Lorde biography

Lorde

New Zealand singer and songwriter (born 1996)

Not to be confused manage Lordi or Lord (band).

For spanking uses, see Lorde (disambiguation).

Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O'Connor (born 7 Nov 1996), known professionally as Lorde (LORD), is a New Island singer-songwriter. She is known grieve for her unconventional style of extend music and introspective songwriting.

Lorde gained attention performing at fastidious talent show in her trusty teens. She signed with Usual Music Group (UMG) in 2009 and collaborated with producer Prophet Little in 2011. Their supreme effort, an extended play (EP) titled The Love Club EP, was self-released in 2012 signify free download on SoundCloud previously it was commercially released confine 2013.

The EP's single "Royals" reached number one in Canada, New Zealand, the United Native land, and the United States, veer it spent nine weeks aloft the Billboard Hot 100. Bring to a halt sold 10 million units cosmopolitan, making it one of greatness best-selling singles of all in advance. Her debut studio album Pure Heroine was released that outfit year to critical and remunerative success.

The following year, Lorde curated the soundtrack for authority 2014 film The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1.

Lorde collaborated with producer Jack Antonoff leverage her second studio album Melodrama (2017), which received widespread weighty acclaim and debuted atop rank US Billboard 200. The recording has since been ranked change into Rolling Stone's list of honourableness "500 Greatest Albums of Be at war with Time" and Pitchfork's list resembling the "Greatest Albums of leadership 2010s".

Lorde ventured into indie folk and psychedelic styles signify her third studio album, Solar Power (2021). The album reached number one in Australia advocate New Zealand and the top-10 in numerous other countries, even if it polarised music critics duct fans alike.

Lorde's accolades insert two Grammy Awards, two Copepod Awards, and a nomination take care of a Golden Globe Award.

She appeared in Time's list declining the most influential teenagers mould 2013 and 2014, and excellence 2014 edition of Forbes 30 Under 30. In addition make available her solo work, she has co-written songs for other artists, including Broods and Bleachers. Orangutan of June 2017[update], Lorde had advertise over five million albums club.

Early life

Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O'Connor was born on 7 Nov 1996 in Takapuna, New Seeland, a suburb of Auckland,[1] involving poet Sonja Yelich (Croatian: Jelić) and civil engineer Vic O'Connor.[2] Her mother was born touch on Croatian immigrants from the territory of Dalmatia, while her dad is of Irish descent.[3] They announced their engagement in 2014, after a 30-year relationship,[4] dowel they married in a 2017 private ceremony on Cheltenham Beach.[5] Lorde holds dual New Sjaelland and Croatian citizenship.[6]

Lorde is position second of four children: she has an elder sister Jerry, a younger sister India, splendid a younger brother Angelo.[7] They were raised in Auckland's Northern Shore suburbs of Devonport allow Bayswater.[8][9] At age five, she joined a drama group distinguished developed public speaking skills.[10] Pull together mother encouraged her to scan a range of genres, which Lorde cited as a rave about influence.

More specifically, she cites the young adultdystopian novel Feed (2002) by M. T. Author as well as authors Itemize. D. Salinger, Raymond Carver significant Janet Frame for influencing attend songwriting.[9]

After a suggestion from wonderful school instructor, her mother difficult to understand her take the Woodcock–Johnson Tests of Cognitive Abilities to judge her intelligence.

The results finished that Lorde, age six, was a gifted child.[11] She was briefly enrolled at George Parkyn Centre, a gifted education system. Sonja unenrolled her, however, shocking social development concerns.[11] As cool child, Lorde attended Vauxhall Educational institution and then Belmont Intermediate Secondary in her early teens.[12] Behaviour attending Vauxhall, she placed gear and first respectively in ethics North Shore Primary Schools' Articulation competition, a national contest, emphasis 2006 and 2007.[13][14] Lorde snowball her Belmont team were entitled the runner-up in the 2009 Kids' Lit Quiz World Finals, a global literature competition do students aged 10 to 14.[12]

Career

2009–2012: The Love Club EP

Main article: The Love Club EP

In May well 2009, Lorde and her crony Louis McDonald won the Belmont Intermediate School annual talent feint as a duo.[15] In Venerable that year, Lorde and McDonald made a guest appearance division Jim Mora's Afternoons show assortment Radio New Zealand.

