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Green Light
by Lorde
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Best New songLorde — Green Light
Posted by LetsLoop on March 2, 2017, 8:00 pm It's been a long time coming, but New Zealand superstar @Lorde is finally back! Green Light is the lead single to her upcoming 2nd album, Melodrama, which is out later this year and follows up her platinum-selling 2013 debut album, Pure Heroine.The track was written with Jack Antonoff from @fun., @Bleachers and @Steel Train (he's also Girls star and writer Lena Dunham's other half) and Joel Little, Lorde's primary collaborator on Pure Heroine and a Grammy Award-winning songwriter and producer for the likes of @BROODS, @Sam Smith, @Ellie Goulding, @Elliphant and more. Antonoff also co-wrote and produced every song on Lorde's upcoming album.
On releasing her new song, Lorde tweeted:
"It's very different, and kinda unexpected. It's complex and funny and sad and joyous and it'll make you DANCE.
It's the first chapter of a story i'm gonna tell you, the story of the last 2 wild, fluorescent years of my life. this is where we begin."
She also sat down with #ZaneLowe on his #Beats1 show, explaining that Green Light is about her first major breakup:
"It's not something that I really am used to writing about. It took me a while to be able to figure out how to write about that.
The song is really about those moments kind of immediately after your life changes and about all the silly little things that you gravitate towards. I say, "She thinks you love the beach, you're such a liar". What the fuck, she thinks you like the beach?! You don't like the beach! It's those little stupid things. It sounds so happy and then the lyrics are so intense obviously. And I realized I was like, "how come this thing is coming out so joyous sounding?" And I realized this is that drunk girl at the party dancing around crying about her ex-boyfriend who everyone thinks is a mess. That's her tonight and tomorrow she starts to rebuild. And that's the song for me.
For me it's been a couple years since I've put anything out and really at least a couple years that I just dropped off the radar. And for me it was kind of about processing what I want to say next and I knew it just couldn't be any old thing. It had to be really special and really singular and it couldn't sound the same as the old stuff and there was a lot of discovery that went on. And then wrote the song and I was like "oh shit, this is it". This was kinda the first thing that we really… all of a sudden everything else we'd written for the record started to make sense. What a feeling, what a bloody feeling. It was amazing. The production of that one starts to inform the rest of them and it all sort of comes together.
So I ended up basically doing the entire record with Jack Antonoff of Fun, Bleachers, an amazing songwriter and just an amazing person. We are totally like best friends and family at this point. We've spent 18 months every day together working on this recording in his house. We wrote the song together. Oh God it was just such a collaborative thing with him. He's so wonderful and totally understands me and is such a great listener. And the stuff that we've made I just really feel like we've pushed each other to make stuff that is better than anything either of us have ever done. I tell him everything, he knows everything about me. And it's a very special kind of rare thing that we have.
We produced it together, we've produced the whole record together. Then the wonderful boy wonder Frank Dukes came in and gave us the little drum break. He's a tiny little boy wonder, always in his little hats and stuff. So the production was a big thing for me this record. I'm a producer on every song. And this song in particular, it took us so long to kind of craft what it was. My role as a producer is I am an editor. I will pull that away or I'll push that forward. And when I listen to this it's cool for me. I’m like "ah God that's what I can do now"."
Green Light is also accompanied by a Grant Singer-directed video. Keep your eyes peeled for the Jack Antonoff cameo.
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