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The Spinoff
21 hours ago
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- The Spinoff
A ranking of all 46 Lorde songs
If you love Solar Power, this ranking is probably not for you. Lorde's new album is coming out next month, teased with the singles 'What Was That' and 'Man of the Year'. The first one sounds OK, the second one we'll get to in time. Having a new album on the horizon has pushed me to finish what I've been meaning to write for years: a full ranking of Lorde's songs from worst to best, which I want to get in before we have nine new songs to contend with. Much as New Zealanders always worry about the propriety of dunking on our internationally famous celebrities, these lists only work when the artist's work varies widely in quality and you're prepared to be rude about it. As a Solar Power hater, I am going to be mean about some of Lorde's clangers. But I only have opinions on her entire discography because I've listened to half of it enough times to memorise lyrics upon lyrics. She's a good artist! We all make dumb art sometimes, and someone has to appoint themselves to sort the wheat from the chaff. To narrow things down, I've only included songs with a writing credit for Ella Yelich-O'Connor; no covers, songs that were written by someone else, or remixes (except one). This is a referendum on both her writing and delivery (with some asides about her videos). If you want to make an irate post about why my ranking is wrong, Bluesky is pretty public so I might see it there. 46. 'Secrets from a Girl (Who's Seen It All)' – Solar Power I like the video for this song, meaning I have unfortunately listened to it more times than it deserves. The detached nature of the lyrics eliminates any emotions one could get from it ('Remember what you thought was grief before you got the call?' could have been good in some sort of present tense), and in the end, the throughline only boils down to 'I'm so wise'. The melody is grating, twee and closes with a bafflingly bad cameo from Robyn to boot. Just awful stuff. 45. 'Meltdown (with Stromae, Pusha T, Q-Tip and HAIM)' 'My name is Lorde and I'm here to say / These hip hoppers rap in a rapping way' is made weirder by it being a part of the Hunger Games soundtrack, which Lorde curated. 44. 'The Path' – Solar Power There are two worlds within Waiheke Island. The rich people who buy up holiday homes and largely leave them empty, and the locals increasingly sleeping in sheds or cars as a result. At the time Lorde was filming her Solar Power music videos at Cactus Bay, a group called Protect Pūtiki was (and still is, I think) opposing a marina development at Kennedy Point, with land protectors spending hours freezing in kayaks and getting assaulted by police. To her credit, Lorde donated to the group and promoted it on Twitter (possibly elsewhere as well). Nevertheless, Kieran McLean was right to call Solar Power a 'Climate of Denial'. Watching the videos, I always wonder if the sounds of the security guards ramming a protector with a motorboat echoed, in any way, to the other side of the motu. This all feels more interesting to talk about than the whiny vocals and dull hopes of 'The Path'. 'If you're looking for a saviour, well, that's not me.' Guess not! 43. 'Fallen Fruit' – Solar Power As surefire a way to clear a party as a hippie girl loudly belting out Kumbaya on a guitar. 42. 'Mood Ring' – Solar Power Let's get this out of the way: Lorde has argued that Solar Power is meant to be satirical, not an earnest representation of herself. But self-satire (as opposed to self-deprecation) is hard to do well, and the album isn't witty or cutting enough for the satire to be particularly evident. Even if Lorde feels uncomfortable about rich white women and their foibles, the power that comes with being one can't just be handwaved or self-deprecated away. Like a live-in landlord who 'doesn't want there to be a power dynamic', she's trying to act like one of us while retaining the material trappings that unite her with them. This hits worst on 'Mood Ring'; that 'Let's fly somewhere Eastern' musical bit is dire. 41. 'No Better' – Pure Heroine (Extended) Too right it isn't! 40. 'Dominoes' – Solar Power Fine, I think? I forgot how it went while I was listening to it. It's a song off Solar Power, is what I'm saying. 