Lorde Promises It Won’t Take Four Years For Her Next Album To Drop: ‘This Time, I Really Mean It’

Getty Image Lorde has been consistent with album releases throughout her career, as each one since her first has arrived four years after its predecessor: Pure Heroine in 2013, Melodrama in 2017, Solar Power in 2021, and Virgin in 2025. For her next LP, though, she doesn’t want fans to have to wait that long. Towards the end of a new interview with The Los Angeles Times, Lorde said, “There’s one thing I feel totally committed to — it’s not allowed to be four years [for the next one]. It has to be sooner.” When the interviewer pointed out that Lorde has probably said that before, the singe