After Lorde blew back onto the scene with her choppy, dancy lead single Green Light, she’s given us another taste of her new album Melodrama in the form of a far subtler tune: the ballad Liability.
It doesn’t take a genius to interpret the lyrics in this one – its Lorde grappling with the slings and arrows of success and the fact she’s literally 20 years old. She’s 20! I mean cmon:
The truth is I am a toy that people enjoyUnit all of the tricks don’t work anymore and then they’re bored of me.
What could she be talking about here, team?
She told Zane Lowe – who premiered it – that she was inspired to write this tune after “a moment of sadness in a cab listening to ‘Higher’ by Rihanna and I had a little cry.”
It’s a good one. Listen here:
Melodrama lands on June 16, but at this rate we’ll be hearing much more of it before then.
Source: VEVO.
Photo: Getty Images.