39. 'Stoned at the Nail Salon' – Solar Power The chorus sounds melodically like the superior 'Wild At Heart' by Lana Del Rey, which in turn borrows from Lana's towering perfection of ' Hope Is A Dangerous Thing '. Go listen to that instead! 38. 'The Man with the Axe' – Solar Power The music in the Spotify ads is more compelling than this album. 37. 'California' – Solar Power There are interesting songs about struggling with fame; this isn't one of them. 36. 'Hold No Grudge' – Solar Power A retrospective on heartbreak years after the dust has settled, with slivers of embarrassment and wonder at your own past feelings, and a little regret that you don't feel deeply about it now. Finally, she's written lyrics that properly fit the sparse musical feeling of Solar Power, but the music is still a bit average. 35. 'Helen of Troy' – Solar Power extended version 'The city's fallin' for me just like I'm Helen of Troy' girl shut up. 34. 'Yellow Flicker Beat' – The Hunger Games soundtrack 'I am newly famous and also an introvert.' 33. 'Still Sane' – Pure Heroine Pure Heroine's most skippable track. 32. 'Million Dollar Bills' – The Love Club EP I respect the musical weirdness of the beat, but I don't necessarily want to listen to it a lot. 31. 'Liability (Reprise)' – Melodrama This only ranks low because it's inherently slight; it's good as a pause between 'Supercut' and 'Perfect Places' and doesn't need to be anything more. 30. 'Biting Down' – The Love Club EP My initial notes were 'Chomp chomp', while waiting for the rest of the song to kick in so I could say something else. It's an OK track but feels like it had more potential. 29. 'Leader of a New Regime' – Solar Power This endears itself to me by sounding slightly like a downbeat Of Montreal song (like this one). It'd be better if she'd paired it, as they do, with some exuberant, energetic songs (like this one). 28. 'Bravado' – The Love Club EP I'm biased towards songs in B Minor, the saddest key, but you can tell this is a song from an early EP. 27. 'Solar Power' – Solar Power This one was OK as a single, at least before commercial overplay; I do remember listening to it and thinking good for you mate, nice that you're feeling a bit better. Sadly, it didn't have enough energy to capture the joy or bliss she (or the character she was playing? whatever) seemed to be feeling, and came off as detached. 26. 'Oceanic Feeling' – Solar Power Pretty and peaceful, like floating in a quiet body of water. 'Breathe out, tune in' is corny though – stop yelling at me to relax, hot yoga teacher Lorde! 25. 'Sober II (Melodrama)' – Melodrama 'Loveless' sounded a bit more upbeat, maybe the maudlin grieving was on its way out? Hell no, it's back baby, and I mean that as a compliment. Grief is annoying and repetitive, and this captures the feeling of cleaning up the champagne glasses, nursing a headache and aware of how stupid the argument you're having is but needing to see it through. It's limited by being just a reprise, but I'm not mad at it. 24. 'A World Alone' – Pure Heroine Fine as an album closer, but ultimately just a lesser imitation of 'Ribs'. 23. 'Big Star' – Solar Power This song is the only one from Solar Power I slightly sing along to and would consider learning how to play. Unfortunately, it gets lost in the endless noodling of soft guitar music and low emotional stakes of the album, and it makes the grief over a dead dog feel sort of ambient. It's decent but I want more from it. 22. 'The Love Club' – The Love Club EP The main song off her EP I repeatedly listened to (outside of 'Royals'); nothing spectacular but it's light and sweet and knowing. 21. 'White Teeth Teens' – Pure Heroine It's a decent song, with a certain quiet anger. It would be better surrounded by different songs to make it feel more cohesive, but there's something aching about the vocals throughout which works well. 20. 'Glory and Gore' – Pure Heroine Musically this song is very listenable. Lyrically paired with the music…it feels like someone putting on a play about bloodlust more than the real thing. Maybe it's supposed to? Whatever, I still like it. 19. 