Eras Analyzed: Lorde's Melodrama
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
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Today we're talking Lorde's Melodrama (I've been waiting to talk about this one for a while!) Today we'll be diving into Lorde's often party-themed introspections, inspired by a breakup she went through prior to writing the album, so she works through it in Melodrama. We'll talk about fun singles like Green Light, Perfect Places, and Homemade Dynamite, but of course we'll also get into the rest of Melodrama (including the infamous Writer in the Dark shushing incident). And then lastly, I'll ruminate on my thoughts on the album now that it's been out for almost 7 years.
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IMO, Melodrama will forever be the best album that accurately depicts the transition from teenagehood to adulthood. It is a breakup album but it shows the reality of leaving your childhood behind. It is just an album that is so liberating, freeing, messy, and taking accountability. It is the perfect playlist for your early 20s.
@@Mtv20O1 exactly, you get it- I was like rn I really don’t need the pretending to have it together music bc things are a mess rn 😭
The album is still on repeat TO THIS DAY
the cover is soooooo beautiful
@@chunli6197 I love looking at it
A 45 minute video on melodrama actually makes me so happy, people don’t talk about this masterpiece enough
MY FAVORITE ALBUUUUMMM
mine too... lol
Best album of 2017. One of the best of the decade. Even all time.
Definitely up there
@@adamd6648 yuppp it’s one of my all times
Liability is my favorite song of all time
Part of me wishes the album could have been promoted and performed better but the fact that it has mustered a cult following over the years proves how great of an album it is. Even if "Solar Power" didn't do much for me, I'm still waiting for Lorde's fourth album tho!!
@@omarherasme6699 I keep saying I’ll do a genuine solar power revisit one day, bc that one just didn’t really hit for me outside of like Mood Ring
Honestly, when solar power was released, I didn't get it but then again, I was 19 and not at that stage of my life. As I've grown older, I have learned to appreciate it and understand more the reasoning behind the songs and lyrics. It is calmer than pure heroine and melodrama but it shows alot of versatility. I am ready for L4!!
@@naomi.cannibalsolar power was a slow grower for me. On the first listen it didn’t really click but as I get older I relate to it more and more. It feels very wistful and yet grounded, a sort of mellowing out after the emotional turmoil of melodrama
@@allisonv1521 okay this makes me hopeful bc I haven’t done a full relisten since 2021
@@naomi.cannibalyou should do a revisit. It has a slow burn feel once you listen to it after a few years off
2017 was a year that things made sense for the most part… idk
@@nicolesherman8974 I would go back to 2017 in an instant lmao
Thats funny cause i remember how many people wish they could go back to older times that year
I remember I accidentally clicked on one of her performances from this album. The best accidental click I ever made! One of the best albums of 2017 HONORABLE mention Sza Ctrl and Ruth B. Safe Haven! the way people slept on that timeless album that's still being sampled by multiple rappers till this day needs to be talked about more!
Can you please analyze the fever era by kylie Minogue 😍😍💕
@@Theicons687 I’m slowly but surely getting into Kylie! Lots of albums to get into but I’m having fun so far
@@naomi.cannibalI'm so glad you are💕💕if you need a recomendation or anything as a Kylie Stan her best album in my opinion is impossible princess it's really good
Also she has an upcoming album tension 2 on October 18th 😍
@@Theicons687 yesss I finally listened to Tension (ironically I also really love Green Light on that album lol). So I’ll be giving part 2 a listen!
