Lorde has launched her new track, “What Was That,” the primary single from her upcoming fourth studio album.
The New Zealand singer-songwriter initially teased the monitor in her first publish on TikTok on April 9. There, she shared a video of herself strolling and operating round New York Metropolis because the lyrics performed within the background. “Since I used to be 17, I gave you all the pieces / Now we wake from a child, nicely child, what was that?” she sang within the publish. Shortly after, the two-time Grammy Award winner introduced the official identify of the track, “What Was That.”
Earlier this week, she debuted “What Was That” in entrance of a whole lot of followers in Washington Sq. Park, dancing on a wooden platform because the track performed on a speaker beside her. Lorde initially informed followers to go to the park at 7 p.m., although police shut down the impromptu occasion as she didn’t have a allow. Followers caught round, and he or she got here out later that night time to indicate off the track.
Lorde additionally ready her followers for her new period with a voice memo she despatched out. There, she thanked her supporters for his or her “persistence” and teased that “these are actually the final moments the place it’s simply us, which is loopy however so proper.”
“I’m so prepared. I didn’t know if I’d ever be capable of say that, however I’m,” Lorde wrote. “I’m so grateful in your persistence. I’ve felt your love, I’ve felt you proper there. That is gonna be loopy, you don’t have any thought.”
The information comes after a roughly 4 12 months lengthy dry spell for Lorde. Her final album, Photo voltaic Energy, debuted in August 2021.
Regardless of not releasing her personal music within the years since, Lorde notably collaborated with Charli xcx on their “Lady, so complicated” remix. The monitor swiftly went viral, and prompted Charli to faucet Lorde throughout her 2025 Coachella set and her September 23 N.Y.C. cease of the Sweat tour.
