“Perfect Places” by Lorde

"Perfect Places" followed "Green Light" as the second single from Melodrama, Lorde's second album, arriving in June 2017. She wrote it with Jack Antonoff and produced it with Antonoff and Andrew Wyatt, Frank Dukes adding extra production and Serban Ghenea handling the mix, and it's pure atmosphere: drum machines, synths and bass pooling into glossy electropop. It plays as the comedown after the album's round of teenage parties has wound down, Lorde taking stock and puzzling over where those perfect places of hers might be.

Critics loved it and singled out the writing, though the charts shrugged: nothing in the US and only minor placings in Australia, Canada and the UK. Grant Singer, who had shot "Green Light", directed the video, which leaves her alone on a beach, in a restaurant and out on a boat.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.