'indescribably painful'
LORDE has revealed she has delayed her third album following the sudden death of her dog Pearl.
The 22-year-old penned a lengthy and heartfelt note to fans describing her grief and telling them it will “take some time” to get back on track.
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The singer announced she was working on her album – the follow up to 2017’s Melodrama – in June of this year but has been set back following the death last month.
She told fans: “It’s been going pretty well, but something happened last month that I need to tell you about.
“Some of you may know about Pearl, my dog. Pearl came into my life in 2018, and almost immediately changed everything for me.
“As anyone who has had the pleasure of raising a dog can understand, my life grew exponentially. Pearl brought an immeasurable amount of joy and purpose into my world.”
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She went on to say that Pearl had been ill throughout his life but they had been unsure “what the illness was”.
After the dog lost some weight last month a vet worked out what was wrong and while meds helped for a while, things took a turn for the worse.
“One day we woke up and I knew, in that way mothers do, that he was sicker than we had realised, and that we were nearing a point where his body wasn’t going to be able to cope,” she continued.
“Pearl had two cardiac arrests about an hour apart, and after the second one, he died.
“I was holding him when he went, and I knew 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.”
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The singer described the impact the loss would have on her music making, writing: “He was instrumental to the discovery that was taking place. I felt he led me towards the ideas. And it’s going to take some time, and recalibration, now that there’s no shepherd ahead of me, to see what the work is going to be.
“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.”
She concluded: “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 crystallises 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.”
New Zealand singer Lorde released her first EP in March 2013 at the age of 16. Shortly after she released her debut single Royals, which was an instant worldwide hit and earned her two Grammy’s.