Lorde has sound-to-color synesthesia, a neurological condition in which specific notes and sounds correspond to certain colors. [186] Spin ranked the track at number 34 on their list of the 35 Best Songs of the Last 35 Years.[187]. She turned 16 on November 7, 2012. A monthly update on our latest interviews, stories and added songs. [106], "Royals" also had commercial success elsewhere in Europe, reaching the top of the Euro Digital Songs chart[107] and peaking within the top ten in European national charts including those of Germany,[108] Denmark,[109] Finland,[110] and Hungary. The album reached number one in Australia and New Zealand and charted inside the top-10 in numerous countries, although it polarised music critics and fans alike. Many estimate Lorde to be somewhere . Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O'Connor was born on 7 November 1996 in Takapuna, New Zealand, a suburb of Auckland,[1] to poet Sonja Yelich (Croatian: Jeli) and civil engineer Vic O'Connor. Now, She Vibes. Lorde got real about the body shaming she faced when "Royals" came out Then in May 2020, she teased new music in a newsletter to fans, assuring them it's on the way. [41] Later that month, Lorde was featured on the soundtrack for the 2013 film The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, performing a cover of Tears for Fears' 1985 song "Everybody Wants to Rule the World". The "Royals" singer's 15-year-old sister, Indy Yelich-O'Connor, recently tweeted out a cover of the song "Say Something," by A Great Big World and Christina Aguilera. In 2009, A&R representative Scott MacLachlan of Universal Music Group (UMG) discovered 12-year-old singer Lorde when he saw footage of her performing at a school talent show in Auckland, New Zealand. Even so, the singer-songwriter's debut single immediately garnered attention for its deep, bass-thumping. [74] Two other singles from the album were released: "Perfect Places" and a remix of "Homemade Dynamite" featuring Khalid, Post Malone and SZA. [108] Lorde's neurological condition chromesthesia influenced her songwriting on the album; it led her to arrange colours according to each song's theme and emotion. [46], "Royals" received widespread acclaim from music critics. In the United States, the EP reached no. [16] Lava and Republic Records released it to US radio on 3 June 2013. 2013 debut album from New Zealand singer/songwriter Ella Yelich-O'Connor AKA Lorde. In December 2011, after several unsuccessful sessions with songwriters and producers, MacLachlan paired Lorde with Joel Little, a former singer and guitarist of the New Zealand pop-punk band Goodnight Nurse. [82] The song topped the chart for nine consecutive weeks and was the year's top-selling song by a female artist. [41] Chris Coplan of Consequence of Sound described the lyrics of "Royals" as "romantic and playful"[42] while Duncan Greive of The Guardian called them "simultaneously vulnerable and imperious". Lorde also performed the song at the ceremony. The music phenomenon of the year, seventeen-year-old Lorde has gone from the suburbs of Auckland to the top of the global charts. [178] [89], In August 2013, Lorde became the second ever solo female artist to top the Billboard Alternative Songs chart, since Tracy Bonham in 1996. Here's Why Lorde's 'Solar Power' Sounds So Distinct | Time Tiffany accomplished the said feat in 1987 with a track entitled "I Think We're Alone Now".
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