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Lorde Drops First New Single in Four Years, ‘What Was That’


Lorde has released her first new solo song in nearly four years, 'What Was That,' featuring video footage from her performance in New York on Tuesday.

“What Was That” is the singer’s first major release in almost four years, following 2021’s “Solar Power.” However, her profile has been high in recent months due in part to her collaboration with Charli xcx, “Girl, So Confusing,” which finds the two artists working out some personal misunderstandings in the song’s lyrics. Lorde performed the song with Charli at New York’s Madison Square Garden last fall and at the first weekend of the Coachella festival earlier this month. While many fans left, many lingered, and eventually Blood Orange frontman Dev Hynes — who is reported to have collaborated on Lorde’s new album — arrived with a portable speaker blasting the song.

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