“You guys, today we have the number one album in America. from the bottom of my heart, thank you,” she writes. “‘Royals’ was, to quote David Chase, ‘a moonshot, a dreadnought.’ There were no such guarantees with Melodrama — that’s why this means so much.”
David Chase is the creator of The Sopranos, and he described the show in those terms.
Lorde then continues, “When I was a kid I thought big records had to be made a certain way — to be sterile & calculated in craft; that something had to be sacrificed. I have had the divine thrill of disproving that firsthand, twice over.”
Referring to her collaborator on Melodrama, Jack Antonoff, Lorde explains, “Jack and I made this in rooms alone, telling secrets and uncovering truths, and i just know that 15yo me would have been so f*** proud.”
She finishes triumphantly: “SO WHAT I’N TRYNA SAY IS LET’S F***IN GEEEET IIIIIIT MORE JOY IN ALL OUR FUTURES MELODRAMA FOREVER.”
Melodrama is Lorde’s first U.S. #1 album; her debut, Pure Heroine, peaked at #3.
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