Melodrama (Lorde album)

Melodrama is the second studio album by New Zealand singer Lorde, released through Universal, Lava and Republic Records on 16 June 2017. A departure from the minimalist style of her debut album Pure Heroine (2013), it is a pop and electropop record incorporating piano instrumentation and maximalist electronic beats. It was primarily written and produced by Lorde and Jack Antonoff, with production input by several high-profile producers including Frank Dukes, Flume, Malay, S1 and Joel Little.

Melodrama
Studio album by
Lorde
Released16 June 2017 (2017-06-16)
Studio
  • Electric Lady (New York)
  • Rough Customer (Brooklyn Heights)
  • Westlake (Los Angeles)
  • Conway (Los Angeles)
  • Jungle City (New York)
Genre
Length40:58
Label
Producer
  • Andrew Wyatt
  • Frank Dukes
  • Jack Antonoff
  • Joel Little
  • Lorde
  • Malay
Lorde chronology
Pure Heroine
(2013)		 Melodrama
(2017)
Singles from Melodrama
  1. "Green Light"
    Released: 2 March 2017
  2. "Perfect Places"
    Released: 1 June 2017
  3. "Homemade Dynamite"
    Released: 16 September 2017

The album, recorded after Lorde's breakup with long-time boyfriend James Lowe in 2015, has been described as a loose concept album that explores the theme of solitude. It follows the framework of a single house party, and the events and moods that ensue. During her writing sessions, Lorde flew between the United States and New Zealand several times, examining the world around her, and continued working through erroneous starts, unsuccessful detours and periods of inactivity as she retreated from the public spotlight.

Melodrama received widespread acclaim from critics, many of whom commended its songwriting, production and Lorde's vocal performance. The album appeared on various year-end lists, with Metacritic naming it the second-most prominently ranked record of 2017 and the site's 31st highest rated album of all time. It also received a Grammy Award nomination for Album of the Year at the 60th Annual Grammy Awards. Since then, it has appeared multiple times on various decade-end album lists, often being called one of the top ten albums of the decade.

To promote Melodrama, "Green Light" was released as its lead single to commercial success, followed by "Perfect Places" and a remix of "Homemade Dynamite". The album debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 chart, selling 109,000 album-equivalent units, and topped the charts in three other markets. It was eventually certified gold in the United Kingdom and the United States, platinum in Australia and Canada and double platinum in New Zealand.

Background and recording
Jack Antonoff (pictured) co-wrote and co-produced the majority of the album with Lorde.

In December 2013, Lorde announced that she had begun writing material for an upcoming second studio album.[1] The following year, she said it was in its early stages and that it was "totally different" from her debut album released earlier that year; she also said the shift in sound was due to the change in circumstances and settings of her life.[2] Later in 2014, Lionsgate announced that Lorde would curate the soundtrack for the third installment of The Hunger Games franchise, which would be followed by the release of the film's lead single "Yellow Flicker Beat" to critical acclaim.[3]

In an interview with Australia's Triple J radio network in February 2015, Joel Little, who produced Pure Heroine, said he was scheduled to join Lorde for a writing session in a recording studio the following month,[4] although a definite plan was not yet established. More than a year later, he reported that despite he wrote a few songs for the album, he would not serve as an executive producer, attributing this to Lorde "trying to do something different".[5] Lorde was eventually featured on Disclosure's track "Magnets" which appears on the duo's 2015 album Caracal.[6]

In January 2016, The New Zealand Herald reported that Lorde and James Lowe, her boyfriend, had ended their three-year relationship.[7] The singer confirmed the break-up during interviews following the release of "Green Light" (2017),[8] leading to her indulging in "heavy drinking" and noticing there was an "element of escapism and exploration" in doing so.[9] Lorde eventually replied to a comment on her Instagram account in late August 2016 that she completed the writing process of Melodrama — still untitled at the time — and that she was in the production stages.[10]

The singer went on to announce the album's title on 2 March 2017.[11] She also began posting pictures of herself at Electric Lady Studios in New York City with Jack Antonoff on social media taken in and after December 2015. Further recording sessions took place at Antonoff's home studio in Brooklyn Heights, dubbed Rough Customer Studio, and Jungle City in New York City, as well as Westlake and Conway in Los Angeles.[12] The duo recorded for 18 months.[13] Melodrama was released through Universal, Lava and Republic Records on 16 June 2017.[14]

Writing and production
Lorde's tendency to draw parallels to Greek tragedies (Dionysus pictured) was a source of inspiration for the album's title.

