single “Green Light” is made to be screamed — particularly alongside tens of thousands of people who will come get their things, but can’t let go. The singer ramped up her performance of the track at this year’s Sziget Festival in Budapest, Hungary with a special guest appearance from another master of lyrical dramatics:Polachek, also booked to perform at the five-day festival, emerged at the beginning of the song to help Lorde.
Lorde also treated the Sziget Festival audience to a performance of “Silver Moon,” an unreleased song that she debuted last week at theera in 2017, leaving some hoping that she was returning from the breezy beach vibe that defined her last album, 2021’sAt Boardmasters, where she also performed a song assumed to be titled “Invisible Ink,” Lorde told the audience: “This is not the start of anything.” But not everyone was convinced.