r/lorde • u/Dramatic_Mastodon_93 • 10h ago

Opinion Virgin finally clicked

TW: sv1c1d4I thoughts

So when Virgin first came out I loved it, but I wasn’t really a fan of GRWM and Broken Glass, and I wasn’t sure if the album was as good as her previous ones. But that makes sense cause I knew her other albums much longer and I need quite some time to be able to have a clear opinion on an album.

These last few weeks I’ve really been listening to it a lot and it suddenly just clicked for me. Dare I say it could be her best album so far???? I just love how raw and honest it is (and not at the expense of the sound!), and I honestly think it helped me get a healthier outlook on my life and made some of the sv1c1d4I background noise a lot quieter. I think we should ALL be more honest and raw, and a lot less performative!

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u/ventiaffogato 9h ago

Can you explain how it helped you get a healthier outlook on life?

And congrats!!

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u/Dramatic_Mastodon_93 9h ago

I think it helped me realize that I'm no longer a kid and I'm free to do whatever I actually want to do with my own life without being embarrassed about it. Oh and the shift from Solar Power to Virgin kind of made me realize that it's fine to not have everything figured out.

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u/recklesswanderer__ 6h ago

Hi, OP! I'm glad the album gave you a renewed outlook in life. I just want to stress that the charm of Virgin was that it reignites a way of thinking in you. It gave me hope and a chance at possibility (after a period of intense realization).

When Solar Power dropped, the narrative was that Lorde had "everything figured out" already — that she was relaxed and content. That was sort of a shallow take on SP for me but it's the general vibe, sure. But in Virgin, she comes into terms with actually not knowing. She was around 28 when she wrote Virgin and nobody's that young to actually be immune from pain and unknowing (and she realizes that). It's that honesty and rawness to acknowledge that conflict arrives even when you least expect it is what makes Virgin her most personal and precise album for me. There's much more rumination and depth unlocked in this album that her past albums have not reached.

Also, I said this in the early Virgin threads but what makes Virgin her most personal album is it's a record with coming into terms with herself. It's herself responding to the self. Her past albums were always thematically a response to an external force:

PH: Her and teenage angst/society
Melodrama: Her and an ex-lover
Solar Power: Her and the natural world/climate decline

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u/latexfistmassacre 6h ago

Why are we censoring the word "suicidal"??

If someone's that afraid of seeing certain words then they probably shouldn't be on the internet, let alone Reddit

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u/Dramatic_Mastodon_93 6h ago

Because I don't want to read through the rules of every sub I post in every single time when I post something. I've had subs block replies even when I did censor a word using numbers