#umg ep 4

[malepresentingleg]

jkdfn I thought Farsai was about to tie the bells around Erng's neck like a cow 😂

[gennianydots]

MY HUSBAND oH mY gOd

Thank you Nanon for blessing us every week with your soft smile 🥰😍

[mirabella96]

UMG ep 4

this is nice and cute.

ALIENS

They are funny, but also danger to themselfes

So she was really taken by aliens? I was leaning more to normal human kidnapping and some experiments but not really alines

I know Erng insecurities are a big theme in this show but it's actually boring. We see her interacting with like 4 people who actually are really interested in her (about her ?) on different levels but still. Or maybe it's just because I did not like her since before.

I really liked 2 first episodes but right now I am no longer sure what I think. I want to be excited for next ep but I don't know

[dribs-and-drabbles]

The Thai Communal Wardrobe item #26

The Shipper ep 9:

The Gifted Graduation ep 3:

The Warp Effect ep 8:

UMG ep 4:

UMG ep 6:

Wandee Goodday ep 1:

[philologique]

got a work deadline pushed out and unexpectedly have the evening off. assuming i don't completely crash, which low-effort unfinished piece of media should i read/watch?

[magicaldreamfox1]

i'd like to publicly pretend i am a good part of the reason you clicked on that umg ep.1 1/4 and say you're welcome 😌...

and also i hope you like it omg and thank you for giffing it under unacceptable working conditions 🏋️

i love it sm !!!! it's so fun

also bestie i hate to say but i've been waiting for umg ever since they dropped the mock trailer in 2021

[shouldiusemyname]

*Current* ask game

Yay! Thank you @rocketturtle4

Current time: 02:55 PM

Current activity: Working on my lesson plans for tomorrow, chatting with my support group, and mentally preparing for the inevitable ep.4 Brain Rot that follows today's ep of Only Friends. Oh! also listening to the OF OST.

Currently thinking about: Supposed to be thinking about vocabulary, but actually thinking about songs, lyrics, and the OF connection courtesy of @plantsarepeopletoo (I love it!) hence keeping the pic @rocketturtle4

Current favourite song: That's an impossible question and I refuse to answer it! However, I will say this:

Currently reading: My students' schedules and their panicked messages mostly...

Ccurrently watching: OH SO MUCH! (wonder how long I'll be able to keep this up) Minato s2, The Jungle, Only Friends, LoA, Stay With Me, Hidden Agenda, Taikan Yoho, Be Mine SuperStar, Dangerous Romance, I Feel You Linger, Jun & June.

Paused on: To Sir With Love, Word of Honor, UMG, Our Dining Table

Current favourite character: Hand down SAND! Most of the time I feel like I wrote everything coming out of this boy's mouth. Does this mean I actually like myself? Interesting...

Current wip: Lesson plans for the year (cos I did shit this summer) + OF Sex Post (currently only in my head and some in my notes, but it will be a thing!)

tagging: @magpie24601 @nerdybunnydestiny if you want!!

Also double tagging @thegalwhorants @plantsarepeopletoo - tag me in yours cos I want to know 👀

[hummingbirdsinjune]

Uuuuuuumg Ep 4

- I wasn't going to live blog this. Anyway I have to shout out the show writers for doing such an amazing job of placing flash back scenes

- Mew clinging to his logical explanations is very funny of him

- no one ever said who the unidentified girlfriend is. Fahsai is the one who magically wished her back. Just sayin.

- I always forget by the beginning of a new episode that UMG is a little creepy

- lmao having a eulogy for Mr. Kit while he's standing beside them is menace behaviour

- O pushing the monster agenda by crawling around on the ground, eating raw corn

- If Erng is with O, Fahsai is with Mew, and Mr. Kit is working on his PowerPoint, whose watching Jack?

- Nevermind

- Jack you are so gross

- Just O calling after Erng like she's a cat

- Mew and Erng are so sweet, and so gentle 😭

- children + corn makes this kid very spooky in the eyes of me, an american

- actual aliens next episode? Sick. I also hope O gets to see some Thai cryptid. Does Bigfoot live there?

