Solar Power
by Lorde
  • Record Label: Republic
  • Release Date: Aug 20, 2021
User Score
8.3

Universal acclaim- based on 1363 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1,110 out of 1363
  2. Mixed: 119 out of 1363
  3. Negative: 134 out of 1363
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  1. onelove
    Aug 21, 2022
    0
    boring but kind of grew on me. good for a beach day i think. not her best work at all though
  2. AShinyG1ratina
    Jun 21, 2022
    1
    HOLY **** HOW CAN SOMETHING BE SO DEVOID OF LITERALLY ANYTHING INTERESTING GOING ON
    THE ONLY POINT OF THIS ALBUM WHERE I FELT LIKE I WAS **** CONSCIOUS WAS THE BREAKDOWN ON MOOD RING
    HOW DO YOU MAKE SOMETHING THIS **** BORING There are worse albums that came out this year for sure but I don't think any album has made me SEETHE as much as this piece of TRASH. Listenable Tracks: Mood    HOLY **** HOW CAN SOMETHING BE SO DEVOID OF LITERALLY ANYTHING INTERESTING GOING ON
    THE ONLY POINT OF THIS ALBUM WHERE I FELT LIKE I WAS **** CONSCIOUS WAS THE BREAKDOWN ON MOOD RING
    HOW DO YOU MAKE SOMETHING THIS **** BORING
    There are worse albums that came out this year for sure but I don't think any album has made me SEETHE as much as this piece of TRASH.
    Listenable Tracks: Mood Ring
    Unlistenable, Devoid of literally ANYTHING **** INTERESTING Tracks: EVERY OTHER TRACK

    RIDICULOUS! I was watching the Mickey Mouse Press Conference with my 7 year old son and guess who shows up on the screen?

    LeAntonoff himself!

    My son asked me “is that the guy who produced the same boring folk pop album 5 times and absolutely RUINED the entire music industry as we know it?"
    I had to lie to my own son.

