Itâs a great day to be gay and alive (or, I guess, straight and a really big fan of pop hits), because weâve just been handed manna from heaven: a 15-second sample of what appears to be brand-new music from Lorde on TikTok, layered over footage of a spritely little walk she took in New York. Watch it below:
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Thereâs plenty to celebrate here (the song! The low-slung jeans and white button-down! The cobblestoned streets of New York that I hated biking over when I lived there, yet miss constantly now that I live in LA!), but the detail Iâve locked in on is, naturally, the most random one of all: Lordeâs quirked-out, load-bearing little chain belt, which is hauling enough items to make me wonder if the singer moonlights as a custodian. Letâs zoom in, shall we?
Obviously, this isnât the highest-resolution photo in history, and I unfortunately donât have access to that Law & Order: Special Victims Unit facial-recognition technology that allows them to zoom in on a blurry group shot and instantly spot the perv theyâre looking for. So, Iâll simply have to do the service journalism of trying to identify everything on Lordeâs chain belt for Vogueâs army of loyal readers. Find all my guesses below:
- Headphonesâand not AirPods! Lorde is clearly a wired It girl, and we love her for it.
- Aâ¦phone charger? Or is that part of the headphones? I canât tell where they end, but there are definitely multiple cords.
- One of those little fish-shaped pens (that could also be a bottle opener, I guess?)
- A little square-shaped orange keychain advertising some establishment whose provenance I sadly cannot deduce, but Iâm choosing to believe itâs a vintage Nike Air Jordan promotional one.
- A large, gorgeous silvery shell, to which I give my highest compliments as a habitual beach-shell collector who has been forced to throw out most of my bounty over the years because âthey smell.â (Iâm sure Lordeâs shell smells like daisies, though!)
- Aâ¦tissue? Thereâs deifnitely something white and blobby next to the shell, but I canât quite make out what it is.
- All of my hopes and dreams. We love you, Lorde, our immaculately and practically accessorized Scorpio princess!
