{"id":24095,"date":"2021-06-11T09:10:39","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T09:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/?p=24095"},"modified":"2021-07-22T08:39:10","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T08:39:10","slug":"lordes-solar-power-video-is-a-sun-drenched-blast-of-summer-bliss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/?p=24095","title":{"rendered":"Lorde\u2019s \u201cSolar Power\u201d Video Is a Sun-Drenched Blast of Summer Bliss"},"content":{"rendered":"
If there\u2019s one thing Lorde knows, it\u2019s how to keep her fans on their toes. First teasing her third album in 2019, she’s kept her online presence to sporadic newsletters and an anonymous account reviewing onion rings in recent years. (@onionringsworldwide, for anyone who\u2019s curious.) An appearance on cult style newsletter Blackbird Spyplane in December, in which Lorde shared details of her trip to Antarctica, also drew its fair share of attention\u2014even if her journey there was possibly due to it being the one place on the planet she wouldn\u2019t get bugged with questions about her upcoming album\u2019s release.<\/p>\n

Yet despite Lorde\u2019s cautious approach to self-promotion, on Monday, the artwork for the album\u2019s lead single, \u201cSolar Power,\u201d dropped to global fanfare. Appearing to show the musician long-jumping across a sandy New Zealand beach, it led to widespread anticipation about her new track. And also, of course, many a meme and conspiracy theory around the true length and agility of Lorde\u2019s lower limbs. (Ten Lordes a-leaping? I\u2019ll show myself out.)<\/p>\n

Just when excitement was reaching fever pitch, Lorde decided to drop the video for \u201cSolar Power\u201d as a surprise earlier this evening. The Kiwi singer kicks things off by lounging on a beach in a sunflower yellow Collina Strada two-piece, before skipping across the sand and busting out some more serious dance moves as the song erupts into an upbeat groove that sits somewhere between Primal Scream\u2019s \u201cLoaded\u201d and George Michael\u2019s \u201cFreedom! \u201990.\u201d <\/p>\n

But as the video unfolds, it feels like there\u2019s something more ominous lurking beneath the blissful facade of Lorde\u2019s summer of love. That the visuals have a touch of Lord of the Flies about them is surely no accident; neither is Lorde\u2019s description of herself as a \u201cprettier Jesus.\u201d Sign me up to the cult of Lorde any day, even if she has a few more sinister tricks up her sleeve. In the meantime, find me hypnotized by the sun-soaked, summery bliss of \u201cSolar Power.\u201d\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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