'Perfect Places' – Melodrama As a single, 'Perfect Places' sounds like easily digestible pap that a politician could claim as their favourite song. As an album closer, it's transformed, providing not a perfect resolution but the beginnings of dawn after the hectic and emotional night out of Melodrama. 18. 'Homemade Dynamite' – Melodrama This has a certain soaring quality to it and the intro sounds sinister, which is cool. But I always remain quite aware that this is a song someone has written and recorded; I can't lose myself in it. 17. 'Team' – Pure Heroine Maybe it's the name, but this song does sometimes make me feel like I'm getting told to throw my hands up in the air, which – as she says! – dulls my enthusiasm for it. It's still pretty singable though. 16. 'Writer in the Dark' – Melodrama This one gained a reputation for Lorde shushing everyone at her concerts for singing along with her, but it's a good song! She should've recorded it a cappella, like Tracy Chapman's 'Behind The Wall'; it works best as an unadorned solo line and I can see why she wants to perform it that way. 15. 'What Was That' – Virgin This feels like an echo of Melodrama, which gives one a sense of unease – does Lorde think we only like her when she's taking a scalpel to her insides? Nevertheless, like Melodrama it sounds good and has a pulsating urgency. 14. 'Magnets' (with Disclosure) This one is inseparable from one of the best videos she's ever done, a tiny narrative about affairs and domestic violence revenge plots. The song is a bop too. 13. 'Hard Feelings/Loveless' – Melodrama 'Hard Feelings' is so glum (complimentary). I like how she alternates between barely choking the words out and confessing things in a rapid stream so the other person doesn't have time to interject before you say your full piece. 'Loveless' is fine as its other half, lightly angry. 12. 'Tennis Court' – Pure Heroine The video is fun, and even though the lyrics don't touch on it directly, this song feels like Lorde reacting to the sudden fame brought on by 'Royals'. It's also fun to watch her start a chorus meditating on teen archetypes and let it devolve into 'Let's go down to the tennis court, and talk it up like yeah'. Only teenagers have those stirrings of analysis combined with incoherence! 11. 'Ribs' – Pure Heroine I have to be honest, I like 'Ribs' well enough, but as critic Anthony Fantano said, some of the lyrics on Pure Heroine felt a bit limited topically because of Lorde's age, and 'Ribs' does this musically as well. It feels like nostalgia and longing specifically designed for teenagers, and at age 35 it's not for me. It's still good! We've just got better songs to come. 10. 'Green Light' – Melodrama From the moment the piano slams down, we know something's wrong; we're not exactly here to have a bad time, but Lorde has plainly been riddled with angst and needs to vomit it out. At its best, Melodrama wrestles with the tension of how breakups have a misery and yet a heightened energy, the passion of having loved someone even if it went wrong. I don't know that she fully does want that green light, because staying in that pain seems like a way to hold onto the love. 9. 'Man of the Year' – Virgin Lorde said this is the song she's proudest of off Virgin, and deservedly so. She has merged the stripped back sound of Solar Power with the synthy angst of Melodrama, and in this song it's paying off big-time. The main reasons I haven't ranked it higher are mostly because I find the double-tracking vocals slightly grating and because it turns out 'repeat listenability' was an unconscious criterion for my list, and I'm not always in the mood to have my heart ripped out. Lorde says she's cis but 'in the middle gender-wise', which I can relate to as a femme-of-centre person of woman experience whose gender moves around a lot. Cisness and transness are states of being more than rigid identities, exemplified by the shifts she describes ('I'm a woman except for the days when I'm a man'). Temporary dysphoria isn't as hard as the persistent kind, but it's also quite annoying because – since even DIY trans healthcare pioneers haven't invented shape-shifting yet – it means you can't really take any concrete actions about it, or even fully desire them. You could cut your hair short or get top surgery if you know you might want your hair or tits back again in five years, but not when you know you'll probably want them back in two weeks. Does Lorde