Lorde has pondered her own legacy from the start. “I remember being like, ‘I wanna make art like that. “I felt like a changed person,” Rodrigo told MTV after seeing Lorde’s Melodrama Tour. Billie Eilish’s debut single " Ocean Eyes" felt at times like an extension of Pure Heroine’s moodiness, as did the production of her 2019 album When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? Olivia Rodrigo and Conan Gray's lyrics and vocals also draw directly from The Great Lorde Songbook. Where her first album critiqued society’s obsession with gold teeth and Grey Goose, she centered her second around a bombastic party to talk about her broken heart.Įven at the young age of 24, Lorde has created a legacy, audible in the work of the pop stars who have followed in her footsteps. Her follow-up album, 2017’s Melodrama, leaned into that image, with what prolific pop producer Max Martin allegedly called “incorrect songwriting” and a kaleidoscope of strange sounds (a tiger’s roar in “Sober!” Paul Simon’s voice sampled in “Loveless!”). Meet Lorde, the 16-Year-Old Singer Poised to Take Over Pop Music Her emotionally specific lyrics and off-kilter production helped tilt the genre away from the brash loudness of then-popular chart-toppers like Macklemore’s “Can’t Hold Us” and Katy Perry’s “Roar.” Songs like “Royals” and fan-favorite “Ribs” helped shape Lorde’s persona as an artist who flips the script on pop and what it means to be a pop artist. The minimalism of her debut album Pure Heroine gave pop music a facelift. And it belies her preoccupation with her own legacy, the frequent subject of many lyrics and essays. It’s a casual abdication that pairs ironically with her regal stage name. And in “California,” her fame is her antagonist, creeping on her neck as she refuses “that California love.” She calls for a “leader of a new regime” while she escapes with her “SPF 3000” and designer outfits to an undisclosed island. In “The Path,” she notes how people should consult the sun as their therapist instead of her. But as her new record Solar Power warns, “if you’re looking for a savior,” it is no longer her.ĭoes pop music still need saving? It’s a question Lorde poses throughout the record, often more vocally than her stated theme of celebrating the natural world. Lorde's debut album Pure Heroine is available from September 28th.Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/GettyĪt 16, Ella Yelich-O’Connor became pop music’s lord(e) and savior with her debut single “Royals.” Eight years later, she’s kept her stage name. One Miley fan tweeted that Lorde's eyes were "too far apart" to which she responded with "their right" and admitted she really liked Miley's music. When questioned about the death threats and attacks from Miley Cyrus fans on Twitter for knocking her off the top of the iTunes chart, Lorde seemed to remain light-hearted about the subject. Watch Lorde perform 'Royals' on Later With Jools Holland below The bridge was the only part I wrote afterward, and then it took us kind of a few days in the studio figuring it out. She added: "It didn't even end up getting rearranged that much. I like it."ĭuring the interview Lorde also spoke about her hit single 'Royals' and claims she wrote it in under an hour one afternoon. "And so I combated it by making this song super warm soundng and comforting sonically, which is nice. "It's cool because at the time I was quite stressed about this thing," she said. Refusing to own up as to which song she wasn't so fond of in a recent interview with AMP radio, the New Zealand singer did mention that the she's loving the track 'Ribs', which features on the album.
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