She’s smart, opinionated, an outspoken feminist… and she only just turned 17 this month
By Charmaine Phua
Ella Maria Lani Yelich-O’Connor, better known as Lorde, could be considered a prodigy. Her debut album, Pure Heroine, is an overwhelming success.
A Satirical Success
For all her constant ragging of pop, fame and the Hollywood life (as heard in her chart-topping first single, “Royals”), it’s ironic that she’s been thrown into the limelight to deal with all of the above.
Only ten months after she first released her debut EP online for free in New Zealand, she’s taken the world by storm.
Lorde’s music is topping charts worldwide, she’s feuding with Selena Gomez, she’s turned down the opportunity to be a supporting act on Katy Perry’s world tour, she’s the first New Zealand solo artiste to have a number one song in the US, and she’s also the youngest artiste (at 16 years old) to hold the US No. 1 spot on the Billboard charts in more than 25 years.
Good Writing & Music
Having been brought up in a home where writing was always important (her mother’s a prize-winning poet in New Zealand), Lorde says that writing is bigger for her than music itself.
Her no-nonsense nonchalance, paired with a finger-snapping beat in “Royals”, managed to enrapture her audience. A good pick for a follow-up single is “Tennis Court” as it’s intoxicating and draws us in. “Team” is also ‘laidback cool’.
If she continues on this route, it’s no doubt that we can expect more support and allegiance (pun intended) to Lorde.
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