History Music / Lorde

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Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O'Connor, better known by her {{stage name|s}} Lorde[[note]]Derived from her fascination with "royals and aristocracy", with an "e" added after the name Lord to make what she considered a masculine word more feminine[[/note]] (born November 7, 1996), is an IndiePop singer from New Zealand. Beginning her professional career in 2009, and credited as the TropeMaker for the BedroomPop genre that would gain widespread prominence by the end of the [=2010s=], her music usually deals with the problems of adolescence paralleled with her own rise to fame.

* DoesNotLikeShoes: Going along with the summery, earthy vibe of her album "Solar Power", she is barefoot in all of the album's music videos and frequently in live TV performances promoting it.

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Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O'Connor, better known by her {{stage name|s}} Lorde[[note]]Derived from her fascination with "royals and aristocracy", with an "e" added after the name Lord to make what she considered a masculine word more feminine[[/note]] (born November 7, 1996), is an IndiePop singer from New Zealand. Often credited as the TropeMaker for the BedroomPop genre that would gain widespread prominence by the end of the [=2010s=], her music usually deals with the problems of adolescence, paralleled with her own rise to fame.

Her debut release, ''The Love Club EP'', went #2 in her own country, and her songs "Royals" and "Tennis Court" went #1. In September 2013, she released ''Music/PureHeroine'' worldwide, which gained critical acclaim for its production and lyrical content. It gained an UpdatedRerelease in December 2013, featuring a bonus track, "No Better", songs from ''The Love Club EP'', and the "Tennis Court" B-side "[[Music/TheReplacements Swingin Party]]".

She also reached a new height of fame when it was revealed at E3 2014 that her cover of "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" by Music/TearsForFears was used in the cinematic trailer for Ubisoft's ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedUnity'', and it was then revealed that she would be "[[http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/aug/01/lorde-appointed-hunger-games-music-supervisor-mockingjay-part-1 curating]]" the soundtrack for the first part of the final ''Film/TheHungerGames'' movie (''Mockingjay'').

Lorde released her sophomore album ''Melodrama'' in 2017. It features [[NewSoundAlbum new sounds]], and has a distinctly different feel to it based off her experience of rising to international stardom. She also collaborated with British duo Disclosure, producing the track "Magnets" for their second album. In the same year, she made multiple festival appearances for the first time since 2014, including Coachella and Governors Ball.

In June 2021, she released "Solar Power", the lead single off her third album of the same name. The album was originally meant to be released the previous year but was delayed extensively due to COVID-19 travel restrictions to New Zealand. She later revealed that the album would only be released digitally and on limited-edition vinyl due to environmental concerns.

Really, ''really'' should not be confused with Music/{{Lordi}} - although she's [[http://www.vh1.com/music/tuner/2013-11-19/pronunciation-guide-haim-kodaline-lorde/ confirmed]] her stage name is pronounced as "Lord", not "Lord-ee".

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* BrokenRecord: ...''send the call out send the call out send the call out send the call out send the call out''

* DreamTeam: Her, Stromae, Pusha T and [[Music/ATribeCalledQuest Q-Tip]] on "Meltdown" from the ''Mockingjay'' soundtrack.
** Also with Son Lux on "Easy (Switch Screens)".
** Also with Khalid, {{Music/SZA}} and Music/PostMalone on the remix of "Homemade Dynamite".

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* RefrainFromAssuming: Her Disclosure collaboration is not "Let's Embrace The Point of No Return"; it's called "Magnets".

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** There's an [[UpToEleven entire]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlxOt61L7WQ laundry list]] of people she's dissed. [[SelfDeprecation Including herself.]]

* RecordProducer: Joel Little, for both ''The Love Club'' and ''Pure Heroine'', then [[{{Music/Fun}} Jack Antonoff]] for the vast majority of ''Melodrama'' (only not working on "Homemade Dynamite") and the entirety of ''Solar Power''.

* RecordProducer: Joel Little, who produced the entirety of both ''The Love Club'' and ''Pure Heroine'', then [[{{Music/Fun}} Jack Antonoff]] for the vast majority of ''Melodrama'' (only not working on "Homemade Dynamite") and the entirety of ''Solar Power''.

* RecordProducer: Joel Little, who produced the entirety of both ''The Love Club'' and ''Pure Heroine'', then [[{{Music/Fun.}} Jack Antonoff]] for the vast majority of ''Melodrama'' (only not working on "Homemade Dynamite") and the entirety of ''Solar Power''.

* RecordProducer: Joel Little, who produced the entirety of both ''The Love Club'' and ''Pure Heroine'', then [[{{Music/Bleachers}} Jack Antonoff]] for the vast majority of ''Melodrama'' (only not working on "Homemade Dynamite") and the entirety of ''Solar Power''.

Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O'Connor, better known by her {{stage name|s}} of Lorde[[note]]Derived from her fascination with "royals and aristocracy", with an "e" added after the name Lord to make what she considered a masculine word more feminine[[/note]] (born November 7, 1996), is an IndiePop singer from New Zealand. Often credited as the TropeMaker for the BedroomPop genre that would gain widespread prominence by the end of the [=2010s=], her music usually deals with the problems of adolescence, paralleled with her own rise to fame.

** She's also covered Jame Blake's "Retrograde" live.

* DreamTeam: Her, Stromae, Pusha T and Q-Tip on "Meltdown" from the ''Mockingjay'' soundtrack.

** Also with Khalid, SZA and Post Malone on the remix of "Homemade Dynamite".

* OdeToYouth: Arguably Pure Heroine's main theme.

* RecordProducer: Joel Little, who produced the entirety of both The Love Club EP and her debut album Pure Heroine. Then it was Jack Antonoff for all of Melodrama except for Homemade Dynamite

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