, local police and the park rangers quickly closed the event due to an unmanageable crowd size. Images of the event are presented in the new video.
Lorde co-written “What was it” with Jim-E Stack, and she co-produced him with Jim-E Stack and Daniel Nigro. Jim-e Stack has also provided drums, keyboards, piano, synthesizer and engineering, while Nigro contributed bass and electric guitar, piano, synthesizer and engineering. Another notable electric guitarist on the track is Inc. No World’s Andrew Vieud.
Solar energyThe highly anticipated monitoring of Lorde’s 2018 album Melodramawas led by singles “Solar Power”, “stoned at the manicure show” and “Mood Ring”. A majority of song songs finally received musical clips, notably “Fallen fruit”, “leader of a new diet”, “Secrets from A Girl (Who’s Awoux It It)”, “The Path” and “Oceanic Feeling”.
Lorde remained silent in the next two years, appearing to join Muna on Terminal 5 in New York in 2023 and contribute to a blanket of “Take Me To The River” at the album Talking Tribute of A24 Talking Heads in 2024. Then, last summer, she was tapped by Charli XCX for a remix Kid Trace “Girl, So Confusing”, confirming it almost as the original subject of the song. Since then, they have interpreted “Girl, so confusing with Lorde” at the Madison Square Garden concert by Charli XCX and, earlier this month, his set coachella Weekend One.
Read on Lorde in “The 200 most important artists of the first 25 years of Pitchfork” and revisit “The 100 Best Songs of 2024”, with “Girl, So Confusing with Lorde” at n ° 9.
