<p id=”par-1_53″>Lorde’s 2017 <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/music/”>album</a> <em>Melodrama </em>debuted at No. 1 and received widespread critical acclaim. The success would be a dream come true for many artists, but Lorde said the dizzying <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/notable-people/?swcfpc=1″>fame</a> became too much. She stepped back from that version of herself for a time, but ultimately realized she wasn’t being true to herself.</p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-lorde-said-she-had-to-step-back-from-fame-after-melodrama”>Lorde said she had to step back from fame after ‘Melodrama’</h2>
<p id=”par-2_29″>Lorde released her second album, <em>Melodrama</em>, in 2017. It received a nomination for Album of the Year at the Grammys. She began to feel overwhelmed by the exuberant reaction.</p>
<p id=”par-3_39″>“This thing that was my hobby that I did after school is now, like, my employment, and I employ all these other people,” she said on the <em>Therapuss</em> podcast, per <a target=”_blank” href=”https://people.com/lorde-reveals-how-she-feels-about-solar-power-album-now-11749399″ rel=”noreferrer noopener”>People</a>. “It’s gotten too big. Like, I’m a kid.”</p>
<p id=”par-4_11″>She decided to step back, and moved <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/news/lorde-misses-most-about-new-zealand.html/”>home to New Zealand</a>.</p>
<p id=”par-5_37″>“[I] had this moment of being like, ‘I don’t know if I want to do all of that. I’m going to be this girl who’s sort of off the map and really mysterious and even more distant.’”</p>
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<p id=”par-6_32″>She created her <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/news/robyn-lends-vocals-lordes-new-album-solar-power.html/”>next album, <em>Solar Power</em></a>, while in this “joyful and chill” headspace. Ultimately, though, she didn’t think the person she was when she released <em>Solar Power</em> was her true self.</p>
<p id=”par-7_68″>“I love<em> Solar Power</em> so much, and I truly needed to make it. I wouldn’t be here with another album if I hadn’t made<em> Solar Power</em>, but I think it showed me that you have no choice but to be who you’re supposed to be,” she said, adding, “Me disappearing and being all wafty and on the beach, I was like, ‘Actually, I don’t think this is me.’”</p>
<p id=”par-8_9″>Instead, she thinks she needs to make gut-punching “bangers.”</p>
<p id=”par-9_65″>“I don’t think I’m supposed to vibe out, and it was kind of sad for me ‘cause I love to vibe out,” she said. “That is me to my core. In an alternate universe where I just lived in New Zealand and worked at an organic farm or something, that would be my vibe. But it’s not the life for me, I think, right now.”</p>
<p id=”par-10_8″><a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/news/lorde-said-intuition-told-move-jack-antonoff-collaboration.html/”>Her newest album</a>, <em>Virgin</em>, came out June 27.</p>