Show Notes
"I wanted to [give the feeling of] just like the big sun-soaked dumbness of falling in love and it's like your whole head is like glue, it's amazing. It is like drugs. It's like 'I just want to be by you all the time, I just want to listen to you talk and look at your face do all those dumb things that it does when you talk.' It's just like this big dumb joy and it's intense – and I feel like the instrumentation in that song kind of helped it get there." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
More from Lorde: Behind the Melodrama
"Hating the headlines and the weather and feeling like... Bowie's gone, and Prince is gone, and George Michael's gone, and what's left? I don't want to be alone in my house with Twitter and it's all so fucked. Let's just try and convince ourselves there's a perfect place we can go to, even just for an evening" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
"I went into this record thinking I knew what I was doing and thinking I knew exactly who I was at that moment and what I was going to do and the process as been very confronting and intense and awesome and emotional and it turned out that I wasn't who I thought I was after all." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
"I felt the way I used to feel when I made music as a kid and it felt like I could cry because it's such a relief to get out how you're feeling for the first time. I remember being like 'oh my god'. It was such gratitude for the process. I was like, 'my outlet!'" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
"It's not a historical document. It's not a police record. It's not journalism. I didn't go to journalism school, I'm a writer. It's about what I felt and sometimes you can feel an element of guilt or 'oh god, I shouldn't have immortalised that person', but the song is my way of saying 'it's what I've always been. It's what I was when you met me. It's what I will continue to be after you leave. That's exactly what was going to happen when you kissed a writer in the dark.'" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
"I felt more aware of my age than I ever have making a record. I was in these moments of just being gripped by an emotion and I was like 'I'm feeling this because I'm 20 and everything's fucked-up inside my brain. I'm actually like rewiring to become an adult. All this is insane!'" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices