Lorde teased the potential of new music throughout her headlining set at Primavera Sound in Los Angeles on Friday (Sept. 16).
The 25-year-old alt-pop pioneer, who has been touring North America in help of her newest album, 2021’s Photo voltaic Energy, delighted followers on the Southern California pageant after revealing that her subsequent launch could also be arriving quickly.
“Who is aware of what is going to come subsequent?” the New Zealand songstress casually stated whereas working although the themes of previous three albums. “Properly, I do know. And also you’ll know someday quickly.”
She added about her previous music, “Once I was a youngster it was about not being a youngster, once I was 20 it was a couple of boy, (and) now it’s concerning the local weather.”
Lorde’s debut album, Pure Heroine, arrived in 2013, bowing at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 albums chart. The set featured the hit track “Royals,” which spent 9 weeks atop the Billboard Scorching 100 that very same yr. “Staff,” which was additionally featured on the set, reached the highest 10 of the chart.
The singer-songwriter’s 2017 follow-up album, Melodrama, debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and final yr’s Photo voltaic Energy began at No. 5.
Lorde additionally touched on the local weather change theme of Photo voltaic Energy throughout her gig at Primavera Sound.
“You all felt that warmth wave final week,” she mentioned, referencing California’s epic mid-September temperatures, which exceeded 100 levels in lots of areas. “Don’t forget that that is an emergency. Don’t acclimatize to 112-degree climate. That is f—ed up; it’s the defining disaster of our lives and I’m so terrified f—ing terrified for the long run. All we will do is be actually current to it, try to vote with the local weather in thoughts, and go outdoors — it’s the perfect factor.”
Watch a fan-captured video of Lorde hinting at new music throughout Primavera Sound on Twitter here.