[morzowo]

reveal your watch and rewatch drama list 

Thanks for tagging me @akk-theo uwu 💖

currently watching:

1. KinnPorsche - I remember watching the trailer and not understanding all this hype surrounding it. I thought it’d be boring and serious (like other mafia shows tend to be) but oh boy was I wrong. I could write long essays about it and its themes and interesting characters and dynamics between them and all that but there are plenty posts out there written by ppl that actually can use words so I’ll just say it’s FUN so much FUN

2. Old Fashion Cupcake - the whole vibe is just ahh from warm colours to chill music (that gives me persona vibes) and whole premise is also just so heart-warming, watching two grown man slowly breaking from their routines of everyday corporate work life and just enjoying little things together :’)

3. To My Star 2 - pain :) but the good kind, the one that makes you reflect on characters’ actions and emotions and even though it hurts it makes sense plot-wise and character-wise, I really like how Hwang Da Seul show stories (it’s not perfect but I still like it)

4. Triage - (;¬‿¬) "ᴵ ˡᶦᵏᵉ ᵗʰᶦˢ ˢʰᵒʷ ᵗʰᵉ ⁿᵒʳᵐᵃˡ ᵃᵐᵒᵘⁿᵗ" ᴵ ˢᵃᶦᵈ ʸᵒᵘ ᵏⁿᵒʷ, ˡᶦᵏᵉ ᵃ ˡᶦᵃʳ, I love plot driven shows and it also has paranormal element of a timeloop and mystery to solve and corruption to fight and every character is interesting and has their own story and importance but show manages to make following the plot not that hard and it’s so easy to like the main character (dr Tin my beloved) and it’s also not always heavy it’s well balanced and romance is ahhhh yea yea I could go on and on, everybody should just go and watch it

5. Plus & Minus - I still have to watch final ep but yea it was nice and wholesome, love me some childhood friends shenanigans and clownery and  FLG and ZZS are very likeable also I loved Yuki’s cat behavior ajfkgh

6. Star and Sky: Sky in Your Heart - I’ve started it but I still can’t finish second ep, I think I’ll just give up, not much more to add

7. Rak Diao - it is technically on hold but I WILL finish it, I liked the humor (even though laugh track hit me like ton of bricks) and I love dynamic between main characters like they are so petty good for them

Rewatching:

nothing, my sense of time is broken, my time managing skills are non-existent

Looking Forward to:

The Eclipse (supernatural and has First as the main character so how could I not be excited), Vice Versa, Moonlight Chicken, UMG (plots of all three look interesting and all have really strong cast), GAP (self-explanatory and I have high hopes after scoy) (it’s mostly GMM shows lol but I’ll probably watch other things along the way that ppl recommend)

tagging: uh oh anyone who’s interested really and feel free to say I’ve tagged you I’m always looking for new things to watch and also other people’s opinions  👀 ᴵ'ᵐ ᵃˡˢᵒ ˢʰʸ ᵃⁿᵈ ᵈᵒⁿ'ᵗ ʷᵃⁿᵗ ᵗᵒ ᵖᵘᵗ ᵖʳᵉˢˢᵘʳᵉ ᵒⁿ ᵃⁿʸᵒⁿᵉ ᵃᵏᵍᶠᵈᵏ

[bananaofswifts]

.@taylorswift13 lands at #3 on our year-end sales chart with ‘Lover’

Post Malone's third album, Hollywood's Bleeding (Republic), finishes at #1 on our Year-End top 50 Chart with 2.81m+ in total activity. Darkroom/Interscope's Billie Eilish takes the #2 spot with WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? (2.3m+).

Post is one of three Republic stars in the Top 5; Taylor Swift's Lover and Ariana Grande's thank u, next (both with 2m+) sit at #3 and #4, respectively. Beerbongs & Bentleys, Post's prior release, finishes at #6 with 1.3m+; add Drake's Scorpion (#9, 1.2m), and Republic owns five spots in the Top 10. Post's debut album, Stoney, lands at #28 and makes the face-tatted wonder the only artist with three titles on the chart. Billie has two titles of her own in the Top 50, as her Don't Smile at Me lands at #20.

