Melodrama by Lorde is/was grossly underrated TLDR at the bottom but I encourage you to read it all before you vote So what makes a good song? Doing a little bit of looking around, most people seem to say it has to be memorable, cause a reaction/ catchy/etc, have good production/be well crafted, lyrics people can relate to or connect with, and good vocals. Given this information, let's look at Melodrama. Let's start with Green Light. Green Light is a song that is very memorable due to the piercing lyrics/vocals, the exciting way it builds up to the chorus and the chorus itself, and how the song ends. Between the downbeat piano, upbeat kicks and claps, a catchy chord progression, and Lorde's piercing and emotional vocals that all come out during the chorus, it's hard to not sing along with it. Which leads to the next point of causing a reaction. The genius way it builds slowly builds up with the piano and leads into all the instruments at once leads to this euphoric feeling where you want to dance and sing to it. Next, This song SOUNDS like what Lorde is feeling. The song starts sounding mellow, sad, and angry. But around 50 seconds, the beat starts to pick up and leads into the chorus. Then at the end of the song, we get these horn sounding synths and Lorde yelling that she's waiting for that green light, leaving us with the feeling that we're only at the beginning of a story. These clever production tricks show just how well-produced and thought out the song really was. Antonoff (the one who produced this album), in general, is very well known for how emotional his songs are. "All those rumors, they have big teeth." (I added a break to prevent a word wall) Now, the lyrics in this song are really good and I think about them often. The song starts with "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." Whats genius here is how she takes the flow of the song here and breaks it with the last line, making it way more impactful than it usually would be. The way she delivers the lines is also amazing and heartwrenching. Then later she says "Those great whites, they have big teeth / Oh they bite you." Then later reveals "All those rumors, they have big teeth." This implies that rumors about what he did will come back to bite him like a great white. Now there are MANY more things I could say about the lyrics and songwriting here from how her song flows, clever lyrics, etc but those were just a few. This song is also very easy to connect to as a lot of people have had similar relationships to this where it ended badly and they're trying to move on but just can't, so they're waiting for that green light. "We pretend that we just don't care But we care" Next in the album is Sober. I'll avoid rehashing points and try to keep the rest of the post brief, but please do try to keep the points I said in mind. The general idea of Sober is that in Green Light she went on a night out after a breakup, and now that she's partying, she the question that keeps nagging her is "But what will we do when we're sober?" This establishes the main theme of the album, which is her trying to escape from feelings of loneliness that comes from growing up and losing people she looked up to. Very specifically though, Sober is about when shes feeling a connection with someone at a party, but she questions if it'll last when they're sober. Instrumentally, it's hard to describe other than saying it's pretty unique. Something cool is the smothered vocals in the background helps it to feel like a blurry/drunk party. This track is way more mellow (but it's still upbeat) than Green Light overall, but it's still something that makes you want to bob your head due to its hypnotic beat. "Our rules, our dreams, we're blind Blowing shit up with homemade d-d-d-dynamite" Then we have Homemade Dynamite, which is actually the simplest track on the album. It's just about her hitting it off with someone. They both are quirky and like to have fun. Homemade Dynamite just seems to mean she has an explosively good time with this person. Instrumentally, it seems to follow pretty much exactly what I said about Sober, except this isn't really mellow at all. This is just generally a fun song. "Broadcast the boom boom boom boom And make 'em all dance to it" The Louvre is definitely a song that grows on you. Initially, I was disappointed by the lack of a "high moment" after the buildup. But it grew on me pretty quickly. What is absolutely genius though is how Lorde used specific guitar chords that are usually used in movies to signal the start of something (like this relationship). The guitar, in general, is also quite the refreshing sound to listen to. The lyrics and vocals in this song (like how she says p-punctuation) are absolutely stunning and really showcase how talented she is as a songwriter. As I said before, I was not a fan of the chorus my first few times but I fell in love with it quickly. This song perfectly represents what it's like to be in a new relationship. "The truth is I am a toy that people enjoy 'Til all of the tricks don't work anymore And then they are bored of me" Liability is a ballad about her having to learn how to be ok with just herself after her breakup (theme development). But it also addresses just general feelings of feeling like a liability to others. Something interesting is that the contrast between the lyrics and the piano drive the point of the song home. The piano kind of feels more uplifting while the lyrics are her dealing with this struggle. In the end, she says all her critics will watch her disappear into the sun. Which probably means they'll watch her go into a brighter future or become a happier version of herself. In the symbolistic night, this song represents the middle of the night (this is the middle of the album) when things start to fall apart and you feel vulnerable, but then things start to go better. Liability definitely feels like an experience and progression through her story of Melodrama. "These