Lorde’s ‘Man of the Year’ Is All the Best Parts of Her

Depending on the circles you run or tweets you read or Tiktoks you see, you may have heard whispers at the release of the first Lorde song Virgin Which – which “what was that” It was, because there is no better phrase, re -heating melodramaNachos. “What was that?” The songs came on melodrama Referring to parties and night, it went very long so that it is still good. Despite all the excitement of the appearance of Lorde popping in Washington Square Park and Di Music Video, the song works mostly as a reminder of everything we liked in Lorde so far. This did not stop “What was” The drawing or Record Nicole KidmanBut she left a big question mark about what the rest of the album might seem.

What a relief – and excitement – that her second individual song, “Man of the Year”, is only an artistic return. Or rather, what makes “Man of the Year” very exciting is that it requires everything that made the last three albums great and shed them in one full song. The new track has the economic production of Pure championSensory hair for melodramaAnd street self -awareness Solar energy. “I cannot believe that I became another person / someone like me,” sings in a song dedicated to it “Expand sex”. In an interview on May 29 with an Australian radio programTriple J.“The Lord explains that the song was born from the presence Gq Man of the Year gives a feeling unlike herself in a sexy dress. And here, I documented such a thing two years ago InstagramWriting, “On some days I am a woman, some days I am a man.”

In the video, Lorde moves from sitting in an empty room, wearing clothes completely in a shirt and jeans, to stripping of a shirt, and tie her chest with a sticky tape before roaming in dirt. The preparation is mentioned The Earth Room in New YorkPermanent installation in Soho, which is a suitable room, well, soil. There is dirt and natural quality for the video that shows Lord in the most vulnerable and more confident. She does not fight who she is but embracing her – this acceptance is like anything she did so far. “Triple J” told that if she had any color connection with “Man of the Year”, it is a milky white or a fabric that does not sleep. “It is like a fabric, something very ordinary,” she made it clear, while adding how a small sun wanted to flow into the song. He reads video brightness like clear optimism instead of gold imagination Solar energy. In the last seconds, “Man of the Year” is wrestling with how Lorde hopes to remember: “A golden chain, my shoulder, my face in the light.” This is all good and good, but songs like this may just be her inheritance.