Lorde Explains Long Absence, Return to Music in New Interview

Lorde spoke with Zane Lowe on the Beats 1 radio show about her hiatus, adulthood and her new dance-pop single "Green Light" – the first song from her highly-anticipated sophomore album Melodrama. Lorde's debut Pure Heroine came out in 2013."For me it was kind of about processing what I want to say next and I knew it just couldn't be any old thing," said Lorde. "It had to be really special and really singular and it couldn't sound the same as the old stuff and there was a lot of discov