Lorde is back. Aside from "Yellow Flicker Beat," a single on the third Hunger Games film soundtrack (which she also curated), and a track she co-wrote with fellow New Zealanders Broods, today's single, "Green Light," is the first new music Lorde's released since winning over legions of fans with her 2013 debut, Pure Heroine. The new track is a very polished piece of dance-pop.
Lorde began teasing the track late last month with a "sneak peek" video that showed the singer eating and drinking in the back of a car, while a muffled version of the song plays on the radio. Lorde also teased the track with a separate video clip posted to a site called imwaitingforit.com.
Along with the new song, Lorde announced the title of her upcoming record, Melodrama, on Instagram. "Welcome to the new world," indeed.
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