“The Louvre” by Lorde

"The Louvre" finds Lorde deep in the grip of a new crush on Melodrama, her 2017 second album, a song of infatuation and obsession that picks up the story "Homemade Dynamite" starts just before it. The New Zealander wrote the words herself and built the music with Jack Antonoff, the pair co-producing, with extra help from Flume and Malay; Laura Sisk engineered and Serban Ghenea mixed.

The title comes from the Paris museum, and the joke is a sly one: she dissects a brand-new romance with giddy, half-manic honesty and pictures it as a painting hung somewhere behind the museum's greatest hits. It's electropop shot through with indie rock and ambient haze, and ears caught a trace of "Born to Run" in the guitar riff and Taylor Swift's 1989 in the gloss. Critics praised the words and the production, and it made several year-end lists.

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