Lorde is someone that's always been open with her fans, and she's recently sent a note to subscribers to her newsletter about her next album, as well as the passing of her beloved dog Pearl.
The letter opens with an explanation of what Lorde has been up to, and why there's been relatively less communication, saying, “When we first met I would write little notes for you online, and they would form a big map that you would use to chart the constellations in my work. I realized a couple of years ago that I needed to rethink my relationship with posting random shit online all the time, so here we are, a little less in contact than we once were.”
She goes on to explain how Pearl passed. Lorde adopted Pearl in 2018, and the pair have been inseparable ever since. “Pearl had two cardiac arrests about an hour apart, and after the second one, he died. 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.
“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.”
She finishes the letter by explaining how the next record will be influenced by Pearl, and where she currently stands. "So I’m asking for your patience, as 2020 comes around and you start to wonder where the next record is. 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."
Our best wishes are with Lorde, and we hope she takes the time she needs to recover from this tragic turn of events.