relate to what I'm saying? Who knows! She got me to write some stuff about gender! There are times of my life when 'Man of the Yea r' and its video, which may beat out 'Magnets', would've made me sob uncontrollably. It makes me want to ask Lorde if she's watched I Saw The TV Glow yet. She's back! 8. '400 Lux' – Pure Heroine She wrote this at age 17, but feeling ennui that's relieved by going out for a drive in your shitty suburban town with someone you love feels universal. I also love that skidding synth in the chorus. Lovely, sweet song. 7. The 'Girl, So Confusing' Remix (with Charli XCX) When I was 24, a friend texted to apologise for loosely standing me up the previous week. Unused to proactive apologies from men, I cautiously replied that yes, it had hurt my feelings. He wrote back, 'All things aside, I value this friendship and clearly I need to put some effort in myself and send it your way. Coffee next week?' The reason I remember almost the exact wording a decade later is because it literally changed my life and helped me become a stronger person. This song and Lorde's verse is that unexpected relief – oh shit, you do care about me, I'm not a burden? – writ large, combined with pain and anger at a misogynist culture and industry. 6. 'Royals' – Pure Heroine The original article about how racist this song is felt exhaustingly Tumblrite, but it was kind of vindicated when Lorde (as I recall) said in an interview that she was using hip hop beats to critique the genre. We say dumb stuff as teens, but I hated seeing the Labour Party use this song in their campaign, and I wish Lorde would make Winz take it off their hold music playlist. Listening purely to the music, however, it's easy to see why 'Royals' was Lorde's breakout hit. The sparse beat, the crescendos and soaring of the chorus, the bemusement at watching plutocrat consumption patterns, it all still feels as compelling and fresh as when she recorded it. 5. 'Sober' – Melodrama This song starts tense and never lets up its sense of dread, except for a brief loosening in the bridge, perfectly capturing the drunk haziness of thinking that hooking up with your ex again is a good idea. A perfect follower to 'Green Light', reaffirming that we're not here to relax. 4. 'Buzzcut Season' – Pure Heroine This is what Lorde does best: songs that feel wide open and full of possibility and poignance, but also like an ordinary experience you might have with your friends. 3. 'Liability' – Melodrama Using Pachelbel's Canon as a base tune allows some of Lorde's best lyrics to shine through on this track. It's also a perfect comedown after 'The Louvre', the mournfulness of sitting in a dark room and letting your heartbreak permeate your entire, disgusted sense of self; not only am I unlovable, but my friends probably all hate me too. And in Lorde's case, this includes her sense of self as a public figure and product – remember all the 'oh my god, how is she only 17 she's practically a savant' gushing of the early 2010s? The second verse burns an audience who dehumanised her as a genius anomaly among teenage girls. Much of the backlash to Solar Power was because of how unrelatable the themes were to her working-class fans. But one night this very week I was sitting in a deserted carpark having a crying meltdown after a fight with a loved one, and 'Liability' came into my head. Thank u, Lorde. 2. 'Supercut' – Melodrama The music builds perfectly from sparse laments to a banger, the theme is relatable in a particularly vulnerable place, the energy of the song captures both the joy and the pain of toxic nostalgia. Perfect pop tune. 1. 'The Louvre' – Melodrama After looking up 'The Louvre', I feel like I may have misread it for years, interpreting it as about inexorably going back for breakup sex and breakup emotions, when as written it's more about the first obsessive stages of a crush. But all throughout 'Homemade Dynamite', I'm waiting for those opening chords of 'The Louvre' to start. The music swells and pulsates and feels open and expansive but never quite releases the tension; the spoken-word bit shouldn't work but somehow completely does. 'Blow all my friendships to sit in hell with you' at once feels startlingly original and deeply familiar. Can you hear the violence? So far, 'The Louvre' is Lorde's best song.
