Lorde Archives - Vanyaland https://vanyaland.com/tag/lorde/ The proven voice in music since 2013 Wed, 03 Dec 2025 20:06:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://redefined.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/31135224/cropped-V-SOCIAL-2023-32x32.png Lorde Archives - Vanyaland https://vanyaland.com/tag/lorde/ 32 32 Chainlacing’s cover of ‘Girl, so confusing’ just makes sense https://vanyaland.com/2025/12/03/chainlacings-cover-of-girl-so-confusing-just-makes-sense/ Wed, 03 Dec 2025 18:08:00 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10042729 Well, honestly, we were speechless when we woke up to Chainlacing’s rendition of “Girl, so confusing” last week (November 28). Pop’s hatchet burial of the decade — orchestrated by Charli XCX and Lorde — was a whip-smart document of mixed signals and mended relationships when it debuted last year as part of Charli’s BRAT rollout, and the song sounds just as fresh when filtered through Chainlacing’s dreamy “gloomgaze” this winter. The cover from the New Hampshire band appears on a […]

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]]> V3 Weekend: Lorde, Gabriel Iglesias, Day drinking around Boston https://vanyaland.com/2025/09/26/v3-weekend-lorde-gabriel-iglesias-day-drinking-around-boston/ Fri, 26 Sep 2025 08:50:35 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10042399 Editor’s Note: Welcome to V3 Weekend, Vanyaland‘s guide to help you sort out your weekend entertainment with curated selections and recommendations across our three pillars of Music, Comedy, and Film/TV. It’s what you should know about, where you need to be, and where you’ll be going, with us riding shotgun along the way. Music: Lorde at TD Garden What we hoped to be the Summer of Lorde unfortunately did not materialize, probably because this was truly the summer of nothing. But Autumn of Lorde is […]

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]]> The V List: Five of our favorite national tracks from April 2025 https://vanyaland.com/2025/04/30/the-v-list-five-of-our-favorite-national-tracks-from-april-2025/ Wed, 30 Apr 2025 08:52:24 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10041284 Editor’s Note: Anyone who says there isn’t good music coming out these days — and quite literally, every day — simply isn’t paying attention. Vanyaland’s compilation feature The V List highlights the best in new music, both homegrown and national, over the past month, pulling together the sounds that have soundtracked the website in recent weeks. It’s all the stuff we’re bumping here at Vanyaland HQ, one new bop at a time. Wet Leg, ‘catch these fists’ Wet Leg doesn’t want your love — they just wanna fight. The whipsmart […]

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]]> The summer of our Lorde begins with ‘What Was That’ https://vanyaland.com/2025/04/24/the-summer-of-our-lorde-begins-with-what-was-that/ Thu, 24 Apr 2025 09:05:10 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10041247 It appears that Lorde summer is upon us, just when we need it most. Fresh off a pop-up performance at Washington Square Park in New York City and a surprise appearance with Charli XCX at Coachella in California, our alt-pop queen Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O’Connor has returned with a striking new song called “What Was That” — and it has us skipping over to Genius to tattoo the lyrics on our bruised and broken brains. “MDMA in the back garden, […]

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]]> Indy takes a cue from sister Lorde to unravel her own alt-pop ‘Threads’ https://vanyaland.com/2022/09/15/indy-takes-a-cue-from-sister-lorde-to-unravel-her-own-alt-pop-threads/ Thu, 15 Sep 2022 14:58:57 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10031923 So hey, it turns out Lorde has a younger sister (not terribly shocking) and she’s a published poet (also not too shocking), and today she’s released her debut song and it’s pretty great (not shocking at all). She goes here by Indy, and the artist born Indy Yelich O’Connor is making a lovely intro into our hearts n’ playlists with “Threads,” a casual alt-pop romp that has echoes of her famous sibling and some Bleachers vibes mixed in. The track […]

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]]> All Things Go 2022: Lorde, Mitski, Bleachers to headline https://vanyaland.com/2022/04/12/all-things-go-2022-lorde-mitski-bleachers-to-headline/ Tue, 12 Apr 2022 11:28:01 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10029975 We’re always eager to witness the lineup for All Things Go, the annual Mid-Atlantic music festival that puts a dedicated focus on gender diversity from its headliners to undercard. This year’s fest is no different; it goes down October 1 across three stages at Maryland’s Merriweather Post Pavilion, and features a fantastic bill headlined by Lorde, Mitski, and Bleachers. Elsewhere, the lineup includes King Princess (our favorite judge ever on Is It Cake?, by the way), Lucy Dacus, Bartees Strange, […]

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]]> In ‘Solar Power’, Lorde releases an album’s album in the age of singles https://vanyaland.com/2021/08/20/in-solar-power-lorde-releases-an-albums-album-in-the-age-of-singles/ Fri, 20 Aug 2021 19:38:40 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10027420 There’s going to be a healthy — unhealthy? — amount of words spilled across digital pages dissecting Solar Power, the new album from Lorde that arrives today (August 20) after more than four years of impatience, the equivalence of a damn near eternity in the pop world. Three singles have teased the album, including this week’s LP appetizer “Mood Ring,” and there’s been plenty of debate over how those singles stand up to the New Zealand alt-pop dynamo’s gripping early […]

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]]> Lorde is ‘Stoned at the Nail Salon’ just like the damn rest of us https://vanyaland.com/2021/07/21/lorde-is-stoned-at-the-nail-salon-just-like-the-damn-rest-of-us/ Wed, 21 Jul 2021 16:58:42 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10027101 Alt-pop singers, they’re just like us. And those who just happened to be zooted while gettin’ nails done up this morning have some new energy to embrace: Lorde has released a second single from her forthcoming third album, the Jack Antonoff-produced Solar Power, and it finds the multiplatinum artist, well, “Stoned at the Nail Salon.” Much like her previous single, the LP’s title track, it’s another tender ballad that hides its allure just under the surface. “This song is sort […]

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]]> Lorde delivers a heavy dose of alt-pop ‘Melodrama’ to TD Garden https://vanyaland.com/2018/04/05/lorde-delivers-a-heavy-dose-of-alt-pop-melodrama-to-td-garden/ Thu, 05 Apr 2018 15:51:19 +0000 http://vanya.wpengine.com/?p=176295 Editor’s Note: Featured Lorde image by Emily Gardner for Vanyaland; click here for her full gallery. Lorde did not need to play “Royals” at TD Garden Tuesday night (April 3). She did, of course. But despite the metrics indicating the 2013 single remains the New Zealander’s most successful track, five years after it transformed Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O’Connor into a global celebrity, an educated guess says it’s not anybody’s ​favorite Lorde song. Not anybody’s who’d pay $40 to watch Lorde […]

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]]> Lorde live at TD Garden in Boston https://vanyaland.com/2018/04/05/lorde-live-td-garden-in-boston/ Thu, 05 Apr 2018 15:46:25 +0000 http://vanya.wpengine.com/?p=176294 The post Lorde live at TD Garden in Boston appeared first on Vanyaland.

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