Right Hand/RCA's Khalid rounds out the Top 5 with Free Spirit (1.5m+), and his American Teen is #39. Columbia's Lil Nas X (who has 2019's top-streaming and top-earning track in "Old Town Road") lands at #7 with his 7-EP (nearing 1.3m). Interscope's Lady Gaga/Bradley Cooper A Star Is Born set takes a bow at #9 with almost 1.2m.

UMG takes 55% of the marketshare, followed by WMG with 24% and Sony with 21%.

[sneek-m]

Monthly Listening: April 2020

Listening to music during quarantine has been... interesting. This might sound obvious but I’ve been putting on more indoor music. Calmer stuff. Especially because those indoor listens happen in the morning or at night. I’ve been saving more of the dynamic stuff like upbeat pop and rap, energetic techno or loud ass metal for my walks. It makes me realize just how much environment and activity plays into my listening choices now that I don’t have work or my work commute to determine those.

Here is this month’s playlist. 303 songs! Below is the full list of albums I checked out during April.

2020 albums

2KBABY -- Pregame Rituals (Warner)

4s4ki -- Your Dreamland (SAD15mg)

AceMo -- Mind Jungle (self-released)

Akai Ko-En -- The Park (Sony)

Andrea -- Ritorno (Ilian Tape)

Aoi Yamazaki -- Marble (Space Shower)

Apink -- Look (Play M)

April -- Da Capo (DSP Media)

Ashley McBryde -- Never Will (Warner Music Nashville)

Buoy -- Sandmiru (Fabienne)

Caeca -- Hanauta (T-Palette)

Capolow -- Room 304 (Capolow 304)

Code Kunst -- People (AOMG)

Cosmos Train -- Ashitanome (Mastard)

CS + Kreme -- Snoopy (The Trilogy Tapes)

Dempagumi.inc -- Ai Ga Chikyuu Sukuunsa! Datte Dempagumi.inc Wa Family Desho (Toy’s Factory)

DJ Lycox -- Kizas do Ly (Principe)

DJ Python -- Mas Amable (Incienso)

DJ Trystero -- High Speed Wind (The Trilogy Tapes)

Dua Lipa -- Future Nostalgia (Warner)

Ehnahre -- Quatrain (Painted Throat)

Ferri-Chrome -- From a Window EP (Testcard)

Fiona Apple -- Fetch the Bolt Cutters (Epic)

Flora Yin-Wong -- CSS068 (Cultivated Sound Sessions)

(G)I-DLE -- I Trust (Cube)

Ga Eun -- Walnutful (Most Works)

GWSN -- The Key (MILE)

HA:TFELT -- 1719 (Amoeba Culture)

Hailey Whitters -- The Dream (Pigasus)

Haruru Inu Love Dog Tenshi -- Lonely EP (Ourlanguage)

Hockrockb -- Yumewo Akirametai EP (self-released)

Invictus -- Catacombs of Fear (FDA)

Jasmine Infinity -- Bxtch Slap (New World Dysorder)

Keita -- InK (Pony Canyon)

kZm -- Distortion (Yentown / bpm tokyo)

Laura Marling -- Song for Our Daughter (Chrysalis)

Lyrical School -- OK!!! EP (JVCKENWOOD)

Malcolm Mask McLaren -- Unfinished (Fiveridge)

Masayoshi Iimori -- DECADE4ALL (Trekkie Trax)

Meimi Tamura -- Ichijiku (Jvckenwood)

Memex -- Dear Thinking Nodes (self-released)

Minor Science -- Second Language (Whities)

Namida Ai -- Taiyo Kosoru Umbrella (Rainy Canvas)

Oh My Girl -- Nonstop (WM)

Oranssi Pazuzu -- Mestarin Kynsi (Nuclear Blast)

Pearl Center -- Humor EP (RALLYE)

The Peggies -- Anemone (Sony)

Sary Moussa -- Imbalance (Other People)

Serpent Column -- Endless Detainment (1516887 Records DK)

