Lorde Gives Fans A 'Delicious' Update On New Music: 'It's Got Its Own Colours Now'

Way back in April, comedian and writer Joel Kim Booster attempted to manifest something massive. "Lorde honey right now is the time," he tweeted, trying to summon the pop star from the unofficial break she's been taking since her Melodrama tour wrapped in late 2018. A month later, Booster's plea seems like it might've worked — at least it terms of giving a update.


On Tuesday night (May 19), Lorde reemerged to give a critical update to her fans by way of the email, one that spans her current musical state of mind and is very good news for Booster and other fans. "I can tell you, this new thing," she wrote, "it's got its own colours right now. In the event you know anything about my work, you'll know what that shows (Lorde's got synesthesia, a condition that, in effect, permits her to colleague certain colors with non-visual senses, including hearing music.)


This latest email is the initial such dispatch since one in November 2019, in which she shared that lose spent a portion of that year "working away on the new songs" and that she was dealing with the death of her dog, Pearl. Pearl comes up in this latest note, also, as does her grief about losing him. Yet it's quite hopeful: Soon after she allowed herself some time, she got back in the studio in December and "happy, playful things" emerged.


"I felt my melodic muscles flexing and strengthening," she wrote, also mentioning Jack Antonoff — who helmed Melodrama with her — traveling to New Zealand to work with her, and also because the two of these working with each other in Los Angeles. They're still working on it with each other through the FaceTime while in self-isolation.


Oh, and that music? "The work is so fucking good, my friend," Lorde wrote. "I am truly jazzed for you to hear it."


Elsewhere, the 23-year-old describes how she had to take some time to re-center immediately after her last tour group in attempt to create some food, grow some stuff, go to the beach a bunch, finally acknowledge (and kick) my social media addiction." She's also grown her hair quite long once again, perhaps even like it was in the Pure Heroine days.


"You'll probably be pleased to know my hair is big and long again. I think soon after Melodrama came out I mentioned I wouldn't put out another record up until my hair was long — both because hair takes time to grow, and knew I required time, and because I knew the next record would require the longest and wildest hair yet."


Lorde has also seen your pleas, and she gets it. Yet she's asking you (and Joel Kim Booster) to be patient.


"I've been looking at some of your notes online, and I can feel the exceptionally sweet, Exceedingly flattering) desperation creeping back inside your voices," she wrote. Nevertheless as I get older I realise there's something to be mentioned for the pleasant feeling of waiting for something of excellent to be accessible to you." She likens it to baking bread or waiting for a package to arrive, celebrating the anticipation as a delectable activity."


Read Lorde's note in full, as captured by a fan account, above. Then, visualize some of the fan reactions to her hopeful message below.