The Sun
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- The Sun
Glastonbury fans ‘work out' which massive star is playing secret Pyramid Stage set as line up is revealed with huge gap
GLASTONBURY fans have been left scratching their heads over who will be making a last-minute appearance – after a surprise gap opened up in the schedule. Ahead of the massive music festival at Worthy Farm in just two weeks' time, fans have been eagerly trying to organise who they will be seeing and when. 4 4 But with the official timings being released by the Glasto team, an obvious gap on the main Pyramid Stage has got fans scratching their heads. However, on Reddit, some believe they may have cracked it – believing Ed Sheeran is adding the festival to his string of surprise appearances. "Ed sheeran for the TBA pyramid set. Been doing secret gigs all year and this fits," wrote one. "Ed Sheeran I think. Been doing secret sets all year. Just popping up," said another. While another noted: "Ed Sheeran did a 35 minute surprise set at big weekend recently." Ed Sheeran left fans stunned at Radio One's Big Weekender last week when he rocked up on the New Music stage for a surprise slot. The guitar-playing crooner has been promoting his new album, Play, which is set for release in September. As part of this, he has released a number of new songs - including lead track Azizam and Old Phone – to get fans excited. To kick off promotion of the album, Ed joined Jimmy Fallon to perform on New York's Subway in disguise, dressing up like an emo rocker. Glastonbury is never short of exciting surprises on the line-up, with another leaving fans convinced that HAIM will make an appearance on Saturday. There are still several 'TBA' slots that hint at secret sets on the Pyramid Stage and beyond – while others are mysterious bands with names fans don't recognise. The Saturday 6.15pm slot has a mysterious band called "Patchwork", and fans have been trying to work out what it means. One noted: "Patchwork is a book by the author Sylvia Haim..." It follows a similar mystery in 2023 when ChurnUps were revealed to be the Foo Fighters. The mysterious addition to the line-up comes as the cherry on the top of a stellar line-up, which includes Rod Stewart reuniting part of his supergroup Faces as part of his Legends slot. Rollings Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood will be joining Rod on stage, though he's not noted if drummer Kenney Jones will be there too to complete the group. This year's headliners include The 1975, Neil Young and Olivia Rodrigo, while the rest of the bill features big-name acts such as Charli XCX, Doechii, Loyle Carner, The Prodigy and Raye. Some performance slots are listed as 'TBA' - sparking speculation about who might appear. Rumoured names range from Haim and Pulp to Lady Gaga and Radiohead. 4 4
Daily Mail
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
HAIM singer Este reveals a boyfriend once broke up with her over her health condition as the sisters share their dating horror stories for GQ cover
HAIM singer Este has revealed that a boyfriend once broke up with her over her health condition. Sisters Alana, Este and Danielle shared their dating horror stories as they starred on GQ's Heroes Issue cover on Tuesday for their summer edition. Este, 39, - who is now happily engaged to partner Jonathan Levin - reflected on some tough experiences with men in the past amid dealing with her Type 1 diabetes. She was diagnosed at age 14 and has spoken openly about the challenges of managing the condition, especially as a touring musician. She told the publication: 'I had a guy break up with me because I said that there was a possibility that our kid would have diabetes. 'He was like, 'Then why are we here?' And I was like, 'What?!' From A-list scandals and red carpet mishaps to exclusive pictures and viral moments, subscribe to the DailyMail's new Showbiz newsletter to stay in the loop. Alana, 33, sympathised and shared a dating horror story herself, saying: 'I had a boyfriend that gave me an ultimatum between doing Licorice Pizza and staying with him. 'I obviously made the right choice...' She starred in the film Licorice Pizza 2021 as she made her film debut. In the interview Danielle also spoke about the things she learned about herself being single following her split from producer Ariel Rechtshaid. She said: 'That I'm OK alone. Not only OK, but so happy. Sorry to be that b**ch but I'm like, really having a great time being by myself. 