Lights are on and they’ve gone home, but who am I? Know you won’t remember in the morning when You asked if I was feeling it, I’m psycho high
(Personally, it reminds me of watching six seasons of The Walking Dead and then realizing that the entire thing had involved more soap opera scenarios than scenes focused on zombie survival.) Verse 1 Melodrama refers to the practice of conflating the emotions of a situation in order to appeal to listeners without the story necessarily being able to hold the weight of interest that the story-writer is asking for. Even as she's staring around at this now empty party room, all that others would have her to believe was meaningful about the events of the night before pale in the light of day. There’s such a sadness to the lights being on after a party, you know, this whole room has sort of been washed in this dark, and to see the corners of the room again can always be a little bit heartbreaking.īut more specifically, "Sober II" seems to be about the "melodrama" or empty meaningfulness of the events of the night before.
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In the first part, it’s very much like the party’s in full swing, and maybe sort of tipping over into that area where it might be a little too much, and then is sort of singing from the perspective of the deflated room. Lorde tells us about it in an interview with NPR: So this song sort of maps the course of a party. "Sober II" comes after the story of "Sober" actually. I think it gets most powerful when the drumbeat kicks in over Lorde saying things like "They’ll talk about us, all the lovers / How we kiss and kill each other." The intensity here is certainly a quiet, understated one, but it may be present on the album no more anywhere than here on "Sober II." "We told you this was melodrama"
"Sober II" includes some interesting and eerie vocal gymnastics and a paired down but powerful sounding instrumental background. This song is one of the eeriest and saddest from Lorde's new Melodrama record.
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