IMO, Melodrama will forever be the best album that accurately depicts the transition from teenagehood to adulthood. It is a breakup album but it shows the reality of leaving your childhood behind. It is just an album that is so liberating, freeing, messy, and taking accountability. It is the perfect playlist for your early 20s.
@@wildwattermelonny def more for late gen z I don't think there is one that represents the other part of it like after 2002/3 im thinking maybe happier than ever by billie eilish ?
@@Mtv20O1 yeah, I’m not sure I feel like in an album or two Olivia Rodrigo will have her messy quarter life crisis that will be for young gen z/ early gen alpha
@@wildwattermelonny I can see that happening. I think Guts could have been similar to Melodrama and be that album for younger gen z but I feel like it was def still in the teenager era of her life.
Part of me wishes the album could have been promoted and performed better but the fact that it has mustered a cult following over the years proves how great of an album it is. Even if "Solar Power" didn't do much for me, I'm still waiting for Lorde's fourth album tho!!
Honestly, when solar power was released, I didn't get it but then again, I was 19 and not at that stage of my life. As I've grown older, I have learned to appreciate it and understand more the reasoning behind the songs and lyrics. It is calmer than pure heroine and melodrama but it shows alot of versatility. I am ready for L4!!
@@naomi.cannibalsolar power was a slow grower for me. On the first listen it didn’t really click but as I get older I relate to it more and more. It feels very wistful and yet grounded, a sort of mellowing out after the emotional turmoil of melodrama
I love this era so much. I went through a friendship break up I call it and it hit HARD. Imo it still sounds fresh. I remember she came to Tulsa for the tour and I HAD to go. I waited outside the venue for her and she came out! Took a selfie with her and she signed my PH and Melodrama cds. It’s an amazing era for me
This album felt like the start of a crazy transitional period for pop music at the time. I just remember releases becoming a bit more personal, almost dark and melancholic, after Melodrama was released. This album was such so impactful in many ways. Homemade Dynamite is still one of my favorite songs ever! Personally, an album that has just as much of if not more of an impact on my life that I'd call my Melodrama would be Sueños de Dalí by Paloma Mami. The album has a similar vibe with it being about how turbulent love, in all aspects, can be. Definitely check it out, it's my favorite album of all time 🤩
Melodrama is such an iconic album and I still listen to it to this day. But I’d say How Big How Blue How Beautiful by Florence + the Machine is my Melodrama. It came at the right time when I was trying to figure out my 20s
@@summerchild_ Pure Heroine is a better album, Melodrama is a better Lorde album. This is a statement that makes absolutely no sense, yet it’s so true at the same time.
One of my favorite albums of all time, I can’t get over the emotional rollercoaster I had when first listening to the album despite not being in a relationship more so in relation to entering adulthood a year after graduating high school and not ready for it happen knowing you have no choice but got to. Top 5 favorite tracks: Green light Sober Liability Perfect places Writer in the dark
I've always seen this album as being structured as an ancient tragedy. Green Light and Perfect Places serve as the opening and closing "choruses" to the album. Sober, Homemade Dynamite, and The Louvre talk about the relationship, Liability is the breakup, and the other tracks are parts of grieving. Hard Feelings/Loveless shows denial and anger. Sober II shows anger. Writer In the Dark shows bargaining, depression, and the first steps of acceptance. Supercut shows a further push towards acceptance. Liability reprise is the final acceptance.
Thank you so much for analyzing Melodrama! It’s my favorite piece of art from Lorde and I wish more people talked about it sometimes. This album is my perfectly imperfect place, I was also 19 when I came out and i have the same sentiments of it coming out the right time and I too grew with it. I got back to it often and it feels new each time as I grow older/gain different experiences. 😌
Great video! Melodrama is one of my favorite albums of all time. Lorde and jack antonoff were in the studio cooking. Deserved its Grammys and performance
got back into my Melodrama phase this June after 7 years, and it still hits the same way it did the first time I listened. That just shows how iconic this album is !! It was the first album I ever listened to all the way through, and I’ll cherish it forever. Love this album down 🩵 The louvre is ingrained in my brain and blood ong
I was in middle school when of Melodrama & struggled to understand the appeal. Part of me wishes I gave the album another chance back then but I also feel like it's one of those albums you understand better as you grow older. This is all to say that Perfect Places, Green Light, & Supercut stay on repeat in this household. Also I would love to see you cover Madonna's Confessions On A Dancefloor or Halsey's IICHLIWP for your next eras analyzied.