Shin Sakiura -- Note (Park / Space Shower)

Sleepy -- Hope (PVO)

Stella Jang -- STELLA I (GRDL)

Tofubeats -- TBEP (Warner Music Japan)

Tokyo Health Club -- 4 (THC Recordings)

Tokyo Incidents -- News (Universal)

Tri-Sphere -- Tri-Angle (Primal Glow)

UZA -- Banality of Evil (Coreesounds)

Yaeji -- What We Drew (XL)

Yonawo -- Lobster EP (Warner Music Japan)

Yuzion & Futuristic Swaver -- Melodic Trapstars (Starex)

Non-2020 albums

Above & Beyond -- Tri-State (Anjunabeats)

Artful Dodger -- It’s All About the Stragglers (London Records 90)

The Band -- Music from Big Pink (UMG)

Bellring Shojo Heart -- Undo the Union (Aqbi)

Dir En Grey -- Arche (Sun-Krad Co / Firewall)

Farben -- Textstar (Faitiche)

Freestyle Fellowship -- Innercity Griots (Island Def Jam)

The Future of London -- Accelerator (Jumpin’ & Pumpin’)

Group Inou -- _ (GAL)

Herbie Hancock -- Sextant (Sony)

Luna Sea -- Mother (Universal J)

RIP SLYME -- Tokyo Classic (Warner Music Japan)

Surgeon -- Force + Form (Tresor)

Stetsasonic -- In Full Gear (Tommy Boy)

Vladislav Delay -- Multila (Keplar)

[thtransthepaleblood]

[trans]FROM YG (190208)

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จะเป็นการปล่อยแบบEPที่มีเพลงใหม่หลายเพลง (*T/N: EPเป็นการปล่อยเพลงในแบบที่มีมากกว่าซิงเกิ้ล(1เพลง)แต่ไม่ได้มีจำนวนเยอะเท่าอัลบั้มค่ะ ก่อนหน้านี้ BLACKPINKเคยปล่อยEPมาแล้ว2 EPด้วยกันคือ Square OneและSquare Two)

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การปล่อยเพลงใหม่บ่อยๆนั้นเป็นเรื่องสำคัญ

แต่ในกรณีของBLACKPINKในตอนนี้แล้ว การปล่อยเพลงใหม่ที่มีคุณภาพสูงและMVที่เสร็จสมบูรณ์เรียบร้อยเป็นสิ่งที่ยิ่งสำคัญเข้าไปอีก

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ได้โปรดตั้งตารอด้วยนะครับ

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A

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ส่วนลิซ่าและจีซูก็กำลังเตรียมเพลงโซโล่ของตัวเองด้วย

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เพราะฉะนั้น การโปรโมทในท้องถิ่นจะเริ่มขึ้นพร้อมๆ/โดยสอดคล้องกับตารางทัวร์ครับ

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ในช่วงสองสามทศวรรษที่ผ่านมา ไม่มีเกิร์ลกรุ๊ปที่เป็นที่นิยมในอเมริกาและยุโรปครับ

วงสุดท้ายที่ผมจำได้คือSpice Girls วงเกิร์ลกรุ๊ปที่มีสมาชิก5คนซึ่งเดบิวต์มาในปี1996

มันอาจจะเป็นเพราะไม่ค่อยมีเกิร์ลกรุ๊ปเดบิวต์ออกมาเองด้วยซึ่งเป็นสาเหตุมาจากระบบทางวัฒนธรรม/สังคม

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เมื่อคุณลองดูบทวิเคราะห์เกี่ยวกับยอดวิวYoutubeของเพลงใหม่ล่าสุดของBLACKPINK “DDU-DU DDU-DU” โดยจำแนกตามประเทศแล้ว รายรับส่วนใหญ่ที่สุดของBLACKPINKมาจากสหรัฐอเมริกา สหรัฐฯอยู่ในอันดับ5ของจำนวนยอดวิวครับ บราซิลและเม็กซิโกอยู่อันดับ7และ9 ส่วนฝรั่งเศส รัสเซีย อังกฤษ และเยอรมนีอยู่ใน20อันดับแรกทั้งหมด ถ้าการโปรโมทในต่างประเทศอย่างเต็มอัตราของBLACKPINKเริ่มต้นขึ้น พวกเราก็คาดว่าตัวเลขเหล่านั้นจะทะยานตัวตามขึ้นไปด้วย

