Lorde’s new music Liability turned into inspired via the singer’s emotional response to hearing Rihanna’s Higher for the first time.
The superstar revealed how a good deal her trendy launch become prompted by using the R&B sensation whilst headlining a mystery iHeartRadio concert on the Houdini Estate in the Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles on Tuesday (29Aug17).
Lorde revealed she first heard the song in her local New Zealand on the case of a hard day, for the duration of a vehicle ride home after an extended stroll.
“I was crying due to the fact I changed into feeling this very particular feeling of being too much for somebody,” she advised lovers, who have been shuttled to the Laurel Canyon gig. “It’s a totally ordinary feeling while you experience like you’re too much. Like you’re taking over too much area. And I felt like nobody should ever love me for all that I am because I’m plenty…
“I experience the whole thing so deeply, and that’s what (new album) Melodrama is about; the intensity of emotion, especially when you’re 19 or 20.”
After telling the story, Lorde sang the opening strains of Rihanna’s music earlier than acting Liability to the gang of eager lovers.
Tuesday night’s intimate display, which changed into the part of a sequence of Secret Sound Session? Concerts hosted by way of AT&T and iHeartRadio, observed the 20-yr-vintage’s bizarre overall performance at the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday (27Aug17), wherein the ill Royals hitmaker selected now not to sing and alternatively presented fanatics and viewers an interpretive dance ordinary to a remix of her unmarried Homemade Dynamite.
It was later said that the celebrity kept away from making a song because of a war with influenza, which she becomes nevertheless fighting on Tuesday night time.