"Green Light" by Lorde: My reaction

After a couple of years of being away from the music scene, New Zealand singer/songwriter Lorde is back with a brand new song entitled "Green Light" which is the lead off single from her second album due to released on June 15th.

Lorde has spent a lot of her time away from the music becoming an adult and finding a new sound and vibe with her second album given that she described her first album "Pure Heroine" as an enshrinement of her teenage years (she was only 16 when she recorded that album!) and knew that her sound had to evolve musically for her 2nd album and the first result of that work Lorde has done in that period away are fascinating as well as complicated and complex.

"Green Light" has been described as a song about Lorde's first major heartbreak something that she admitted during a BBC Radio 1 interview with Zane Lowe that she isn't used to writing about. For me, the song has evidence that Lorde has grown as a songwriter and that she is aware of how important it is to grow as an artist as she gets older and it really shows in "Green Light"

Emotionally, "Green Light" is a complex rollercoaster of anger, confusion, happiness, and sadness, Lorde definitely knows where to vocalise these emotions in her lyrics cue the way she sings "She's such a liar" and also complex when you consider that underneath the prechorus and chorus is this piano beat underneath it which is almost happy.

There's a lot of familiarity and new to this song "Green Light". Sparse instrumentation to start and chanting in the chorus "That green light I want it" has been in my head for the last 24 hours.

All in all, "Green Light" is just a brilliant rollercoaster ride of a song that gets you off your backside to dance.

Check it out for yourself below: