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DIY noted that a "rushed lyric half way through the second verse epitomises the whole record." Kitty Empire of The Guardian called it a "dazzling synthesis of pro-dramatics and originality" and said the track was "nigh-on impossible to dance to." Pitchfork's Stacey Anderson noted the song captured an "immersive bliss", as well as a "shared frequency of love just as irrepressibly grandiose as its sound." McDermott compared the guitar outro to the to the work of The Cure or The Cranberries. "The Louvre" received critical acclaim from music critics, with many praising its lyrical content and calling it a stand-out track on Melodrama. In a review roundup for The Fader, editor Owen Myers described the song as a "biting call-and-answer pre-chorus flips between feelings of self-doubt and giddy romance." Aimee Cliff said that Lorde captured the "self-importance of first love so well." Patrick D. It’s just like this big dumb joy and it’s intense – and I feel like the instrumentation in that song kind of helped it get there.” It’s like ‘I just want to be by you all the time, I just want to listen to you talk and look at your face do all those dumb things that it does when you talk. “I wanted to just like the big sun-soaked dumbness of falling in love and it’s like your whole head is like glue, it’s amazing. Lorde herself commented on the track on a Spinoff Exclusive Podcast saying:
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The song is assumed to be about the happiness during the beginning of her relationship with James Lowe. The song had co-production from Flume, along with Jack Antonoff and Lorde herself. There is an extended version where she repeatedly sings "whoa, oh-oh" during the outro. This could be a combination of " Perfect Places", " Writer in the Dark" and this song. In January 2015, Lorde posted a cryptic tweet that read "Perfect is in the Louvre". On May 18th, Lorde released the track list for Melodrama and "The Louvre" was the sixth song on the list.