this album was my everything, i too was 19 when it released and I listened to this nonstop. still makes me tear up fav tracks: homemade dynamite, sober, the louvre, and hard feelings/loveless
I remember being there for when it dropped, pouring through each detail, coming out the other side a changed person 😂😂😂 I know that PP is unhinged, but so am I 🤪
@@naomi.cannibalI'm so glad you are💕💕if you need a recomendation or anything as a Kylie Stan her best album in my opinion is impossible princess it's really good Also she has an upcoming album tension 2 on October 18th 😍
@@naomi.cannibalgurlll AZELIA BANKS RESPONDED TO MY COMMENT about Kylie and she loves Kylie too😍😍😍😍my most viral comment with 81 thousand views in 1 hour 😍 Also I hope you make a video just talking about your thoughts about her in general thx queen 💕💕
@@naomi.cannibalazelia banks loving Kylie wasn't on my bingo card but I thank her for responding to me,💕💕I love that Kylie has so much versatility x😍😍 I hope you make a video with your opinions on her music in general 😍
i remember saving one of her “writer in the dark” performances on my youtube playlists in hs and always just listen to it on repeat. at the time, i didn’t know WHY i loved this album, but looking back on it, it’s obvious. i think melodrama is such a classic, it’s crazy. i recently played this album for my boyfriend and he loves it. also, for me, when i hear an album i can usually call it a season. like sour is a spring, traumazine is a fall, etc. melodrama is simultaneously summer and winter. 19:32 i think it’s the same relationship, at first she described it as “not the worst thing ever” in the louvre but now more time has passed, and tbh it’s a lil embarrassing, but everyone will know when it’s time for you to let go before you do. your parents, your friends, etc. so it’s just hard feelings going thru the longest days of the year that are supposed to be the brightest and happiest. personal story: “endless summer afternoon” will always remind me of summer before senior year, working at sonic, w the golden hour evening sun beaming thru the windows. i was going thru a breakup and had a lot of time to think and try to let go. unfortunately the dude came back and i didn’t officially let go till a couple years after that but what’re you gonna do ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
lorde managed to make an album perfect for me at 18 that is still one of the greatest i've ever heard at 25. timeless but perfect for its time, if that makes sense. this video was excellent and gave me a better understanding that i missed when i first heard it. 🙂↕️
Perfectly encapsulates the concept of "melodrama". Anthony Fantano's review is critical that her lyrics are too emotionally immature, teen-ish, especially when he talks about "perfect places", he seems to fundamentally misunderstand this album. The songs are all a satire of pop music to an extent. This is party music for the girl who doesn't ever really go. It's supposed to be super intense and obtuse in my opinion. This album reminds me of "Anti" in a lot of ways that it's pop, but it's also like anti-pop at the same time. Looking back after solar power, which I actually love for what it is, it's clear that this sort of party life aesthetic or lifestyle never really worked for her, and that makes this album feel like more of a statement of that time in her career. She really did the best she could (and more imo, she didn't have to experiment or try to push boundaries, she could've just rode the wave of that sound more until it died out like so many pop acts) with her position in pop music to fit in as much of herself in the music without compromise, before exiting to explore other sounds for a while. Now time to start watching the video! lol
ig if u think abt it, it makes sense bc Hard Feelings/Loveless seems to be the bridging song between both halves of the album and the loose narrative it was trying to tell so, when splitting it on vinyl she's just outright dividing the halves of the albums in a more obvious manner
If anyone is interested in exploring a more literary interpretation of the themes and concepts of this record, i HIGHLY suggest you watch the video "melodrama: lorde's ancient greek tragedy" by internet jules, it's truly one of my favorite videos ever
@@123theprodigy5 I think she said she’s made enough from Royals alone to just make music/ create for her fans at her own pace, which is honestly an artists dream I would think- not having to consistently be in the public eye bc you can’t afford to disappear
please make a video about how dry billie eilish’s music videos are when they’re directed by her. she doesn’t have to serve us face, body, or anything like that but they’re all BORINNNNGG. i need her to hire a director PLEASE
IKRRRR her songs are soooo amazing and have such sensory vividness, she could be so creative with her visuals and really make them match the vibe of the song, but she doesn't even try ??? It actually hurts because her songs could translate so well into visual media if she hired someone
tbh the stuff she's self directed were either COVID era (thus, the basicness bc not enough freedom) or it seems to be the intention (seeing how all 3 music videos in the HMHAS era are all very simple and low budget, but she isnt the director of the BOAF one and idk if she directed CHIHIRO, also seeing how shes gone on abt this era, i do think she is intentionally making them low budget and simple)
Im sorry but no no, don't defend her dancing lol. I honestly I've only heard Green Light fully cuz it was the single from the album. I couldn't get into it when I kinda when through it. Maybe I should listen to it fully and not "glance" through it.