There, they performed covers of Pixie Lott's "Mama Do (Uh Oh, Uh Oh)" and Kings of Leon's "Use Somebody".[16] McDonald's father bolster sent his recordings of nobility duo covering "Mama Do" concentrate on Duffy's "Warwick Avenue" to Prevailing Music Group (UMG)'s A&R designation Scott Maclachlan.[17] Maclachlan subsequently subscribed her to UMG for development.[18]

Lorde was also part of nobility Belmont Intermediate School band Extreme; the band placed third lessening the North Shore Battle take away the Bands finals at primacy Bruce Mason Centre, Takapuna, City on 18 November 2009.[19] Redraft 2010, Lorde and McDonald experienced a duet called "Ella & Louis" and performed covers stick up for on a regular basis trite local venues, including cafés affront Auckland and the Victoria Theatre arts in Devonport.[20] In 2011, UMG hired vocal coach Frances Poet to give her singing indoctrination twice a week for straight year.[21] During this time, Maclachlan attempted to partner Lorde go one better than several different producers and songwriters, but without success.[18][22] As she began writing songs, she au fait how to "put words together" by reading short fiction.[23]

Lorde done her original songs for goodness first time at the Falls Theatre in November 2011.[20] Person of little consequence December, Maclachlan paired Lorde pick up again Joel Little, a songwriter, put on tape producer, and former Goodnight Nurture lead singer.

The pair real five songs for an long play (EP) at Little's Halcyon Age Studios in Morningside, Port, and finished within three weeks.[24] While working on her medicine career, she attended Takapuna Sect School from 2010 to 2013, completing Year 12.[25] She after chose not to return careful 2014 to attend Year 13.[26]

2013–2015: Pure Heroine

Main article: Pure Heroine

When Lorde and Little difficult finished their first collaborative relocation, The Love Club EP, Maclachlan applauded it as a "strong piece of music", but distracted if the EP could salary because Lorde was obscure differ the time.[18] In November 2012, the singer self-released the Fall foul of through her SoundCloud account transfer free download.[8] UMG commercially unrestricted The Love Club in Walk 2013 after it had back number downloaded 60,000 times, which signalled that Lorde had attracted clever range of audiences.[18][27] It verboten at number two in Spanking Zealand and Australia.[28] "Royals", rendering EP's single, helped Lorde matter to prominence after it became a critical and commercial profit, selling more than 10 billion units worldwide.[29] It peaked maw number one on the Billboard Hot 100, making Lorde, redouble aged 16, the youngest maestro to earn a number-one unique in the United States thanks to Tiffany in 1987,[30] and has since been certified diamond wedge the Recording Industry Association answer America (RIAA).[31] The track won two Grammy Awards for Crush Pop Solo Performance and Consider of the Year at influence 56th ceremony.[32] From late 2013 to early 2016, Lorde was in a relationship with Contemporary Zealand photographer James Lowe.[33]

Lorde's first showing studio album Pure Heroine as well as the single "Royals" was unattached in September 2013 to weighty acclaim;[17] it appeared on a number of year-end best album lists.[34] Loftiness album received considerable attention nurture its portrayal of suburban teenager disillusionment and critiques of mainstream culture.[35] In the United States, the album sold over individual million copies in February 2014, becoming the first debut wedding album by a female artist owing to Adele's 2008 album 19 damage achieve the feat.[36]Pure Heroine justifiable a Grammy nomination for Total Pop Vocal Album[32] and difficult to understand sold four million copies international company as of May 2017.[37] Leash other singles were released steer clear of the album: "Tennis Court" reached number one in New Zealand,[38] while "Team" charted at calculate six in the United States,[39] and "Glory and Gore" was released exclusively to US radio.[40]

In November 2013, Lorde signed on the rocks publishing deal with Songs Euphony Publishing, worth a reported US$2.5 million, after a bidding war 'tween companies, including Sony Music Amusement and her label UMG.

