Perfect Places

"Perfect Places"
Single by Lorde
from the album Melodrama
Released 1 June 2017 (2017-06-01)
Format Digital download
Genre Electropop
Length 3:41
Label Universal New Zealand
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
Lorde singles chronology
"Green Light"
(2017)		 "Perfect Places"
(2017)

"Green Light"
(2017)		 "Perfect Places"
(2017)

"Perfect Places" is a song by New Zealand singer and songwriter Lorde. It was released on 1 June 2017 through Universal Music New Zealand as the second single, following "Green Light", from her second album, Melodrama (2017). Lorde co-wrote and co-produced the song with Jack Antonoff and Andrew Wyatt, with additional production from Frank Dukes.[1]

Critical reception

"Perfect Places" received critical acclaim. Jenn Pelly of Pitchfork gave it the title of "Best New Track".[2] Winston Cook-Wilson of Spin compared the song to "Green Light", where Lorde is "broadcasting to us from the middle of some strobe-illuminated party: feeling rebellious, listening to radio hits so loud they threaten to "blow the speakers", then spitting those songs' sentiments back out at us her own way." He added, "There is a charm to the imperfectness of "Perfect Places", in that this is a song very much about not knowing what the fuck you are doing or why... There's no one perfect place or perfect song; there's no muse to follow except your own, even when pursuing it leaves you feeling just as lost ("young and ashamed") as you were at the start."[3]

Live performances

Lorde performed the song on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on 16 June 2017, the same day Melodrama was released.[4] She has also performed the song at the Much Music Video Awards on 18 June 2017, and a stripped down version accompanied with a choir at Late Night with Seth Meyers on 17 July 2017.

Music video

On June 21, she wrote an open letter that she was filming a music video and then on August 1, she gave a hint on Instagram that she would be releasing it on Thursday, August 3, with Grant Singer directing it, who also lensed Green Light.[5][6]

Charts

Chart (2017) Peak
position
Australia (ARIA)[7] 44
Belgium (Ultratip Flanders)[8] 23
Belgium (Ultratip Wallonia)[9] 10
Canada (Canadian Hot 100)[10] 76
Czech Republic (Singles Digitál Top 100)[11] 83
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)[12] 11
Slovakia (Singles Digitál Top 100)[13] 76
UK Singles (Official Charts Company)[14] 95
US Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles (Billboard)[15] 13
US Alternative Songs (Billboard)[16] 23
US Adult Alternative Songs (Billboard)[17] 27

References

  1. ↑ "Hear Lorde's New Existential Party Anthem 'Perfect Places'". Rolling Stone. 1 June 2017. Retrieved 18 June 2017.
  2. ↑ Pelly, Jenn (1 June 2017). ""Perfect Places" Review". Pitchfork. Retrieved 22 June 2017.
  3. ↑ Cook-Wilson, Winston (1 June 2017). "On "Perfect Places," Lorde Searches For Where and What She Wants to Be". Spin. Retrieved 22 June 2017.
  4. ↑ "Watch Lorde Perform Artful 'Perfect Places' on 'Fallon'". RollingStone. 16 June 2017. Retrieved 18 June 2017.
  5. ↑ "where all the boors lay sound and still, and all the pains you've tried to kill; when you have said goodbye to grace, then you are in the perfect place. — THURSDAY". Retrieved 2017-08-01.
  6. ↑ "THURSDAY". Retrieved 2017-08-01.
  7. ↑ "Australian-charts.com – Lorde – Perfect Places". ARIA Top 50 Singles. Retrieved 24 June 2017.
  8. ↑ "Ultratop.be – Lorde – Perfect Places" (in Dutch). Ultratip. Retrieved 21 July 2017.
  9. ↑ "Ultratop.be – Lorde – Perfect Places" (in French). Ultratip. Retrieved 14 July 2017.
  10. ↑ "Lorde – Chart history" Canadian Hot 100 for Lorde. Retrieved 27 June 2017.
  11. ↑ "ČNS IFPI" (in Czech). Hitparáda – Digital Top 100 Oficiální. IFPI Czech Republic. Note: insert 201725 into search. Retrieved 27 June 2017.
  12. ↑ "Charts.org.nz – Lorde – Perfect Places". Top 40 Singles. Retrieved 9 June 2017.
  13. ↑ "SNS IFPI" (in Slovak). Hitparáda – Singles Digital Top 100 Oficiálna. IFPI Czech Republic. Note: insert 201723 into search. Retrieved 27 June 2017.
  14. ↑ "Archive Chart: 2017-04-14" UK Singles Chart. Retrieved 18 June 2017.
  15. ↑ "Lorde – Chart history" Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 for Lorde. Retrieved 27 June 2017.
  16. ↑ "Lorde – Chart history" Billboard Alternative Songs for Lorde. Retrieved 8 August 2017.
  17. ↑ "Lorde – Chart history" Billboard Adult Alternative Songs for Lorde. Retrieved 3 August 2017.
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