Lorde said that during the early stages of writing content for Melodrama, she imagined writing the album from the perspective of aliens stepping outside a hermetically sealed environment for the first time, citing the science fiction short story "There Will Come Soft Rains" (1950) by Ray Bradbury as an inspiration. She scrapped the idea and chose instead to write about her own struggles with the early stages of adulthood.[15] She likened the plot of the aforementioned short story to her own reality, stating that she would usually hide at her house with friends, "drinking and making a concerted effort to block out the rest of the world, as if there’d been some sort of nuclear fallout".[15] Lorde also took notes from conversations with her friends and would fly multiple times between the United States and New Zealand to examine the world around her.[15] She would continue working through "false starts, fruitless detours and stretches of inactivity" as she retreated from the public spotlight.[16]

According to The New York Times, Melodrama is about a "grapple with emotions" in the aftermath of a break-up.[16] Interviewed by the publication, Lorde says Melodrama is not simply a "breakup album" but is rather a "record about being alone", featuring both the favourable and unfavourable aspects associated with "heartbreak and solitude".[16] She did, however, call "Green Light" a traditional break-up song.[17] In an interview with Vanity Fair, Lorde said the title of the album is a "nod to the types of emotions you experience when you're 19 or 20,"[17] further elaborating that recent past years were intense for her, and that she experienced a wide range of emotions. She cites her "love of theater" and drawing parallels to Greek tragedies as inspiration for the album's title.[17] According to Lorde, she had to deal with "very serious, vivid feelings" she needed to express after experiencing her first heartbreak and moving out of her parents' home; as a result, she spent time isolated in her own house. Working with Antonoff helped her open up about her inner situation.[17]

While writing content for the album, Lorde took inspiration from a number of settings and tested new material by listening to demos through earphones at a diner near Columbus Circle, which she did for about four months to understand how the music would sound in everyday life. She took inspiration from strangers' conversations, often hearing certain phrases that she would think about for hours. These phrases also illustrated a "tableau" in her thoughts.[16] The diner usually played top 40 radio, which she said would occasionally distract her from writing, although she sometimes removed her headphones to let the songs "wash over" her. In her home in New Zealand, Lorde had a wall of notes for her songs, which she used to "skim" the whole album; it allowed her to find connections to each track and "fill in their blanks". Each song was colour coded due to her sound-to-colour synesthesia; Lorde arranged the colours according to its theme and emotion.[16] She also travelled to a rental house on Waiheke Island, where she could write without distractions.[16]

Artwork

The cover artwork for Melodrama was painted by American abstract painter Sam McKinniss, with whom Lorde had communicated by email. The pair agreed to meet and started discussing a collaboration. Lorde later visited McKinniss' studio in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, where she took a liking to a full-figure portrait of the cover photograph of Prince's 1984 album Purple Rain and a painting of Lil' Kim. Lorde asked McKinniss to create a painting with a "kind of colorful teenage restlessness and excitement and energy and potential".[18]

McKinniss and Lorde met in late 2016 at his friend's studio, which consisted of coloured bulbs on a lighting rig and a space with several windows. For the album shoot, Lorde wore a vintage negligee and posed for two hours. According to McKinniss, the album art is the "converging of two like minds" and "simpatico spirits".[19] He said Lorde told him; "I want to be a teen-ager in my bedroom after a long night, at daybreak". The pair considered making the photography session "operatic" and pre-Raphaelite-inspired, but scrapped the idea because they were satisfied with Lorde's facial expressions on the resulting images. McKinniss made two paintings from his photographs; one featured a blue glow with a warm flush on Lorde's cheek and the other has different lighting, with "paler, sweeter" colours.[20] The unused painting was later revealed in an interview with McKinniss for Dazed.[21]

