- Music
- 19 Aug 21
Lorde’s highly-anticipated new album 'Solar Power' drops tomorrow.
Lorde has said that she’s relaxed about her Solar Power music boxes not being eligible for Billboard chart consideration.
The New Zealand singer is releasing her new album tomorrow (August 20) as a music box with collectibles and digital download with two bonus tracks. The eco-friendly moves means Solar Power won’t be eligible for Billboard charts in the US.
The pop star told The Wall Street Journal</em> that she has “zero anxiety about it.” She added, “But I’m sure there is someone with a spreadsheet somewhere, who can point to the ways in which I’m making less money.”
“I have more money than I could ever spend in my life,” she pointed out. “I own a home. I own some lovely rugs and great furniture and can buy whatever I want at the grocery store. Like, we’re good on money.”
Solar Power will also be released on vinyl and will be available on streaming services. She shared her “extremely satirical” single ‘Mood Ring’ earlier in the week which is the third taster from Solar Power.
“This is a song I am very excited about, it’s so much fun to me. Obviously when making this album I did a deep-dive into ’60s, Flower Child culture. I wanted to understand the commune life, dropping out from society and trying to start again,” she said in a statement.
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“That really resonated to me when writing this album. One thing that occurred to me as a major parallel between that time and our time is our wellness culture and our culture of spirituality, pseudo-spirituality, wellness, pseudo-wellness.
“Things like eating a macro-biotic vegan diet or burning sage, keeping crystals, reading tarot cards or your horoscope,” she continued. “These were all things that they were dabbling in back then, and that me and my girlfriends are dabbling in today.”
The songwriter dropped two more singles from the album earlier this year. The title track arrived in June as ‘Stoned at the Nail Salon’ dropped in July. Lorde recently appeared as the Hot Press cover star for August.
Listen to ‘Mood Ring,' 'Stoned at the Nail Salon' and 'Solar Power' below.