are what they call hard feelings of love When the sweet words and fevers All leave us right here in the cold-old-old" Hard Feelings is the ultimate breakup song in the album. It's about how they're drifting apart, and now she's feeling resentment. But in the end, she says she'll keep forgetting little things until she doesn't feel any of it anymore. This song seems to be another side of Liability. In this album, she makes is brutally clear that life isn't black and white, and that there are many different feelings when one ends a long relationship, which is shown in the last part of the song, Loveless. Loveless is a very tongue in cheek song that shows that old Lorde is still here. Loveless is her getting over the breakup, and is very aware of how this generation treats love and says that it's a loveless generation. Loveless is her reflecting on the younger generation. These songs are very rich vocally and instrumentally, like most songs on this album. "And the terror and the horror God, I wonder why we bother All the glamour and the trauma and the fuckin' Melodrama" Sober II is one of my favorite tracks on the album. Sober (one) is like when the party is in full swing, while part II is when the room deflates and the lights come on. Lorde says, "There’s such a sadness to the lights being on after a party, you know, this whole room has sort of been washed in this dark, and to see the corners of the room again can always be a little bit heartbreaking." The question in Sober has been answered. This is what happens when they're Sober. The little voice though, seems to be Lorde's thoughts to herself. It seems like she's scolding herself for expecting anything more than melodrama with, "We told you this was Melodrama". The lyrics explain themselves from there. Lorde's voice carries the tone of this song very noticeably. There's anger or frustration, some sadness, but also it seemed like she expected this from the very beginning. The instruments get very aggressive sometimes, kinda sounding like a trap song. But below all of that, you have these violins that sound very downbeat. The vocals and instrumentals create such an intense tone and perfectly sum up all of the regret, loneliness, and frustration of Lorde after shes Sober and she realizes the escapism didn't work and she's still alone. "Bet you rue the day you kissed a writer in the dark Now she's gonna play and sing and lock you in her heart" Writer in the Dark is another ballad, but this one serves as a final goodbye to the relationship and as a turning point in the album and her life. It's kind of a tongue in cheek song about how she was a writer when she met him, and she's still one now. Writing about the relationship is just going to happen, even if people try to make writers look like villains when they do. So with this, she bids him farewell. As with most ballads, her voice carries the song and shows just how talented of a singer she really is. "So I fall Into continents and cars All the stages and the stars I turn all of it To just a supercut" Supercut is about when she looks back at the relationship, all she can think of is the good moments, but she realizes it's just a supercut of the relationship. Supercut is just generally a very catchy song and probably one a lot of people can relate to. This all builds up to the end of the song, where it very slowly fades out as she says "In my head, I do everything right." "But you're not what you thought you were..." Liability Reprise is another one of my favorite songs from Melodrama and it follows that glimmer of hope we saw at the end of Liability. Liability Reprise is a self-reflective song of her realizing that she's not a liability like she's made herself think for so long. More personally, it's partly about both her breakup and how her success affected everyone around her. Sometimes it made her feel like a liability. Going into this album she thought she knew what she was, but after writing this, she realized she's not what she thought she was. It's a vividly emotional track and I love listening to it. "All the nights spent off our faces Trying to find these perfect places What the fuck are perfect places anyway?" Perfect Places is probably my last fighting for first place as favorite. It's a very upbeat track with some not so happy lyrics. It's the last burst of energy you get at the end of a party. The buildup to the chorus and the burst of energy we get in the chorus with the layered vocals is absolutely euphoric and you can't help but sing along and want to dance. It finally addresses her escapism head-on. What I found cool was it followed a similar structure of Sober as they both always come back to this one idea over and over until they finally address it. For Perfect Places, she keeps saying to take her to perfect places. She wants to go back to the time when she was innocent; to turn back the clock. She can't stand these feelings of being alone, she can't stand the news headlines, she feels like the world is closing in on her. But then at the end, she finally faces it all. She realizes this escapism doesn't work, and that she can't go back in time, because these "perfect places" don't exist. She'll have to accept that she's growing up and the raw emotions that come with it. Overall, Melodrama ended up being more of an experience than an album; making it is so hard to skip a song when listening to it. The songs are catchy, emotional, meaningful, and many people can relate to them. Lorde's vocals are piercing and beautiful, and the songs make you feel how she feels. It may not follow all the pop formulas, but it was such an amazing album and I'm very upset it didn't receive more attention. TLDR; Amazing songwriting, vocals, production, very catchy songs, strong messages and meaning, virtually no radio play IIRC, no one talks about it, and she was robbed of her Grammy. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

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