Lorde Transforms 'Melodrama' With An Amazing 'Reimagined' Live Set

The ‘Green Light’ singer returns to the studio to bring the music to life…

Thursday, August 17, 2017 - 10:46

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Every night, I live and die
Feel the party to my bones
Watch the wasters blow the speakers
Spill my guts beneath the outdoor light
It's just another graceless night
I hate the headlines and the weather
I'm 19 and I'm on fire
But when we're dancing, I'm alright
It's just another graceless night

Are you lost enough?
Have another drink, get lost in us
This is how we get notorious, oh, oh, oh
'Cause I don't know
If they keep tellin' me where to go
I'll blow my brains out to the radio, oh, oh, oh

All of the things we're taking
'Cause we are young and we're ashamed
Send us to perfect places

All of our heroes fading
Now I can't stand to be alone
Let's go to perfect places

Every night, I live and die
Meet somebody, take 'em home
Let's kiss and then take off our clothes
It's just another graceless night

'Cause all of the things we're taking
'Cause we are young and we're ashamed
Send us to perfect places

All of our heroes fading
Now I can't stand to be alone
Let's go to perfect places

All the nights spent off our faces
Trying to find these perfect places
What the fuck are perfect places anyway?
All the nights spent off our faces
Trying to find these perfect places
What the fuck are perfect places anyway?
All the nights spent off our faces
Trying to find these perfect places
What the fuck are perfect places anyway?

Writer(s): Ella Yelich-o'connor, Jack Antonoff Lyrics powered by www.musixmatch.com

“I’ve never done anything like this before, I don’t really do acoustic sessions or anything.”

Perhaps that’s why Lorde’s brand new VEVO set is so special, or it’s how beautiful her new songs sound when performed in their original forms.

The ‘Perfect Places’ singer has debuted ‘Melodrama Reimagined’, a one-off live session with VEVO, where she returns to the same studio the album was made to perform the songs much more intimately than we’ve heard before.

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She also explains the story behind the Melodrama album, which was recorded over two and half years (!) with Jack Antonoff in New York’s legendary Electric Lady studio, where artists like Lady Gaga, Kanye West and Frank Ocean have made some magic.

“A lot of Melodrama is about taking these traditionally young female emotions and it was kind of interesting to me to amplify them and make them into something kind of transcendent” is the most perfect explanation of the (truly brilliant) album.

Lorde - Melodrama Reimagined at Electric Lady (Vevo x Lorde)

Lorde also hilariously reveals that the piano used for ‘Green Light’, ‘Perfect Places’ and ‘Writer In The Dark’ is out of tune, “so most of the record is slightly out of tune.” Who knew?!

We certainly couldn’t tell…

Whether she’s singing alone on the piano or backed by singers and instrumentation, Lorde absolutely kills it in every single performance, and it’s made us love the album even more than before.

By Ross McNeilage

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WATCH LORDE'S 'GREEN LIGHT' VIDEO

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I do my makeup in somebody else's car
We order different drinks at the same bars
I know about what you did and I wanna scream the truth
She thinks you love the beach, you're such a damn liar

Those great whites, they have big teeth
Hope they bite you
Thought you said that you would always be in love
But you're not in love no more
Did it frighten you
How we kissed when we danced on the light up floor?
On the light up floor

But I hear sounds in my mind
Brand new sounds in my mind
But honey I'll be seein' you 'ever I go
But honey I'll be seein' you down every road
I'm waiting for it, that green light, I want it

'Cause honey I'll come get my things, but I can't let go
I'm waiting for it, that green light, I want it
Oh, I wish I could get my things and just let go
I'm waiting for it, that green light, I want it

Sometimes I wake up in a different bedroom
I whisper things, the city sings 'em back to you

All those rumors, they have big teeth
Hope they bite you
Thought you said that you would always be in love
But you're not in love no more
Did it frighten you
How we kissed when we danced on the light up floor?
On the light up floor

But I hear sounds in my mind
Brand new sounds in my mind
But honey I'll be seein' you 'ever I go
But honey I'll be seein' you down every road
I'm waiting for it, that green light, I want it

'Cause honey I'll come get my things, but I can't let go
I'm waiting for it, that green light, I want it
Oh, honey I'll come get my things, but I can't let go
I'm waiting for it, that green light, I want it
Yes, honey I'll come get my things, but I can't let go
I'm waiting for it, that green light, I want it
Oh, I wish I could get my things and just let go
I'm waiting for it, that green light, I want it

I'm waiting for it, that green light, I want it
I'm waiting for it, that green light, I want it
I'm waiting for it, that green light, I want it
I'm waiting for it, that green light, I want it
I'm waiting for it, that green light, I want it
I'm waiting for it, that green light, I want it

Writer(s): Ella Yelich - O'connor, Jack Antonoff, Joel Little Lyrics powered by www.musixmatch.com