UNCUT and live SNL reaction on Patreon! www.patreon.com/PutYouOn? Also KYLIE HAMPTON I missed your name in the video but will give you an extra shout out next time sorrryyyyy ! ✌🏻✌🏻

the fact that this album was released 6 years ago and people still describe it as something never heard before explains how good it is.

Lana and lorde are the artist who inspired todays artist like Olivia, Billie, Conan and all the newer alternative pop artist

One of the defining pop albums of the century in my opinion. Really great production and incredible writing. Has a consistent tone and flow throughout. Sounds like you both agree so far!

Green Light - 3:09 Sober 8:21 Homemade Dynamite 11:58 The Louvre 15:00 Liability 19:04 Hard Feelings / Loveless 22:14 Sober II (Melodrama) 27:13 Writer In The Dark 29:38 Supercut 33:35 Liability (Reprise) 36:37 Perfect Places 38:25

david bowie himself said, before he unfortunately passed away, lorde is the future of music. and he was completely right. bless his soul, and hers.

Lorde is an unique artist, she has synesthesia and in an interview she said when she listens to Melodrama, she sees purple. And if you pay attention: purple is a mix between red (related to love or angriness) and blue (related to sadness or disappointment) and that's what you get when you read the lyrics and hear her voice. MELODRAMA DESERVES EVERYTHING

Not only a perfect pop album, but truly one of those albums that ages spectacularly. I’ve listened to it front-to-back hundreds of times and I’m still finding new things to enjoy about it. I highly recommend checking out some of her live performances from this album because those arrangements add so many layers.

It's crazy that despite being cohesive, this album is not repetitive at all and manages to surprise and captivate us with each track showing layer by layer always taken while we listen. This album is a great experience, man! I get goosebumps even listening to it again

Pure Heroine (1st) is her second most acclaimed after Melodrama. Compared to the maximalism of Melodrama, both Pure Heroine and Solar Power (3rd) are pretty minimalism. Pure Heroine is very coming of age and Solar Power is feels like a very self-care, finding yourself album. Solar Power isn't very popular, a lot of people didnt like it but I find it so beautiful especially know the pain she's been through to get there. Excited to see yalls reactions

I love this album so much. You can totally hear the way Billie Eilish, Olivia Rodrigo, and Gracie Abrams for example were all inspired by Lorde and many more young pop girls. It feels very clear as you both pointed out. I also think you were spot on that she was influenced by Taylor and Taylor vice versa. They are friends. Taylor kind of took her under her wing when Ella was going viral so young. I think they relate to each other a lot and have always complimented each other for their songwriting and bridges.

This album is the kind of album where you everytime you listen to it, you figure out something different about it. The meaning of "summer slipped us underneath her tongue" meaning "we're ecstasy". Or "They'll hang us in the Louvre, down the back, but who cares? Still the Louvre" because the Louvre is an musium but way back in the day, people were executed in the back of the Louvre. They were hanged. This album is just 🤌🏻

✨The Unskippable Album✨

Nothing like watching people listen to Melodrama for the first time…. Loved the reaction!!

Omg melodrama is one of my favorite albums of all time to this day. It aged like fine wine and although it’s from 2017 it still feels and sounds fresh. It’s so cohesive.

By the way lorde wrote her first album at 15/16 and Melodrama at 18/19

20:30 The line “You’re all gonna watch me disappear into the sun” is a nod at the album that follows this one, Solar Power!! A lot of people dislike her recent album because it’s extremely stripped back compared to this one, but if you go into it knowing the context and understanding that it’s more about her finding her roots as a person again after all the fame, it’s so much more meaningful to listen to. You just can’t go into Solar Power expecting Melodrama because they were made in two extremely different points in her life.

I think Taylor Lorde and even Lana in some ways all inspired each other's work around this time. Lorde & Taylor are/were really close especially during this time and you can definitely hear pieces of each others writing style or just how they go about songwriting in alot of their work that came out around this time and even after.

