The Internet Is Losing Its Mind Over Hidden Messages In The New Lorde Video
Do you like eggs?
This morning Lorde unveiled the video for ‘Perfect Places,’ the second single from her new album Melodrama. In it, she dances around beautiful beaches and waterfalls, wearing expensive-looking clothes and generally being very regal. I would like to go on holiday wherever this was filmed.
But according to Lorde, there’s more to the ‘Perfect Places’ clip than you might immediately realise:
a couple cute easter eggs in this video let’s see if you spot them
— Lorde (@lorde) August 3, 2017
That tweet has caused 5.41 million Lorde followers (and this reporter) to waste the better part of this morning trying to decipher exactly what Ella Yelich-O’Connor considers an “easter egg”.
Is the scene where she floats face-up in a lake, looking like a famous John Everett Millais painting from 1852, an easter egg?
.@lorde, behind the scenes for ‘Perfect Places’, Melodrama (2017) | Sir John Everett Millais, ‘Ophelia’ (1851), The Louvre pic.twitter.com/ZtYAKTikxk
— Stephanie Kelley (@stephaniedk96) August 3, 2017
Is this bit a nod to Lady Gaga’s ‘Paparazzi’ clip, which looks like it could have been filmed on the exact same balcony?
this scene is giving me mad paparazzi vibes pic.twitter.com/pLWlLD6VVH
— Lorde Daily (@LordeDaily) August 3, 2017
???? pic.twitter.com/Vm7QjgyzDy
— Sean (@SeanSlay2) August 3, 2017
Is Lorde a big fan of Betty Draper shooting pigeons in Mad Men? (I mean, who isn’t.)
Mad Men easter egg @lorde ??? pic.twitter.com/jW5XtKw4tt
— Dope Ghost (@_dopeghost_) August 3, 2017
…is the bright orange hard drive she’s left in a rowboat an easter egg? (Apparently yes, Lorde’s confirmed that she “thought it was funny to bring the Melodrama files out on the boat.”)
is that a hard drive in ur boat pic.twitter.com/pVJLPvSd0l
— asher (@trashedasher) August 3, 2017
Or does Lorde mean literal fucking edible easter eggs?
Like this devilled egg?
Or this not-edible but kinda-egg shaped necklace?
Here’s one Ella has confirmed: she’s wearing a Paul Simon Graceland tee at the end. Simon is sampled at the start of Lorde’s track ‘Loveless’, and she’s cited Graceland as one of her influences on Melodrama.
the graceland tee!!! (my screenshot skills are subpar i apologize) pic.twitter.com/MXopcQangb
— ty ? (@perfctplaces) August 4, 2017
I don’t know about you, but I could really go an egg right now.