Lorde announces new album Melodrama: "It had to be really special"

Lorde's new album officially has a name - Melodrama. 

The New Zealander's second studio album was produced by fun.'s Jack Antonoff and his new band Bleachers and will be released on June 15th. The new single Green Light is available now, as is the video, which can be watched below.

Green Light was hinted at with a hugely interactive promotional campaign in Auckland, New Zealand, with images projected across the city, green lights trailing the beach at Herne Bay and an abondoned, smoking car filled with green light beaming from the interior.

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Outside of his fun. projects, the album's co-producer Jack Antonoff is famous for his production and his close professional relationship with Taylor Swift. Jack produced and co-wrote 1989 tracks Out of the Woods and I Wish You Would, in addition to Taylor's recent single I Don't Wanna Live Forever. Sounds like a friendship circle we would want to be in!

Jack tweeted about Green Light's evolution and how he and Lorde, real name Ella Yelich-O'Connor, wrote the track:

i remember going to the kitchen and when i came back ella had the "ill come get my things but i can't let go" line and i was just in heaven

— jackantonoff (@jackantonoff) March 2, 2017

Lorde has also discussed the album with Zane Lowe on Apple's Beats 1 radio, confirming that her long time away was a conscious decision: "For me it was kind of about processing what I want to say next and I knew it just couldn't be any old thing," explained the 20-year-old. 

"It had to be really special and really singular and it couldn't sound the same as the old stuff and there was a lot of discovery that went on."

Listen to the full interview below.

Melodrama can be pre-ordered from next Friday (March 10) and Lorde will perform Green Light the next day on Saturday Night Live.