http://www.theguardian.com/music/201...yelich-oconnor

"I'm very conscious of people having pretty short attention spans: I know, I'm guilty of it. I'm 17 now: what happens by the time I'm 21, am I a burn-out or something? Will they still listen to my record?" People are, she admits, more obsessed with her youth than she'd imagined they would be.

"I thought that it would be a thing when they first heard about me, and then it would stop being a thing, but no," she says. "I've been in some situations where people have treated me like a fascinating toy. You know, it's just like an interesting kind of fun thing to have a play with. It's very weird for me. I feel like a tiny baby. But it's all relative: when you're my age in particular, every year feels like a massive change. The difference between 15 and 17 is colossal for everyone."

Well, I believe her when she says that people make a big deal out of her young age and obsess over it in interviews. It's good for selling an article and a story to a crowd intrigued by a songwriter of this age.

And ofc it's true that a year feels like much more than it really is and changes things much more at a younger age as well.

It is true, each year you go up by feels like such a big difference.

It's true.

Interviewers dwell on her age all the time, and I'm sure other people in the industry DO try to treat her like a toy because of her age, thinking that she will do whatever they say. And they quickly back down when she puts them in their place.

They can't have her heart, and they won't use ha mind, and they can certainly NOT do what they want with her body

i'm older than her, and she's a moodier teenager than i ever was. lord(E )

omg she is such a typical teenager though - she is always complaining about something