ตอนที่ผมได้พบกับคุณ Lucian Grainge ประธานของUMGและท่านประธานJohn JanickของInterscope Recordsเมื่อเร็วๆนี้ที่อเมริกาเพื่อคุยกันเรื่องข้อตกลง

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TRADUÇÃO | BLACKPINK foi citado pela a MTV UK como um dos 5 atos do K-pop em que devemos ficar de olho em 2019

Fonte: MTV UK

Tradução: Letícia (LISA BRASIL)

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O K-pop tem tido este como o maior ano quando se trata de sucesso internacional, com BTS e BLACKPINK liderando o caminho para boy bands e girlgroups - e estrelas solo, iremos explicar - no UK e nos EUA.

Da imprescindível colaboração do BLACKPINK com Dua Lipa - a qual fez o TOP 40 no Chart de Músicas do UK após o lançamento - para o mega-hit do BTS 'Idol' recebendo o número 21 em UK, o sucesso deles é imparável e tem muito mais por vir das duas bandas, os membros individuais e alguns grandes novos atos. Algo novo, algo crescendo recentemente - nós estamos dando a vocês a colher. 

Se você é novo no K-pop ou um Stan dedicado, aqui está tudo o que você precisa saber para 2019... 

Debut Ocidental do BLACKPINK

BLACKPINK in your area! O girlgroup de 4 peças - formado por Jisoo, Jennie, Rosé e Lisa - estão para chegar no mercado Ocidental com seu 'Ddu-du Ddu-du' em 2019. Não, não queremos dizer que elas estão relançando aquele fenomenal hit de novo com promoção específica para UK e USA (apesar de que elas deviam) mas sim que o BLACKPINK agora está assinado com Interscope Records e estará fazendo movimentos através das fronteiras

Terá um EP de músicas em inglês? Talvez. Terá uma tour em UK? Talvez. O céu é o limite agora que elas assinaram um acordo com Interscope Records e UMG, e mais, elas já tiveram seu primeiro TOP 40 no Reino Unido com a colab épica com Dua Lipa, 'Kiss and Make up' 

O produtor do grupo, Teddy Park provocou coisas maciças que estão por vir após o anúncio em Outubro, dizendo "podemos mostrar o potencial do BLACKPINK em uma escala maior." Maior? MAIOR?! Nós já estamos arrepiados até o núcleo. Podem vir, rainhas!

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BTS: 3 Reasons Why They Are About to Announce a New Album and 2 Reasons Why a Tour...

The Album

Reason 1 - They've been very vocal about it...

In interviews, they've mentioned music, particularly Korean music, when questioned about the recent English language songs.

Also, they basically told us in BTS In the Soop 2 (Ep. 4) that there is an album coming. Additionally, in the same episode they showed (silently of course, no spoilers here) JK and Suga working on a song for said album.

Reason 2 - They've never not released an album annually...

Since debuting in 2013, they have always released a Mini Album or a Studio Album (excluding repackaged) every year:

2013 - O!RUL8,2?

2014 - Dark & Wild / Skool Luv Affair

2015 - The Most Beautiful Moment in Life, Pt. 1 and Pt. 2

2016 - Wings

2017 - Love Yourself: Her

2018 - Love Yourself: Tear

2019 - Map of the Soul: Persona

2020 - Map of the Soul: 7 / BE

So are they really not going to release an album this year?

Reason 3 - They've just changed US distributors...

So last month they changed distributors, from Sony Music to Universal Music Group. UMG will want to benefit from said deal, and what better way to do than with a new album and lead single.

The Tour

Reason 1 - Everyone in K-Pop is about to go on tour...

Several big K-Pop groups have just announce world tour for 2022, which means things are opening up again in relation to tours. So it makes sense that BTS also goes on tour.

Reason 2 - They've basically been signalling it...

