Big things are coming from Lorde. The singer who disappears into the hedges like Homer Simpson when she is off-cycle peeked her head back out again on Tuesday (April 15) when she sent a three-minute audio message to fans via WhatsApp in which she teased that news is coming.
Describing the feeling of returning to the stage over the weekend at Coachella — where she hopped up for a surprise appearance on the “Girl So Confusing” remix during Charli XCX’s set — Lorde said she reveled in the golden hour glow. “I can feel all that I have shed to be able to be in this the way I am right now… I had this little taste. Fifteen seconds. I could feel it behind me,” she said of the feeling of walking to the main stage at dusk in Indio and thinking about all the Coachellas she’s been to over the past 12 years.
During her appearance at Coachella, Charli helped amp up the hype, shouting “Lorde summer 2025!”
“I felt so real and so solid. I can just feel all that I have shed to be able to be in this the way I am right now. I was like, ‘It’s dusk, in the desert, enjoy it b–ch.’ I just wanted to say hi because everything is about to change,” Lorde said in the voice note. “These are the last moments where it’s just us. Which is crazy. But so right. I’m so ready.”
The singer signed off by thanking her fans for their patience and assuring them that she could feel their presence when she was on stage.
Lorde has been slowly teasing her next era over the past year, most recently with a snippet of an unreleased song on TikTok on April 9 in the first taste of her upcoming as-yet-untitled fourth album. In the brief clip, Lorde filmed herself walking through Washington Square Park in New York City as she listened to the track. “Since I was 17, I gave you everything/ Now we wake from a dream, well baby, what was that?/ What was that?” she sang over a mid-tempo dance beat and ethereal synths.
Last July, she shared a micro snippet of an unreleased song with the message “Will be back in touch,” followed the next month by confirmation from producer Jim-E Stack that they were working together via a photo of the singer staring intently at her laptop. That same month, she wiped all of her social accounts, amping up fan speculation that LP4 was on the way.
Her most recent album was 2021’s Solar Power, which reached No. 5 on the Billboard 200 album chart.
Listen to Lorde’s message below.
The post “Lorde Teases Next Era in WhatsApp Voice Note to Fans: ‘Everything Is About to Change’” by Gil Kaufman was published on 04/16/2025 by www.billboard.com