Song · Lorde
“Solar Power” by Lorde
From the album Solar Power (2021)
“Solar Power” by Lorde appears on 19 radio countdowns from 16 stations between 2021 and 2025. It was first released in 2021 on the album Solar Power. Its best result is #6 on the WRNR Top 103.1 Songs of 2021. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #22 alternative song of 2021 and #127 of the '20s.
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"Solar Power" was Lorde's first word on her third album, a title track she wrote and produced with Jack Antonoff and put out in June 2021, and it's a deliberate swerve away from the moody electronics that made her name. This is sun-bleached indie folk with a psychedelic haze, strummed acoustic guitar up front and Phoebe Bridgers and Clairo cooing in the background, building toward a loose, blissed-out swell that owes an open debt to Primal Scream's "Loaded".
The song is pure beach escapism, and the video, which Lorde co-directed with Joel Kefali on Waiheke Island, casts her as a kind of cult leader among the sunbathers. NME handed it its Best Song in the World award, and she later released a Māori-language version, "Te Ao Mārama / Solar Power", translated by Hēmi Kelly.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 1023 | WYEP | WYEP Countdown to Fall 2022 | 603 |
| 2025 | 477 | The Current | 893 Essential Songs of The Current: 2005 to Now | 893 |
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