SONG REVIEW: Lorde - "Man of the Year"
Crashing out in the most calm and collected way possible.
Life has always been a lot for Lorde. Be it pratfalls of fame or a painful breakup, her music long has gone about expressing her emotions in a careful, nuanced manner. For most of “Man of the Year”, this same formula is followed, but you can tell there’s something else bubbling underneath the surface. Breathy chants back Lorde’s attempts to get back on her feet after a particularly rough end of a relationship; her penmanship here is much more cutting than previous single “What Was That”. When the crash out does happen, it’s as cacophonous as a Lorde song has ever sounded, but not as wild as you might think. The climax mirrors the build, deliberately NOT being loud for the sake of being loud. It makes “Man of the Year” a much more interesting evolution for Lorde as Virgin approaches, and thankfully shows there’s more beneath the hood than retreads of great ideas from her past.
Verdict: Fracturepop/10
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