And now she's doing an interview with The Guardian, here are some excerpts.
On why she chose Lorde as her stage name – "I wanted an aristocratic title, but I wanted it to look feminine, like, aesthetically"
"When I meet Lorde, her debut single Royals has just sold 1m copies in the US, broken Alanis Morissette's record for the longest reign by a female artist at the top of Billboard's Alternative Chartand will – in a couple of weeks' time – dethrone Miley Cyrus from the top of the Hot 100."
"She should be back home in New Zealand, in Davenport, a suburb of Auckland that's apparently known locally as the Bubble – "because it's so insular and closed off from everything" – and which she describes, winningly, as "the kind of suburb that people make movies about, there's quite weird mums everywhere"."
""I haven't quit school," she frowns. "Technically, I'm still there. I don't really know how it's going to work. I'm a realist about the effect that doing what I'm doing now is going to have. You know, it's enough of a full-time thing. I actually feel like I'm doing work as opposed to sitting around waiting for my life to start, which is pretty awesome." Her thoughts about her education are interrupted by the arrival of her lunch. "Olives!" she exclaims delightedly. "I love olives. I'm not allowed to have any alcohol backstage, so I always ask for olives.""
"Perhaps her calmness has something to do with New Zealand, a country that, by her account, doesn't really go in for excitable celebrity culture: "I've had two of the biggest songs in the country and I can do exactly what I've always done. I can walk around, go to parties with my friends, it's still relatively casual." Or perhaps it's the result of what, by anyone's standards, seems a pretty unique musical apprenticeship. The daughter of a civil engineer (dad) and a writer (mum), she was signed aged 12 – "so young I didn't really feel like it was that much of a big deal" – after a record label talent scout saw a video of her singing in a school concert, "doing Warwick Avenue by Duffy. Not cool. Sorry.""
"...it took her a couple of years, and the arrival of co-writer and producer Joel Little, to come up with the songs she began posting online last year, insisting that her record label "leave it alone – don't promote it, no ads, let it grow organically" (things began moving when singer-songwriter Grimes tweeted a link to Lorde's Soundcloud page, having being alerted to its existence by "some random"). Some of the songs have turned up on her debut album Pure Heroine. You can understand why people have compared its chilly, hip-hop influenced electronic pop to Lana del Rey, but the real difference lies in the words, which Yelich-O'Connor writes alone, and which are uniformly fantastic, big on withering critiques of the glaring disparity between the moneyed glamorous lifestyle pop culture presents to its teenage consumers and the reality of their suburban lives."
"She sighs. "I'm like the most terrible person to go to a party with in the world, because I just can't enjoy it. I'm just thinking all the time about what it means and what the implications are. So everybody's getting fucked up and I just can't give myself over to it, because I'm thinking about" – she lets out a self-mocking laugh – "the archetypes of being a teen. I'm really interested in kind of weird social situations and cliques, watching girls vying for attention, watching how the popularity thing happens. I've always thought way too hard about everything." Another self-mocking laugh. "Not normal. It's really not healthy. I'm just a freak," she says, before turning back to her olives."
Can I just add that Royals is my shower jam, without a doubt an absolute gem!!!
Can I just add that Royals is my shower jam, without a doubt an absolute gem!!!
.jpg)
