MELODRAMA BY LORDE // 5 YEAR ANNIVERSARY ALBUM REVIEW
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Last month was the five year anniversary of Lorde 's sophomore release of Melodrama , which has since become one of the most influential albums in my life over that time. Although I have written about this album many times before, I never wrote a full review of it, so this felt like the perfect time to finally do so. After taking a four year hiatus following her massively successful debut album, Pure Heroine , Lorde came back and better than ever in 2017 with Melodrama . This is a release that since became one of the best albums of the 2010s and also truly solidified her as a once-in-a-generation type of artist - what she did with Melodrama is just so amazing and can never be replicated. In the album's acknowledgements , she wrote "It’s been two years of breathlessness and hunger – a new sound, a new scene; a drink, a drumbeat." In a 2017 interview with The New York Times, she spoke of how she took inspiration from a night at a house party, "With a party, the