Lorde Confirmed Her New Song’s About Her Ex
Lorde is back people and with her return she’s brought us a brand new breakup anthem — and now, we’re pretty sure we know which dude inspired it.
The 20-year-old singer opened up to Zane Lowe in a Beats 1 interview about her new single, “Green Light,” where she took inspiration from her breakup with longtime boyfriend James Lowe — yes, the guy from those viral beach pics.
“The song is actually about a heartbreak,” Lorde said in the interview. “And it’s not something that I really am used to writing about. It took me a while to be able to figure out how to write about that. It was my first major heartbreak.”
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Reports claim Lorde and James split at the end of 2015 and while “Greenlight” is a dance-party ready tune, it channels the pain of adjusting to life post-breakup. Lorde says the reason the song is so upbeat is because it portrays “that drunk girl at the party dancing around crying about her ex-boyfriend who everyone thinks is a mess. That’s her tonight and tomorrow she starts to rebuild. And that’s the song for me.” Vibes.
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Earlier this week, Lorde took the “green light” them super seriously and promoted the single with things like a car flashing a green strobe light, a green-lit wall playing a clip of the song, and some lyrics displayed on a green sign as green drones hovered above. Her highly anticipated second album is also expected to drop sometime in the near future and is expected to capture “the last 2 wild florescent years of [her] life”. Peep the “Green light” video below.
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(H/T Billboard)
