Lorde’s ‘Solar Power’ Album: Fans React Pretty Strongly

Lorde's Solar Power released today, after four years since her last album, Melodrama. Inspired by experiences in the sun, Lorde took an environmental approach to the release of her new music -- she isn't going to be selling any physical CD's, being fully carbon neutral.

Watch the music video for one of the most well-received songs on the album, "Mood Ring" below:

One user pointed out the song title names reflecting solar power, with "Fallen Fruit" being food insecurity, while "The Man with the Axe" is deforestation, "Dominoes" is continuous environmental degradation, "Big Star" is a waning sun, "Leader of a New Regime" is eco-fascism and "Oceanic Feeling" is the melting icecaps.

This fan kept it simple with a very helpful thread for those who don't like Solar Power: get therapy.

The album cover may evoke youth and happy times, but as this fan points out, it gets quite sad.

One fan quoted the line, "Forget all the tears you cried, it's over" from the song "Solar Power." This gif of a mustached man crying totally sums it up.

As many of us went into listening to the album, there wasn't any forewarning on just how sad some of the songs would be like this meme illustrates.

One fan credited Lorde for making one of the best albums they've heard this year.

One fan tweeted a series of inspirational and motivational growth photos to summarize how it felt after listening to the album.

Many fans raved about the 11th song appearing on Solar Power, with the music video released earlier this week.

As this fan points out, Lorde wrote the song "Big Star" for her dog Pearl so that he'd know how much she loves him and "I don't know how to finish this album without pausing every five minutes."

"pure heroine was lorde’s growing up album and melodrama was her growing pains album and solar power is so clearly lorde finally settling into herself," one fan said.