Unpopular opinion: I was so disappointed in this album. Where are the minimalistic electronic hip-hop beats that she used from the like where where is Joel Little at. She defined that sound and then she just completely left it without ever touching base with it ever again. His presence is sorely missed from the album is 2 and 3. I'mma need for her to bring back that cool girl Hip Hop s*** she was on in that first era real quick
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IMO, Melodrama will forever be the best album that accurately depicts the transition from teenagehood to adulthood. It is a breakup album but it shows the reality of leaving your childhood behind. It is just an album that is so liberating, freeing, messy, and taking accountability. It is the perfect playlist for your early 20s.
@@Mtv20O1 exactly, you get it- I was like rn I really don’t need the pretending to have it together music bc things are a mess rn 😭
@@Mtv20O1 it’s like Red for gen z
@@wildwattermelonny def more for late gen z I don't think there is one that represents the other part of it like after 2002/3
im thinking maybe happier than ever by billie eilish ?
@@Mtv20O1 yeah, I’m not sure I feel like in an album or two Olivia Rodrigo will have her messy quarter life crisis that will be for young gen z/ early gen alpha
@@wildwattermelonny I can see that happening. I think Guts could have been similar to Melodrama and be that album for younger gen z but I feel like it was def still in the teenager era of her life.
A 45 minute video on melodrama actually makes me so happy, people don’t talk about this masterpiece enough
the cover is soooooo beautiful
@@chunli6197 I love looking at it
Best album of 2017. One of the best of the decade. Even all time.
Definitely up there
@@adamd6648 yuppp it’s one of my all times
@naomi.cannibal you should do a video on your favorite albums if you haven’t already!
The album is still on repeat TO THIS DAY
MY FAVORITE ALBUUUUMMM
mine too... lol
Part of me wishes the album could have been promoted and performed better but the fact that it has mustered a cult following over the years proves how great of an album it is. Even if "Solar Power" didn't do much for me, I'm still waiting for Lorde's fourth album tho!!
@@omarherasme6699 I keep saying I’ll do a genuine solar power revisit one day, bc that one just didn’t really hit for me outside of like Mood Ring
Honestly, when solar power was released, I didn't get it but then again, I was 19 and not at that stage of my life. As I've grown older, I have learned to appreciate it and understand more the reasoning behind the songs and lyrics. It is calmer than pure heroine and melodrama but it shows alot of versatility. I am ready for L4!!
@@naomi.cannibalsolar power was a slow grower for me. On the first listen it didn’t really click but as I get older I relate to it more and more. It feels very wistful and yet grounded, a sort of mellowing out after the emotional turmoil of melodrama
@@allisonv1521 okay this makes me hopeful bc I haven’t done a full relisten since 2021
@@naomi.cannibalyou should do a revisit. It has a slow burn feel once you listen to it after a few years off
Liability is my favorite song of all time
I love this era so much. I went through a friendship break up I call it and it hit HARD. Imo it still sounds fresh. I remember she came to Tulsa for the tour and I HAD to go. I waited outside the venue for her and she came out! Took a selfie with her and she signed my PH and Melodrama cds. It’s an amazing era for me
I remember I accidentally clicked on one of her performances from this album. The best accidental click I ever made! One of the best albums of 2017
I was late into the Melodrama party, but better late than never! Love all Lorde’s albums, but Melodrama is her best so far.
LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
ONE OF THE BEST ALBUMS OUT THERE
I CAN'T WAIT TO WATCH THIS ONE
2017 was a year that things made sense for the most part… idk
@@nicolesherman8974 I would go back to 2017 in an instant lmao
Thats funny cause i remember how many people wish they could go back to older times that year
This album felt like the start of a crazy transitional period for pop music at the time. I just remember releases becoming a bit more personal, almost dark and melancholic, after Melodrama was released. This album was such so impactful in many ways. Homemade Dynamite is still one of my favorite songs ever!
Personally, an album that has just as much of if not more of an impact on my life that I'd call my Melodrama would be Sueños de Dalí by Paloma Mami. The album has a similar vibe with it being about how turbulent love, in all aspects, can be. Definitely check it out, it's my favorite album of all time 🤩
Melodrama is such an iconic album and I still listen to it to this day. But I’d say How Big How Blue How Beautiful by Florence + the Machine is my Melodrama. It came at the right time when I was trying to figure out my 20s
Her magnum opus
Melodrama is one of my favorite albums ever BUT Pure Heroine is her best work no doubt
@@summerchild_ Pure Heroine is a better album, Melodrama is a better Lorde album. This is a statement that makes absolutely no sense, yet it’s so true at the same time.
One of my favorite albums of all time, I can’t get over the emotional rollercoaster I had when first listening to the album despite not being in a relationship more so in relation to entering adulthood a year after graduating high school and not ready for it happen knowing you have no choice but got to.
Top 5 favorite tracks:
Green light
Sober
Liability
Perfect places
Writer in the dark
I've always seen this album as being structured as an ancient tragedy. Green Light and Perfect Places serve as the opening and closing "choruses" to the album. Sober, Homemade Dynamite, and The Louvre talk about the relationship, Liability is the breakup, and the other tracks are parts of grieving.
Hard Feelings/Loveless shows denial and anger.
Sober II shows anger.
Writer In the Dark shows bargaining, depression, and the first steps of acceptance.
Supercut shows a further push towards acceptance.
Liability reprise is the final acceptance.
Omg thank you for reminding me how much I loved this album and for affirming just how good it is!!! Pure poetry!!!
Thank you so much for analyzing Melodrama! It’s my favorite piece of art from Lorde and I wish more people talked about it sometimes. This album is my perfectly imperfect place, I was also 19 when I came out and i have the same sentiments of it coming out the right time and I too grew with it. I got back to it often and it feels new each time as I grow older/gain different experiences. 😌
Great video! Melodrama is one of my favorite albums of all time. Lorde and jack antonoff were in the studio cooking. Deserved its Grammys and performance
got back into my Melodrama phase this June after 7 years, and it still hits the same way it did the first time I listened. That just shows how iconic this album is !! It was the first album I ever listened to all the way through, and I’ll cherish it forever. Love this album down 🩵 The louvre is ingrained in my brain and blood ong
POP PERFECTION indeed
I was in middle school when of Melodrama & struggled to understand the appeal. Part of me wishes I gave the album another chance back then but I also feel like it's one of those albums you understand better as you grow older. This is all to say that Perfect Places, Green Light, & Supercut stay on repeat in this household.
Also I would love to see you cover Madonna's Confessions On A Dancefloor or Halsey's IICHLIWP for your next eras analyzied.