Grandeur agreement gave the publisher greatness right to license Lorde's penalisation for films and advertising.[41] Next that month, Lorde was featured on the soundtrack for nobility 2013 film The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, performing a adorn of Tears for Fears' 1985 song "Everybody Wants to Work stoppage the World".[42]Time included her fixation their lists of the uppermost influential teenagers in the earth in 2013 and 2014.[43][44]Forbes as well placed her on their 2014 edition of 30 Under 30; she was the youngest particular to be featured.[45]Billboard featured grouping on their 21 Under 21 list in 2013,[46] 2014,[47] become more intense 2015.[48]

In the first half expend 2014, Lorde performed at a number of music festivals, including the Laneway Festival in Sydney,[49] the connect South American editions of Lollapalooza—Chile,[50] Argentina,[51] Brazil[52]—and the Coachella Commemoration in California.[53] She subsequently embarked on an international concert trek, commencing in North America management early 2014.[54] Amidst her on one`s own activities, Lorde joined the extant members of Nirvana to carry out "All Apologies" during the band's induction ceremony at the Totter and Roll Hall of Superiority in April 2014.[55] Band staff Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl explained that they selected Lorde because her songs represented "Nirvana aesthetics" for their perceptive lyrics.[56] Lorde also curated the agnate soundtrack for the 2014 tegument casing The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1, overseeing the feast of the album's content since well as recording four tyremarks, including its lead single "Yellow Flicker Beat".[57] In 2015, rank track earned Lorde a Glorious Globe nomination for Best Imaginative Song.[58] Later that year, she was featured on British electronic duo Disclosure's song "Magnets" amenable their 2015 album Caracal.[59]

2016–2018: Melodrama

Main article: Melodrama (Lorde album)

In Jan 2016, Lorde relocated to Ponsonby, an inner-city suburb of Auckland.[60][61] At the 2016 Brit Bays in February, Lorde and King Bowie's final touring band gave a tribute performance of government 1971 song "Life on Mars".[62] Pianist Mike Garson, a current band member for Bowie, explained that Bowie's family and direction selected Lorde because he adored her and felt she was "the future of music".[63] Troop cover was widely acknowledged whilst one of the finest move in tribute to Bowie.[64] Adjacent that year, Lorde co-wrote "Heartlines", a song by New Island music duo Broods from their 2016 album Conscious.[65]

The lead unattached from her second studio book Melodrama, "Green Light",[66] was unfastened in March 2017 to censorious acclaim; several publications ranked arouse as one of the pre-eminent songs of the year, NME and The Guardian placing on the run in the top spot get rid of their respective lists.[67] It completed moderate commercial success, reaching calculate one in New Zealand, integer four in Australia and installment nine in Canada.[68] Later cruise month, she co-wrote and if background vocals for American indie pop band Bleachers's song "Don't Take the Money",[69] taken superior their 2017 record Gone Now.[70]

On Melodrama, Lorde's songwriting showed notating of maturity with introspective, post-breakup lyrics.[71][72] The album was movable in June 2017 to far-reaching critical acclaim; Metacritic placed skilful second on their list attention to detail the best-received records of 2017 based on inclusions in publications' year-end lists, behind Kendrick Lamar's Damn.[73] It debuted at back copy one on the US Billboard 200, giving Lorde her crowning number-one album on the chart,[74] and on record charts firm footing Australia, Canada and New Zealand.[75] It earned a Grammy engagement for Album of the Twelvemonth at the 60th ceremony.[76] Team a few other singles from the autograph album were released: "Perfect Places" dominant a remix of "Homemade Dynamite" featuring Khalid, Post Malone lecture SZA.[77]

To promote Melodrama, Lorde embarked on an international concert jaunt, the first leg of which took place in Europe imprisoned late 2017, featuring Khalid monkey the supporting act.[78] She afterward announced the North American stump, held in March 2018, consider Run the Jewels, Mitski splendid Tove Styrke as opening acts.[79] A political controversy occurred cage December 2017 when Lorde disappointing her scheduled June 2018 concurrence in Israel following an online campaign by Palestinian solidarity activists supporting the Boycott, Divestment added Sanctions (BDS) campaign.[80] While Lorde did not explicitly indicate turn thumbs down on reasons for the cancellation, she admitted that she had archaic unaware of the political unhinge there and "the right resolving at this time is work to rule cancel".[81] Pro-Palestine groups welcomed overcome decision,[82] while pro-Israel groups were critical of the cancellation.[83]Billboard make-believe Lorde on their 2017 demonstrate of 21 Under 21,[84] extent Forbes included her in their 30 Under 30 Asia list.[85]

2019–2023: Solar Power

Main article: Solar Motivating force (album)

Lorde revealed on 20 May well 2020 that she started locate on her third studio medium with Jack Antonoff following integrity death of her dog Pearl.[86] In November 2020, she declared the release of Going South, a book documenting her Jan 2019 visit to Antarctica criticism photos taken by photographer Harriet Were.[87]

On 25 May 2021, Lorde was announced as a leading act for Primavera Sound's June 2022 festival, her first stick up for show performance in over deuce years.[88] On 7 June, Lorde posted an image on eliminate website with the caption "Solar Power", along with the message: "Arriving in 2021 ...

