{"id":2388,"date":"2017-09-25T08:12:58","date_gmt":"2017-09-25T15:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/songexploder.net\/?p=2388"},"modified":"2025-05-21T08:21:52","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T15:21:52","slug":"lorde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/songexploder.net\/lorde","title":{"rendered":"Episode 118: Lorde"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"subhead\">&#8220;Sober&#8221;<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/songexploder.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/SongExploder118-Lorde-600x420.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"420\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/songexploder.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/SongExploder118-Lorde.png 600w, https:\/\/songexploder.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/SongExploder118-Lorde-300x210.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"monetization\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" width=\"100%\" style=\"min-width: 300px\" src=\"https:\/\/play.prx.org\/e?ge=prx_93_65db3edd-38c5-42b9-bf21-47d3bf0e38b1&#038;uf=http%3A%2F%2Ffeed.songexploder.net%2FSongExploder\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"download-links\">LISTEN: <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/lorde-sober\/id788236947?i=1000709281998\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">APPLE<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/3GTyzb8uNLJOJBUbxkMfpR?si=fMyuYkZcTpWH0iGyhsaofQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SPOTIFY<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/music.amazon.com\/podcasts\/58a85de5-7ebb-464c-a13e-9d3008deb3bb\/episodes\/f1a91ad5-00d9-4284-9dd8-1cfafa6cd9d2\/song-exploder-lorde---sober\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">AMAZON<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/pod.link\/songexploder\/episode\/c77eab2bcec5faa73f8f2a73c4c36af5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">OTHER APPS<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lorde.co.nz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lorde<\/a>\u00a0(aka Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O&#8217;Connor) is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grammy.com\/grammys\/artists\/lorde\">Grammy Award-winning<\/a> singer, songwriter, and producer.\u00a0Her second album, <em>Melodrama<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/columns\/pop\/7842184\/lorde-melodrama-no-1-billboard-200-tweets\">debuted at number one<\/a> on the charts in June 2017 \u2013 five months before her 21st birthday. In this episode, Ella breaks down her song \u201cSober.\u201d You\u2019ll hear how it started, with the original demos she made with her co-producer <a href=\"https:\/\/songexploder.net\/bleachers\">Jack Antonoff<\/a>, and how the song changed over the course of working on it for months and months.<\/p>\n<p>You can get <a href=\"https:\/\/geo.itunes.apple.com\/us\/album\/sober\/id1211010237?i=1211010245&amp;mt=1&amp;app=music&amp;uo=4&amp;at=10lMg6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cSober\u201d on iTunes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Illustration by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lerms.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Carlos Lerma<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For a transcript of this episode, <a href=\"http:\/\/songexploder.net\/transcripts\/lorde-transcript.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"header\">footnotes<\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Malay_(record_producer)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Malay<\/a> (producer)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kukharrell.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kuk Harrell<\/a> (vocal engineer)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.laurasisk.com\/\">Laura Sisk<\/a> (engineer)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/TNGHT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TNGHT<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Sober&#8221; LISTEN: APPLE \u00b7 SPOTIFY \u00b7 AMAZON \u00b7 OTHER APPS Lorde\u00a0(aka Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O&#8217;Connor) is a Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, and producer.\u00a0Her second album, Melodrama, debuted at number one on the charts in June 2017 \u2013 five months before her 21st birthday. 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