Fun fact about this album: it begins with “don’t you think it’s boring how people talk” and ends with “people are talking, let ‘em talk”

Lorde birthed many alt pop stars with this album

Mind you this was in 2013, NO ONE was doing like her. She changed the whole industry with this album, especially for younger artists

Ribs is probably one of the best songs ever made. Listening live was life-changing

you also have to keep in mind that at the time of release, NO ONE was doing it like her. This sound of layering vocals and harmonies, obscure production, she was a real pioneer for a lot of pop artists to come.

THIS IS MY ROMAN EMPIRE

Ribs is a cult classic at this point

be ready for Solar Power because the production is extremely minimal, but the lyricism is probably the best she's ever done in her career so far! be sure to check out the bonus tracks as well

This is one of my favorite albums of all time. The fact that Lorde wrote this album at 15 and it was released when she was 16 is insane to me. So excited for this reaction!

In Pure Heroine she uses a lot of drums. In Solar Power she uses a lot of strings.

it think it’s interesting that you guys commented that it got better as you listened to it, and that you didnt know if it was the “mood” you were in. The songs don’t get better, the power of the album is that GETS you in that mood. It’s incredibly atmospheric, i downloaded the album accidentally when I was 14. i was trying to get only royals and I listened to it back to back nearly everyday. Pure Heroine to me is growing up in small town suburbia, riding the bike with your hair wet, scraped knees, empty parking lots, car rides at night. It’s the moment the street lights start turning on at twilight. it’s stretching, neverending time, it’s standing numbly at the threshold of something new

Lorde is a superstar. don’t sleep on her debut and how she ran up every award show

omg we need the deluxe version pls you guys need to hear "Bravado"

Lorde had a lot of critical acclaim but she didn't have a lot of mainstream popularity asside from Royals for a couple of reasons. She was really honest and over the kind of "party culture" in interviews which rubbed a lot of people the wrong way. She also didn't try to stay relevant and instead took a 4 year break between Pure Heroine and Melodrama. I think It's for the best that she didn't try to chase fame because she's kept her fanbase and critical acclaim (less so for her most recent album) without staying in the limelight. She's also been an inspiration, alongside Lana Del Rey, to most of today's dark, singer songwriters like Taylor swift, Olivia Rodrigo, Billie Eilish, etc.

Her best album. Reminds me so much of being in high school. Takes me right back to that headspace.

“Bravado” would’ve change your lives

This album is 10 years old. Lorde released this when she was 16. listening to pure heroine in 2024 for the first time is a different experience because so many artists tried to recreate it or were inspired by it, so now maybe it doesn't feel as original as it was. But no one could recreate it and still feels fresh to so many. in 2013 there was nothing like this. Team or Royals were something you couldn't ignore on the radios because it was so different and mysterious. The album was weird and fresh and original and brave. Pure Heroine defined a generation like few projects did and being a teenager in 2013 me and so many people felt like we were experiencing an historical thing. - and we were. She adressed things that no one in pop was adressing , pop was very shallow and basic those days! and her sound was completely unique. Melodrama is obviously a masterpiece and I have no idea what it feels to listen it before pure heroine, so many years after when pop music changed so much now! But Lorde definitely was the blue print for alternative dark- pop and for edgy pop singers to be a normal and popular thing nowadays.

lorde is the f-ing goat. im a huge taylor fan, but fr lorde changed the pop game forever back w this album. her artistry is unmatched and every song is a hit. no skips. in her entire catalogue. she is one of the best female pop artists ever and arguably female artists period.

Lords isn’t interested in fame and fortune. She wants to make her music and be left alone.

“All work and no play” in Still Sane is pretty much sums up her life at that time. She signed with UMG in 2009 when she’s just 13 and had been working on her writing and vocal since. Then she started working on Pure Heroine when she’s 15.

Feeling like a "proud papa" really got me🥺

its been over 10 years and a song hasn’t changed me like buzzcut season has

In 2013 (I was 13) this album changed my LIFE. Like it Melted my brain. These sounds were so different from everything I’ve heard my whole life and it got me HOOKED to her. So glad y’all are enjoying so far (just finished still sane)

Lorde Changed Pop in that year, She’s always ahead of the time ❤

Team is one of my favorite songs ever and your reactions to it was so satisfying

I don’t know if anyone commented this yet, but in the first track Tennis Court, the opening lyric is “Don’t you think that it’s boring how people talk?” and in the last track A World Alone, the last lyric is “Let ‘em talk”

I truly feel like the world was never ready for Lorde, that’s the only explanation I have for pure heroine and also melodrama being so critically underrated and overlooked. She’s always been 10 steps ahead of anyone in the pop biz and somehow people aren’t catching up until years later. Hence her influencing pretty much every artist since she started. Anyways, Buzzcut Season, ribs, team and glory and gore are the kind of songs I want to live in, like inject it into my veins bc listening to them isn’t enough. edit: solar power is going to be…interesting😅 I reckon y’all are gonna hate it haha

11 years later this album still slaps. Ribs is like wine and only gets better as it ages in my opinion. Hearing it when I was 14 and now 25 I understand its meaning

This album felt so fresh when it came out. I still remember exactly where I was and what I was doing when I heard Tennis Court and Royals and it's been like a decade. Her and Lana changed pop music so much. I still listen to this album regularly.

