With her sophomore album Melodrama out in two weeks, Lorde shares the fourth single, “Sober.”
Just as the last single, “Perfect Places,” did, “Sober” finds a happy medium between the pace of first two, “Green Light” and “Liability.”
Lorde said the album takes a look at a singular night of going out and all the range of emotions a young adult can feel during a night of drinking and getting fucked up post-relationship. “Sober” falls right after the I-don’t-give-a-fuck-anymore energy of the intro, “Green Light,” so she’s still riding a high of not caring about consequences.
Listen to “Sober” below, and pre-order Melodrama on iTunes.
Lorde detailed the making of the song with Jack Antonoff on Twitter.
so the first inklings of sober came to me in the back of an uber, and then properly at jack and lena’s kitchen table. i BOLTED to the studio
— Lorde (@lorde) June 9, 2017
i’ll never forget writing the first demo it was like a trance i guided jack to the chords almost wordlessly with my hands on his shoulders
— Lorde (@lorde) June 9, 2017
it was this really intense booming slow synth thing with a drum outro for ages then malay came thru on my birthday & cracked the code on it
— Lorde (@lorde) June 9, 2017
came up with the “midnight, lose my mind” pitched sample on a sinfully hot day in palm springs and also started sober II that day as well
— Lorde (@lorde) June 9, 2017
but this song was so important to me because it felt like pop music i hadn’t heard before, this sprawling brass & strange vocal syncopation
— Lorde (@lorde) June 9, 2017
& i think we expressed the emotions so purely- it’s leaning & drawling, juvenile & triumphant – impressing someone then embarrassing urself
— Lorde (@lorde) June 9, 2017
& that late-saturday-night declaration “WE PRETEND THAT WE JUST DON’T CARE / BUT WE CARE” tasted as fresh & new in my mouth as ice water
— Lorde (@lorde) June 9, 2017
