Every NYC Location on Lorde’s Route in ‘What Was That’ Video
Name this tunnel.
Photo: Lorde / YouTube
This morning, Lorde fell “what was that“, Her first major outing since 2021 and the one she teased on April 22 with an unexpected appearance at Washington Square Park. It was supposed to be a complete performance, but she had not obtained a license, so the police put an end to this. Lorde briefly danced to one of her recordings instead. Video of the new songBut we, in Curbebed, were much more concentrated on the two minutes of film preceding the sequence of the park, which consists almost entirely in a walking and tightening journey along the east side of Manhattan hugging the seafront – not a particularly pretty route dominated by the post -war Blah towers and the Cadaverous FDR Drive, which can be reason. Edition of films being what it is, its itinerary is a bit geographically nervous but not wildly offline. And where, exactly, is it going?
The first plan of the video shows Lorde in a pedestrian crossing; As soon as the camera rises to catch its face, this street turns out to be Sutton place south, at the corner of the 55th street.
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The camera is to follow it through and bottom of the street, and it passes 45 Sutton Place South,, At the corner of 54th.
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From there, it is at the corner of the street – and we are instantly transported to Second avenue and 28th Street near the central square in Kips Bay Court It goes first.
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A brief inverted corner shot grabs part of Bellevue Hospital In front of this courtyard on First Avenue.
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Another steep cut and we are about 30 houses in the north. She crosses The greenway of East Side around the 63rd street,, On a deck recognizable from its high white balustrade and its distinctive lampposts.
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Downstairs on the esplanade, it stops at the balustrade and grabs a previously invisible bike (why not?). She also removes her headphones, demonstrating good cycling behavior.
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From there, she begins to roll, heading south. We see her pass the oriented side of the river of 45 Sutton PlaceThe same building in the middle of the century which appears in the opening plans.
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A few additional blows accompany him on the cycle path, then under the FDR Drive, seen here at around 32nd Street.
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We soon see an overview of NYU Hospital Coles laboratories Above his shoulder, a little north of the 30th street.
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On what she disembarks and drops the bike, which is … Back on Sutton Place South.
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She crosses the street and, in the jump cup, is now heading south Second avenue just above the east of the 36th street.
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It walks a block south of there, and we see the trade band of Second between 34th and 35th.
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Now she turned around and has managed First Avenue around the 38th street. It is 650 First avenue left, in the middle of the renovation.
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She continues to go first until she arrives at The tunnel that plunges under the United Nations complexwhere she heads underground. (It looks cool, but don’t do this unless you are a pop star and you have a video team available to close the street to traffic. You will surface.)
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She heads for the tunnel along the snow gateway, then comes to a door that leads to an unidentified-tunnel scale under the street …
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… From which she emerges, via man, in recognition Washington Square ParkThe site of his concert the other evening. It’s a party! Lorde lives in the village, so she could have walked if she had not made a series of detours in Sutton Place South.
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Most of the rest of the video are exuberant concert images. But there are a few cuts to Lorde on her bike, mainly under the FDR behavior in the east of the 1930s. We have a brief overview of Nyu Smilow Research Center Before it ends.
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After listening to the song about 50 hours in the morning looking at the buildings in the background, I can also point out that “what was” is a banger. Lorde: Good musician, good urban planner.
Here is the whole video, by the way, in case you have not started.
