• Lorde hinted at a new album when she cleared her Instagram page
  • The singer is bringing out a new song on Friday
  • She has already released Pure Heroine, Melodrama and Solar Power
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Lorde is a beloved pop singer Credit: IMAGO

A new Lorde era is on the way, and the internet is fizzing with excitement.

The Green Light hitmaker teased a 15 second clip of her new song

She mouthed along on TikTok while walking about Washington Square Park in New York City, “Since I was 17/I gave you everything/Now we wake from a dream/Well baby, what was that.”

The singer – whose real name is Ella Yelich O’Connor and hails from New Zealand – made her stellar debut in 2013 at the tender age of 16. Notable fans included the legendary David Bowie, who never got to hear her follow-up, the 2017 beloved pop concept album Melodrama, due to his untimely death the year before.

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Her 2021 offering, Solar Power, saw her go in a much more beachy direction despite reuniting with superstar producer Jack Antanoff, Taylor Swift’s good friend and one of her go-to collaborators.

In 2024, Lorde broke the internet again when she teamed up with Charli xcx on the remix of the Brat track, Girl So Confusing.

Anyway, the news of her fourth LP got everyone on social media going again. Here are the best reactions to the Lorde news.

How did the internet react to the news of Lorde dropping a new album?

Many joked about Lorde’s obsession with writing about stuff that happened to her when she was a teenager, namely the milestone age of 17.

“New lorde and it’s talking about being 17,” wrote one person on X.

“Lorde makes music for people who’ve never gotten over anything in their lives and I’m grateful for that,” another person quipped.

Others remarked the comfort in their lives being measured in Lorde’s album cycles.

Someone mused that they liked how “lorde being a couple years older means I get to hear what it’ll sound like to live a certain era of my life before it happens like melodrama came out when I was 15 and it prepared me for the trials and tribulations of being 19 and then I was 19 when solar power came out etc etc.”

Another posted, “The tummyache is leaving my body after seeing a 14-second video of Lorde walking through Washington Square Park. “

“Lorde reactivating her twitter account, changing her instagram profile pic, posting a snippet of new music on tiktok, plus her website is down right now… we made it ellaphants, new music is on the way!!!,” one other person celebrated.

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