Fri, 30 June 2017 at 11:30 am

Lorde's 'Perfect Places' Went Through So Many Different Versions

Lorde‘s “Perfect Places” has pretty much been our jam this week.

Featured on her new album, Melodrama, the New Zealand-born musician recently opened up about the story behind the song with Beats 1.

“It was SO difficult to finish,” Lorde admits. “I cannot describe to you how much of a journey this was.”

She continues, “It had so many different forms before it was finished. You don’t want it to be preachy. No one likes a preachy pop song.

“It really exists in that end of the night space I hoped it would. This sort of encapsulates the feeling of Melodrama I think.”

Later on Facebook, Lorde revealed the true story behind the track: “I was living in new york during summer last year, writing melodrama � I’d ride across the brooklyn bridge every day, or sit on the subway uptown in the heat, then go back home to new zealand winter for a week at a time to party with my friends. My life was like a weird little etch-a-sketch I kept scribbling on and resetting.”

“And all last summer, I couldn’t shake the feeling that everyone i knew or saw was searching for something � trying to transcend the news and the screaming pavements, drinking that one drink hoping it’d get them someplace higher.”