Lorde has revealed several behind-the-scenes facts about her latest album, Virgin, including that one of her favorite songs didn’t make the final track list.
In a post on social media Monday, Lorde wrote that she cut a song from the album at the “last minute because I thought it diluted the vision.” She added that it was one of her “absolute favs” that she wrote with Fabiana Palladino, who also worked on “Current Affairs” and “If She Could See Me Now.”
That’s not the only unreleased song either, with Lorde adding, “Couple really good B sides knocking around actually.”
The post contained some other interesting stats, including that “David” was the first song she started writing for the album, but the second-to-last one she finished. The last song she started writing was “Clearblue,” and the final song she finished was “Broken Glass.”
“Favourite Daughter,” Lorde added, was the “hardest song… to write, to produce, to sing. Kicked my ass.” And parts of many of those songs, Lorde noted, were written during the early hours of the morning after bouts of insomnia.
Elsewhere, Lorde spoke about long wanting to sample Dexta Daps’ “Morning Love,” which she finally got to do on “Current Affairs.” And as for her favorite sound on the album, Lorde said it was a tie between “the ripping tremolo + icy vocal adlib at the end of ‘David’ and the start of ‘Hammer.’”
She added of this sonic connection between the album’s first and last tracks: “People always thought the linked start and end of [Pure Heroine] was intentional; it wasn’t, but starting and ending Virgin at the fountain was.”
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Lorde released Virgin last Friday and celebrated the album’s arrival with a surprise set at Glastonbury. She’s set to hit the road later this year in support of the album, with a North American leg starting Sept. 17 in Austin and wrapping Oct. 22 in Seattle.
From Rolling Stone US
