'Green Light': Lorde's Comeback Video & Single Are Here—Plus Her Album Art & Title
Our Lorde and savior Ella Yelich-O'Connor is back with "Green Light," in music video and single form. The first taste of Melodrama, the 20-year-old New Zealander's follow-up to 2013's Pure Heroine, is a super interesting turn, trafficking in familiar layered harmonies and sonic depth but quickly turning into a peppy piano anthem for the majority. The album is due sometime this summer.
The video, featuring Lorde cathartically singing and dancing to "Green Light" in a city, is directed by Grant Singer. The visionary has worked with Taylor Swift, Zayn Malik, Future, Ariana Grande and Skrillex, and has handled many striking visuals for The Weeknd, including "Starboy" and "Can't Feel My Face."
On Wednesday, Lorde wrote on Twitter of "Green Light":
"i am so proud of this song. 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."
Check out the Melodrama cover art:
22m
22m
10m
23m
44m
20m
44m
20m
13s
41m
8m
20m
2m
24m
21m
1h 30m
46s
23m
1h 42m
1m
2m
18m
2m
21m
21m
2m
1m
1m
46s
21m
5m
8m
16m
3m
1m
14m
1m
1m
3m
2m
1m
1m
1m
1m
1m
1m
8m
1m
24m
9m
2m
5m
1m
3m
3m
3m
4m
2m
21m
2m
2m
21m
2m
20m
20m
22m
22m
45m
43m
1m
9m
12m
21m
11m
21m
21m
24m
40m
21m
15m
59m
57m
44m
45m
9m
10m
22m
13m
1m
1h 35m
1h 25m
21m
20m
13m
9m
31s
22m
1m
16m