Lorde Congratulates Katy....(and Lorde's real Name)
So you're really into Lorde (like, "Pure-Heroine"-on-repeat-into) but do you even know her real name?
It's a mouthful: Ella Maria Lani Yelich-O'Connor. She can thank her Croatian-Irish ancestry for that.
"My name is Ella, that's who I am at school, hanging out with friends, while I'm doing homework" the 16-year-old told Interview Magazine. "But when I'm up on stage, Lorde is a character. My friends actually find that really difficult to digest, separating me from the theatrical character they see on stage; but they're getting used to it."
So how did she come up with the moniker?
"When I was trying to come up with a stage name, I thought ‘Lord' was super rad, but really masculine -- ever since I was a little kid, I have been really into royals and aristocracy," she said. "So to make Lord more feminine, I just put an ‘e' on the end! Some people think it's religious, but it's not."
The name may not come from religious conception but if her already-platinum "Pure Heroine" is any indication, her latest album is pretty close to a religious experience.
The name may not come from religious conception but if her already-platinum "Pure Heroine" is any indication, her latest album is pretty close to a religious experience.
Damn I didn't know Pure Heroine was already platinum
Huffpo is referring to it going platinum first week in New Zealand - it's linked in the article.
It'll be a few weeks before it goes platinum in the US, although if its sales hold stable like they were (#1 album on iTunes even 3 weeks after release ) it'll be platinum shortly.
I think they are talking about NZ. Which is only 15k
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Originally posted by heartbeats
Hey now sis, don't sass the fact that she sold 15k in NZ first week.
With 15k sold over a population of only 4m in NZ, if you increase the proportions to the size of the US population, she'd have sold 1,063,881 copies in her first week.
also Adele Laurie Blue Adkins, Elizabeth Woolridge Grant, Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, Jasmine van den Bogaerde (Birdy) and Beyoncé Giselle Knowles
The parents of them had style
and now compare it with Apples Paltrow, North West Kadarshian.
also Adele Laurie Blue Adkins, Elizabeth Woolridge Grant, Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, Jasmine van den Bogaerde (Birdy) and Beyoncé Giselle Knowles
) it'll be platinum shortly.
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