“Obviously when making this album I did a deep dive into ’60s, Flower Child culture. “This is a song I am very excited about it’s so much fun to me,” Lorde said in a statement accompanying the release. And it fulfills that promise, with its gentle beat, sweetly sung hook (with background vocals once again coming from Phoebe Bridgers and Clairo) and mixed-mood lyrics adding up to what most Lorde acolytes will likely agree is the breezy best of the three songs officially released thus far. “Mood Ring” had been pegged by some Lorde fans, with or without inside knowledge, as the most commercial song off “Mood Ring,” the previously released title track and “Stoned at the Nail Salon” notwithstanding. She and her five female costars spend their communal time together dipping their toes into a bowl of crystals (new age references fill the lyrics, although somewhat cheekily), indulge in group reading and page-turning, and form their own moody ring of bodies on the tent floor, doing a slight bit of Busby Berkeley-style overhead-view choreography. The other color of note is blond, Lorde’s adopted hair color for the occasion. The mood in this particular video is very specifically a gentle, pastel green. The song arrives just three days in advance of the singer’s Jack Antonoff-co-produced “Solar Power” album, which arrives Friday. If you saw Lorde’s “Solar Power” music video earlier this summer and wanted to join whichever commune she was advertising as “a prettier Jesus,” her new “Mood Ring” clip takes us further inside the slightly tongue-in-cheek ashram.
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