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Lorde covers and interviews w/ Herald Sun
Full interview: http://www.heraldsun.com.au/entertai...-1226859100409
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On ha life:
The lyrics for Still Sane saw Yelich-O’Connor virtually crystal ball the life the album that housed the song, Pure Heroine, would create for her.
“I still like hotels, but I think that’ll change,” she sings. “Still like hotels and my new-found fame ... I’m little, but I’m coming for the crown.”
Yelich-O’Connor has quickly realised the importance of having the right people around you at the right time.
“A lot of them are from New Zealand and have been with me since I was 13,” she says. “We’re all surprised by it all the time. If I got jaded and thought, ‘Oh this happens every day’, it’d be weird. We still walk into venues every day and go, ‘Holy s---, this is so big, how did we book this?’ It’s the craziest thing.”
She’s in the midst of a US tour, where Pure Heroine has sold a million copies and is on the way to doubling that figure.
“How mental is that, right?” Yelich-O’Connor says of cracking seven figures. “I was pretty pumped.”
On "Team":
She also admits that Team following Royals into the US Top 10 instantly relieved any ‘one hit wonder’ worries. Both have achieved platinum status, selling one million copies.
“It’s comforting knowing I have two singles that went platinum in the US,” she says.
Royals was so unique her team were told no radio station would play it. So they released it online for free just to get it heard. And Team is far from your radio-friendly follow-up.
“Team’s got that weird (acapella) intro, I thought some radio station somewhere is gonna cut that out or make us do a radio edit,” Yelich-O’Connor says. “People have gotten used to me being who I am, being not the typical pop musician. People are really accommodating of that.”
On Ranting on Twitter and running her mouth, and The Lord:
“I don’t know if Twitter’s a good place to vent,” she notes. “Then it turns into a headline. I think I’ll keep my venting for my diary.”
She’s still haunted by giving quotes about Taylor Swift being “so flawless and unattainable”, David Guetta being “gross” and questioning the feminist content in Selena Gomez’s lyrics in early interviews.
“I’d rather people be talking about me for something I’ve actually done rather than just me running my mouth off.”
Swift has become a fast-friend for Yelich-O’Connor. The country star sent the teenager roses when Royals went to No.1 in the US; they bonded soon after.
Yelich-O’Connor has also picked up on Swift’s clever way of deflecting in interviews.
She politely, but firmly, doesn’t want to discuss Swift — her approach proven correct when, shortly after this interview, radio grub Kyle Sandilands made a trademark joke about her having a lesbian relationship with Swift.
We ask if she’s ever written with Swift, or talked about working together musically.
“Ha,” she says. Then a long pause is followed by: “Um, I think, like, we’re just friends.”
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