Gross has returned to being a Brat Girl

There is a passage, in the text of “What was that“, In which Lorde sings:”Since I was Seventenen, the Gaves You Everything / Now We Wake from A Dream, Well, Baby, What was that?“,” Since I was seventeen I have given you everything / Now we wake up from a dream, well, treasure, what was that? “. Talk about the end of a story? Or in the verses of the individual who marks the return to the scenes of the New Zealand singer -songwriter four years after the last album “Solar Power” is there A subtext to be deciphered on what was the career of Ella Yelich-O’Cannor to date? Between the two options, the second looks like the most interesting, as well as likely.

The voice of “Royals” was only 17 years old when the hit, contained in the debut album “Pure Heroine”, catapults it to the top of the world rankings: By mixing electronics, pop, hip hop and dance, in songs such as “Tennis Court”, “Ribs”, “Buzzcut Season”, “Team” and “White Teeth Teens” the singer -songwriter Prodigy of Auckland put in music the worldliness of adolescents, between disco party and materialism as ways to exorcise the fears and anxiety of the future of the future. Enjoy the moment and dance as if there was no tomorrow: to think about it today, it was A sort of forecarer of the “Brat Girlz” party. Because of the naive spirit and the attitude do-it-yourself that characterized his music found himself invested with the role of Alternative to the plastic and bogus pop that populated the rankings at that time. Legend has it that at an exclusive event David Bowie took his hand and even said to her: “You are the future of music”. In recent years, Lorde has always tried to feed and nourish the relationship with fans, but without easy moves, without paraculates: with records like “Melodrama” and “Solar Power” told him authentically and genuinely his growth and maturity. Nevertheless The audience’s response has not always been constant: “Solar Power”, to say, in addition to dividing the criticism, did not leave a deep mark in the rankings, with that mix between indie folk, Psychdelic pop, Māori language and fricchettone atmospheres that was interpreted by the same fans as an attempt to cut any bond with the beginning a little too early.

Now, at 28, Gross returns to recover the spirit of the beginning. And with “What was that” he tries to measure whether – and how much – his fanbase is still on his side. It is no coincidence that in launching the single that inaugurates his new record era – but the title and release date of the album have not yet been disclosed – she has chosen to recover a direct and not filtered relationship with her supporters, to whom she made an appointment at the Washington Square Park for a surprise performance at the beginning of this week, as well as returning to use the social networks by telling the genesis and behind the scenes of the song. Year ago he said he chose to live off-line because “social media killed my creativity, the part of my brain that works more”.

In the text, among other things, gross sings: «MDMA in the back Garden, Blow Our Pupils Up“,” Mdma in the garden on the back, makes us explode the pupils “, explicitly citing the drug par excellence for parties and raves, the chemical stimulating with psychedelic properties that induces the dilation of the pupils. To the party of “Brat Girls“Lorde had already enrolled last year, when he had engraved with Charli XCX a remix of” Girl, So Confusing “for” Brat and It’s Completely different but Also Still Brat “, the revisited version of the Best-Seller album of his colleague. It is no coincidence that” What Was That “worked, as well as with Dan Nigro (already a right arm of Olivia. Rodrigo), with the same manufacturer of the duet with Charli XCX, Jim-e stack. The two had also produced the cover (of the cover of Al Green) of “Take Me to the River” of the Talking Heads for the tribute album to the iconic band led by David Byrne “Everyone’s Getting Involved: A Tribute to Talking Heads’ Stop Making Sense”. «I really think this song is the music of my rebirth. It is one of the songs that I prefer most among all those I wrote and produced, “Lorde told fans in a shared vocal message on his channels, after the performance. Patience if with the electropop of “What was that” gross seems to take a step back, at the level of production and ideas, compared to “Solar Power”: this is what the public wants to listen to from her. And the fans have long waited for a return to the sounds that have characterized it since the beginning.