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Lorde has made significant waves in recent days with major announcements about her career trajectory and ongoing tour activities. In a candid interview on the Therapuss podcast, the New Zealand artist opened up about her complex relationship with her 2021 album Solar Power, revealing that while she initially felt overwhelmed by the massive success of Melodrama and the grueling arena tour that followed, she has since made peace with the project. She explained that Solar Power came from a place of wanting to retreat and be mysterious, but she ultimately realized that wasn't authentically her. She declared she's meant to make what she calls bangers that rip through festival grounds, not vibe-out beach music, noting that while living on an organic farm in New Zealand appeals to her core self, it's not the life path she's on right now.
This introspection directly connects to her newest album Virgin, which dropped in June and marks her return to the intense, experimental sound her fans craved. The accompanying Ultrasound Tour has been a theatrical powerhouse, with shows currently running across Europe and into North America. The tour creates deeply intimate moments despite playing massive arenas, featuring innovative surveillance-themed staging where multiple camera angles capture Lorde from every perspective. During performances of tracks like GRWM and David, she strips away typical arena distance, even walking through crowds in a fluorescent jacket to connect directly with fans.
Her tour continues with momentum heading into North America, with performances confirmed at Stockholm's Annexet on December ninth, and Brooklyn's Barclays Center on December sixteenth. The Ultrasound Tour represents a full-circle moment for Lorde, bringing her latest material to global audiences while weaving in beloved tracks from Pure Heroine and Melodrama that have soundtracked many fans' lives since adolescence.
The tour's staging deliberately confronts themes central to Virgin, particularly body image and control, with Lorde visibly altering costumes mid-performance and using close-up camera work to reclaim her body as her own visual narrative rather than something observed from a distance. This represents not just a comeback but an artistic reckoning with fame, intimacy, and authenticity that fans have been waiting for since Solar Power.
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