Best Lorde album.
Fav track: Liability

We all trash pop - myself included - but this is gold. Lorde has made, in my opinion, the greatest pop-album of all time. The lyrics are intelligent and clever, and don't seem to be formula-based. Same for the musical aspects. Lead single Green Light caught my attention for sure, and is still one of my favorites on the album. But I also really love the hauntingly beautiful Writer In The Dark, as well as Hard Feelings/Loveless (the Loveless outro might be the best part of the album). Melodrama is a masterpiece.

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Very good.

Favorite tracks: The Louvre, Writer In The Dark

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I believe this could potentially be my favorite album since In Rainbows. 30 listens in and it continues to reveal new depth. Her lyricism is vastly underrated. Jack Antonoff also really helps propel her sound. For all the people who have only heard the singles, please listen to this at least once in its entirety. It's essentially a minor concept album. Absolutely fantastic.

It's fine.

I think it's a kind of silly to suggest that people/critics are 'overhyping' this album because they are wary of underrating it like they may of done with Pure Heroine. I believe it's more to do with Pure Heroine being a slowburner; I remember not being very keen the first 5 or even 6 listens but now it's probably up there with my favourite pop records. Pure Heroine was great and so is Melodrama, perhaps greater. Pure Heroine was pretty leftfield as far as pop records go and had a great skeletal sound which some, including myself, are very fond of. Whereas Melodrama, while still maintaining and capitalising on the interesting qualities of the album before, is MORE of a pop record (catchier hooks, drops in the instrumentals etc.), which I feel isn't a bad thing but I can understand why others may be turned off. I do have to say, Melodrama's lyrical themes are a lot more interesting and matured then those of Pure Heroine. Now in doing this, Lorde has two releases that I enjoy for very different reasons and for a pop artist to stay fresh release after release can be quite an ask, particularly in such a washed out, bland pop industry. I don't think it's a case of overrating, this album is just more of a solid and accessible pop record that still maintains the interesting qualities of it's predecessor. Who knows; perhaps this record won't have the longevity of Pure Heroine for years to come but right now I'm impressed and jamming it pretty hard.

Pop is usually not my genre, but Lorde achieves something magical with this album!

The strain in her voice during Writer In The Dark is some serious Sinead O'Connor shit.

More thoughts to follow.