There’s a tic, there’s the acoustics -” “At some point, they’re doubled, which actually makes a huge difference.” “The backups are a massive landscape.” Singing: “ Solar power.” “Lorde backup vocals is a genre at this point.” Singing: “I can’t stand to be alone.” “I mean, usually, it’s just you. There’s very little happening in the song. But you can hear waves in the second verse.” “Those are just recordings of waves that I took on my phone.” “A big part of the secret is this thing, going through this thing. I don’t know New Zealand, but I know what it feels like when you hear something that is from someone’s place.” “The sound of a New Zealand summer is the cicadas.” “And those are kind of all over the album. It really sounds like a New Zealand summer.” “Most of what I love comes from a landscape, comes from Atlanta. But it doesn’t fight the part before it, which is a really satisfying part.” Singing: “Lead the boys and girls onto the beaches. Over.” “So that chorus worked so well because it’s, like, really floaty and catchy, and there’s all these things.
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And we managed to crack this chorus, which was so exciting to me.” “One day, I think she was like, ‘I found it.’” Singing: “Forget all of the tears that you’ve cried. And Jack thinks it’s very funny that we played a guitar album. And we picked it up, and -” “Whoa! That sounds like sunshine.” “It became a massive part of the album.” “You know, I’ve historically hated guitars. It was a 1965 Fender Jaguar in Lake Placid blue. Hey now! Don’t dream -” “He left us this cool guitar. The studio that we were working in belongs to a New Zealand musician called Neil Finn.” Singing: “Hey now. Jack came to New Zealand in January of 2020. I was very confident in everything else rolling. And we’ll get there, but, like, uh -” “Well, I knew everything else rolled.
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No one’s getting excited about that.” “Did she show you that one?” “I was like, uh-oh! Uh - this might be, you know, six to eight months of trying things, trying things. But what took us a minute was the chorus. And then when we got in the room -” “The song happened super fast. And then she was sort of sending stuff back and forth. He was like, ‘So wait, you like this?’ And I was like, ‘Yes, I do.’ “She had all these parts she had written on the keyboard. A Tribe Called Quest.” “But also, ‘Rock DJ,’ by Robbie Williams.” Singing: “Can I kick it?” “Yes, you can!” “But it was a real kind of push and pull that Jack and I had. There ain’t no party like an S Club party!” “S Club 7, but also like -” Rapping: “Can I kick it?” Singing: “Can I kick it?” “Yes, I can. “Wow.” “Jack was like, ‘What am I supposed to do with that?’” “I was like, “I don’t know, like - ‘Steal My Sunshine’ by Len.’” Singing: “If you steal my sunshine.” “Or like -” Singing “S Club. I was like, it has to sound like skateboarding. It was so far out.” “I knew that I wanted to kind of incorporate the music of my youth, this kind of early 2000s, sun-soaked thing. Can you hear that? I came back to the city, played it to Jack, and we started to build it.” “Ella first started telling me the ideas for it. Singing: My boy behind me, he’s taking pictures. You can kind of hear me working it out, actually, from July 24, 2019. And I took this little Yamaha DX, and just started playing with this kind of descending -” Singing: My cheeks in high color, overripe peaches. We had a big day of swimming out on the pond all day, and we sort of had, like, the little rest before dinner.
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Can’t stand the cold.” “Try to take me back to when you first created it.” “I was in New York working out of Jack’s home studio, and I went to Martha’s Vineyard for the weekend to stay with my friend Cazzie -” “When you say Cazzie’s house, do you mean Larry David’s house?” “ I guess it is, in fact, Larry’s house, yeah.
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I didn’t want people to be able to comment on my body, so I would sort of dress in a certain way. “Hello” “Hello! Wow!” “What’s going on?” “How are you?” “I’m very conceptual, so I’ll say to Jack, ‘I want to make this kind of record.’” “She basically called me and had a vision about the sun.” “And more often than not, we can go back to that original statement, and it’s pretty much what we end up making.” Singing: “Solar power.” “You have this reputation as a songwriter of being broody, and heart-wrenching, and people like to say that you’re goth in certain ways.” “I mean, look, the truth of it is, like, I was 15 when I wrote ‘Royals.’ Singing: “And we’ll never be royals -” “I was shy. Transcript How Lorde Got Happy The 24-year-old musician traces the personal and sonic evolutions that led to the title track from her next album.