There's a reason a lot of the GIANTS of the musical world, including David Bowie, called Lorde 'the future of music'. Her lyricism is so evocative, poetic and abstract (compared to Taylor's straightforward, but still poetic, storytelling style of lyrics), her sound being so unique, etc. I love Taylor, but Lorde definitely edges her out.

this is the best melodrama reaction omgggg you were FEEELING it

Interesting fact, but David Bowie told all of his closest friends that Lorde is the future of music and so she was chosen to sing "Life on Mars" at David Bowie's Tribute show.

green light, for me, was like in The Great Gatsby the green light across the lake, longing for something you know is meant for you and waiting for it

I've been waiting os this one. POP albums dont get better than this they just get different

God I love how cathartic the breakdown in Hard Feelings is. Truly never heard anything else like it. Especially in pop music

My dad is no longer around and seeing you listen to new music with your dad is so meaningful to me. My dad loved female songwriters, I wish I could’ve done this with him

Being 19 when this album dropped quite literally changed the trajectory of my life 😅 can’t count how many times I’ve listened front to back?! Melodrama is a true musical masterpiece

Melodrama is a complete piece of art. I wish I was exaggerating, but it truly is one of the best albums of the 2010s and of the 21st century so far. I'm so excited to see both of you get into Lorde's short but excellent discography. - Pure Heroine is Green. A coming of age sunset hangout with friends, socially and politically aware, introverted teen angst album. - Melodrama is Violet and Royal Blue. A deeply sad drunken walk home after a party. Desperate, fiery, reckless, "melodramatic" early 20s heartbreak album. - Solar Power is Golden. An introspective mental health break from society album. An "I have issues but I go to therapy" state of mind, a freshening shower and coronas after a day at the beach, a quiet and relaxing enclosed family late lunch in the afternoon... All three albums are stellar, I really hope you enjoy them as much as we do :)

olivia rodrigo has taken lots of inspiration from lorde, i mean it’s so apparent on her debut single drivers license. but i don’t think anyone is able to do what lorde does quite as good as lorde. and olivia’s only the prime example because she blew up. but a lot of new artists have taken so much from lorde it’s crazy to witness seeing as lorde is still so young and only 3 albums in

This is the album I wish I could react to the first time again. This album was a cultural reset to pop

Onenof the best pop albums hands down. Should've won that Grammy

"Perfect Places" is my favorite track on the album, probably. Musically, it's great but maybe not the absolute best, but thematically it ties up the album marvelously, ending with a keystone for Lorde's deep (and at this point, trademark) ambivalence about her generation. On the whole, I think "Melodrama" is my favorite album of the past decade.

Melodrama is not only an album, it’s ✨an experience✨. Lorde is, in my humble opinion, one of the best lyricists of this generation, so incredible. While Melodrama is by far my favourite album out of her three, I love all of them. The thing about Ella is that she manages to capture very specific feelings and moments in time in her songs and projects. Pure Heroine came out in 2013, she was 16 and she sings about the pains and joys of growing up so well. Melodrama is the perfect rollercoaster of a breakup. Solar Power was criticised when it came out in 2021, and after the high that was Melo, it did feel much more laid back, but I personally needed it, I needed the healing and grieving it brings about. It’s exciting seeing people experience her for the first time, I hope we get the other two albums sooner rather than later, this reaction was a joy to watch🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻

Lorde actually wrote royals and the whole pure heroine album when she was 16 and wrote melodrama at 19 which is insane,also solar power her last album is amazing yet so underrated bc ppl were expecting something like melodrama but it wasn't, it's more of the opposite sister of pure heroine

This album shifted the music industry. No one could ever make music like Lorde.

Another one of those albums that critics, popheads, and musicheads alike all love. It's just so well written and catchy but at the same time its intriguing and innovative.

remind you this is before Billy Eilish, Dua Lipa, Olivia Rodrigo ,Alicia Cara , midnights by TS, before The Weekend , Halsey and many more so at the time of it’s release this was super revolutionary, lady Gaga , Lana del Rey ,Taylor swift among others inspire so many after them.

Supercut is her actually moving on and looking back to the relationship that ended. She was just looking at the good parts, but the final lyrics were a repetition of “in my head i do everything right”. This was her actually relapsing, that’s why the start of the next song says “I’m a liability”.

you know when an album is great when you wanna buy a vinyl copy of it after listening.

I like how sober 2 is so cinematic.

So glad you two listened to this album. This is one of the best pop albums I have ever heard. Can't wait for you to hear the rest of her music.

this is now my new favorite melodrama reaction.

Lorde influences everybody. She's changed how pop music is made on multiple occasions. People will tell you to react to 'Pure Heroine' next. But I think 'Solar Power' feels right for you two. :)

I think what makes Lorde so unique is the feeling she imbues in her voice and music. Everything feels incredibly raw and unpolished and genuine

I'd recommend you check out her debut album, 'Pure Heroine', next. Totally different vibe but still very Lorde and breathtaking for a literal's teenager first foray into music. It's a more nostalgic album than Melodrama.

