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We’re excited to be chatting with Lorde and producer Jim-E stack in person this week to talk about how Lorde’s upcoming album was written, recorded & produced.

If you have any questions about how they make their music fire away below!

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Joe

Which track off Virgin took the longest to complete? Which one took the quickest?

Jordan Duncan

How did the collaboration between the two come about, was it a quick easy decision to then decide to work on the album together?

Charlie Thacker

How much of the writing process of lyrics is done within the DAW as production arrangements come in? Are songs transposed exactly from a notepad or is there an element of the production informing the lyrics?

William Card

This is a question for both James & Ella! Excited for the tour this fall in the states James - understanding that you’ve worked with many artists who have both recording & live performance aspects to their career & ella - since you’ve also produced & taken your music on the road into tons of venues around the world: what aspects of production or songwriting are taken into consideration when reimagine how these songs will be performed live?

dréss

What was it like working with Andrew Aged and having him on production?

Teddy Friedman

James – Can you talk about your use of varispeed, and other sound manipulation in your productions? I’ve heard it used in a lot in your production (including your work with Bon Iver)

Johan Buurma

How much of your vocal melody and/or lyrical writing first stems from recording yourself just ad libbing over some music as opposed to prior preparation of lyrics and melody?

Johan Buurma

Are any of the upcoming songs never gonna make it to your live setlist?

Johan Buurma

Any remix album coming out??? Tongue in cheek mostly! –but that’s be so cool to have Charli xcx with ya on a remix version of one of these tracks

Khiusttin

When did the album start taking form? Which song kicked it off?

Andres Cardenas

At what point did you know that the album would consist of 11 tracks? How many tracks did not make the cut for this album?

Danilzao

How much improvisation goes into your work compared to writing/rewriting?

Tim Adam-Smith

Thanks! We've recorded this one now but look out for future questions wanted!