Lorde updates fans on third album release in lengthy email

Singer teases that new music is ‘so f***ing good’

Lorde revealed that she has started recording music for her third album in a lengthy email to her fans.

On Wednesday (19 May) evening, the 23-year-old singer shared a personal letter with subscribers of her mailing list, updating them on life under lockdown in her native New Zealand.

“You’ll probably be pleased to know my hair is big and long again,” she wrote. “I think after Melodrama came out I said I wouldn’t put out another record until my hair was long – both because hair takes time to grow, and I knew I needed time, and because I knew the next record would require the longest and wildest hair yet.”

She continued: “I started going back to the studio again in December, just for something to do, and to my surprise, good things came out. Happy, playful things. I felt my melodic muscles flexing and strengthening.

“Jack [Antonoff] came over to work in the studio in Auckland, and I went to LA. It flowed. A thing started to take shape. And then, of course, the world shut down. We’re still working away – Jack and I FaceTimed for over an hour this morning going over everything. But it’ll take a while longer.”

“I can tell you, this new thing, it’s got its own colours now. If you know anything about my work, you’ll know what that means… The work is so f***ing good, my friend. I am truly jazzed for you to hear it.”

Last year, Lorde revealed that she would be delaying her new record, which will follow up her 2013 debut Pure Heroine and 2017’s Melodrama, after the death of her dog, Pearl.