We’re sending lots of love Lorde’s way.
In a heartfelt letter, the “Royals” singer revealed to fans that her forthcoming album will be delayed due to a difficult emotional period which she is undergoing. In the note, Lorde shared that the dog she adopted in 2018 and named Pearl passed away due to illness last month.
“Pearl had two cardiac arrests about an hour apart, and after the second one, he died,” she wrote. “I was holding him when he went, and I know he knew that I was there. But this loss has been indescribably painful, and a light that was turned on for me has gone out.”
Lorde has been working on the follow-up to her Grammy-nominated 2017 album, Melancholia, but Pearl’s death has left the singer needing to take some time out.
“He was instrumental to the discovery that was taking place. I felt he led me towards the ideas. And it’s going to take some time and re-calibration, now that there’s no shepherd ahead of me, to see what the work is going to be. So I’m asking for your patience, as 2020 comes around and you start to wonder where the next record is,” she penned. “I have lost my boy, and I need some time to see the good again, to finish making this for you. It won’t be the same work— as anyone who has felt loss can understand, there’s a door that opens that you step through, and everything is different on the other side. But when this great loss crystallizes inside me, and my chest rebuilds around it, hopefully, I’ll be able to finish up, and share it with you, and we’ll all grow together, as we always do.”
We’ll be here waiting for her green light.
