South Park Releases Moving Top-40 Banger 'Push (Ya Ya Ya, I Am Lorde)'
Though Lorde’s age and identity were long ago established beyond a reasonable doubt by the internet’s most intrepid detectives, a reasonable doubt about her age and identity still remains. Last week’s South Park brought the simmering controversy back into the light by revealing a piece of tantalizing information: Lorde is actually Randy Marsh, a cartoon and semi-belligerent middle-aged geologist.
The episode answers some questions about Lorde’s artistic process (she mostly composes her songs in the bathroom at the office); it also leaves us with some interesting questions about Lorde’s heretofore-hidden musical history (Marsh is the former frontman of obscure tweenwave act Steamy Ray Vaughn as well as a past collaborator with Steamy Nicks; he is also male, much older than Lorde’s purported 17, and fictional); most saliently, it gives us “Push (Ya Ya Ya, I Am Lorde),” the rare type of sultry, engaging, radio-friendly pop that, like last week’s South Park and Lorde herself, raises more questions than it answers.