    Shame on you, LeAntonoff.    … Expand
  3. varsoovia
    Dec 7, 2021
    0
    When her fanbase wait 4 **** year to this dirty **** Completamente decepcionante, la única creatividad del álbum está en la portada que para colmo está plagiada de "Free", no eres incomprendida ni diferente solo eres muy sosa.
  4. Lanasbeech
    Nov 14, 2021
    0
    Another jack antonoff produced threat. The album feels like one huge song…and that ain’t something good
  5. Jojo2142
    Nov 1, 2021
    0
    She wasted 4 years and only have this to show for it. A complete disappointment and snooze-fest album.
  6. l_l-Mist-l_l
    Oct 27, 2021
    0
    Absolutely disgusting. After waiting for so many years for her to drop a new album this is just disappointing. She created 2 10/10 albums with PH and Melo but this album is just a mess. I can’t explain it but I really feel as if Jack Antonoff really f*cked up. Most of these songs felt as if we heard them before. And it’s funny because I remember that she dissed Lana Del Rey and here she isAbsolutely disgusting. After waiting for so many years for her to drop a new album this is just disappointing. She created 2 10/10 albums with PH and Melo but this album is just a mess. I can’t explain it but I really feel as if Jack Antonoff really f*cked up. Most of these songs felt as if we heard them before. And it’s funny because I remember that she dissed Lana Del Rey and here she is working with Jack and producing similar tracks with similar themes. There was nothing exciting, maybe here and there but nothing jaw dropping. She set the Bar to high for herself and this album needed more time. Most songs felt like Demos from a production stand point. The lyrics were in classic Lorde fashion but the sound was too bland. Call me a hater but I would not care if I never listen to these songs ever again. Just bland records, another victim to Jack Antonoffs new found laziness. I really hope she drops him for her 4th album…… Expand
  7. Jersi
    Oct 24, 2021
    0
    Urge que se tome otro descanzo pero que se tarde más tiempo porque esto si desepciono amo a lorde pero es la verdad
  8. sa3edddd
    Oct 24, 2021
    0
    The worst album of 2021 , so disappointed she can do better , it’s just not good , the production is bad , the songwriting is bad , the songs are bad like big star , dominoes , oceanic feeling and the rest of the album .
  9. Emotionbig
    Oct 23, 2021
    0
    Just pure **** There is npthing here thst pulls you in. Such a sad excuse for album. My ears hurt.
  10. Jeannette999
    Oct 23, 2021
    0
    no，just no，boring as hell，literally anybody with a voice can make this record.
  11. Jeffff
    Oct 22, 2021
    0
    it's a piece of **** totally unbearable to listen to. Better than Lorde shouldn't release more music just with Melodrama was fine
  12. Miacat
    Oct 22, 2021
    0
    Sin duda el peor álbum del año, a pesar de no sacar música en tantos años, fue una decepción para sus fans.
  13. Alanmich23
    Oct 22, 2021
    0
    Such a massive disaster. Lorde can’t even sing, so far from melodrama and so close to a terrible Lana del Rey’s copycat.
  14. Giovallejos
    Oct 22, 2021
    0
    Asco de Álbum solo parece que solo habla en su asquerosas cancion FATAL ÁLBUM
  15. Georgesweet23
    Oct 22, 2021
    0
    Totally indifferent this album is lorde's worst work so far his songs just me They were bored apart from their great plagiarism towards other lorde artists I can only tell you to take a 10-year break so that you can bring us a better work
  16. Xiaomingwu
    Oct 22, 2021
    1
    wow what a downgrade, even the lyricism is not helping lorde whatsoever, boring album without any standouts
  17. Segundoleo26
    Oct 21, 2021
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Decepcionó totalmente las expectativas se fueron abajo,sin duda nunca va a poder superar a Melodrama… Expand
  18. cinnamongirl97
    Oct 15, 2021
    0
    This is what happens when you think you can copy Lana Del Rey with that hurrendous voice of yours.
  19. alien_
    Sep 29, 2021
    0
    pobre ecolorde, pasando la drogada en el salón de uñas, ya manda bien tus vinilos, ni porque te queda una peluquera te portas bien con ella memeaa
  20. instantflare
    Sep 9, 2021
    3
    After Lorde's amazing, groundbreaking Melodrama, Solar Power seems weak in comparison, with the same, airy and boring theme running through. The lyricism is also subpar. The ideas that are trying to be presented are either not being done well or just weak. I don't know what happened to Lorde but this is definitely a great disappointment.
  21. arianadelrey
    Sep 6, 2021
    0
    boring. people only act like they like it cuz it’s lorde. stream dangerous woman!
  22. CateHuguet
    Aug 20, 2021
    0
    Better than I expect. Plenty of mainstream pop stars have decided they no longer want to be mainstream pop stars. They’ve tried everything to achieve their goal, from making deliberately unlistenable albums, to – in the memorable case of the late Scott Walker – locking themselves in a monastery on the Isle of Wight.
    But few have attempted to bid farewell to mainstream pop stardom as    Better than I expect. Plenty of mainstream pop stars have decided they no longer want to be mainstream pop stars. They’ve tried everything to achieve their goal, from making deliberately unlistenable albums, to – in the memorable case of the late Scott Walker – locking themselves in a monastery on the Isle of Wight.
    But few have attempted to bid farewell to mainstream pop stardom as prettily as Lorde does on her third album. It opens with a guitar picking a gentle, woozy-sounding figure. A flute glides beatifically by and Lorde offers a grim depiction of life as a teenager superstar – complete with “nightmares from the camera flash” – before apparently saying goodbye to all that: “alone on a windswept island”, she “won’t take the call if it’s the label or radio”. “If you’re looking for a saviour,” she adds, “that’s not me”, which would sound a little self-aggrandising had the world of online fandom not become so overheated that whenever a female pop star posts anything on social media, the responses are clogged up by stans calling them “mum”, “queen” and “goddess”.    … Expand
  23. Yammmmm
    Aug 31, 2021
    0
    This is so disappointing, boring, without music without voice, flat. Where’s the spectacular voice of lorde????
  24. 1lixo
    Aug 31, 2021
    0
    too pale and the same. I think the last productions of athonoff kinda brind the same energy in every single song
  25. lanaaas
    Aug 30, 2021
    1
    I was very disappointed in this album. I expected something better. Dont start with the “she’s happier now” or “you said that with melodrama”, thats not what I mean by better. I meant better. The album seems anticlimactic, all the songs have the same boring energy. Only good song is mood ring.
  26. yosrege
    Aug 30, 2021
    0
    it's so good to see her doing what she wants to do. she is much happier and it's the best feeling in the world to see her beautiful big smile. it's a no skip album for me and it is a masterpiece that will be discussed and loved even more in the future. it is so sad that this album is being compared with "melodrama" which has a whole other theme. she grew up and she is finding her true selfit's so good to see her doing what she wants to do. she is much happier and it's the best feeling in the world to see her beautiful big smile. it's a no skip album for me and it is a masterpiece that will be discussed and loved even more in the future. it is so sad that this album is being compared with "melodrama" which has a whole other theme. she grew up and she is finding her true self and I'm so happy to experience this new era with her.… Expand
  27. misscupcakke
    Aug 26, 2021
    3
    After a work of art like Melodrama, we expected a lot. Unfortunately, we didn't get what we expected.
    The album is empty, it has no feelings, the composition is weak, the production is clearly what keeps the critics good grades. Lorde could have done so much more, she's a good songwriter, she's proven it over and over with several songs, she tried to innovate but fell into a hole where I    After a work of art like Melodrama, we expected a lot. Unfortunately, we didn't get what we expected.
    The album is empty, it has no feelings, the composition is weak, the production is clearly what keeps the critics good grades. Lorde could have done so much more, she's a good songwriter, she's proven it over and over with several songs, she tried to innovate but fell into a hole where I believe she won't rise again.

