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HaHa, just reading the twitter mentions of her Infieldfest performance. It seems she scared the hell out of them.
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Megan @OMandMegan 2 Min.
My dad watched the lorde clip from the preakness and he said she looked like the spawn of satan
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Evan Dunfee @EvanDunfee 14 Min.
Watching Lorde perform at the Preakness felt like a twilight zone episode.
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Tennis Court is up to #75 combined on iTunes. Looks like this will be the big seller that we all wanted Team to be.
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A great night for the Lorde at the BBMAs
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Team and Royals also saw gains on itunes
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Love the NZ Queen forever gathering acclaim and accolades purely based on her talent and music. So hard to believe still that a regular girl from my country, somewhere everyone had always ruled as being a place impossible to succeed in internationally, managed to take the world by storm.
Hope for me yet!
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Love the NZ Queen forever gathering acclaim and accolades purely based on her talent and music. So hard to believe still that a regular girl from my country, somewhere everyone had always ruled as being a place impossible to succeed in internationally, managed to take the world by storm.
Hope for me yet!
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Teen Hottie and role model
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Congratulations Lorde on winning Top New Artist and Top Rock Song at the Billboard Music Awards
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NZ Prime Minister John Key STANNING for Lorde. Who else?
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Hey performance was amazing!! It's already falling on iTunes tho
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NZ Prime Minister John Key STANNING for Lorde. Who else?
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He knows Lorde is far more popular than anyone in politics... and will probably last longer too.
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Hey performance was amazing!! It's already falling on iTunes tho
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Where did Tennis Court peak?
I saw it was 75 on kworb - did it get higher than that?
Team: #67 United States (+9)
Royals: #66 United States (+12)
Tennis Court: #75 United States (+24)
http://kworb.net/itunes/artist/lorde.html
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Lemme buy a copy of Pure Heroine real quick. "Team" is my song!
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Lemme buy a copy of Pure Heroine real quick. "Team" is my song!
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Stan!
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New York Times interview together with Lorde and Conor Oberst
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Q: You guys can talk, and I'll just eavesdrop, as if I were a government agency. Ella, how did you first discover Conor's music?
Lorde: I knew about Bright Eyes because everyone at my school was obsessed with Bright Eyes. But I didn't really have a supergood understanding of who you were. Then my current boyfriend introduced me to you - he's an OG, hard-core fan, like he had a forum in 2005 for you guys.
Oberst: Right on.
Lorde: He was like, I know how you write, and I know how he writes. It was really eye-opening for me as a writer, because - sorry I'm just going to dive into this - but the way you express emotion as a songwriter, it's, like, childlike. It's fierce and honest and intense, and you're kind of defying people to say that they didn't feel the same way as you. Everyone has those feelings that they don't quite want to admit, but which you do, in songwriting.
Oberst: A lot of that was starting at a young age, not realizing that it wasn't cool to, like, express your emotions. I wasn't old enough to be cynical or jaded. I had a similar reaction when I heard your music. So much stuff at your level, in the Top 40 world, is just like vapor: You hear a song and maybe you can hum the melody, but you walk away with zero ideas having been communicated. And with your writing, you can do it all at once. You can have this amazing pop anthem that the whole world's going to sing, and you can still communicate solid, concrete ideas and paint this very vivid picture of lost teenagers in this faraway place.
Lorde: I appreciate that. But that's another thing that I really love about your writing, the little visual thing that just stays with you. I wrote one down - the line "People in the pool like a drowning army, the smoke alarm emotes and the hotel lobby glows." I was like, that is perfect!
Oberst: I like to find words I don't normally hear in songs, get them in. I got one a while ago: "oscilloscope." I thought, if I can cram that one in, that's the fun. Do you write on guitar or piano?
Lorde: I can't play guitar; I am pretty bad at piano. I just bought a bunch of vintage Casiotone synths, because you can only play two keys at once. But up to this point, I've been writing vocally and coming up with chord progressions vocally.
Oberst: When I'm writing, I usually have to get the vocal melody first, so I just sing kind of like gobbledygook, just sounds, to get the melody. Is that how you do it?
Lorde: I will come up with what I'm trying to say and then figure out a way to say it. What I find challenging is having a really strong idea of what I want to say and worrying that it's going to be polluted or complicated by what I do musically. So I'm always making everything supersimple.
Oberst: With a lot of records I've made, I call it leaving it in the oven too long - stuffing it with too many ideas, and then you lose the essence. That's a skill, to realize less is more.
Q: Especially as young songwriters, people assume everything you write is autobiographical, which isn't always true. How do you deal with that?
Lorde: I reckon 85 percent of what I write is autobiographical. I'll tweak stuff if I don't think it sounds good in the story - my friends have been like, 'I'm pretty sure that didn't happen in that way.' But I struggle with being too honest. I remember writing a song when I was like 15, which was on my first EP, and it had the line "my mother's love is choking me," because I'd had this fight with my mum ...
Oberst: Did that bum her out?
Lorde: Yeah, it's the one thing that she hears and she always feels kind of sad about. Even though I told her so many times, I didn't mean it, I'm sorry! It's intense, dealing with that sort of stuff, but always wanting to just be straight up and express exactly what you were feeling.
Oberst: A lot of times I don't even know what I'm writing about until later and then I'm like, oh. It's a delayed effect.
Lorde: I have that, too!
Q: Conor, can you discuss longevity and staying inspired through the music industry's changes?
Oberst: I'm amazed, actually, that I can still do this for a living. I always assumed that the well would run dry at some point, and I would have to get a real job. It took me a while to reconcile that this is my job. I want to do this because I'm compelled to do this, because I want to make art, but in the world we live in, you have to sell stuff and you have to make shirts with your name on it, and that's not my first impulse.
Lorde: When I started making music, I realized that the people who I idolized were electronic musicians who were, 99 percent of the time, faceless; they never have to put their faces on shirts. I was like, I want to be those guys, because I really am not interested in all that comes along with being a girl and writing pop music. But I definitely had to come to terms with the fact that what I was trying to do would have more power if I kind of showed myself and became someone that people could attach thoughts to.
Q: Ella, are you nervous about writing your next album?
Lorde: Sometimes I am, but also I think, like, there's just so much time between being 15 and being 18 or 19, which is how old I'll be when I'm releasing. I just think I'm so much better now. I've soaked up so many live shows; I've experienced so much more music. I feel like it's equipped me to write in a way which is more exciting to me. I think I'm going to be OK, I hope.
Oberst: You're going to be fine. I don't know how it was for you, but when I was young, I never particularly thought about how old I was. People keep reminding you how old you are. The funny thing is, they'll just keep calling you young and then one day, you're, like, over the hill.
Lorde: I can't wait. (Both laugh.)
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Stan!
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Was on sale at Target . I love this album! Definitely worth the purchase.
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New York Times interview together with Lorde and Conor Oberst
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Thanks for the info.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/21/ar...the-years.html
But this part made me go
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also I think, like, there’s just so much time between being 15 and being 18 or 19, which is how old I’ll be when I’m releasing.
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She just said she might not release another album until she's 19 which is late 2015.
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We may have to perch this one out then, sistrens
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Lorde and ha iconic twitches getting everyone excited again http://www.billboard.com/articles/ev...ons-lorde-katy
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Perry likely benefitted because she directly followed Lorde, the other crowd favorite of the evening. Her performance of “Tennis Court,” which began roughly at 9:57 EST was the second most conversation-driving moment of the evening which peaked at 39,000 tweets in a single minute.
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Lorde, the queen of twitter
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Is Tennis Court done already
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Is Tennis Court done already
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Hard to call it really. It's definitely off to a rough start
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