Singer Lorde rerecords 5 album songs in Maori

The release comes amid the nation’s reckoning with the historical repression of Maori language and culture.

The album is titled"Te Ao Mārama," which translates into “world of light,” and focuses on the natural world., the singer said the project involved consulting with Maori elders, and working with “a powerhouse team of language experts,” translators and pronunciation coaches to record the album as she is not fluent in Maori.Fiona Goodall / Getty Images file

Lorde, who has a huge global audience and is followed by nearly 8 million on Instagram, said she was also prepared to face criticism and accepted that accusations of “white saviourism” were likely. Without their ancestral lands, with which people are spiritually connected in the Maori world, and with the erosion of many cultural rights, the Maori are still disproportionately affected by a raft of social problems from imprisonment to homelessness.Lorde's tracks in Maori are now available on the singer’s"This makes me want to cry,” one of the comments below her “Solar Power” track in Maori said. “Lorde is so true to her land and the people of it.

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