r/lorde

just curious. i feel it would become a case study for her

I saw Lorde perform last month and couldn’t hear her say the names of her two dancers. Really liked their performance and was looking to follow their socials.

hii seen a few people adding the demos to their spotify and usually i know how to do that but i dont know how if the songs aren’t on soundcloud. could someone give me a tutorial on how to make the mp3 from the untitled app

It’s co-produced by Jim E Stack (Lorde’s bf and producer for Virgin) so it has a different vibe to the rest of the album and I love it soooo much and reminded me of Shapeshifter. Funny thing is, it is the worst performing song on the album!? Says a lot about what the masses like and don’t like. To me it’s easily top 3 on the album but many people have it last.

Hammer, broken glass, and iscsmn demos are so beautiful. Cried and dance. I feel like the sadder undertones and softer watery production fit the album a lot better in some places. Also fits the title and story.

I feel like the album leaned to heavily in the flattened techno sound, and that flushed away a lot of the grooviness and depth the album needed to be memorable.

I honestly didn’t love Virgin when it came out, but now I’m realizing it might just be the production choices I didn’t like.

Off topic (unrelated to the virgin demos) but has anyone else ever wondered if "Born in the year of Oxycontin" from The Path is perhaps a little nod to Infinite Jest? In I.J. the years are denoted in the same way, i.e. "Year of the Whopper" and "Year of Glad." Like Lorde, I was born in 1996, so I've thought about this too much. But I find it notable that Infinite Jest was published in 1996, so all 3 of us were born in the year of oxy.

Anyways I'm just curious if anyone else has thought about this or sees a subtle congruence b/w the two. Or am I being too conspiratorial here? Maybe just a synchronicity; if so, lovely to the core. Ella reads so much, it just strikes me as well within the realm of possibility that she might throw in a reference to the book, esp. given the 1996 connection.

Thoughts?

I’ve seen a lot of posts saying “I like the demos more than the album,” so I’m opening the floor: if you had to trade out the 11 songs of Virgin with an XRay, which versions would you pick?

Drop your alternate tracklist below!

Is it weird that I'm liking the virgin's demos more than the actual album? I mean, I love virgin, but listening to the demos makes me feel closer to the music

Hey guys!! I am in love with the demos; for me they are providing a lot of context and deeper meanings for the original albums. I want to know, after listening to the demos, what connections did you all make and did any of your interpretations change?

For me an example would be hearing in Holding a hammer the line "swimming in a sea of messages" connected in Hammer the joke in the line "anyone with a snake tongue/show them the chambers of my... heart" and changed that from a simple sex joke to sending nudes 💀 and i thought that was hilarious. LOL