Where Melodrama was Lorde’s quintessential young-romance breakup album, Solar Power is partly about breaking up with pop stardom. It begins with that camera-nightmare scene and ends in “Oceanic Feeling” by foreseeing the singer removing the lordly robe she once sang she wore “like no one could,” throwing it on a sacrificial “pyre,” and withdrawing into “the choir.”
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