NEW YORK, Nov. 8 (UPI) — “Royals” singer Lorde posted a lengthy note to Facebook on Sunday night to tease her upcoming, untitled second album and provide a glimpse at the things that inspired it.
“It was a colossal year! One for the ages,” the 20-year-old singer wrote. “I maxed out every single emotion I have in the best possible way, the colours still aching behind my eyes like this weird blissful hangover. My heart broke. I moved out of home and into the city and I made new friends and started to realize that no-one is just good or bad, that everyone is both.”
Lorde revealed this past year has also been about self-discovery, which she said impacted the new album as well.
“I started to discover in a profound, scary, blood-aching way who I was when I was alone, what I did when I did things only for myself,” she said. “I was reckless and graceless and terrifying and tender. I threw sprawling parties and sat in restaurants until the early hours, learning what it’s like to be an adult, even talking like one sometimes, until I caught myself. And then I wrote a record about it, all of it, so much more than what I’ve written down here, and I’m in New York getting it done.”
Lorde’s sophomore album, a follow-up to 2013’s “Pure Heroine,” is still untitled and release date hasn’t been set, but that isn’t stopping her from wanting to share details.
“I want nothing more than to spill my guts RIGHT NOW about the whole thing,” she wrote. “I want you to see the album cover, pore over the lyrics (the best I’ve written in my life), touch the merch, experience the live show. I can hardly stop myself from typing out the name. I just need to keep working a while longer to make it as good as it can be. You’ll have to hold on. The big day is not tomorrow, or even next month realistically, but soon. I know you understand.”
“The party is about to start,” she added. “I am about ton show you the new world.”
