Lorde Shares Snippet of New Music: Listen

Lorde has returned with her first taste of new music since releasing Solar Power in 2021. Today (April 9), she dropped a snippet of an unreleased song on her official TikTok account, complete with a brief video of her pacing around Washington Square Park in New York City. In the visual, she films herself singing along to the track, mouthing the lyrics: “Since I was 17/I gave you everything/Now we wake from a dream/Well baby, what was that?” Watch the seconds-long clip, which marks Lorde’s first-ever post on TikTok, below.

In addition to Lorde’s post, the artist wiped her official website and Instagram account clean. Fans have been speculating that Lorde is gearing up to release her fourth studio album since July, when she shared an even shorter tidbit of a track and and wrote on Instagram, “Will be back in touch,” as Billboard reported at the time. The following month, producer Jim-E Stack hinted that he and Lorde were working together when he shared a photo of Lorde on her laptop.

Revisit Pitchfork’s 2021 piece “7 Great Lorde Live Performances.”