@@naomi.cannibalgurlll AZELIA BANKS RESPONDED TO MY COMMENT about Kylie and she loves Kylie too😍😍😍😍my most viral comment with 81 thousand views in 1 hour 😍
Also I hope you make a video just talking about your thoughts about her in general thx queen 💕💕
@@naomi.cannibalazelia banks loving Kylie wasn't on my bingo card but I thank her for responding to me,💕💕I love that Kylie has so much versatility x😍😍
I hope you make a video with your opinions on her music in general 😍
Her magnum opus
Melodrama is one of my favorite albums ever BUT Pure Heroine is her best work no doubt
@@summerchild_ objectively wrong. we move 💕
One of the best albums of the 2010s
No references to the infamous PowerPoint? 👀
I remember being there for when it dropped, pouring through each detail, coming out the other side a changed person 😂😂😂 I know that PP is unhinged, but so am I 🤪
I love this era so much. I went through a friendship break up I call it and it hit HARD. Imo it still sounds fresh. I remember she came to Tulsa for the tour and I HAD to go. I waited outside the venue for her and she came out! Took a selfie with her and she signed my PH and Melodrama cds. It’s an amazing era for me
please make a video about how dry billie eilish’s music videos are when they’re directed by her. she doesn’t have to serve us face, body, or anything like that but they’re all BORINNNNGG. i need her to hire a director PLEASE
IKRRRR her songs are soooo amazing and have such sensory vividness, she could be so creative with her visuals and really make them match the vibe of the song, but she doesn't even try ??? It actually hurts because her songs could translate so well into visual media if she hired someone
tbh the stuff she's self directed were either COVID era (thus, the basicness bc not enough freedom) or it seems to be the intention (seeing how all 3 music videos in the HMHAS era are all very simple and low budget, but she isnt the director of the BOAF one and idk if she directed CHIHIRO, also seeing how shes gone on abt this era, i do think she is intentionally making them low budget and simple)
I remember when green light came out
i hope you do a “ pure heroine “ one one day. 😕
PRAISE THE LORDE
LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
ONE OF THE BEST ALBUMS OUT THERE
I CAN'T WAIT TO WATCH THIS ONE
Best album of 2017
What would you say about CTRL by SZA?
I see u in a lot of leftwing politics youtube. Funny to see you here
This album saved and shaped me in one of the lowest periods in my life, THANK YOU LORDE!
This album felt like the start of a crazy transitional period for pop music at the time. I just remember releases becoming a bit more personal, almost dark and melancholic, after Melodrama was released. This album was such so impactful in many ways. Homemade Dynamite is still one of my favorite songs ever!
Personally, an album that has just as much of if not more of an impact on my life that I'd call my Melodrama would be Sueños de Dalí by Paloma Mami. The album has a similar vibe with it being about how turbulent love, in all aspects, can be. Definitely check it out, it's my favorite album of all time 🤩
One of my favorite albums of all time, I can’t get over the emotional rollercoaster I had when first listening to the album despite not being in a relationship more so in relation to entering adulthood a year after graduating high school and not ready for it happen knowing you have no choice but got to.
Top 5 favorite tracks:
Green light
Sober
Liability
Perfect places
Writer in the dark
This album is kind of slept on, she waited too long to release it.
art takes time
@@cherrywineluxe yeah I know that, but in this music climate, you can’t do that. we now live in a non-attention span period of music.
@@123theprodigy5 unfortunately, but some recent albums sound rushed and like they were made last minute 😭
@@123theprodigy5 I think she said she’s made enough from Royals alone to just make music/ create for her fans at her own pace, which is honestly an artists dream I would think- not having to consistently be in the public eye bc you can’t afford to disappear
@@naomi.cannibal yep, that’s true
Great video! Melodrama is one of my favorite albums of all time. Lorde and jack antonoff were in the studio cooking. Deserved its Grammys and performance
I remember where I was when I first listened, I can remember feeling like “woah this is stunning”
The dynamite remix is one of my favs that doesn’t get talked about enough!
this album kept me going after graduating hs.. u have no idea how much i used to listen to it lol
this era’s analysed series makes my depression go away for like 5 mins ❤️
I need an eras analyzed episode about Halsey 😭
Loveless is on the second side of the vinyl. It's a separate song technically in that medium. Just a weird detail.
ig if u think abt it, it makes sense bc Hard Feelings/Loveless seems to be the bridging song between both halves of the album and the loose narrative it was trying to tell so, when splitting it on vinyl she's just outright dividing the halves of the albums in a more obvious manner
this album was my everything, i too was 19 when it released and I listened to this nonstop. still makes me tear up
fav tracks: homemade dynamite, sober, the louvre, and hard feelings/loveless
I love hard feelings/loveless
Naomi PLZ do Twigs Magdalene
Yes!!!!
BEST CHOREOGRAPHED PERFORMANCE EVER is the “ homemade dynamite “ performance !!!!
deserved more mtv’s than lady gaga and beyoncé combined !