NME placed the cover on their list of the best album artworks of the 21st century so far.[22] Paste ranked it at number 11 in their year-end list for album covers,[23] and it also appeared on Billboard's unranked list. Tatiano Cirisano, writing for the latter publication, said McKinniss "perfectly communicates the intimacy and coming-of-age storyline" of the record with its "hazy twilight hues and bedside setting".[24] Fuse also ranked the cover in their year-end list.[25]

Music and lyrics
Lorde cites Don Henley, Tom Petty, Phil Collins and Joni Mitchell, as well as the deaths of David Bowie (pictured left) and Prince (pictured right), as inspirations.[26][27]

Lorde's vocals on Melodrama have been noted for her emotional and multitrack delivery. She cites the emotional vocals of Kate Bush and Sinéad O'Connor, as well as Laurie Anderson's use of vocoder as inspiration for her vocal delivery on the album.[27] The Daily Telegraph writer Neil McCormick described Lorde's vocals as "audacious singing, which locates different levels of intimacy in different vocal timbres, multi-tracking her voice so that it often sounds like songs are being delivered by competing versions of herself".[28] Her vocals range from "witchy, unprocessed low-register warbles" to "digitized masks".[29] According to NME, different personae of Lorde, ranging from the "strong, composed young woman" to the hidden "psycho", are showcased through her vocal performances on the album.[30]

Melodrama is built around Antonoff's signature production, which incorporates drums, synths, layered vocals and straightforward hooks.[31] Lorde and Antonoff met in early 2014 at a Grammy after-party and later had several "exploratory" writing sessions before Lorde hired him as the main co-writer on the album. Lorde worked on Melodrama in Antonoff's Rough Customer Studios in New York City and at her home in New Zealand.[16] The song structures on the record are traditional in construction, with piano-based melodies in contrast with the hip-hop influences on Lorde's first album.[32] The singer took a classicist approach, usually composing a melody and then trying different vocal falsettos; Lorde said that because of this, the whole album can be played in acoustic form.[16] She also cited her desire to explore a "cathartic mode" for the album. Several publications noted its maximalist pop production, a departure from the singer's signature minimalist style.[33] Melodrama has been described by critics as a pop[34][35][36] and electropop album.[37]

The album's lyrics are about heartbreak and solitude.[38] Though it has been denied by Lorde,[16] music critics have described Melodrama as a loose concept album.[16][39][40] Lorde has stated that Melodrama has only a loose narrative;[41] she believed in the "transcendent nature" that partying can bring, with the intense "intoxicated highs and slumping lows", hook-ups and break-ups helping to form a narrative thread that connected each song.

Lorde developed a disdain for the phrase "voice of a generation"; according to her, the album's shift in narrative focuses on "I" in contrast with Pure Heroine's inclusion of "we" and "us". The words "party", "rush" and "violence" recur throughout the record. Lorde wanted to showcase contrast, going from "big and grand" to "really tiny and intimate", as well as desired to reference personal events, headlines and themes associated with the World Wide Web. She drew inspiration from Paul Simon's 1986 album Graceland, calling it "somewhere we hope we're headed" and comparing it with Miley Cyrus' song "Malibu" (2017), saying "[h]ow lovely that first love is Malibu, and Graceland is enlightenment after love lost".[42] Lorde uses numerous metaphors on Melodrama, such as the teeth of great white sharks, continuing her incorporation of teeth in her lyrics.[43] The singer also cites Don Henley, Tom Petty, Phil Collins and Joni Mitchell as inspirations for Melodrama.[42]

Songs

Tracks 1–5

The album's opening track, "Green Light", features titular metaphors; reviewers interpreted the "green light" as a street signal that gives the singer permission to move into the future.[44] It was described by critics as an electropop,[45] dance-pop,[46] and post-disco song.[47] Lorde was inspired to write the track after attending a Florence and the Machine concert with Antonoff; the writing process took her 18 months to complete. She said the piano line in the song resembles the piano introduction on The National's 2008 song "Fake Empire".[48] "Sober", which was formed using a bongo drum, was written after Lorde played a show at Coachella. The track's instrumentation also includes a tenor and baritone saxophone, a trumpet,[49] as well as the sound of a tiger's roar, which was added when Antonoff was looking through samples two sessions before the song concluded.[50]

