Lorde has released another new song from her upcoming album, ‘Melodrama’.
The track, ‘Liability’, is a piano ballad which she described as how her career as a professional musician has or will affect everyone she knows personally. Speaking to Zane Lowe she said “I’m really proud of this bit of songwriting. I feel like I got somewhere they hadn’t been before, which is always a nice feeling as a songwriter. It’s interesting because I had this realisation that because of my lifestyle and what I do for work there’s going to be a point with every single person around me where I’m gonna be attacks on them in some way. If it is having to give up a little portion of their privacy or their life becoming more difficult or whatever. It was just this moment of sadness and I remember it so vividly”.
She added “I love the song so much and it feels so starkly truthful to me. And I think everyone knows what that’s like, to just feel like a fucking liability”.
Speaking of how she wrote the song, the singer said that she was inspired by Rihanna’s ‘Higher’: “I had a little cry and I was just like, ‘It’s always going to be this way, at some point with everyone it’s going to be this way.’ But the song kind of ended up turning into a bit of a protective talismans for me. I was like, you know what, I’m always gonna have myself so I have to really nurture this relationship and feel good about hanging out with myself and loving myself. And the tone of the melody, the way it kind of falls around, it’s almost like it’s kind of drunk or it sort of leans around, it’s got this hip-hop cadence to it.”
‘Liability’ is the second track she has released from her new album which will be released 16th June. This song follows her track ‘Green Light’, which she released last week.
