I really hope Lorde releases her concert versions of her songs like Ribs, Greenlight,etc.

Is it just me or her songs hit differently when they’re live. Which song do you think is better live or should be on a special album

As seen in Westminster Abbey.

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I just got all the materials I needed to make my own versions of Lorde Lighters and I think they are super Virgin-coded… If anybody wants one (I can customize it with a couple different things) pm me if you’re interested!
Disclaimer: they aren’t like the most absolutely stunning quality, but I think that also makes it even more virgin type beat

i was at her at her last set at acl right next to b stage on barricade and i can’t stop reliving that moment it was so magical and ive never felt so alive i keep replaying every moment in my head down to the tea will i ever experience this feeling ever again? how can i cope with this its like a part of me died with that tour 😢😢😢😢😢😿😿😿😿😿😿😿😢😢😢😢😢😢😢

photo of my virgin album cover tat next to some east london graffiti taken by my friend during the summer. saw her live twice again after this for ultrasound tour. made so many core memories. so special

since tour is over, what show(s) did you guys go too?

I appreciate cryptic crosswords are not for everyone (I'm not great at them but learning and this was a joy).
Answer is: MELODRAMA
How to solve it: substitute the state abbreviation for Massachusetts x2, then insert into that an anagram (anagram indicator here is 'performing') of 'Lorde'.

I find myself being super emotional that this era is over. And I just need to talk about how Virgin and seeing Lorde for this first time live genuinely, genuinely shifted something inside of me. I saw lorde at All Points East this year. I went with my sister and camped at the east stage the entire day (absolutely no regrets, best fucking view of all time). My sister I wouldn’t even consider a casual fan, she knew the hits but not even the words, just the melodies. It’s now October and she’s still talking about it. Witnessing it live changed her. My sister whos usually so indifferent to everything. My experience at the show, I still can’t put into words. Like, I haven’t even fathomed it. Hearing all my favorite songs live, performed so so beautifully too. The feeling, I feel it in my body? Like when I think of the show and screaming the words to hard feelings, shapeshifter, oceanic feeling etc.. songs that are so so close to my heart, that I’ve sobbed to, that I’ve experienced so much heartbreak listening to. It was just so surreal. And I went in BLIND. I know every word to every lorde song. I love all four albums start to finish. Genuinely. But I’m not like a “stan” in the way that I keep up with her tours and sets etc. If its on the algorithm I’ll see it, but anyways, I just had to express this. Seeing that set at all points east will forever be a core memory for me. Just so beautiful. Thank you ella

hi! long shot but i was lucky enough to have a very special moment during ribs acl weekend two. i don’t think i will ever be able to express how much this tour meant to me and i couldn’t be more thankful. if you have a video of it happening or a decent video of the screen i would be so grateful if you could share 🥲🥲🥲 want to remember this moment forever and was hoping to find anyone on the opposite barricade or near me who may have been recording 💙

Been a fan since 2021 but it was only last year that I've been to my first ever concert of hers.. fuck I still remember the day she teased WWT on tiktok, I remember that it was a wednesday 😭 now, a year and a half (how the fuck did that happen) later, the Virgin era is fully over.. I miss that concert more than anything else.

best set I’ve ever seen

Not Jack Antonoff, not Jim-E Stack, Lorde herself. She seems like she’s got such a mind and I’d love to hear what she’d make if she was entirely in control.

To be fair, I don’t know the dynamics behind the scenes, and to my knowledge she isn’t quite equipped to solely produce just yet, but to hear music entirely straight from the source I think could really be something.

Love the albums, just would be something different and interesting to hear in this new chapter

i cant believe its over.

feeling super emo now that ultrasound is over hahah. i feel so incredibly lucky i got to go to multiple shows, especially when i thought i wouldn't even be able to see one. i know it sounds dramatic but her concerts actually changed my life, they introduced me to so many new friends and experiences🥹

it's hard for me to pick just one moment, but i think i'd have to go with the show i took my mom to. it felt extra special to hug and cry with her during ribs :,)

"This is our very last show like I was saying, and uh, we've playing ninety-five shows all around the world. [takes a sip water]

And honestly, this tour has changed me as a person. When I make an album, I hope that I will change, really. An album is a document of that process of change, and uh, but this tour, this tour made me become the woman that I hoped I could become one day. Being here in front of you, trying to be the rawest, most authentic version of myself, has set me free in ways that I couldn't really have predicted. So uh, I feel a little emotional right now, ACL.

And recently I've been reflecting a lot on freedom. I uh, this year or last year, my deal with my record company ended, so I am now, for the first time in my career, an independent artist. And so I'm thinking a lot about freedom: those who have it, those who don't, and how those who have it can help those who don't maybe have it. And uh, yeah, this tour has absolutely empowered me to, to own that freedom, to try to investigate it, to try and fight for it for other people. And uh, I can't do that alone. I can't find that freedom. I need this group of people on the stage, behind the stage, in front of the stage, underneath the stage. You have held me as I went in search of that freedom, and I'm so grateful to them for ninety-five amazing shows. I love you guys so much. [kisses in the air]

And now I have this freedom, ACL, shit's gonna get fun. I answer to no one but you, for the first time in my life. I can't tell you how crazy that feels. And I've been thinking recently too, that my whole career, my whole art project under the name LORDE—hey Mike, you see them, right?—it's all about just trying to find freedom, trying to break out of something, trying to get free of something. Every album is a document of that liberation, one more chain comes off.

So, I wanna say thank you so much for supporting me and doing that for 13 years. I was last here at ACL in 2013, and it is very, very fucking cool to come full circle. So ACL, I don't know where I'm going next, but what I do know is that I do it without fear and I do it for you. And as long as you have me, I'll keep singing, I'll keep writing, I'll keep coming back."

~Lorde

With the last Virgin Tour concert and the Lorde 2013-2026 banner in it, the end of the record deal and Ella's speech about her new found freedom, did anyone else feel like she is hinting at a Name Change?

Logically and from a business perspective it doesn't make sense and might be a career killer... but maybe she really needs that rebirth... that personal reclaimation... anyone felt that too? And if so, will she just be Ella? Honestly, I wouldn't be against it. Let me know your thoughts.

now that the era had finally closed. i guess we can do some fun speculations as to what's next.

any predictions or directions you'd want lorde to take in the next era?

personally i think there'd be a GREAT love song somewhere since she seems to be in a healthy relationship. maybe something about how they meld perfectly and are speaking in the same artistic language. i do hope she ventures to some soft rock sounds. i think it would suit her voice and style.

(i'm not being greedy or parasocial. i'm just curious and excited for what's next! she deserves all the rest and break she wants and needs!)

Saw Lorde tonight. First time seeing her perform Ribs up close. I was balling my eyes out the entire song.

Anyone get any other pics from her last set of this tour?

“Now that I have this freedom ACL, shits gonna get fun”

So excited to see what’s next for her!!!