Lorde co-wrote "Homemade Dynamite" with Tove Lo. It is the only song on which Antonoff is not credited as a songwriter or producer. Lorde was inspired to write "The Louvre" after listening to Frank Ocean's 2016 album Blonde. She stated in a podcast interview with The Spinoff that she could have made a "big, easy single" but refrained from doing so because she felt it would not mean much to "simplify the journey" or "force a big chorus".[51] She said that the production process was "exciting", stating, "I can use guitars and I can get a big gnarly Flume beat and throw it under water."[52] According to Newsweek, the singer's cadence in some lines almost turns into rapping, which was compared with cross-genre music.[27] "Liability" is the first piano ballad on the album; in a profile with The Spinoff, Lorde said the song's chords felt "classic" and similar to the works of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young and Don Henley. She was inspired by the track "Higher" from Rihanna's 2016 album Anti, which she listened to when she took a taxi from a hike.[48]

Tracks 6–11
Lorde often listened to Paul Simon's (pictured left) 1986 album Graceland on taxis she took on her way home from parties.[27] Critics also noted Phil Collins' (pictured right) signature instrumentation on the album.[27]

The first part of the medley song "Hard Feelings/Loveless" uses a distorted synthesizer and elements of industrial,[29] noise[36] and electronica genres.[53] Antonoff said one of his proudest moments while producing the album was the placing of a "synth at the end [of the song] that sounds like metal bending".[54] The first two lines of "Loveless"—"What is this tape? / This is my favorite tape"—were sampled from a documentary about Paul Simon's album Graceland Lorde watched. The drum solo used as the transition instrument linking "Hard Feelings" to "Loveless" was sampled from Phil Collins' 1981 song "In the Air Tonight".[48] Lorde stated this was one of the earliest tracks on the record. She often listened to the soft rock music of Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, Fleetwood Mac and Paul Simon while riding the subways in New York City and taking cab rides home from parties in Auckland.[27] Lorde and Antonoff both compared the song to Don Henley's "The Heart of the Matter" (1989), with the latter also likening its message to Henley's song as both tracks "grapple with news that a past lover has met someone new, then laments other bygone relationships".[16]

The following track, "Sober II (Melodrama)", a continuation of "Sober", details the emotions and sense of loneliness after a party is over.[55] The song was originally titled "Sober (Interlude)" before its release.[56] Comparing Lorde with Kate Bush, Claire Schafer of Newsweek said "[t]he heartwrenching chorus of 'Writer in the Dark' [...] is uncannily similar to Bush’s high register and otherworldly excess of feeling", and that Melodrama "marks a new dimension to Lorde’s voice, where every little breath and enunciation carries enormous meaning".[27] Lorde woke up in the middle of the night and wrote down the main theme of the song, feeling naughty and empowered while doing so. To her, it was a "cool, painful moment" on the record.[42] Lorde said "Supercut" is the only song on the album in which she speaks to someone, describing the thought process as the Eleventh Hour. Most of the song was constructed using drums, whereas "blanks" were later "filled" with piano sequences.[48] She considered turning "Liability (Reprise)" into an a cappella track before deciding to "be sensible" and adding a backing beat.[48] "Perfect Places" was inspired after the deaths of David Bowie and Prince occurred, two musicians Lorde states were the most influential for the recording of Melodrama.[27]

Release and promotion
Lorde performing at the Osheaga Festival in 2017

Lorde first promoted the album by posting a link to a website called imwaitingforit.com to her Twitter account. The website featured a short clip of Lorde sitting in a car eating and drinking while a piano-backed track played in the background; this was followed with the dates "3.2.17 NYC" and "3.3.17 NZ" appearing onscreen. The video was titled "M" followed by seven asterisks and ending with "A", which would later be revealed as the album's name.[57] According to Fact magazine, the clip was also broadcast on New Zealand's major television channels.[58]