Thank you so much for analyzing Melodrama! It’s my favorite piece of art from Lorde and I wish more people talked about it sometimes. This album is my perfectly imperfect place, I was also 19 when I came out and i have the same sentiments of it coming out the right time and I too grew with it. I got back to it often and it feels new each time as I grow older/gain different experiences. 😌
Melodrama is such an iconic album and I still listen to it to this day. But I’d say How Big How Blue How Beautiful by Florence + the Machine is my Melodrama. It came at the right time when I was trying to figure out my 20s
I was in middle school when of Melodrama & struggled to understand the appeal. Part of me wishes I gave the album another chance back then but I also feel like it's one of those albums you understand better as you grow older. This is all to say that Perfect Places, Green Light, & Supercut stay on repeat in this household.
Also I would love to see you cover Madonna's Confessions On A Dancefloor or Halsey's IICHLIWP for your next eras analyzied.
If anyone is interested in exploring a more literary interpretation of the themes and concepts of this record, i HIGHLY suggest you watch the video "melodrama: lorde's ancient greek tragedy" by internet jules, it's truly one of my favorite videos ever
I normally dont like jack amtomoff's production. But this album ate
Perfectly encapsulates the concept of "melodrama". Anthony Fantano's review is critical that her lyrics are too emotionally immature, teen-ish, especially when he talks about "perfect places", he seems to fundamentally misunderstand this album. The songs are all a satire of pop music to an extent. This is party music for the girl who doesn't ever really go. It's supposed to be super intense and obtuse in my opinion. This album reminds me of "Anti" in a lot of ways that it's pop, but it's also like anti-pop at the same time. Looking back after solar power, which I actually love for what it is, it's clear that this sort of party life aesthetic or lifestyle never really worked for her, and that makes this album feel like more of a statement of that time in her career. She really did the best she could (and more imo, she didn't have to experiment or try to push boundaries, she could've just rode the wave of that sound more until it died out like so many pop acts) with her position in pop music to fit in as much of herself in the music without compromise, before exiting to explore other sounds for a while. Now time to start watching the video! lol
When someone asks my favorite album I always mention this one as being in my top 3. So happy to watch the video! ❤
Magdalene by twigs is always going to be my melodrama
Unpopular opinion: I was so disappointed in this album. Where are the minimalistic electronic hip-hop beats that she used from the like where where is Joel Little at. She defined that sound and then she just completely left it without ever touching base with it ever again. His presence is sorely missed from the album is 2 and 3. I'mma need for her to bring back that cool girl Hip Hop s*** she was on in that first era real quick
I was late into the Melodrama party, but better late than never! Love all Lorde’s albums, but Melodrama is her best so far.
lorde managed to make an album perfect for me at 18 that is still one of the greatest i've ever heard at 25. timeless but perfect for its time, if that makes sense.
this video was excellent and gave me a better understanding that i missed when i first heard it. 🙂↕️
I would be cool to see eras analyzed with older albums like Madonna’s erotica era or Prince purple Rain etc…
The reprise on this album is probably one of my favourite Lorde songs entirely
I was also 19 and on FIRE when this album came out. What a fucking time
I loved pure heroine but I hated this album idk why maybe all the hype and mystique around it let me down but I will give it a re listen
the first album I ever listened to in full
Lordes 2013 era was her peak era. I wonder what she has for the future
I feel like if this album was released this year it would have had more success
I wonder what her sound is giving in 2025
You should do an eras analyzed for ‘Solar Power’
Thank you ❤ Thank you ❤ Thank you ❤
i been waiting for this one 🤩
two words: melodrama ate.
Mine is Reputation
got back into my Melodrama phase this June after 7 years, and it still hits the same way it did the first time I listened. That just shows how iconic this album is !! It was the first album I ever listened to all the way through, and I’ll cherish it forever. Love this album down 🩵 The louvre is ingrained in my brain and blood ong
POP PERFECTION indeed
Im sorry but no no, don't defend her dancing lol. I honestly I've only heard Green Light fully cuz it was the single from the album. I couldn't get into it when I kinda when through it. Maybe I should listen to it fully and not "glance" through it.
It definitely grew on me and imo its easier to appreciate it in the context of the album. Very much a conceptual album
I'm still mad at the Grammy's in 2018 they choose bruno album over lorde