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Update: Lorde is coming to Dallas with Run the Jewels on 'Melodrama' mega tour

Update Oct. 20 at 5:05 p.m.: Rap duo Run the Jewels and singer-songwriter Tove Styrke will be the supporting acts at Lorde's Dallas concert, according to an announcement.

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After several years out of the limelight, global super star Lorde is officially back on pop music's front-line. Friday, the singer, born Ella Yelich-O'Connor, released her highly anticipated sophomore album, Melodrama, and announced a world tour to support it.

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Lorde comes to Dallas' American Airlines Center on March 18, 2018 -- note that's next year -- with a "special guest" to be announced, per a statement. Tickets go on sale Friday, June 23 at 10 a.m., but die-hards can gain access to be pre-sale tickets on June 20 by signing up for the artist's email list.

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Lorde was a teenager when her debut album, Pure Heroine, skyrocketed her to global super star status. So it's no surprise she disappeared for a while to regain any sense of normalcy. According to a feature in Rolling Stone, she returned to her native New Zealand to reconnect with old friends who "weren't too weirded out by her fame" and search for inspiration for a follow up album.

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As Lorde tells it, the process was slow-going.

"There was a real hit of, like, 'I just don't have another one,'" Lorde told the pub. "'It could never be good enough.'"

Melodrama was recorded in Los Angeles with help from musician/producer Jack Antonoff (also Lena Dunham's boyfriend) and features 11 songs that diverge slightly from the electronic-heavy vibe that characterized her debut. Rolling Stone called it "emblematic of a modern pop record that prizes old-school intimacy" in a four-star review.

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