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Lorde is a New Zealand singer and songwriter born in 1996 in Takapuna, Auckland, New Zealand. She has released the EPs The Love Club EP, Tennis Court EP, and Live in Concert. In 2013, she released the studio album Pure Heroine. The album was certified platinum four times by RMNZ as well as two times platinum by ARIA. Lorde’s most popular singles include Royals, Team, and The Love Club.

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8 Mar, 2013

The Love Club EP

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Lorde-The-Love-Club-EPLorde releases her first collection of music titled The Love Club. The Love Club is an EP release featuring her songs Royals and Tennis Court. She releases the EP without doing any media promotion.

It definitely wasn’t difficult for me. In a perfect world, I would never do any interviews, and probably there would be one photo out there of me, and that would be it. I just feel like mystery is more interesting. People respond to something which intrigues them instead of something that gives them all the information—particularly in pop, which is like the genre for knowing way too much about everyone and everything.

3 Jun, 2013

Royals

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220px-Lorde_RoyalsLorde releases her debut single Royals. The single is featured on her extended play album The Love Club. Lorde wrote the lyrics to Royals herself in half an hour.

Yeah, I was just at my house, and I wrote it before I went to the studio. I wrote it in like half an hour—the lyrics, anyway. I wrote all the lyrics and took them to the studio and my producer (Joel Little) was like, “Yeah, this is cool.” We worked on that and on two other songs on the EP in a week, and just did a little bit every day.

13 Sep, 2013

Team

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220px-Team_LordeLorde releases her single Team. Team is the third single featured on her debut studio album Pure Heroine.

In that song, there are a few lines which are kind of me being the “realistic” pop star: “We live in cities you’ll never see onscreen,” which is like, no one comes to New Zealand, no one knows anything about New Zealand, and here I am, trying to grow up and become a person. I’ve been countering that with going to New York and seeing this place that’s in every movie and every TV show. Part of me wanted to go back to writing for me and for my friends, and write something that I felt related to us a little bit.

LORDE - Team (Audio)

27 Sep, 2013

Pure Heroine

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Lorde_Pure_HeroineLorde releases her debut studio album titled Pure Heroine. The ten track album features songs from her EP The Love Club as well as brand new tracks. Lorde collaborated with Joel Little to produce the record.

I honestly don’t think about anyone else listening to my music at all. And I don’t think that’s a very healthy thing to do, maybe. It’s best to just write exactly what you want to hear, and if people like it, then that’s cool. I’ve never thought about writing up or writing down. I’m just writing at eye level with other people.

Wins Grammy

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Lorde wins a Grammy for Best Pop Solo Performance for Royals.

I wrote the song when I was 15 and a half and for me it was a funny thing because we were listening to music that bragged about luxury…and we were riding are bikes everywhere and counting coins to get on the bus…

Lorde interview on Skavlan Feb 21/2014

30 Jan, 2014

Rolling Stone cover

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ho6b8rdyvt9jb6rjLorde appears on the cover of the January 2014 issue of Rolling Stone magazine. She talks about finding strength, her perspective has changed, and gives advice to future musicians.

If you want your music to be heard. . . you can just put stuff on the Internet and people can love it and that’s cool. I think the industry is much less scary than people think it is. You have to go into it with an idea of who you are and what you want to do, and you have to have an idea of the things that you won’t do, and the things that you want to aspire to. Because if you have clear goals and absolute no’s for yourself, then people can figure it out. And then you won’t be left like, ‘Oh, sh*t, why did I do that …’ I don’t know, juice commercial.

1 Mar, 2014

V cover

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lorde-covers-v-magazine-spring-2014Lorde appears on the cover of the Spring 2014 issue of V magazine. She talks about choosing friends, being called the voice of the generation, and not wanting her music on the radio.

I want to let people stop hearing Lorde on the radio all the time, because it’s kind of crazy at the moment. I’d like to give people a little bit of breathing room before I unleash something different.

15 Apr, 2014

Teen Vogue cover

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1397595494_lorde-teen-vogue-cover-467Lorde appears on the cover of the May 2014 issue of Teen Vogue magazine. She talks about how she prefers her tomboy look.

I am feminine, but I really love dressing in boys’ clothes too. I guess that’s why I get labeled as ‘the grumpy girl,’ because I don’t play into that.