局外人流行歌手几乎都变成他们戏弄业内人士认为，但聪明的人不会在它蹭我们的脸。

“Solar Power,” Lorde’s first album in four years, opens with “The Path,” a high-gloss ’60s folk-inspired pop song that offers a hazy sketch of the singer’s life now: She’s a “teen millionaire having nightmares from the camera flash,” who lives on an island and is unavailable when the label calls. There are apparent references to the 2016 Met Gala: “Arm in a cast at the museum gala/ Fork in my purse to take home to my mother/ Supermodels all dancing ’round a pharaoh’s tomb.”

There’s nothing wrong with references to the 2016 Met Gala, which has already given us so much — without it we wouldn’t have Taylor Swift’s “Reputation” — but “The Path” is an early flashing red light that “Solar Power” has a very different Lorde on offer.

新西兰创作型歌手（出生艾拉Yelich - 奥康纳）是16时，她发行了她的首张2013，“纯的女主角。”通过职业生涯命中制作，锚定“皇家”，即在遥远的明星生活表示惊叹和怀疑，这是一个简单的，个人的，华丽的专辑，似乎像它一直存在。她的第二张专辑，而更令人“情节剧”，是哥特-Y，伤心的女孩极多主义的杰作。

它的发行之后，洛德退到海滩，从互联网上，发现杂草拔掉。这是不可避免的名气将她拉接近喷气飞机，岛屿，老虎-ON-A-金皮带名人，她曾经唱过有关，而不是谁计数的美元，她在火车上党的女孩。她应该改变，成长，并告诉我们 - 这是字面上她的工作。

但是洛德的最大的特点是她苦笑relatability和“太阳能发电”快速开始工作擦除它。

洛德3.0只是想帮助。她evangelizes瑜伽和健康疗法 - 或许使得人谁做的乐趣，这是很难说。她只是希望你留开到爱情，贴近你的家人，也许偶尔到外面去。

It could all be a concession to the inevitable, an admission that fame has so divided Lorde from her flock (“Now if you’re looking for a savior, well that’s not me”) that preaching to them over the divide is all she can do. But in a world grappling with racial-justice issues, in the uncertain middle of a pandemic, “Solar Power,” with its vague whiff of rich white lady condescension, doesn’t land right.

有一些勇敢的，甚至可爱的关于这张专辑的意愿夺走熟悉的一切，即使它不一定工作。它依赖于声学吉他而不是通常的敲击节奏，和洛德的深厚唱功注册几乎认不高，在搭配更集中放置。

最小的自我意识和给人留下深刻印象的材料相结合，致命证明。大部分的歌曲，尤其是在这张专辑的低迷下半年，彼此相差无几。

It’s tempting to think that there has to be more to it, that Lorde and longtime collaborator Jack Antonoff have made an album so meta that it can only be understood by future generations, but “Solar Power” isn’t meant to be anything but a mood.

它可能是更广泛趋势的逻辑最终结果对无蹄歌曲，但这些轨道不仅仅是缺乏钩子，它们缺乏旋律或形状。他们甚至没有小的粉笔歌曲的歌曲。他们似乎并不像歌曲，即在进入某事并得到Waylaid，他们只是......漂浮，像云一样，如此简约，他们几乎没有存在。