Lorde Melodrama 11/15/2022 with every song -- from

with every song -- from the kaleidoscopic title track to the delicate folk of "Hosanna" and the pounding

yearning feeling but never boils over

and it's fantastic material

a few full-lengths and EPs on both indie and major labels)

Lorde Melodrama 11/15/2022 with every song -- fromGrowing up in public has been a rite of passage for pop stars since at least Frank Sinatra but, as with any classic storyline, what matters is the execution. Lorde, the preternaturally talented New Zealand singer songwriter who became an international sensation at the age of 17, knows how to execute not only songwriting and public narrative but also a melding of the two. Melodrama, arriving nearly four long years after her 2013 debut, picks up the