She came out of the channel and introduced a new song. However, the Police Police Hard plans to the Lorde Singer Lorde

Tonight at seven, New Zealand singer Lorde wrote on the photo of New York Washington Square Park. Since she added a video from the park with the excerpts of her new song Was That at the beginning of the month, she did not have to specify where she was to come to her invitation for her fans and fans.

Hundreds of young people met in the park, no wonder: the singer was supposed to introduce the first song four years after the last album.

« If she didn’t come, it would mean that summer has not yet come, » said a fan for The New York Times. People climbed the trees, surrounded the fountain, had phones prepared and expected a singer with her little concert.

The rest of the dramaturgy was taken care of by the New York police.

No concert without permission

No marketing in the form of a date notification to publish a song or interviews in Tolkska or a clip demonstration. The promo took Lord in her own hands with all the risks.

Shortly before the seventh evening of April 22, however, she published a notice on Instagram that the planned performance would not take place. « The police are disturbing the action, » she wrote. « I’m really impressed, how many of you came! But they tell me you have to break up … I’m very sorry. »

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A spokeswoman for the Municipal Department of Parks and Recreations for The New York Times confirmed that the city has canceled the performance.

For a concert in the park in New York it is necessary to have permission to sound from parks. And Lorda didn’t have either of it.

It was a scene that would fit into any indie film. But instead of the actress it was a real Lorde, and instead of cameras quantity mobile phonesthat captured how the police came to the park and interrupted the event.

Something similar happened to singer Ed Sheeran. His February street performance in the Indian city of Bangalúr was interrupted by a cop who disconnected the cables. Sheeran had to leave his small stage and shouted in the images of published on social networks that he had a permit.

In the case of Lord, some people left the park, but most of them remained after they asked them to break up through social networks. Some hoped that they would still be, others enjoyed a pleasant evening. « I am not hurrying anywhere anywhere. So I will stay here a little until the crowd has disappeared and it is easier to leave, » said fan Alexa Hamilton.

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And she also played music. Waiting for the singer’s performance turned into a dance party celebrating her discography. The evening was calm, but it was obvious that people were not going to leave voluntarily. Later, the police came to the park of the police, which was welcomed by a loud manifestation of disagreement.

Those who stayed in the park or returned again were rewarded. Lord arrived after half past nine. She climbed a small platform and danced without barriers, while her new song Was That’s That Was was from her speakers.

In the song, Lorde reflects an intense transient relationship that was full of euphoria, but eventually ended. He remembers passion, the subsequent disappointment and in the chorus asks what it was.

To get out directly from the sewer

But where was she all the time? The shots of her performance were used by Lord in the video clip for the song. In it, he goes to New York straight into the park and came out of the sewer.

Lorde has never been one of the pop stars from which music fans have common expectations. Although her work influenced Billie Eilish, Olivia Rodrig’s or Gacie Abrams, she went differently from the beginning.

When she was 16, she sang in the Royals song that she would never belong to the kings, yet with her debut album Pure Heroine about youth and theft won two Grammy Awards: for the song of the Year and the best pop solo performance.

At that time, she got first in the American Billboard Hot 100 ranking, making it one of the youngest solo artists who succeeded.

Although she has not released anything for the last four years, she was reminded last year on a joint song with Charli XCX, who is one of the most prominent personalities of contemporary pop. By collaborating, they surprised the music world.

Both singers are similar: they started to create at a young age, broke through their hits, but their relationship was covered by tension and alleged hostility for a long time. However, this has changed.

Uncertainty, envy and confusion

Charli released last year on a successful album Brother Girl, with confusing, describing a complicated relationship with an unnamed colleague from the music industry. Fans quickly identified Lorda as a possible addressee of these words.

Charli describes the insecurity, envy and confusion she felt in connection with their relationship: « Sometimes I think you may hate me, sometimes I think I may hate you, maybe you want to be me. »

She also hinted at how they often compared their public in her youth: « People say we are similar, they say we have the same hair. »

The day before the album was released, Charli sent Lorde a voice message in which she admitted that the song was about it. Lorde, however, heard the song before she received the message, and immediately responded with justification and proposal for cooperation. This was the Remix The Girl, with the Confusing Version With Lord, in which both singers openly talk about their feelings, uncertainty and misunderstanding.

In its part of the composition, Lorda admits the fight against eating disorders and inferior feelings, while Charli talks about jealousy and desire for recognition. Their joint work was taken with enthusiasm and the song became one of the most personal pop songs of the year.

The highlight of their reconciliation was a joint performance at the Coachella festival a week ago, where they performed this song a thousand fans.

She has gained attention again

Lord itself, however, is known for a minimalist and alternative pop style that changes with each album. In 2017, on the album Melodrama described the breakup so consistently that it became a conceptual story for the whole evening and became a club euphoria. And then she disappeared.

Instead of the third album, long walks on the beaches of New Zealand, a farewell to Instagram and letters for fans that she wrote as a high school friend, who sometimes send a postcard from the other side of the world, came. When she released the album Solar Power in 2021, it sounded as if she decided not to be a pop star, but a songwriter. Suddenly she came up with a naturally tuned, acoustic, introspective album that surprised several.

Music critics were confused, some fans too. But Lorde seemed satisfied.

Now he returns again and with the same confusion and on its own way. Carefully, outside the mainstream attention of large announcements in the form of PR articles, ads and videos on Instagram. As if she still believed that music was best listened to especially with a crowd of people and not through the algorithm of phones.

As with Royals, where she sang that she would never be one of the « royal in society, » and finally fired her to the heights, and the introduction of the new song again took care of getting the public attention.

Even the media wondered the event for a while. Rolling Stone called it a « silent return », and The New York Times tried to track whether Lorda broke the city decree, or just an unwritten rule that music should be large, noisy and approved by the authorities.