We’re finally just weeks away from Lorde’s long-awaited third album, Solar Power, and the musician is giving us more and more clues about what to expect.

In a video interview with The New York Times, as part of the publication’s Diary of a Song series, Lorde unpacks the making of the album’s title track. When asked whether the lyric, “Come on and let the bliss begin // Blink three times when you feel it kicking in”, is a reference to LSD, Lorde replied: “I thought I was going to make this big acid record, but I don’t think it was an acid album. I had one bad acid experience in this album, and I was like, ‘Meh, it’s a weed album’. It’s one of my great weed albums.”

This may not come as a surprise, given the second single Lorde dropped from the record is called “Stoned at the Nail Salon”. Both singles feature background vocals from Phoebe Bridgers and Clairo, who Lorde said “are masters of the kind of singing that I think of myself as a master of”.

Speaking about the evolution of “Solar Power” – the video of which has major Midsommar vibes – Lorde added: “The feeling of writing that… it’s like drugs to me. It’s the reason I make music; there’s no better feeling than pop alchemy building in real time.”

“I’ve grown a lot,” she continued, “I’ve done a lot. I’m happy. I work out a tonne, my body’s hot. I’m feeling good. Life is good, you know, and I’m bringing you in on where I’m at right now, and I hope people get that.”
The album track list:

1. The Path
2. Solar Power
3. California
4. Stoned in the Nail Salon
5. Fallen Fruit
6. Secrets From a Girl (Who’s Seen It All)
7. The Man with An Axe
8. Dominoes
9. Big Star
10. Leader of a New Regime
11. Mood Ring
12. Oceanic Feeling

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