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Lorde Fished Her Phone Out of the Ocean
The singer did a full 180 on Solar Power’s anti-tech stance.
There have been a handful of surprises to go with the announcement of Lorde’s fourth album, Virgin, from her “expanding” gender identity to her artistic separation from Jack Antonoff, but one of the biggest is that she’s done a bit of an about face on all her gadgets. She still manages to be very Lorde about having a phone, referring to it as “full of liquid crystals” that she “commands to summon up pictures.” One way to stave off the pessimism of techno-supremacy is to make it feel magical and witchy as opposed to oppressive and tedious. Doechii shouts out Instagram DMs and TikTok in “DENIAL IS A RIVER.” Charli XCX’s somewhat recently resurfaced “party 4 u” feels iconic in part due to its autotune — her sadness funneled through machines can’t hide the hurt in her voice.
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