'And now, unless someone's gonna make me so much more happy, I'm good.' Este and Jonathan got engaged in February of this year. At the time she took to Instagram to declare that she was off-the-market in a quirky selfie, flashing a massive square-cut diamond ring on her wedding finger. Though she did not caption the snap, her T-shirt said it all. She modeled a pastel blue tee that read 'I'm taken' in bedazzled lettering while appearing to be sitting in a bed. And while it is unknown how long the pal of Taylor Swift and the tech entrepreneur have been dating, the lovebirds have been seen together at several events including this year's Super Bowl game in New Orleans, Louisiana. Sharing the post to her 352K followers, the HAIM bandmember's fans flooded the comments in support of her and her now fiancé. Responding to a fan in the comments that wrote 'oh she's TAKEN taken,' the No Body No Crime vocalist said, 'TAKEN IS RIGHT.' Later that day, the performer shared another post of herself showing off her half-moon tattoo on her chest, seemingly shading her former flames. 'f*ck all my exes,' she penned in the caption. The week before the star took to her Instagram Story to wish her future husband a Happy Valentine's Day with a sweet screenshot of them on Face Time. 'happy valentine's day, i love you j,' she penned over the snap. While she and her sisters Danielle, 35, and Alana - who are her HAIM bandmates - typically keep a low profile, Este has previously gotten candid about her journey with 'self-love.' She told The Cut in 2023: 'I don't think I truly understood self-love until the last three or four years. 'There's an air of confidence that comes from just loving yourself, the good and the bad.' The star — who was an opener alongside her sisters on Taylor Swift's Eras Tour — also previously revealed the importance of surrounding oneself with strong female influences. The blonde beauty specifically praised Swift, 35, for being a good support system when she just needs a friend to talk to. 'She's a true genius, and she's also, like, the best friend and the best hang,' she said of the Cruel Summer singer. 'We had an amazing time at the U.S. Open ... yeah I would do that like a jillion times over again. That was so much fun,' she added. Este did not tag Jonathon nor did she reveal any further details into her plans to exchange nuptials with her man. The Heroes Issue of British GQ is available via digital download and on newsstands on June 10.
Daily Mail
29-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
HAIM pose for their new album cover in a VERY unlikely location while sporting a WHSmith carrier bag - and fans are going wild
The all-American girl band HAIM has posed for their new album cover in a very surprising UK location. The Grammy-nominated trio, named after the surname of bandmates and sisters Alana, 33, Danielle, 36, and Este, 39, have become internationally famous for their pop-rock songwriting and instrumental skills. But the cover of their next single from their upcoming album I Quit, set to drop on Friday, depicts a location much closer to home, as far as UK fans are concerned. The artwork for the song Take Me Back features a snap of the American band on Portland Street in Manchester - with youngest sister Alana clutching a WHSmith bag. The album, set for full release on June 20, marks HAIM's first studio recording in five years, so fans were already hyped - but the randomness of the shoot has sent them over the edge. From A-list scandals and red carpet mishaps to exclusive pictures and viral moments, subscribe to the DailyMail's new Showbiz newsletter to stay in the loop. One user questioned on X: 'This is Manchester. Why are HAIM near Piccadilly Gardens?' Another joked: 'The new HAIM single cover taken in Manchester, like girls, why didn't we hang?' Someone else said: 'HAIM's new single cover has reminded me how much I miss Vegan Shack [restaurant in Manchester]. This is Portland Street in Manchester.' This is most certainly not the first time Manchester has featured on notable music artwork. On the cover of Oasis's iconic 1994 debut album Definitely Maybe is a now legendary house in the West Didsbury area of Manchester. And Salford Lads Club, the home of a youth group, has become a pilgrimage site for fans of The Smiths, who were pictured outside on the front of their 1986 album The Queen Is Dead. But it still caught fans unawares to see somewhere so familiar in HAIM's album art, with one commenting in confusion on X: 'HAIM single cover in Manchester with Alana clutching a WHSmith bag...?' Another said in complete shock, of the location near the city centre's Piccadilly Gardens: 'WTF were HAIM doing in Manchester?' The album, set for full release on June 20, marks HAIM's first studio recording in five years, so fans were already hyped - but the randomness of the shoot has sent them over the edge (pictured) Someone else, posting a picture of the exact place on Portland Street where the photo of the band was taken, said: 'That's... Portland Street, Manchester. 