Lorde performed a Te Reo Māori version of ‘Oceanic Feeling’ during the first night of her New Zealand tour. Check it out below.
Te Reo Māori is the indigenous language of the singer’s birthplace, Aotearoa, or New Zealand.
This version of ‘Oceanic Feeling’, which she performed during the tour’s opening night on Wednesday (February 11), comes from ‘Te Ao Mārama’, the 2021 companion EP to ‘Solar Power‘, her album of the same year.
The EP included five songs from the record, sung entirely in Te Reo Māori. In a newsletter to fans shared at the time, Lorde explained that in the process of making ‘Solar Power’, she had the realisation that “much of my value system around caring for and listening to the natural world comes from traditional Māori principles”.
“I’m not Māori, but all New Zealanders grow up with elements of this worldview,” she added. “Te ao Māori and tikanga Māori are a big part of why people who aren’t from here intuit our country to be kind of ‘magical’, I think.
“I know I’m someone who represents New Zealand globally in a way, and in making an album about where I’m from, it was important to me to be able to say: this makes us who we are down here,” she continued.
Check out the live version below.
At her first New Zealand stop, Lorde sang the Te Reo Māori version of “Oceanic Feeling.” Te Reo Māori is the indigenous language of the Māori people who call mainland New Zealand home.
In 2021, Lorde released the recorded version of the song in Te Reo Maōri titled… pic.twitter.com/r5LPsFa5FH
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Lorde’s setlist at Auckland’s Spark Arena was:
‘Hammer’
‘Royals’
‘Broken Glass’
‘Buzzcut Season’
‘Favourite Daughter’
‘Perfect Places’
‘Shapeshifter’
‘Current Affairs’
‘Supercut’
‘GRWM’
‘400 Lux’
‘The Louvre’
‘Hine-i-te-Awatea’ / ‘Oceanic Feeling’
‘Big Star’
‘Liability’
‘Clearblue’
‘Man of the Year’
‘If She Could See Me Now’
‘Team’
‘What Was That’
‘Green Light’
‘David’
‘Ribs’
The tour comes in support of her most recent album, Virgin, which was released last June. NME gave it a four-star review, writing: “‘Virgin’ is a vibrant combination of Lorde’s best qualities, and then some.
“With her newfound candour, the record combines the emotional whirlwind of ‘Melodrama’, the chilling minimalism of ‘Pure Heroine’ and the breezy freedom of ‘Solar Power’. This might be called ‘Virgin’, but Lorde proves she’s not afraid to strip herself bare.”
In other news, the pop star is a headliner for All Points East 2026 in London. The line-up also includes PinkPantheress, Zara Larsson and more as support.
Elsewhere, Lorde has donated over $200,000 from merch sales to Minnesota immigrant funds.
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