this album kept me going after graduating hs.. u have no idea how much i used to listen to it lol
Such an incredible and timeless album. The Louvre and Hard Feelings especially are absolute masterpieces
I remember where I was when I first listened, I can remember feeling like “woah this is stunning”
this album was my everything, i too was 19 when it released and I listened to this nonstop. still makes me tear up
fav tracks: homemade dynamite, sober, the louvre, and hard feelings/loveless
I love hard feelings/loveless
I remember when green light came out
When someone asks my favorite album I always mention this one as being in my top 3. So happy to watch the video! ❤
One of the best albums of the 2010s
PRAISE THE LORDE
No references to the infamous PowerPoint? 👀
I remember being there for when it dropped, pouring through each detail, coming out the other side a changed person 😂😂😂 I know that PP is unhinged, but so am I 🤪
Yaaass! Love love love this album. 💯 And you’re so pretty. Like, omg. 👌
Can you please analyze the fever era by kylie Minogue 😍😍💕
@@Theicons687 I’m slowly but surely getting into Kylie! Lots of albums to get into but I’m having fun so far
@@naomi.cannibalI'm so glad you are💕💕if you need a recomendation or anything as a Kylie Stan her best album in my opinion is impossible princess it's really good
Also she has an upcoming album tension 2 on October 18th 😍
@@Theicons687 yesss I finally listened to Tension (ironically I also really love Green Light on that album lol). So I’ll be giving part 2 a listen!
@@naomi.cannibalgurlll AZELIA BANKS RESPONDED TO MY COMMENT about Kylie and she loves Kylie too😍😍😍😍my most viral comment with 81 thousand views in 1 hour 😍
Also I hope you make a video just talking about your thoughts about her in general thx queen 💕💕
@@naomi.cannibalazelia banks loving Kylie wasn't on my bingo card but I thank her for responding to me,💕💕I love that Kylie has so much versatility x😍😍
I hope you make a video with your opinions on her music in general 😍
Best album of 2017
What would you say about CTRL by SZA?
I see u in a lot of leftwing politics youtube. Funny to see you here
i remember saving one of her “writer in the dark” performances on my youtube playlists in hs and always just listen to it on repeat. at the time, i didn’t know WHY i loved this album, but looking back on it, it’s obvious. i think melodrama is such a classic, it’s crazy. i recently played this album for my boyfriend and he loves it. also, for me, when i hear an album i can usually call it a season. like sour is a spring, traumazine is a fall, etc. melodrama is simultaneously summer and winter.
19:32 i think it’s the same relationship, at first she described it as “not the worst thing ever” in the louvre but now more time has passed, and tbh it’s a lil embarrassing, but everyone will know when it’s time for you to let go before you do. your parents, your friends, etc. so it’s just hard feelings going thru the longest days of the year that are supposed to be the brightest and happiest.
personal story: “endless summer afternoon” will always remind me of summer before senior year, working at sonic, w the golden hour evening sun beaming thru the windows. i was going thru a breakup and had a lot of time to think and try to let go. unfortunately the dude came back and i didn’t officially let go till a couple years after that but what’re you gonna do ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Was so lucky to see her on tour in TO (it was my first concert) in 2018😫😫 this album is everythingggg🤌
lorde managed to make an album perfect for me at 18 that is still one of the greatest i've ever heard at 25. timeless but perfect for its time, if that makes sense.
this video was excellent and gave me a better understanding that i missed when i first heard it. 🙂↕️
this era’s analysed series makes my depression go away for like 5 mins ❤️
i hope you do a “ pure heroine “ one one day. 😕
I normally dont like jack amtomoff's production. But this album ate
Perfectly encapsulates the concept of "melodrama". Anthony Fantano's review is critical that her lyrics are too emotionally immature, teen-ish, especially when he talks about "perfect places", he seems to fundamentally misunderstand this album. The songs are all a satire of pop music to an extent. This is party music for the girl who doesn't ever really go. It's supposed to be super intense and obtuse in my opinion. This album reminds me of "Anti" in a lot of ways that it's pop, but it's also like anti-pop at the same time. Looking back after solar power, which I actually love for what it is, it's clear that this sort of party life aesthetic or lifestyle never really worked for her, and that makes this album feel like more of a statement of that time in her career. She really did the best she could (and more imo, she didn't have to experiment or try to push boundaries, she could've just rode the wave of that sound more until it died out like so many pop acts) with her position in pop music to fit in as much of herself in the music without compromise, before exiting to explore other sounds for a while. Now time to start watching the video! lol
Loveless is on the second side of the vinyl. It's a separate song technically in that medium. Just a weird detail.
ig if u think abt it, it makes sense bc Hard Feelings/Loveless seems to be the bridging song between both halves of the album and the loose narrative it was trying to tell so, when splitting it on vinyl she's just outright dividing the halves of the albums in a more obvious manner
i been waiting for this one 🤩
This album saved and shaped me in one of the lowest periods in my life, THANK YOU LORDE!
