How Lorde Ended Up Showing Most of Her Album, ‘Virgin,' to Jack Harlow
While they seem like an unexpected duo, the artists actually ran into each other at Electric Lady Studios in New York, where Lorde frequently works on music.
'Jack Harlow was working on Electric Lady when we were there towards the end of the record and somehow ended up getting most of the album played to him,' Lorde told Apple Music's Zane Lowe during an interview surrounding her follow-up to 2021's Solar Power.
She added, 'It was a very funny, cool link. He's such a sweetheart. But he was like, 'Your bars are...' He was like, 'These are bars.' I was like, 'Your words, not mine.''
'But it just is this sort of rolling cadence and physicality, and within that, I'm trying to make myself laugh. I'm trying to make my eyebrow raise. I'm trying to kind of... I don't know, just keep it feeling super alive,' she said of the project.
Elsewhere during the conversation, the 'Hammer' hitmaker opened up about how she navigates fame now versus when she was thrust into the spotlight at 16.
'When I'm in the studio or when I'm in America, I'm an artist. When I go home to New Zealand, I'm not an artist and I turn that part of myself off. It's impossible, obviously,' she shared.
She continued, 'I've realized now, and, again, this speaks to the trying to find this purest version of yourself, the purest version of me is famous out in the world. It's just that she's maybe in a garden experiencing ego death in the middle of the night on a heroic dose. I definitely had the sense with this, because an inextricable part of this album is that, yeah, I did a lot of psychedelics and really tried to break myself all the way down.'
For more moments from Lorde's interview with Apple Music's Zane Lowe, watch the full conversation below.
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