'Not the first place I'd pick for a single cover but pop off.' Fans also noted the album cover was styled after a paparazzi snap of British actors Keira Knightley and Jamie Dornan, taken in 2004. One said: 'The artwork for HAIM's new single Take Me Back was inspired by a 2004 photo of Keira Knightley and Jamie Dornan. Drops tomorrow - don't miss it.' The cover shows the three sisters walking along the street, with youngest sisters Danielle and Alana dressed exactly like the Brits in the noughties snap. The attention to detail is astonishing, with Danielle even wearing a white scarf draped over her shoulders at exactly the same angle Keira is sporting it at in the photo. It comes after three other singles the band released from their upcoming album earlier this year also took inspiration from iconic paparazzi snaps. The cover of Down To Be Wrong, for example, which debuted last month, was based on a picture of actors Jared Leto and Scarlett Johansson kissing - while he distractedly tried to look at his mobile flip phone at the same time. The director of the cover shoot, Terrence O'Connor, spoke out on X (pictured) about the process of bringing the album art to life They are set to return to Manchester later this year, for a huge show at the Co-Op Live stadium in October, while on tour. Pictured: HAIM at the Grammy Awards in 2021 But in a first for the band's marketing for this album, the inspiration behind the cover for Take Me Back is uniquely British. And in a pleasing Easter egg moment for HAIM fans familiar with Manchester, well-known spots like restaurant Don Tacos and One Piccadilly Gardens offices are visible in the cover photo, the Manchester Evening News reports. The director of the shoot, Terrence O'Connor, spoke out on X about the process of bringing the album art to life. The photographer, known for his long-time collaboration with British singer Charli XCX, said: 'Take me back to me and D buying out the Manchester Victoria's Secret and shooting this two hours later lol. 'Artwork by me for Take Me Back by HAIM. Styled by us chaotically the morning of as always. A perfect song for my/your nostalgia addiction out Friday!' HAIM's single release will come after their hit performance at BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend in Liverpool last weekend. And they are set to return to Manchester later this year, for a huge show at the Co-Op Live stadium in October, while on tour.
Perth Now
10-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
Clairo pulls out of Primavera Sound 2025
Clairo has pulled out of Primavera Sound 2025 due to 'logistical issues'. The 26-year-old singer/songwriter had been due to perform at the festival in Barcelona on June 6 but has now axed her appearance completely. She said in a statement on Instagram: 'Unfortunately, I'm not able to make it to Primavera this year and I'm so sad about it, because Primavera is iconic and returning to the fest is something I've been looking forward to for ages. 'There are some logistical issues with getting my show to/from Primavera that have forced my hand here. I never want to give my fans anything but the absolute best set I can do, and that won't be possible at this time. I'm so sorry again and I hope to be able to make it up to you sooner than later.' A message from Primavera stated: 'We are deeply saddened by this news and share the fans' frustration. We, too, were very much looking forward to welcoming her again at Primavera Sound Barcelona.' Sabrina Carpenter, HAIM, Beach House, TV On The Radio, Wet Leg and others will still perform on June 6, while Charli XCX and Chappell Roan will headline on the other days. Meanwhile, Clairo previously revealed that Charli XCX helped her to learn to appreciate her old songs, after they performed her song 'Sofia' from her debut album 'Immunity' during a joint appearance at the Laneway festival. She told Seventeen magazine: 'It's so funny—I didn't think people would mind that I didn't play it, but it became a problem. I got myself into a pickle. 'We were doing this festival in Australia and New Zealand called Laneway, and Charli was headlining. We played a few shows, and she told me she watched my set the day before. But she was like, 'Where's 'Sofia'?' and I said, 'I don't play it. Don't you have any songs where you're just like, Man, we've done it a lot'?' Then we came up with the idea to play it together. I was like, 'Well, if anyone can make me sing it again, I think it would be you, Miss Charli.' So we planned on it and had no sound check. We sort of winged it and it was awesome.'