The dynamite remix is one of my favs that doesn’t get talked about enough!
I need an eras analyzed episode about Halsey 😭
I was also 19 and on FIRE when this album came out. What a fucking time
Magdalene by twigs is always going to be my melodrama
If anyone is interested in exploring a more literary interpretation of the themes and concepts of this record, i HIGHLY suggest you watch the video "melodrama: lorde's ancient greek tragedy" by internet jules, it's truly one of my favorite videos ever
i am seated for my favorite album's 45 minute breakdown
i love those videos. you look good
The reprise on this album is probably one of my favourite Lorde songs entirely
the first album I ever listened to in full
Thank you ❤ Thank you ❤ Thank you ❤
I would be cool to see eras analyzed with older albums like Madonna’s erotica era or Prince purple Rain etc…
Naomi PLZ do Twigs Magdalene
Yes!!!!
also we need a video of your list that you are talking about 45:47
Best album of all time
This album is kind of slept on, she waited too long to release it.
art takes time
@@cherrywineluxe yeah I know that, but in this music climate, you can’t do that. we now live in a non-attention span period of music.
@@123theprodigy5 unfortunately, but some recent albums sound rushed and like they were made last minute 😭
@@123theprodigy5 I think she said she’s made enough from Royals alone to just make music/ create for her fans at her own pace, which is honestly an artists dream I would think- not having to consistently be in the public eye bc you can’t afford to disappear
@@naomi.cannibal yep, that’s true
BEST CHOREOGRAPHED PERFORMANCE EVER is the “ homemade dynamite “ performance !!!!
deserved more mtv’s than lady gaga and beyoncé combined !
Lordes 2013 era was her peak era. I wonder what she has for the future
two words: melodrama ate.
❤lordeee
Mine is Reputation
I feel like if this album was released this year it would have had more success
please make a video about how dry billie eilish’s music videos are when they’re directed by her. she doesn’t have to serve us face, body, or anything like that but they’re all BORINNNNGG. i need her to hire a director PLEASE
IKRRRR her songs are soooo amazing and have such sensory vividness, she could be so creative with her visuals and really make them match the vibe of the song, but she doesn't even try ??? It actually hurts because her songs could translate so well into visual media if she hired someone
tbh the stuff she's self directed were either COVID era (thus, the basicness bc not enough freedom) or it seems to be the intention (seeing how all 3 music videos in the HMHAS era are all very simple and low budget, but she isnt the director of the BOAF one and idk if she directed CHIHIRO, also seeing how shes gone on abt this era, i do think she is intentionally making them low budget and simple)
snubbed AOTY
I wonder what her sound is giving in 2025
Im sorry but no no, don't defend her dancing lol. I honestly I've only heard Green Light fully cuz it was the single from the album. I couldn't get into it when I kinda when through it. Maybe I should listen to it fully and not "glance" through it.
It definitely grew on me and imo its easier to appreciate it in the context of the album. Very much a conceptual album
I'm still mad at the Grammy's in 2018 they choose bruno album over lorde
I loved pure heroine but I hated this album idk why maybe all the hype and mystique around it let me down but I will give it a re listen
lmao i thought the pic of the album cover artist was tom holland
Unpopular opinion: I was so disappointed in this album. Where are the minimalistic electronic hip-hop beats that she used from the like where where is Joel Little at. She defined that sound and then she just completely left it without ever touching base with it ever again. His presence is sorely missed from the album is 2 and 3. I'mma need for her to bring back that cool girl Hip Hop s*** she was on in that first era real quick
omg. this is an unpopular opinion, for sure. this is lorde's best album. it is almost overwhelming in its perfection.
You should do an eras analyzed for ‘Solar Power’
She peaked with this album and has been flopping since.
she’s only had one album since though lol. this year alone the girl so confusing remix completely took over the internet & everyone is tuned in for L4