Lorde embraces 'rawness' of UltraSound tour
Lorde has explained her unusual approach to her UltraSound tour.
Lorde is relishing the "rawness" of her UltraSound tour.
The 28-year-old singer is performing at high-profile venues such as Madison Square Garden and the Kia Forum as part of her UltraSound tour, and Lorde has explained why she's taken the unusual step of doing her outfit changes on stage.
She told Variety: "I liked the idea of the audience getting to see that change, because it’s a very simple change.
"You know, a belt comes off, jeans come off, a T-shirt comes off. And it becomes this different thing. It just fit with the rawness and the intimacy to do it in front of people. I tried to hold up all these tropes of an arena show and be like, why is it like that? How can we keep the tension?
"I didn’t think about this at the time, but I do think there is something cool about me not leaving the stage. Because definitely as an audience member, I can switch off a bit when the artist goes and gets changed. I know what they’re doing and I’m excited for them to come back, but it snips a thread, you know?
"Being on the whole time, there’s this sort of intensity that grows. I can’t touch up, I can barely get a drink of water."
Lorde sometimes wishes she could disappear off stage for a few seconds. But the chart-topping star reasons it's "just how it’s meant to be".
She said: "Sometimes I’m like, 'Oof, that would be nice actually, to go back and look cute for a second.' But no, it’s just how it’s meant to be."
Meanwhile, Lorde previously confessed that she felt "disconnected from [her] creativity" at the start of 2023.
The chart-topping star actually considered quitting the music business altogether two years ago, admitting that she was "not in a great way" at the time.
Speaking to BBC Radio 1's Jack Saunders, she explained: "At the beginning of 2023 I was not in a great way on a lot of levels.
"I'd never felt more disconnected from my creativity."
