Lorde talks ‘Green Light’ and new album ‘Melodrama’ in new interview

Earlier tonight, Lorde marked her return with new single ‘Green Light’. She appeared on both BBC Radio 1 and Zane Lowe’s show on Beats 1 to chat about the song and the new album.Speaking to Lowe, she said: “For me it’s been a couple years since I’ve put anything out and really at least a couple years that I just dropped off the radar. And for me it was kind of about processing what I want to say next and I knew it just couldn’t be any old thing. It had to be really special and really singular and it couldn’t sound the same as the old stuff and there was a lot of discovery that went on.“And then wrote the song and I was like “oh shit, this is it”. This was kinda the first thing that we really… all of a sudden everything else we’d written for the record started to make sense. What a feeling, what a bloody feeling. It was amazing.”Ella Yelich O’Connor also revealed the meaning of ‘Green Light’, a song about her first major heartbreak. “The song is actually about a heartbreak. And it’s not something that I really am used to writing about. It took me a while to be able to figure out how to write about that. It was my first major heartbreak. And the song is really about those moments kind of immediately after your life changes and about all the silly little things that you gravitate towards.“I say, “She thinks you love the beach, you’re such a liar”. What the fuck, she thinks you like the beach?! You don’t like the beach! It’s those little stupid things. It sounds so happy and then the lyrics are so intense obviously. And I realized I was like, “how come this thing is coming out so joyous sounding?” And I realized this is that drunk girl at the party dancing around crying about her ex boyfriend who everyone thinks is a mess. That’s her tonight and tomorrow she starts to rebuild. And that’s the song for me.”Lorde’s new album is called ‘Melodrama’, and comes out later this year. Listen to the full Zane Lowe chat and watch the video for ‘Green Light’ below.