On 2 March 2017, Lorde released "Green Light" as the lead single from the album.[59] The single was universally praised by critics, with many publications placing it in their year-end lists,[60] and was recognized as NME's Single of the Year.[61] It was commercially successful, earning platinum in the United States and a triple platinum certification in Australia.[62] The following week, Lorde released "Liability" as Melodrama's first promotional single. She performed it alongside "Green Light" for the first time on 12 March 2017 episode of Saturday Night Live. This was her first performance in over two years,[63] and gained positive reviews from critics.[64] She debuted two new songs, "Sober" and "Sober II (Melodrama)", at a "tiny pre-Coachella gig" held at Pappy & Harriet's on 15 April 2017. "Sober" was announced as the album's second promotional single on 9 June 2017. She debuted "Homemade Dynamite" during her set at Coachella the next day.[65] Critics called her set one of the highlights of the festival.[66] Lorde also performed "Green Light" at the 2017 Billboard Music Awards on a set that included "a cheap karaoke lounge, with red lighting, a dingy couch, impassive friends and an old TV that spat out song lyrics in blocky lettering".[67]

Lorde released "Perfect Places" as the album's second single on 1 June 2017. She first performed the song live with Antonoff as part of her set at the Governors Ball Music Festival. On 30 July 2017, Lorde also made an appearance to sing at the Fuji Rock Festival in Niigata, Japan.[68] At the 2017 MTV Video Music Awards, Lorde performed an interpretive dance to "Homemade Dynamite", which was met with mixed reviews from critics, some of whom called it "bizarre".[69] Her decision not to sing came after she was diagnosed with influenza. Following her performance, Lorde released a remix of "Homemade Dynamite" that featured guest vocals by Khalid, Post Malone and SZA as the third single from the album on 16 September 2017.[70] To further promote the album, Lorde embarked on a world tour with several opening acts; she announced the tour in June 2017. The tour began at the O2 Apollo Manchester in England on 26 September 2017 and ended on 19 October 2017 in Trondheim, Norway.[71] The Oceania leg consisted of 13 dates. Lorde played an additional 30 shows in North America, which commenced in Milwaukee on 1 March 2018 and concluded in Nashville on 15 April 2018.[72]

Reception

Commercial performance

Following the album's release, it debuted at number one in Canada,[73] New Zealand,[74] Australia[75] and the United States, becoming Lorde's first US number-one album[76] where it entered the Billboard 200 chart with 109,000 album-equivalent units, including 82,000 album sales.[76] The album dropped to number 13 in the following week.[77] It was also her first number-one in Canada,[73] entering the Canadian Albums Chart and selling 12,000 album-equivalent units.[73] Melodrama further debuted at number one in Australia with first-week sales of 12,001,[78] and entered the UK Albums Chart at number five, selling 17,026 copies in its first week.[79] Several certifications were eventually awarded to the album, such as gold in the United Kingdom[80] and the United States,[81] platinum in Australia[82] and Canada,[83] as well as double platinum in New Zealand.[84]

Critical response
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
AnyDecentMusic?8.7/10[85]
Metacritic91/100[86]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[87]
The A.V. ClubA[88]
The Daily Telegraph[28]
Entertainment WeeklyA[89]
The Guardian[90]
The Independent[91]
NME[30]
Pitchfork8.8/10[36]
Rolling Stone[29]
ViceB+[92]

Melodrama received widespread critical acclaim; aggregating website Metacritic reports a normalized rating of 91, based on 32 critical reviews.[86] Alexis Petridis of The Guardian suggested that the record was a "cocky challenge being issued to her musical contemporaries."[90] In a perfect five-star review, NME reviewer Dan Stubbs described Melodrama as a "rudely excellent album", praising its introspection, honesty and cleverness.[30] In contrast, Carl Wilson of Slate conceded that the record was "kind of a detour" in comparison to 1970s artists such as Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen.[35]

