Lorde Melodrama 07/24/2015

Lorde Melodrama 07/24/2015Growing up in public has been a rite of passage for pop stars since at least Frank Sinatra but, as with any classic storyline, what matters is the execution. Lorde, the preternaturally talented New Zealand singer songwriter who became an international sensation at the age of 17, knows how to execute not only songwriting and public narrative but also a melding of the two. Melodrama, arriving nearly four long years after her 2013 debut, picks up the

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giddy pleasure -- evident on the neon pulse of "Homemade Dynamite" and "Supercut" -- isn't merely a progression for Lorde

Told in the first person

— Lana Del Rey…

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"What We Talkin' About" begins the album with a wave of surging

mesmerizing build-ups

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and their combination of arena-sized guitar-pop