Permission to Dance MV, officially cancelling MTS Tour, the PTD on Stage (particularly in LA), the Jingle Ball, taking a break from Run BTS and the new BTS content... all roads lead to Seoul, Los Angeles, New York, London, France, Germany, etc...

Bonus - They are about to release a new album...

Oh Yeah, and they're about to announce a new album, and usually with a new album you get a

TOUR BABY!!!

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Growing Up One Step Behind Lorde

Written By Lila Danielsen Wong. Graphic by Paula Nicole. 

It’s late July of 2015. It’s a little past two a.m. and I’m in the basement of my parents house. My parents left me home alone for a night, so I did what any newly 16-year-old would do; I got a bottle of cheap vodka from someone’s older brother and threw my very first small party. Two of my closest friends are sleeping inches away. Out of my cheap drugstore headphones come a slow synth build, sounding distant and underwater. It erupts into a pulse, just too fast to be a heartbeat. Lorde’s “Ribs” pushes on in all its teenage glory. “Mom and Dad let me stay home,” she tells me before confiding “it drives you crazy getting old.” In the next pre-chorus this morphs into the more tender, “I’ve never felt more alone, it feels so scary getting old.” 

Before a live performance of “Ribs” in 2014, barely 18-year-old Lorde tells the audience that she wrote this song about a big party she had when her parents left town when she was 16. She was with her best friend afterwards at 4 a.m. unsuccessfully trying to go to sleep. He asked her what was wrong, and she said, regarding the party, “There’s something really crazy about throwing a party like this and doing something this huge. It feels grown up, and it feels like a rite of passage, and that's cool. It's cool to do stuff for the first time, but it also really freaks me out because once you do something that feels grown up it's really hard to come back, and if you've only ever been a kid the thought of having to be an adult is really terrifying.”

Three years after Lorde had this conversation with her friend, I’m sitting in my own basement all the way across the world after my own party listening to that very song and letting every word vibrate through my entire self. It feels so scary getting old, but hearing a girl from suburban New Zealand say exactly what I was thinking makes me feel a little bit less “so alone.”

In 2013, Ella Yelich O’Connor wrote an EP called The Love Club with local musician Joel Little and put it on Soundcloud under the name Lorde. To the surprise of both of them, it blew up. After collecting 60,000 downloads, UMG released it commercially and it managed to hit the charts in New Zealand and Australia. However, it was the release of “Royals” as a radio single that put Lorde on the international radar. 

“Royals” was penned as a sort of wry defiance to celebrity culture and a call out to it’s disconnect from the general public. She noticed that many popular musicians based their clout on trashing hotel rooms and diamond watches, and this was so removed from her and her friends, at a house party not knowing if they would get a ride home. “Royals” and The Love Club EP were followed by Lorde’s debut album, Pure Heroine, a collection of songs about “the feeling of being [her] age” and “the weird social issues that come with being a teenager.” 

After her global success made her visible worldwide, those who would be attracted to listen beyond “Royals” and become fans were fellow teens at fellow parties who also were “counting dollars on the train to the party”. 

In 2017, Lorde released Melodrama. If  Pure Heroine is about what it’s like to be a teenager, Melodrama captures life as a fledgling adult. Lorde has said that Melodrama is an album about a break up. She also has called it a concept album about a house party, telling The New York Times “it’s a record about being alone. The good parts and the bad parts.” 

This release coincided with my high school graduation. It was the soundtrack of my final months of childhood and what I listened to through the transition to the next phase of life. 

I spent my first year after high school in my hometown. I remember sitting in my house in September after all my friends had left for college and listening to “Liability”. My parents had left for a weekend trip and I was home alone, this time with no one to invite over. “Liability” is the second single from Melodrama. It’s a stripped piano ballad about the depths of insecurity, driving people away until you find yourself startlingly alone. “Every perfect summer’s eating me alive until you’re gone,” she sings; getting older comes stark changes in social circles and lifestyles, some of which can leave periods of time in which you find yourself startlingly alone.