Lorde is the 🐐

Smiling from start to finish during your “Team” reaction. Still my favorite Lorde track ever, just immediately intoxicating. Thanks guys, always enjoy your reactions. ❤️

This video reinvigorated my love for this album. Thank you for putting the love and effort into listening to music and sharing it with us. Don’t have a lot of friends and you two have made me feel seen. ❤

I think both of you would love Phoebe Bridger’s 2020 album “Punisher” It has great lyrics and vocals and the production is outstanding

David Bowie absolutely loved Lorde wen she 1st came out. He said she changed the scope of music, and many have followed in her footsteps

Lorde is completely in her own lane from the start until today. She is unapologetically herself, releasing music not for anything else but for her own vision. I remember hearing this in 2013 and I knew this was going to be a huge part of my growing up life. Years later, and my favorite songs on this album always changed, and as of recent years, I just cant put into words how Ribs makes me feel. Nostalgia? Gratefulness? Regret? Hope? AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

400 lux is an all-timer for me

Tennis Court is a Non-Stop-Pop classic

Im so excited to watch this on my day off ngl🫶🏽🙇🏽‍♂️

For Lorde having been 15 when she wrote this, she had the genius of tying the album together with the very first lyrics and very last lyrics.

OH I BEEN WAITINF FOR THIS ONE

Truly one of the best albums of all time for me. Literally changed my life when I was 17 and still now, at 27, I get so much from it every time I listen to it. Like ya'll said, Lorde is truly gifted.

Ahhhhhh love seeing people reacting to Lorde! Specially after 11 years 😍 Can’t wait for you to react to Solar Power, very very VERY different to this but so amazing as well

she's just so criminally underrated

the album has a Deluxe version with 6 more songs!!

So glad this video was recommended to me. Pure Heroine got me through the darkest period of my life, age 15-16. To speak to the “not teeny bopper music” conversation, this is why I loved Lorde. Both her music, and her public presence felt very grounded in the experience of being an ACTUAL teenager. Not some bubblegum-best-years-of-your-life bullshit, actual, complicated emotions. It’s dark and difficult, and that’s what being a teenager was for me. Lorde met me where I was at, even if I didn’t relate fully to a lot of her songs, I still felt seen and invited in by them. Those songs kept me company on many scary lonely nights, wondering if I’d ever be okay again. I am so grateful for that album. I’m happy to see more people discovering and enjoying this. I would definitely recommend reacting to Bravado as well. ❤

ok, now "solar power" album! you guys will love too

it's crazy to think how RISKY this debut album was. 2013 was the year of overproduced pop. EDM/Dubstep was everything back in the day.

This album is a MASTERPIECE. Please react to Deluxe version 🙏🏻

i was a teen girl when this came out & it changed my brain chemistry forever

It still blows my mind how young she was when she wrote this. I was 20 when this was released and even being older than her still related a lot to her lyrics. I looked back on my 16 year old self and thought "i could never" lmaooo

this album was the soundtrack of my teenage years, so many emotions whenever i listen to any of these songs

If you notice her first track, Tennis Court starts with “ don’ you thimk it’s boring how people talk. She ends it on “ let them talk.. very clever way to start and end

Watching you react to team was like listening to it for the first time again. I thank you for that 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

Watching you be blown away by this album is so endearing. Can't wait for you to explore Solar Power. I didn't love it when it first came out and feel like I need to revisit it

This album came out about two weeks before my 17th birthday and it's just so nostalgic and so high school for me. I have listened to Still Sane on my birthday every year since its release, it's my one little tradition.

the most insane thing about this record is that she was a whole child writing like this. a MENSA level genius

my favorite album of all time. hearing this on the release being almost the same age as lorde, changed my life forever. no one was doing it like her

This album made my whole teenage years

An album without skip.

Heads up if you're reacting to Solar Power. It's the album that has a bit more of a different sound than Melodrama and Pure Heroine, it's much more healing and positive than the other 2. People disliked the album at first because they wanted something like Melodrama or Pure Heroine, but Solar Power is definitely a masterpiece and I would say it's her Sweetener by Ariana and I don't mean sonically just more of the vibe. It's a different vibe from her other albums but more uplifting and healing.

I love her so much. Glad it is still talked about! She's a part of sweet memories. Buzzcut season and Ribs are my favorites. Relatable and/or self-interpretable lyrics, and I think how some of the sounds are used, so gooood! But it makes me cry, I cannot hear to those songs often haha.

do the deluxe please!! you guys will love it

When your dad said that she’s gifted, she really is, both musically and academically. She’d taken the Woodcock-Johnson Tests of Cognitive Abilities to determine her intelligence when she was 6. The results showed that Lorde was a gifted child.

