Lorde the 22-year-old singer from New Zealand has lost her dearest companion, Pearl her dog. The singer wrote to fans who were prescribed to her newsletter a heartfelt message addressing her recent loss. Due to this trama and abrupt loss the singer has decided to post pone creating her next album. Lorde articulated that Pearl was a big piece of the musical process for her. Pitchfork stated, “Pearl’s death has changed the timetable on her follow-up to 2017’s Melodrama. She lost Pearl to not just one but to cardiac arrest’s. Pearl passed away in the singer’s arms knowing that her best friend was there with her. She wrote, “I was holding him when he went, and I know he knew that I was there. But this loss has been indescribably painful, and a light that was turned on for me has gone out.”

She is now taking time in order to heal. In her letter Lorde made it clear that she needs time to grieve, and that she is has no guide currently for making music at this time. In her letter to fans Lorde addressed the loss as well as her recent ‘radio silence’ with communication with fans. Pitchfork posted some of her letter where Lorde spoke directly to her fans saying, “When we first met I would write little notes for you online, and they would form a big map that you would use to chart the constellations in my work. I realized a couple of years ago that I needed to rethink my relationship with posting random shit online all the time, so here we are, a little less in contact than we once were.” 

“So I’m asking for your patience, as 2020 comes around and you start to wonder where the next record is. I have lost my boy, and I need some time to see the good again, to finish making this for you. It won’t be the same work— as anyone who has felt loss can understand, there’s a door that opens that you step through, and everything is different on the other side. But when this great loss crystallizes inside me, and my chest rebuilds around it, hopefully I’ll be able to finish up, and share it with you, and we’ll all grow together, as we always do.”

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