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A fter the Grammy awards snubbed Lorde in January — she was the only best-album nominee not invited to perform at the ceremony — the year-old New Zealander issued a challenge to anyone who doubted her live skills. Undersold gigs on her current US arena tour suggest that far fewer people than expected have taken her at her word.

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At the opening night in Milwaukee on 1 March, about 6, showed up to an 18,capacity arena, according to a box-office employee, and fans have estimated similar showings elsewhere on the tour. As it had done at the Milwaukee date, promoter AEG closed off the upper tiers at shows in Sacramento, Oakland, Kansas, Seattle and Denver, and gave free upgrades to fill the floor.

Maybe the trend also says something about the difficulty of persuading a relatively passive, streaming-inclined audience to invest in an artist. Despite receiving more critical acclaim than any other pop record and topping various year-end best-album lists, Melodrama has been a relative commercial flop. In the UK, it peaked at No 5 and then spent 20 weeks in the Top , compared with 51 weeks for her debut, Pure Heroine.

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On one hand, the lack of enthusiasm makes little sense. Melodrama is a fiercely assured, immersive and emotionally sophisticated record, filled with moments of pure pop transcendence.

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Green Light is structurally adventurous, opening with a stark, piano-backed verse before breaking into a brilliant house-influenced chorus, but the hook arrived at 1m 15secs, and Spotify data shows that Scarlett began coming in [to the ADR automated dialogue replacement booth], working around her schedule shooting "Captain America.

So Scarlett would be in this soundproof booth, and sometimes Spike would stand just inches from her directing. When we were in ADR the dialogue was tweaked substantially. But then you had to go edit all of the new material back into a movie that was made with a different performance in mind, no? But we also had help.

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This we were doing for story. What was that process like?

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