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Lorde Just Lit Up Installations Across Auckland With Her New Lyrics

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Lorde has dropped another series of glimpses of her upcoming release, teasing fans with lyric snippets at three locations around her hometown of Auckland.

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It looks like we’ve also got a name for Friday’s single release: “Greenlight”. The words appear at the end of a video projection, screened on a downtown brick wall. 

The singer tweeted a map to three spots around the city where passersby could find installations: a green-lit, smoking car, green lights at the beach, and a projection of her performing what appears to be a snippet of the upcoming song. 

Light-boxed lyric snippets included “I do my makeup in someone else’s car” and “she thinks you love the beach, you’re such a damn liar”. The video projection played a five-second-long clip of music on loop – what sounds like, “I’ll come get my things but I can’t let go, I’m waiting for it”.

Here’s what the drop looked like: