Illustration by Allure; Source images: Getty Images I deeply regret not going to Lorde’s surprise concert in Washington Square Park a few weeks ago. I may be on the youngest end of the millennial spectrum, but I was still old and jaded enough in 2013 to feel like she had set my internal monologue to music with her moody debut record, Pure Heroine. That night, I was heading home while my friends posted Instagram stories from the growing crowd, eager to get a glimpse of the 28-year-old pop star who hadn’t performed live in years. Even through the metallic glow of my phone screen, the energy felt feral and somewhat romantic, a blur of cropped T-shirts, digital camera flashes, and college students climbing trees or lampposts under the setting sun. It was a scene pulled straight off of a Tumblr dashboard, an instantly recognizable site for those of us who came of age in the early 2010s. If you ask me, we’ve actually been reliving that era for a minute now. Alongside Lorde, Lana Del Rey, Haim, and Marina (formerly Marina and the Diamonds) are dropping highly anticipated albums this summer, all the while Charli XCX continues to sell out
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