KnockturnaLIST: The Music Videos of 2017 that We Loved

Lorde – Green Light

Album: Melodrama (2017)
Director: Grant Singer

Of all the long-awaited and perfectly satisfying Melodrama songs we received this summer, Green Light was our first visual taste of the new Lorde collection. Shot in 16mm instead of the usual 35mm, Green Light follows Lorde dancing through a public bathroom, a club, a sidewalk, and a taxi. The video is so classic Lorde that it is impossible to tear away from the close-up shots of her face and the longer shots of her dancing. Though simple, it is a perfect embodiment of what her music, and who she, is.