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Fan Base: Lorde
Member Since: 8/17/2013
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Bought my copy of Metro Magazine. The photos of her a stunning.
Such a great article too.
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Member Since: 8/19/2013
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One of the best albums of the year. I'm actually loving someone who's younger than me this feels kinda weird
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Member Since: 8/12/2012
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Member Since: 8/12/2012
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Lorde
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"I was on the internet the other day, and I saw that someone had made up a quote about me not liking gay people, and I was like 'Wha?!?'" she sighed. "Now there are probably a bunch of people out there who think I hate gay people now, which is ridiculous. But you have to let it go. I just want to continue making music; it's the reason I'm here in the first place."
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Member Since: 8/12/2012
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A well written review of the Toronto show
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In 1968, an unconvinced Connecticut high-schooler wrote and illustrated How to Be a Nonconformist. It was an irreverent, charismatic deconstruction of the cult of marginality. Elissa Jane Karg was 16 years old when she meticulously made her satire and pen-and-ink drawings.
On Sunday, the New Zealand singer-songwriter Ella Yelich-O'Connor arrived at the Danforth Music Hall, full of auburn hair, chilled-gothic ambience and outrageous composure. She works professionally as Lorde, and she’s a bit of a sensation. Like Karg, at age 16, she’s an articulate and amused observer.
Lorde is concerned with the state of being young and the transitions to come. Neil Young wrote that you “can’t be 20 on sugar mountain.” Lorde has seen the barkers and the coloured balloons, but unlike the child-serving Katy Perrys and Avril Lavignes of the pop world, she is mindful of the increasing birthday-cake candles, and not ashamed to admit some fear.
Her assertive, immaculate 60-minute set began with Bravado, a darkened trip of modern R&B and sober electro-pop from her debut EP The Love Club. It’s a personal pep talk, with lines about overcoming shyness and putting up confident fronts. Soon it will become more natural: “But I can take it from here; I’ll find my own bravado.”
Later, on the low-sparking, ghostly lament of Ribs, Lorde referenced the Broken Social Scene – “Lover’s Spit on repeat” – and sounded like a shadowy Stars. “And I’ve never felt more alone; it feels so scary, getting old.”
Lorde’s voice is smoky, rich, and level – vocal acrobatics are not for her. In fact, no acrobatics are for her. In a fairly prim black dress, the picture-perfect artist stayed mostly at centre stage, backed by a keyboardist who often provided moody bass lines and a percussionist who embellished heavy electronic drumbeats with clanks and tinnier snaps. Background vocals were ghostly, layered tapes of Lorde’s own harmonizing.
At times, she would move her shoulders and arms in a quick, jolted manner to the sharpest beats. No one in the sold-out audience ever flinched. Girls shrieked on occasion, while one man made strange cheering woofs. “Is that a Canadian thing,” the singer asked of him, sincerely. “Is it a hockey thing?” No, it is a rube thing.
On Bravado, Lorde sang that she was “raised up to be admired, to be noticed.” The story goes that she began writing songs at age 12. Talent-show success happened eventually, and, after being signed by Universal, she began working with songwriter-producer Joel Little. Released this spring, The Love Club EP featured the hit single Royals, which is also part of her just-out debut album Pure Heroine.
The shimmering, catchy Royals offers another side to Lorde’s lyrical mindset. It’s about reconciling her small-town situation with the audacious lifestyles of the bling-music elite, with their time-piece diamonds, jet planes and islands, and tigers on gold leashes. “We don’t care, we’re not caught up in your love affair,” she sang, probably referring to power couple Jay Z and Beyoncé.
Royals, currently the one of the world’s most popular songs, could have been offered in a more outgoing manner. But the barely lit Lorde and her two sidemen stuck to the script, keeping things close to the ground.
Much like Lana Del Rey, whose mystique (like Lorde’s) was carefully cultivated, Lorde’s music is cool-headed, moody and often reveals a taste for hip-hop. A four-to-the-floor dance beat was occasionally employed, as was the case on a cover of Kanye West’s Hold My Liquor, but it’s not a formula.
I think Karg would have been a fan: One of her sardonic 22 steps on how not to kowtow involves hipsters “singing sombre songs that no one understands … including themselves.” Lorde’s songs are sombre, but they are clear and reasoned. She doesn’t strive to be cool or uncool – she’s her own herd, not unconforming like the rest of the crowd. And, at the moment, she rules.
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How to be a Nonconformist
http://www.amazon.com/How-Nonconform...1175072&sr=1-1
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Originally posted by Cxsey
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I can't wait for her to drag all of the pop girls on the charts. "Team" is going to be her second #1. "Ribs" is going to be third #1. Then they'll re-release "Tennis Court" in America and it'll be her fourth.
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Member Since: 6/29/2012
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Originally posted by ManDown
I can't wait for her to drag all of the pop girls on the charts. "Team" is going to be her second #1. "Ribs" is going to be third #1. Then they'll re-release "Tennis Court" in America and it'll be her fourth.
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Yes I love this plan
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I was thinking by myself whether Every One Wants To Rule The World could lead a little into a revival of the 80's
It seems that the 80's are not seen as legendary than the 60's and 70's but these band like OMD, Spandau Ballet, Tears For Fears had all unique melodies and tunes, who didn't rely on generations before, they were absolutly fresh.
I think the only survivor of this music is Depeche Mode.
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Member Since: 9/3/2012
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Originally posted by rbautz
I was thinking by myself whether Every One Wants To Rule The World could lead a little into a revival of the 80's
It seems that the 80's are not seen as legendary than the 60's and 70's but these band like OMD, Spandau Ballet, Tears For Fears had all unique melodies and tunes, who didn't rely on generations before, they were absolutly fresh.
I think the only survivor of this music is Depeche Mode.
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I've heard Lorde's cover of Everyone Wants To Rule The World and it doesn't sound 80s at all.
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Member Since: 8/19/2013
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Listened to "Pure Heroine" again today... it's ****ing perfection. This bitch deserves every bit of praise that she's getting.
I still struggle to process the fact that she's younger than me, though.
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Originally posted by Save-Me-Oprah
I've heard Lorde's cover of Everyone Wants To Rule The World and it doesn't sound 80s at all.
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Does it sounds good, or is it disposable.
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Originally posted by rbautz
Does it sounds good, or is it disposable.
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The instrumental sounds epic and cinematic, like something that would be played during a battle scene or something. Her vocal is alright but nothing crazy.
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I'm screaming at the "[Pause]"
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I listened to this for the first time in forever and it slayed me more than when it first came out. Ugh. Lorde.
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Flop base
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Originally posted by Save-Me-Oprah
I'm screaming at the "[Pause]"
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You should make a thread
Lorde shades Selena Gomez
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