Green Light

The song is really about those moments kind of immediately after your life changes, and about all the silly little things that you gravitate towards. It sounds so happy and then the lyrics are so intense, obviously.

– Lorde (Ella Yelich-OConnor) describes 'Greenlight', in a 2017 Beats 1 interview with Zane Lowe

We shot the video on 16mm film.  . . . I would say most music videos are shot on Alexas or RED cameras or potentially 35mm —  but rarely do you see someone who’s as big of an artist as Lorde shooting a video on 16. To me, 16mm film has a thickness to it, and it feels timeless to me. And that was really important: to not make it feel like a video made in 2017....

– American director Grant Singer on making this video. Pitchfork, 2 March 2017

I always want to run toward the thing that feels challenging and scary and exciting, and that didn’t feel like a drum beat and a vocal anymore. Because those types of songs had been number one on the charts for two years. It really felt like there’d been an excess of that type of music, which I am happy for as someone who’s in the camp of minimalism, but also I was like — there has to be a different way to express how I’m feeling.

– Lorde on trying new things with 2017 single 'Green Light', The Spinoff, 19 June 2017