--- title: Listen Lorde Green Light New Song 2017 AUDIO Watch Youtube description: The "Royals" singer has finally released her upbeat new single, "Green Light," alongside a dance-heavy music video. canonical: https://time.com/4689018/lorde-green-light/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-03-02T19:07:38.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:41:35.142Z og:title: Lorde's Long-Awaited New Song 'Green Light' Is Finally Here og:description: Watch the video for her brand-new single. og:url: https://time.com/4689018/lorde-green-light/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Lorde's Long-Awaited New Song 'Green Light' Is Finally Here twitter:description: Watch the video for her brand-new single. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Lorde's Long-Awaited New Song 'Green Light' Is Finally Here > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Mar 2, 2017 7:07 PM UTC  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Mar 2, 2017 7:07 PM UTC At long last, [20-year-old ](http://time.com/4560667/lorde-new-music-2017/)New Zealand singer-songwriter Lorde of “Royals” fame has released her new single, the first in three years. It’s called “Green Light,” and she’s been [teasing it over the past week](http://time.com/4684837/lorde-new-album-release/) with a series of mysterious [short videos](https://www.imwaitingforit.com/) and installations in her hometown of Auckland. “I am so proud of this song. It’s very different, and kinda unexpected. It’s complex and funny and sad and joyous and it’ll make you DANCE,” she wrote in a tweet in the lead-up to its release. “It’s the first chapter of a story I’m gonna tell you, the story of the last two wild, fluorescent years of my life,” she continued. 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