I met Ella (her given name) in October, after we’d both discovered via online interviews and social media that we shared a mutual admiration (she’s a Rookie!), so this interview got pretty conversational, but I liked that we could talk to each other as peers.
You can tell by the sound of her haunting voice that she means every word, and that she knows she’s on the edge of erupting, as if to say: I’ve been taking notes and keeping secrets, and I want to share them with you now. She fixates on blood and veins as well as on the simple wonder of connecting with someone and wanting to experience everything with them. Lorde elevates her suburban experiences to the level of mythology, becoming an empress surrounded by hounds, marking underpasses as her territory.
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A thorough listen feels like driving with shadows shifting across your face, quiet and thoughtful, in a car full of rowdier friends. Critical of the other songs on the radio but wondering if she’s any better (follow up a listen to “Royals” with “ Still Sane”: “Only bad people live to see their likeness set in stone-what does that make me?”). Bored by the suburbs but endlessly in love with them. The album is a delightful cluster of such contradictions: Lorde is content with the world she’s created for herself but eager to make waves in the one outside. And I am only as young as the minute is, full of it, getting pumped up on the little bright things I bought.” Do not for one second mistake her stoicism for self-deprecation, or think it’s only goth girls who relate. I’m little, but I’m coming for the title held by everyone who’s up.” And “We’re bigger than we ever dreamed, and I’m in love with being queen.” And “I’m doing this for the thrill of it, killing it, never not chasing the million things I want. Her best-known song denounces the materialism that other artists show off, and other ones say things like, “I’ll let you in on something big: I’m not a white-teeth teen.” But they also declare, “I’m little, but I’m coming for the crown. Sure, Lorde dresses like a witch and drips with sarcasm in interviews. They also underestimate the capacity of “normal” teenagers to appreciate thoughtful, unflashy music. This is not only because they tend to underestimate Lorde’s ability to appeal to the masses. Adult journalists tend to see only “edgy”-looking outsiders in the backs of classrooms identifying with her music, and totally miss the fact that hordes of snapchatting normies understand her, too, and vice versa. But despite the commercial and critical success of her music, and the fact that she was signed to Universal at the age of 13, Lorde is continually portrayed as an underdog. Her debut album, Pure Heroine, got her four Grammy nominations. In fact, Lorde’s song “Royals” was #1 on the radio for nine weeks straight. What these people don’t realize is that her reach goes far beyond a very hip sect on Tumblr. According to one YouTube commenter (I SWEAR I WASN’T READING YOUTUBE COMMENTS, THIS ONE WAS ALREADY AT THE TOP OF THE PAGE), “She’s like that awkward-ass girl in the back of your class lol.” According to many of the writers who have profiled her, she’s the patron saint of Weird Girls Everywhere. You’ve probably also heard her portrayed as some kind of alpha-Daria. Seventeen years old, from New Zealand, with a richly hushed voice that she lays over minimal beats-you’ve heard all this. Although she had no music out at this time last year, by now Lorde requires no introduction.
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