    I hope that in the future, Lorde can show us her talent again, because on this album, she showed that maybe, she is no longer capable of making works of art.    … Expand
  28. Aperezest
    Aug 26, 2021
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The album is so different but at the same Time is kind of boring. The ideas are a little confusing and makes me don’t want to played again… Expand
  29. danhoney
    Aug 26, 2021
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. A parte lírica do álbum é razoável, mas longe do que todos esperávamos da Lorde, a garotinha compositora que estreou na década passada. Porém, a parte que realmente não me cativou (e com toda certeza não cativou muita gente) é a sonoridade pesada e monótona. Definitavamente é um álbum bom, porém, apenas aquém do que a Lorde pode fazer junta a Jack Antonoff.… Expand
  30. Photomadnz
    Aug 26, 2021
    3
    As a Real fan of her first 2 albums I had hopes for this release. Unfortunately it is slow, drawn out and generally dull. She’ll be back. I have faith! But give this one a miss.
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 27 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 16 out of 27
  2. Mixed: 11 out of 27
  3. Negative: 0 out of 27
  1. Under The Radar
    Aug 30, 2021
    55
    All these connections Lorde is trying to make: her strange pastiche imagination of the ’70s, that random spoken word interlude by Robyn about climate change, and the themes of “sun healing,” never fully reach each other. Often, they come off as disingenuous and out of touch more than they read as brilliant, or comical. Whether the album is one big prank, or just one majorly failed experiment, the gist of having the “privilege to ignore” is lost in translation. All you are left with is just a handful of pretty alright songs.
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  2. AllMusic
    Aug 26, 2021
    60
    If you're riding and vibing with Lorde, this bright shapelessness is superb mood music. If you're not riding her wave, Solar Power can seem elusive, even cloying, as it circles and sways with a smile.
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  3. musicOMH.com
    Aug 26, 2021
    70
    This might not be the album that everyone wanted from Lorde, but it’s a solid, dreamy effort that deserves exploration. There’s plenty here worthy of attention if you can focus for long enough.
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