In his favorable A review, Nolan Feeney of Entertainment Weekly commended her songwriting skills, describing it as a "puzzle that’ll keep you busy long after the party is over."[89] Pitchfork writer Stacey Anderson concluded that it was "a sleek and humid pop record full of grief and hedonism, crafted with the utmost care and wisdom."[36] Sal Cinquemani of Slant echoed Anderson's judgment, describing it as "cathartic, dramatic, and everything else you could want an album titled Melodrama to be".[93] Rolling Stone's Will Hermes lauded its production, labeling it a "tour de force."[29]

The A.V. Club writer Meagan Fredette dubbed the record as "rich and cohesive",[88] while Drowned in Sound's Joe Goggins concluded that Lorde "[operates] at the highest artistic level yet [puts] it across as easy-access modern mainstream pop."[94] Writing for Spin, Anna Gaca quipped that Melodrama "embodies a strange, studious undoneness, the blacklight black-and-blue of a perfectionist trying to capture imperfect feelings".[95] However, the Los Angeles Times critic Mikael Wood was less positive; he critiqued the album's storyline theme but acknowledged Lorde's potency when "owning her newfound authority".[96]

Accolades

Melodrama placed second on Metacritic's list of the best-received albums of 2017, based on inclusions in mainstream publications' year-end lists.[97] The album was named the best album of the year by Consequence of Sound,[98] Cosmopolitan,[99] Entertainment Weekly,[100] The Mercury News,[101] No Ripcord,[102] NME,[103] Pretty Much Amazing,[104] Stereogum,[105] Melty,[106] and Uproxx.[107] On year-end lists by publications including The Independent,[108] Interview,[109] The New Zealand Herald,[110] PopMatters,[111] The Ringer,[112] and Rolling Stone,[113] the album finished at the runner-up spot. Melodrama also prominently featured in the top five of various publications, including BBC News,[114] Billboard,[115] Highsnobiety,[116] New York Daily News,[117] Newsday,[118] Pigeons and Planes,[119] The Skinny,[120] ABC News,[121] Dazed,[122] Exclaim!,[123] The Guardian,[124] Q,[125] Spin,[126] The Daily Beast,[127] Mashable,[128] NPR,[129] Pitchfork,[130] Time,[131] Vinyl Me, Please[132] and Yahoo!.[133]

Melodrama ranked at number four on The Village Voice's annual Pazz & Jop mass critics' poll for 2017.[60] The album appeared in the top ten of year-end lists by Fuse,[134] Genius,[135] Loud and Quiet,[136] The New York Times's editors Jon Caramanica and Jon Pareles,[137] Slant,[138] Sputnikmusic,[139] State,[140] Time Out,[141] Tiny Mix Tapes,[142] Uncut,[143] Vice,[144] and Vulture.[145] Publications that included the album outside of the top ten of their year-end lists include The A.V. Club,[146] Complex,[147] Drowned in Sound,[148] The Line of Best Fit,[149] Spectrum Culture,[150] and Under the Radar.[151] Additionally, the album was featured on unranked lists by AllMusic,[152] The Alternative,[153] The Boston Globe,[154] The Irish Times,[155] The Nation,[156] Newsweek,[157] Kitty Empire from The Observer,[158] Carl Wilson from Slate,[159] The Stranger,[160] The Sydney Morning Herald,[161] USA Today,[162] V,[163] and Variety.[164] Rolling Stone and PopMatters included Melodrama in their pop category year-end lists, ranking it seventh and first, respectively.[165]

The record was ranked among the best albums of the 2010s decade by publications including NME (2nd),[166] Consequence of Sound (4th),[167] Uproxx (6th),[168] Rolling Stone (7th),[169] The Independent (8th),[170] Pitchfork (14th),[171] and Cleveland.com (22nd).[172] Additionally, Consequence of Sound considered Melodrama the greatest pop album of the 2010s decade.[173] Regarding reception from music audiences, Rolling Stone readers voted Melodrama the second most popular album of 2017,[174] while Pitchfork readers voted it the tenth greatest album of the 2010s decade, the highest position for a female artist's album on the list.[175] The album won a New Zealand Music Award for Album of the Year,[176] and received nominations at the ARIA Music Awards[177] and the NME Awards.[178] At the 60th Annual Grammy Awards in 2018, it was nominated for Album of the Year, which went to Bruno Mars' 24K Magic (2016).[179] A day before the event, Variety reported that Lorde had declined to perform at the ceremony after The Recording Academy asked her to sing with other artists in a tribute to Tom Petty. Her decision came after other nominees, who were all male, were given the opportunity to perform by themselves.[180]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Lorde (Ella Yelich-O'Connor) and Jack Antonoff, except where noted.

