grrl's going all over. august 2 puts me in n.y. and l.a. for a week, and then september 8 i'll be in the states 3 weeks, the u.k. 1 week, a little more of europe for not sure how long, and australia for 1 week. so excited to meet people and see things. shows announced soo0on.
Yess that totally makes sense. This is her last year in highschool though, so do you think she will blow up commercially after graduation?
If she makes furthermore music, I'm sure that many will like her style, If she becomes a Superstar in commercially sense? No that is something for Soul Stars like Tina Turner, Adele or Pop Stars like Madonna, Beyoncé. But a career like Kate Bush, Tori Amos.
Meet Lorde, the 16-Year-Old Singer Poised to Take Over Pop Music
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She has a catchy single, ‘Royals,’ climbing the charts and has been called the next Lana Del Rey. The teenage Lorde talks to Marlow Stern about her meteoric ascent.
That voice.
At first blush, it brings to mind the sultry, melancholic croon of Lana Del Rey. Then the lo-fi beats set in and the voice begins rapping, recalling Lily Allen in her heyday, before soaring upward like a vernal Cat Power. And the lyrics are both acerbic and buoyant:
“But everybody’s like Cristal, Maybach, diamonds on your time piece / Jet planes, island, tigers on a gold leash / We don’t care, we aren’t caught up in your love affair.”
“Royals,” the hit tune by the 16-year-old New Zealand songstress Lorde, is the anti–Magna Carta Holy Grail, poking fun at the outrageous excesses of hip-hop music in a galvanizing, teen-targeting pop anthem. The song is off the Love Club EP—a collection of five songs released on SoundCloud in late 2012 as a free stream, where it was downloaded more than 60,000 times. When “Royals” was officially released this March, it made its debut at No. 1 on the New Zealand charts, where it reigned for three weeks.
Lorde wrote the song in July 2012, inspired in part by the Jay-Z–and–Kanye West collaborative album Watch the Throne.
“I really enjoyed it,” she says. “I can get absorbed in Kanye’s world, but a part of me is always like, ‘This is kind of ********’—all the crazy extravagances he’s talking about. And I started listening to a lot more top-40 music, and realized a lot of the stuff isn’t very relatable to anyone’s lives.”
Instead, Lorde sought to create pop anthems that capture teenage ennui and aggravation, whether it’s falling in with the wrong crowd (“The Love Club”) or the monotony of partying (a cover of ’80s indie-rock band The Replacements’ “Swingin’ Party”). Her songs, which she cowrote with songwriter-producer Joel Little, are all culled from real-life experiences.
“Every situation I’m in, I’m thinking about lyrics,” says Lorde. “I’ll be at a party and enjoying it, but at the same time looking around and thinking about the translation, and how I’ll write about it. You can never shut that off as a writer
NZ singer Lorde replaces injured Frank Ocean at Splendour in the Grass
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NEW Zealand teenager Lorde has been handed the break of her life after promoters of Splendour in the Grass asked her to step in to replace Frank Ocean, who pulled out of the festival at the last minute.
It is hoped the 16-year-old Auckland singer-songwriter - whose real name is Ella Yelich-O'Connor - will thrill punters squelching in the mud at the festival outside Byron Bay in NSW when she takes to the stage at 5.30pm on Sunday.
Lorde released her debut EP The Love Club in March, which features her number one New Zealand hit Royals.
Her second EP Tennis Court was released in June, following sold-out gigs in Sydney and Melbourne in May.
Lorde's entrance in the festival line-up has bumped up Monsters and Men into Ocean's Sunday night timeslot and The Presets up to the festival's closing slot.
Ocean cancelled all of his upcoming Australian shows on Friday after suffering a small tear to one of his vocal chords.
The singer-songwriter received medical advice to rest his voice.
Concert promoter Live Nation said on Friday it would be working to confirm a return visit to Australia for Ocean and advised those who purchased concert tickets to return them for refunds.
Ocean was scheduled to play at Melbourne's Festival Hall on Friday night and at Sydney's Hordern Pavilion on Monday and Tuesday.
"In quiet awe Lorde greeted the crowd with a beaming smile and a flick of those distinctive waist-length curls," wrote fasterlouder.com.au's Sarah Smith.
"She had them in the palm of her hand mid-way through opener Bravado, in raptures when she reached Tennis Court and in love when she finally dropped Royals ...
"If she was nervous to be standing in front of 25,000 frothing fans a mere two months since playing a 300-capacity room in Melbourne, she certainly didn't show it."
Reviewer Lucy Slight from MTVnews.com.au said the performance confirmed Lorde was "destined for nothing but greatness".
"With just a producer/DJ and a drummer accompanying her on stage, Lorde was the complete centre of attention, dressed casually in black jeans, flat boots and a black tee - looking oh so effortlessly cool and unaffected," Slight wrote.
"The teen undoubtedly attracted one of the biggest crowds for her early timeslot, with the Supertop tent so jam-packed with people that punters trying to get around the edges had no choice but to stop and take in the Auckland high school student's incredible vocal talents."
The West Australian reviewer Simon Collins called Lorde's performance of her smash hit Royals "magic" and concluded that: "A star is born."
Lorde told the crowd the experience was "mental" and later tweeted that she had enjoyed the show, saying she "loved every minute".
SO happy to see Lorde climbing up the charts in the US. She's already slayed us in NZ
