Song Exploder
Song Exploder
Hrishikesh Hirway
Lorde - Sober
19 minutes Posted May 21, 2025 at 3:00 pm.
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Lorde is a Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, and producer. Her second album, Melodrama, debuted at number one on the charts in June 2017 – five months before her 21st birthday. In this episode, Ella breaks down her song “Sober.” You’ll hear how it started, with the original demos she made with her co-producer Jack Antonoff, and how the song changed over the course of working on it for months and months.

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