Melodrama – Standard version[181][182][12]
No.TitleProducer(s)Length
1."Green Light" (writers: Yelich-O'Connor, Antonoff, Joel Little)
3:54
2."Sober"
  • Lorde
  • Antonoff
  • Malay
  • Harrell[b]
3:17
3."Homemade Dynamite" (writers: Yelich-O'Connor, Tove Lo, Jakob Jerlström, Ludvig Söderberg)
  • Dukes
  • Lorde
  • Harrell[b]
3:09
4."The Louvre"
  • Lorde
  • Antonoff
  • Flume[a]
  • Malay[a]
4:31
5."Liability"
  • Lorde
  • Antonoff
2:52
6."Hard Feelings/Loveless"
6:07
7."Sober II (Melodrama)"
  • Lorde
  • Antonoff
  • Dukes
  • S1[a]
  • Harrell[c]
2:58
8."Writer in the Dark"
  • Lorde
  • Antonoff
3:36
9."Supercut"
  • Lorde
  • Antonoff
  • Little
  • Dukes[a]
  • Jean-Benoît Dunckel[a]
  • Malay[a]
4:37
10."Liability (Reprise)"
  • Lorde
  • Antonoff
2:16
11."Perfect Places"
  • Lorde
  • Antonoff
  • Andrew Wyatt
  • Dukes[a]
3:41
Total length:40:58
Japan bonus track[183]
No.TitleProducer(s)Length
12."Green Light" (Chromeo remix; writers: Yelich-O'Connor, Antonoff, Little)Chromeo4:09
Total length:45:07
Spotify bonus track[d][184]
No.TitleProducer(s)Length
12."Homemade Dynamite" (Remix; featuring Khalid, Post Malone and SZA; writers: Yelich-O'Connor, Lo, Jerlström, Söderberg, Khalid Robinson, Austin Post, Solána Rowe)
  • Dukes
  • Lorde
  • Harrell[b]
3:34
Total length:44:32

Notes

  • ^[a] signifies an additional producer
  • ^[b] signifies a vocal producer
  • ^[c] signifies an additional vocal producer
  • ^[d] added to the album after the single's release

Sample credits[12]

  • "Loveless" contains a sample of "In the Air Tonight", written and performed by Phil Collins and an audio recording from Paul Simon that appears on the 2012 documentary film, Under African Skies: Paul Simon's Graceland Journey.

Personnel

Credits adapted from the liner notes of Melodrama.[185]

Charts

Certifications and sales
Region CertificationCertified units/sales
Australia (ARIA)[82] Platinum 70,000^
Canada (Music Canada)[83] Platinum 80,000
New Zealand (RMNZ)[84] 2× Platinum 30,000^
United Kingdom (BPI)[80] Gold 100,000^
United States (RIAA)[81] Gold 500,000
Summaries
Worldwide — 780,000[221]

*sales figures based on certification alone
^shipments figures based on certification alone
sales+streaming figures based on certification alone

Release history
Region Date Format Label Catalogue no. Ref.
Worldwide 16 June 2017
N/A [222]
CD B0026615-02 [223]
6 April 2018 Vinyl LP N/A [224]

See also
  • List of Billboard 200 number-one albums of 2017
  • List of number-one albums from the 2010s (New Zealand)
  • List of number-one albums in New Zealand by New Zealand artists
  • List of number-one albums of 2017 (Australia)
  • List of number-one albums of 2017 (Canada)

Notes
  1. Kuk Harrell is credited with vocal production on the first verse of "Green Light" only.
  2. Frank Dukes is credited with additional production on "Loveless" only.

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