Would love for you to do "Desire, I want to turn Into You" By Caroline Polachek. Amazing production, a lot of it done by Caroline herself.

love your reactions

Please do Solar Power! It’s honestly overhated and my favorite Lorde album! :) it’s so good for summer!

She recorded and wrote this album and won a Grammy when she was 16 years old. 16!!! Can you believe that? This album is top notch

This album resonated with me so much in high school. It's so adept to that time in your life, especially in a small town, when there's nothing to do but make stupid choices, loiter, be judged and be judgmental, and think about the future.

You guys are amazing! And i loved when your dad said that buzzcut season had a South African tempo to it. as a South African I didn't notice till he said it! And it actually does. 😁

Lorde is my favorite artist of all time 💕

im so happy for this reactionnnn!! this album is amazing

My firts album obsession ❤ Team is my anthem

You should definitely listen to Born To Die- Lana del Rey. It inspired this album and many others in the alt-pop girly genre.

cannot believe she released this album in 2013... she was only 17! she was only 16 during the making of this masterpiece and she changed the music industry forever. proud to be a fan! loved the video, keep up the good content :)

I feel like Team is not as much of a female empowerment song as it is a song about your small-ish town friends and how you feel like you run those streets when your out together. Being 15 when this came out and living in a town you def wouldn’t see on the screen was an out of body experience

Lorde is a kind of person who's very real to herself, especially back in the days when she's just starting in the industry she criticize every thing she's not agree with. That's what i like about her, she doesn't chase fame even if she could and remained underrated and just being creative in making music.

FINALLY! been waiting for this since the melodrama one came out

Bro, I waited too long for this reaction! Too cool

the album as a whole touches on a lot of themes but the primary one is “post-digital youth culture” (stole that one from pitchfork). This album released when she was 16 and, in my opinion, really captured the feeling of being a teen in the early 2010s (i was 15 at the time). This album as a whole is so incredibly important to me, but ribs will always be my favorite from this one. Ribs very accurately depicts how it feels to be a teenage girl suddenly realizing that your childhood is fleeting and mostly in the rearview and wanting back the simplicity of laughing until your ribs hurt at a sleepover with your best friend. Girls have a lot to fear leaving childhood- from anti-aging propaganda to seeing the way women are pitted against each other and the way that changes the dynamics of friendship between women. The album as a whole touches on how tired Lorde (Ella) is of society, what’s expected, and “people talking”. To be a teen in the 2010s was very much to be exposed to alternative culture and to deviate from expected norms. Most of us wanted to be “different”. Maybe it’s the tumblr kid in me, but this album RESONATES.

You kidding me I listened to this when I was 12 and 13 😭!!!! I listened to melodrama when I was 12 and 13 to I’m about be the same age she was when she wrote it that’s crazy 😭

loving your lorde reactionssss haha i think you guys must listen to solar power just to complete lorde’s holy trinity album, but i must say it’s a different sound approach than the other albums but i think you guys might enjoy it haha

one of my fav albums

this will always be my favorite pop album

One of my favorite albums of all time! This was a great reactions, I’d love to see y’all react to Rod Wave Nostalgia!!!!

Ribs is timeless masterpiece

Lorde is art ❤

If you do Solar Power, it is a stark change. But I genuinely think it’s my favorite album by her. I’ve always loved more new wave psychedelic vibes with beautifully layered vocals. And she delivers in my opinion. If you do this album PLEASE do the two bonus tracks.

the song Team right now just reminds me of what happens in palestine, congo and many countries that are still trying to find justice 😔😔

It's inconceivable that this girl could have written this perfection at the age of 16!

also this album resonated with a lot of people going through their teen years...

YESS IVE BEEN WAITING FOR SO LONGGG

It’s been 10 years and this song has been in my top listened on Spotify every year. Ribs has never left my top 50 songs of all times. There are those songs that you just close your eyes and can immerse yourself in. Ribs and a world alone are those two that you just can’t compare to anything else in the world. I’m hoping you go back to ribs and it grows on you a bit. There’s something about those two songs that will brings you a sense of company in any time where you feel scared or alone.

u guys should listen to hozier's music, you'll love it

Something to know before listening to her third album is that it is verrryyyy different. Very good, just very different. Also, she kind of goes into hiding between her albums, communicating with her fans mostly through emails she sends out. I think the American market requires "staying relevant" all the time and maybe thats why she isn't commercially as successful as maybe Billie och Taylor.

YASSSS IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS!!!!

this album was life changing for 10yr old me

GLORY AND GORE IS MY FAV… GRETTINGS FROM MEXICO

lorde = master of nostalgia

I'm so glad you enjoyed this album! It really started a new kind vibe in the whole music industry and inspired a lot of musicians today. ❤

loveeee the reaction!! you guys should DEFINITELY listen to Mitski,, you both would really really love her music!!