Melodrama doesn't draw from those specific influences, but as Lorde herself has declared, "I don't think about staying in my genre lane." Graceland may have also inspired Lorde through its fusion of musical genres and styles, combining the observations of a singer-songwriter with elements of Creole folk music and South African vocal chants (and igniting controversy as a result). How lovely that first love is Malibu, and Graceland is enlightenment after love lost." She even compared Simon's songwriting to that of Miley Cyrus's "Malibu" when it was released, tweeting: "Enjoying Miley's idea of Malibu as utopia, or the answer, similar to how Paul Simon talked about Graceland – as somewhere we hope we're headed. Simon's 1986 album Graceland was a significant inspiration to Lorde while she was recording Melodrama in summer 2016 you can even hear a sample of him saying "This is my favorite tape" at the start of the "Loveless" half of "Hard Feelings/Loveless." Along with the soft rock of Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell and Fleetwood Mac, Lorde would often listen to Simon's music while riding the subway in New York or taking cab rides home from parties in her native Auckland. Here are some of the musicians who helped inspire Melodrama's sound, lyrics, subject matter-or all the above. What I found so revelatory about someone like Paul Simon or Don Henley is it's really nice for me to sit down with my headphones and be schooled in the art of writing a perfect song." That's something every young person is all over. "I needed to be challenged in a different way. "I've been so dialed in to youth culture and pop culture," Lorde said in a recent interview with NME. The emotional cocktail of young adult heartbreak led to Pure Heroine's minimalist electronics being traded in for a sprawling, diverse range of music that, with the help of producer Jack Antonoff, traverses everything from '80s power ballads to club bangers to experimental vocoder pieces. Once the precocious teenager who made shrewd observations on her small-town life contrasting with hip-hop excess, Lorde on Melodrama takes a far more dynamic route in the wake of her first significant breakup. Many critics have proclaimed it the best pop album of the year so far, in no small part due to 20-year-old Lorde's growth as a songwriter and an artist. It's been a week since Melodrama, the much anticipated follow-up to New Zealand singer Lorde's 2013 debut Pure Heroine,was released worldwide and took the pop music sphere by storm.
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