I love when both of you are listening to an album for the first time

This álbum is an insane masterpiece

i wish i could experience melodrama for the first time again.. this one and pure heroine are masterpieces, and the fact that she wrote pure heroine as a young teen is crazy!! can't wait for your reaction to that album

Lorde mentioned the sound build up in Green Light as a musical forest! To me, you can really hear it from 1:50 to 2:00 in the song and it makes so much sense, it's grand, kinda intriguing and honestly unsettling, which makes this song objectively one of the masterpieces of our generation

crazy that you havent heard this album,now you are finally blessed

Lorde was 16 years old when the hit song came out. Lorde as a wise-beyond-her-years spokesperson for the Tumblr generation after she released her debut album, Pure Heroine, on September 27, 2013.

So excited for you to listen Solar Power!! Melodrama is definitely her best album in my opinion but, Solar Power and Pure Heroine are extremely good albums too. She's a incredibly unique artist

i cried uncontrollably during the bridge of Hard feelings too, my first visceral reaction to a song. I love how Lorde can precisely describe a general feeling yet still make it so personal.

I'm so happy you did this !!! This is one of my favourite album ever and I know WORD FOR WORD I KNOW EVERY LITTLE SOUND because I listened to it so much and still is not enough after 6 years

I have to admit this being my first time watching your reactions I was a bit scared when you started listening to the album and your dad's face was stoic. I'm so happy you loved this album. This album is absolutely iconic. One of my all time favorites. She didn't win the Grammy because she refused to go the Grammys because they didn't want her to perform her own song. She talks about it in Solar Power. She was 16 when she wrote Pure Heroine. This album was released when she was 20/21. She is a genius. Taylor Swift first worked with Jack Antonoff on 1989 and Lorde and Taylor are friends so when she was looking for a producer, Taylor recommended Jack and they KILLED IT with Melodrama. And actually Taylor used Lorde's old producer (the one from Pure Heroine) for Lover. Hard Feelings / Loveless is my favorite song from the album. It's such an amazing song sound-wise. I like how you said you felt like something was breaking and it was hauntingly beautiful because I feel like that's exactly what it is. "These are what they call hard feelings of love", when you love someone so much and they leave and you feel like you're breaking... Lorde said that she envisioned this album as a house party with different rooms. And the songs are different rooms. Liability is finding a room with just a piano and sitting there, away from the party, and singing. I also think she talks about her relationship with fame. "What will we do when we're sober?", "All of the things we're taking 'cause we are young and we're ashamed...".

Perfect Places is such a beautiful song. I remember someone explaining it simply as "looking for something that doesn't exist" and it's just melodramatic.

I wish I could listen to this album for the first time again. It's a magical experience

It's amazing how we still talk about this album to this day despite it coming out in 2017

Probably the best reaction I've ever seen to this album. Thanks for helping me relive listening to this masterpiece for the first time❤

i love watching melodrama reactions, and you guys had so many cool insights about the songs, it was so refreshing hearing it with you guys after listening to it for years now. i love this album and it sure has a lot of impact in many people (listners) not just artists.

thanks for reacting to one of my favorite albums ever !! lorde is such a distinct poet in pop, its nice to see it so greatly appreciated like this. her debut album Pure Heroine is equally as impressive and my personal fav of hers and i hope u react to it soon :]

I was about to crack down on studying but this video caught my eye right before I could get up and fetch my books 😍

Named by rolling stones 7th best album of the last decade out of 100 albums btw

This is my favourite album. Not just by Lorde, ever. All of her work is phenomenal. All the albums are so different, and she was truly going through different things in her life. I honestly hate to even compare them, they are stand alone pieces of art. Definitely listen to the others. I can’t wait! PS - I think it’s time we get some Gaga?

MELODRAMA IS MY FAVORITE ALBUM OF ALL TIME

Lorde is GOAT. This is forever one of my top three of all time.

One of my favourite albums ever.

YAAAAAASSSSS NOW PURE HEROINE AND SOLAR POWER PLEAAAAASE

My favourite thing to do on KZfaq is to watch people experience Melodrama. Such a great record ❤️ I think you should listen to SAWAYAMA by Rina Sawayama

Oh bro, i can't believe your dad finally reacted to Melodrama!

i think MAGDALENE by FKA Twigs is as fantastic and insane as this. They both are in my top 10 best albums i’ve ever listened to and i’m sure you two would love if you reacted to.