I related to these feelings of disconnect and isolation and felt the song intimately just as I had felt “Ribs” two years earlier. Whereas the loneliness in “Ribs“ was the feeling of distance from everything you know when you’re on the cusp of adulthood; this loneliness comes from the other side of this cusp, when you look up and everything has changed. Melodrama ushered me into adulthood, and Lorde was like a voice from the future reassuring me that this was normal. If two years ahead of me Lorde the international star was sitting in a taxi feeling the exact same way I was feeling, then perhaps this happens to everyone and is just part of growing up. 

The following summer, after a party I helped someone else host, I put on “Ribs” before I went to bed and was surprised to find that it didn’t “vibrate through my entire self” anymore. That stage of coming of age had come and gone for me. 

The parties in Melodrama had grown up too; we’re no longer worried about getting caught by our parents. “Green Light,” the lead single, Lorde described as a song about the girl at the party who is a crying mess but doesn't seem to care. “Sober” asks about the morning after; “But what will we do when we’re sober?” “Liability” is looking in the mirror and not feeling so great about who you are and where you are. Growing up is reframed as self-discovery, mainly through the common young adult experience of a house party. 

Sometimes, this is where I lose her. 

In “Sober II” she cites the “glamour and the trauma,” and my life is nowhere near “glamourous”. The desperate feverishness of these more grown up parties of Melodrama are not what my life looked like. At the end of the day, I was reminded that she’s a pop star who already has her life financially set for her, and I was a college student with a limited social life and a whole lot of homework. 

I wonder if I am just ready for the next album to usher me into the next phase of my life, or if this is this where our paths diverge.

Although the reception of “Solar Power” has been relatively positive, some fans noticed that the new single was missing some of the, well, angst of her previous catalogue. This is especially striking because for a lot of us this year has been somewhere on the spectrum of angsty to agonizing. Her most recent release, “Stoned at the Nail Salon,” ponders the nature of being settled. This second release contextualized not only “Solar Power,” but also why some fans may be feeling a little disconnected from her newest era. I listen to Lorde talk about how she loves her quiet, stable life, with “the vine hangin' over the door, and the dog who comes when [she] calls” from the corner of my sublet of someone’s living room, which I rent as I apply for yet another job that isn’t really hiring because of covid or is going to be taken by one of the millions of 2020 and 2021 graduates who got a serious delay on their quest for the peace and stability Lorde is talking about. This is not to say that me or any of her other listeners won’t relate to her new music, especially as she sprinkles in lines such “as all the music you loved at sixteen, you'll grow out of”, but it’s still up in the air whether or not the fact that she is a wealthy pop singer from New Zealand will finally effect her ability to “vibrate souls” of her younger fan base like she once did. 

Lorde’s fanbase is just enough younger than her that, so far, once she has written an album about whatever phase of life she just went through, they are on the cusp of experiencing it. Teenagers are known for their “no one understands me” angst, and growing up one step behind Lorde reminded me how deeply universal the feelings and experiences that came with growing up are. Whether it’s coming from a teenage girl from suburban New Zealand (who must have been way cooler than me because her first party topped mine by about 100 more people) or a full blown star crying in a New York taxi, Lorde captured the most intimate moments of youth, offered them as a preview of the next age to her young fan base, and gently reassured them that these glimpses of fear and loneliness are perhaps what unites us as humans who are slowly but somehow rapidly getting older. However, how much longer will her experiences be this universal? As an artist whose fan base is largely built around her ability to connect and relate, will she be able to maintain this intimate connection as her life looks significantly different from most of the people she entertains? Perhaps the appeal of the Solar Power era will be more in the preview of the growing security of your mid-late twenties. Perhaps none of the differences of her lifestyle and her fan base will matter, because she will continue doing what she does best, stripping memories down to their universal truths, and feeding them back to a slightly younger generation with just a bit of dramatic lighting. 

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorde

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88oR5GjjZ6k

https://genius.com/Lorde-royals-lyrics

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2013/10/24/5-things-to-know-about-lorde/?utm_term=.1072aea0ec9c

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/12/magazine/the-return-of-lorde.html

https://www.thenation.com/article/lorde-grows-up/