There are things we know, such as the fact that Lorde is working on her fourth album. The New Zealand singer has been very slowly teasing the follow-up to 2021’s Solar Power for almost a year now, but until Thursday night (July 11) fans had not officially heard even a single snippet of music.
That changed in a major way when the 27-year-old singer hopped on her Instagram Story to share some pics of herself in the studio and bop along to a brief clip of a new song. And when we say brief we mean *VERY* brief, as in, less than two seconds.
It wasn’t much, but it was something. In clips shared by fans, Lorde — wearing a plaid shirt with her hair in pigtails — smiles and rocks her head side-to-side as she grooves to a lyric-less beat that appears to have a techno-y, dance vibe. The caption to the tease gave hope: “Will be back in touch.”
Her fans were, not surprisingly, freaking out at even just the hint of fresh tracks. Among the comments on re-posts of the snippet were: “2025 will be THE year,” “LITERALLY WILL CHANGE MY LIFE,” “I’M IN LOVE,” “IM NOT OKAY” and the super chill “omgmgmgmgdejmonkfKNHJABFJHKABFDKHLASBFIHASBFKHLABFHKLABFLKIHAFBAJKHLsfDSLJFK ASKJGRFVASDEYHILJFBQAWIDL.”
Last month, Lorde posted a series of cryptic pictures and wrote “use the existing tools wherever possible” alongside a string of images including a copyright symbol, three variations of the letter L, the number four in parentheses and a recycling logo. “If the tools do not exist you are spiritually obligated to create them,” she added along a longer string of confusing images, with more Ls, another 4, a bunch of stars, the number 27, what looked like a Tarot card, the infinity symbol, a shark, a rabbit and an Egyptian figure.
At the time she didn’t offer any further explanation and the accompanying images didn’t shine any light on what they meant, consisting of a snap of her in an all-black outfit staring over a balcony, then spitting off that balcony, holding a pill in her hand with the word “spit” printed on it, along with a shot of a nightstand with a pile of books and an ashtray filled with gold jewelry and a close-up of her at a swimming pool.
In December, she posted another confusing snap — since deleted — in which she sat in striped pajamas listening to something, clarifying, “listening to myself.” She also teased what appeared to be a few new songs during a headlining gig at the Boardmasters Festival in the U.K. in 2023, with enterprising fans guessing that the tracks were titled “Silver Moon” and “Invisible Ink.”
Check out a fan post of the Lorde tease below.