I missed this album so much, I’m so happy y’all reacted to this

every time i listen to this album i cry....every time i watch people react to this album i cry. god im so melodramatic.

Every lorde album is an incredible and unique experience

i would give anything to hear this album again for the first time

This albumm is so amazing that i listen to it start to finish in a daily base. Lord is unique.

Y’all are very correct about the olivia comparison thank you

YOUVE NEVER HEARD THE ALBUM WWHAATTT

Melodrama and Lorde first album "Pure Heroine" are pop bible and created AND inspired the new wave of singer like Billie Eilish or Olivia Rodrigo...

I really hope you guys will react to Lana Del Reys discogeaphy too!!! Ultraviolence, Norman F***** Rockwell and Did You Know There's A Tunnel Under Ocean Boulevard? Are some of her best!!

Loved this reaction so much, I love her vocal layering it makes her sound like a bunch of teenage girls which I always say she is the voice of our generation. Im going to officially die when you finally listen to Lana Del Rey.

the first time I ever sat down and intentionally listened to an album front to back was this album, and I have never listened to music the same. changed my brain changed my artistic vision

So glad you finally reacted to this. Olivia Billie both are influenced by lorde. She's just awesome. This is one of the best pop albums that shaped upcoming pop artists so much.

This is genuinely my favorite album of all time. I’ve been listening to it daily for years, it’s grown with me, lyrical meanings have evolved along with me. 😭💕

This album is everything

lorde is unique on so many levels! pure heroine is amazing but melodrama set her apart from other pop artists for me. it showcases her talents in a different manner. loved your reaction!

ooh I was hoping for this reaction. Melodrama is one of the best albums ever imo. The writing, the imagery, production, all of it is so cohesive and it’s such a good mix of different songs it really never gets boring

as a fan of her, melodrama is clearly her magnum opus, there are just so much layers to this album. pure heroine is a good (and revolutionary) debut about teenagehood. her first two albums are clearly two of the most defining albums last decade. solar panel, however, is just there. it’s not bad but its not as captivating as much of her two first albums. it feels like lorde is doing less. well anw im still excited for L4.

Lorde is a multi-generational artist. David Bowie loved her, as did many others before him. She will hit hearts for decades to come.

Hard felling / loveless it’s like watching guardians of the galaxy while eating spiced brownies

This was easily my favourite album of 2017, and definitely in my top ten of all time. It's so rare to find an album that is both a collection of amazing songs, but also such a flawlessly cohesive single piece of art. It HAS to be listened to in order, from start to finish. I'd love to see you react to a Lizzy McAlpine album, especially her second one, "five seconds flat". She's a very different musician to Lorde, but I also enjoy the way she tells a story over the course of an album.

She has a situation where she can see sound’s through colors I forgot how was called

Oh I loved your analysis of Hard Feelings / Loveless because I feel like they are actually very complimentary to each other. It IS a an incredibly sad uncontrolled ride without breaks.

So so glad you two loved this album! It’s severely underrated in the mainstream but is incredible and holds up over time. Now i need to go re-listen so i can appreciate the Pink Floyd and u2 references

I just came to YT to watch people reacting to melodrama.. and this is the first video that came in my screen😅😅😅

Taylor's midnights seems to be influenced by melodrama.

I think what makes Lorde so good is that she is just experimenting with things she finds interesting at that time, and that blends really well with her almost autobiographical writing ability. It all comes together successfully because it is just an honest exploration of herself.

Solar power it’s very different it’s like wanna forget about society and live out of coconut water and crab in a desert island

I AM SO BEYOND EXCITED THAT SOMEONE ELSE IS FINALLY REACTING TO THIS ABSOLUTE MASTERFUL RECORD!!!! also!!! “i can feel my heart slowing down” is exactly how i’d describe the feeling when you listen to liability (reprise). it puts you into such a trance

IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS ONE LFGGGGGGGGG

Someone said under a different video “About MELODRAMA: This entire album was produced to "synthesize" a SINGLE NIGHT PARTY of someone who had just left a relationship, went to a party, got drunk, ended up meeting his same ex at the party, kissed him in and then came home thinking you had the worst night of your life for being with the person who hurt you when should love and care for you.” And honestly once you know this, you listen to this whole album differently