Lorde: Through the Years
Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso
Higher Ground
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 29 August 2021
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Lorde joins us in the studio this week following the release of her third album, Solar Power! We begin with a prologue to her new record (3:40), the story of her first performance in America at age sixteen (6:57), why leaving social media (8:57) inspired “Stoned at the Nail Salon” (13:39), and how she’s found joy in growing older (19:17), despite sentiments on Pure Heroine’s “Ribs” (20:09). Ella also grapples with the juxtaposition of being both an artist and an introvert (23:50), the life cycle of making music (26:36), and the early literary influences that shape her songwriting today (32:19). Before we go, she reflects on a memory of the late David Bowie (34:06), the familial imagery behind “Oceanic Feeling” (35:50), and her hopes for herself in the years to come (38:23).
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| 0:00.0 | Pushkin. This is talk easy. I'm Sam for go so welcome to the show. Today I'm joined by Ella Yellich O'Connor, otherwise known as Lord. She's a two-time |
| 0:49.7 | Grammy Award winner and a gifted singer-songwriter. |
| 0:53.8 | Now on the heels of two hit records, pure heroin, and melodrama comes her third album, |
| 1:00.9 | Solar Power. |
| 1:02.0 | It's currently available wherever you buy or stream your music. |
| 1:06.0 | This is a snippet from a song titled Fallen Fruit off the new record. From the Nissan to the Phantom to the plane |
| 1:27.0 | will disappear in the cover of the rain. |
| 1:38.0 | Took the great lines and the baby. |
| 1:41.0 | So we're in the pocket for. Spent |
| 1:43.0 | the baby, and the pocket for my seat. |
| 1:48.8 | It's time for us to be. |
| 1:49.8 | It's time for us to you. |
| 1:51.8 | And we will, we will all together. |
| 1:55.0 | We will all together. |
| 1:59.0 | Secodemic |
| 2:01.0 | our guidance in our head. |
| 2:07.0 | Solar power doesn't sound a whole lot like melodrama, but then again, melodrama didn't sound a whole lot like pure heroin. |
| 2:16.2 | In the eight years since Ella started releasing music, she's had this ability to pivot, to try something new. Many chart-topping musicians fear this |
| 2:26.0 | change of direction while she seems to embrace it. Solar power, as you'll hear |
| 2:31.5 | during this episode, is inspired by everyone from George Harrison |
| 2:36.0 | and the Eagles to M.F. Doom and All Saints. Beyond the music, we get into her childhood in New Zealand, |
| 2:44.0 | her early literary influences, why she got off social media, |
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