At this level Lorde followers are in search of any crumb of a clue that the singer is gearing as much as launch a brand new album. And so they seem to have gotten that sliver of daylight over the weekend when Lorde wiped her social media accounts clear.
That’s proper, should you one of many almost 11 million individuals who comply with Lorde and also you dipped into her Instagram over the weekend you’d have seen a “no posts but” message rather than the collection of teasers the “Inexperienced Gentle” vocalist had amassed over the previous 12 months. Of their place was simply the phrase that seems to be the immediate for the New Zealand star’s upcoming period: “THE THEMES ARE ALWAYS THE SAME— A RETURN TO INNOCENCE— THE MYSTERIES OF THE BLOOD— AN ITCH FOR THE TRANSCENDENTAL.”
One fan wrote, “Lorde deleting all her insta… oh LORDETEMBER is coming,” whereas one other responded to the wipe with a tinge of pissed off anticipation: “Lorde I really like you however how lengthy are you gonna TEASE this undertaking.”
Lorde, 27, has been slow-rolling the main points on her follow-up to 2021’s Photo voltaic Energy for nearly a 12 months now, and lately she posted precisely a couple of seconds of what gave the impression of new music. The 2-second clip got here together with a pic of Lorde within the studio, smiling as she rocked her head side-to-side because the instrumental beat with a techno-like vibe rocking within the background. The caption to the submit learn, “can be again in contact.”
In June, Lorde posted quite a lot of cryptic footage, writing “use the present instruments wherever attainable” alongside a wide range of photos together with a copyright image, three variations of the letter L, the quantity 4 in parentheses and a recycling emblem. “If the instruments don’t exist you might be spiritually obligated to create them,” she added alongside a one other string of unexplained photos, with extra Ls, one other 4, a run of stars, the quantity 27, what appeared like a Tarot card, the infinity image, a shark, a rabbit and an Egyptian determine.
That submit, together with a video by which she spit off a balcony and held a tablet in her hand that learn “spit” had been among the many Instagram posts that went lacking when the feeds bought wiped. Thus far Lorde has not offered any extra particulars on when her fourth album can be launched.
She has popped up in a couple of different musician’s feeds currently although. Together with in pics over the weekend with Marina (or Marina and the Diamonds) by which the friends are taking part in pool, in addition to at Charli XCX’s thirty second party in Los Angeles on August 3, the place the pair danced on couches and sang alongside to their remix of Charli’s Brat single “Lady, so complicated.”
