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The Polydor two-tracker precedes festival dates and a European tour with Tove Lo.
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'Mood Ring' is a track from Lorde's third studio album 'Solar Power', released as the third single in August 2021. Written and produced by Lorde and Jack Antonoff, with background vocals from Phoebe Bridgers and Clairo, the song adopts a satirical stance towards wellness culture and its promises of emotional clarity. The lyrics catalogue a litany of self-care rituals that fail to shift the narrator's numbness: sun salutations, sage burning, crystal cleansing, vitamins, celebrity news, the prospect of flying somewhere eastern. Lorde writes, 'I can't feel a thing / I keep lookin' at my mood ring / Tell me how I'm feelin'', the titular accessory a neat symbol for outsourcing one's inner life to external props. The chorus broadens to 'all the sad girls', dancing until the mood rings deliver a verdict, the communal gesture undercut by the same hollow hope. The guitar-led arrangement is spritely and light, the production refusing to mirror the emotional flatness it describes. The gap between the song's brightness and its subject is the joke, and the care with which Lorde lands it.
"Mood Ring" is a single by Lorde, from the album Solar Power, released 19th August 2021. The track is 3:46 long. It's filed under Alternative. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 20 articles about Lorde.
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