You're listening to Song Exploder,
where musicians take apart their songs and piece by piece tell the story of how they were made.
I'm Rishikesh Hirway.
This episode contains explicit language.
Lorde just put out a new song and announced that she has a new album coming out this June.
She's also touring in the fall with some past Song Exploder guests like Blood Orange and Empress Of as support.
And so hearing all of this news these days,
I thought it'd be nice to revisit her Song Exploder episode from 2017.
She came over to the studio,
and I have a very cute photo of her playing with my dog from right before we recorded the interview.
Here's her episode on Sober.
Lorde is a Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, and producer.
My full name is Ella Maria Lani Yellich O'Connor.
So it's a whole thing.
Her second album, Melodrama, debuted at number one on the charts in June 2017,
five months before her 21st birthday.
In this episode, Ella breaks down her song, Sober.
You'll hear how it started with the original demos she made with her co-producer, Jack Antonoff,
and how the song changed over the course of working on it for months and months.
My name is Lorde.