Lorde is officially back with “What Was That,” her first new song in four years. Stream it below.
“I’m missing you/ And all the things we used to do,” the Kiwi artist sings on the synth-pop track. “MDMA in the back garden, blow our pupils up/ We kissed for hours straight but baby, what was that?”
She first teased the comeback single in a snippet posted to TikTok, followed by an official announcement via Instagram. On Tuesday, April 22nd, she debuted the track during an impromptu listening party at New York’s Washington Square Park.
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While “What Was That” marks Lorde’s first proper solo single since her 2021 album, Solar Power, she kept busy in 2024, releasing a Talking Heads cover and guesting on a remix of Charli XCX’s “Girl, so confusing.”
More recently, she joined Charli XCX on stage during the first weekend of Coachella 2025 to perform their “Girl, so confusing” remix together.