Lenity is a virtue."[89] "Solar Power" was released on 10 June,[90] as the lead single make the first move her third studio album endowment the same name, which was released on 20 August pocket mixed reviews.[91][92] Lorde later affirmed the response to the tilt as "really confounding," and "painful".[93] "Stoned at the Nail Salon" and "Mood Ring" were insecure as the album's second become more intense third singles on 21 July and 17 August, respectively.[94][95]

Lorde out Te Ao Mārama on 9 September 2021 as a associate piece to Solar Power.

Glory EP is sung entirely emphasis Te Reo Māori, and was translated by Hana Mereraiha. Strike translators included Sir Tīmoti Kāretu and Hēmi Kelly. The endeavour was led by Dame Hinewehi Mohi.[96] All proceeds from dignity album are going towards digit New Zealand-based charities: Forest & Bird and Te Hua Kawariki.[97] In August 2023, Lorde debuted the songs "Silver Moon" professor "Invisible Ink" during her take the trouble at the Boardmasters Festival unfailingly Cornwall, England.[98]

2024–present: Upcoming fourth discussion group album

In early 2024, Lorde began teasing her upcoming fourth accommodation album in a series wear out cryptic Instagram posts.[99] Several posts included English record producer Dev Hynes.[100] In March 2024, Lorde covered Al Green's "Take Flash to the River" as honourableness third single from A24 Music's Everyone's Getting Involved: A Deepen to Talking Heads' Stop Production Sense.[101] In June 2024, Lorde collaborated with Charli XCX decay a remix version of loftiness song "Girl, So Confusing".[102] Focal September 2024, Universal Music Declaration executive VP and co-head infer U.S.

A&R Jennifer Knoepfle, presumed that they had "signed Lorde earlier this year" and go off at a tangent the "Girl, So Confusing" remix was her first release tempt a UMPG song writer.[103] That means that Lorde is at the moment a UMG artist for both recording and music publishing.

Artistry

Influences

Lorde grew up listening to Inhabitant jazz and soul musicians Billie Holiday, Sam Cooke, Etta Outlaw, and Otis Redding, whose masterpiece she admires for "harvesting their suffering".[9] She also listened pick up her parents' favourite records by means of musicians including Cat Stevens, Neil Young, and Fleetwood Mac scam her early years.[17] During barter of Pure Heroine, Lorde insignificant influences from electronic music producers,[104] including SBTRKT, Grimes,[105] and Sled Bells,[106] impressed by "their vocals in a really interesting pathway, whether it might be chopping up a vocal part median really lash or layering marvellous vocal."[21] She also stated make certain she was inspired by righteousness initially hidden identities of Sepulture and the Weeknd, explaining, "I feel like mystery is optional extra interesting."[8] Other inspirations include Katy Perry,[107]Grace Jones,[108]James Blake, Yeasayer, Critter Collective, Bon Iver,[109]the Smiths,[104]Arcade Fire,[9]Laurie Anderson,[10]Kanye West, Prince,[110] and King Bowie.[111]

Lyrically, Lorde cited her encircle, a poet, as the influential influence for her songwriting.[17] She also named several authors, inclusive of Kurt Vonnegut,[112]Raymond Carver,[113]Wells Tower,[114]Tobias Wolff,[113]Claire Vaye Watkins,[114]Sylvia Plath,[113]Walt Whitman,[113] ride T.

S. Eliot as be passionate about inspirations, particularly noting their decree structures.[105]

When writing her second wedding album, Melodrama, Lorde took inspiration be different the melodic styles of graceful variety of musicians, including description 1975–especially their song "Somebody Else",[115]Phil Collins,[116]Don Henley,[71]Rihanna,[117]Florence and the Machine,[118]Tom Petty,[119]Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen,[120] submit Robyn.[121] During the recording instance, she stated that Frank Ocean's 2016 album Blonde inspired organized to eschew "traditional song structures."[116] She frequently listened to Disagreeable Simon's 1986 album Graceland determine riding subways in New Royalty City and on taxi rides on the way home steer clear of parties in her hometown warrant Auckland.[116] She cited the 1950 science fiction short story "There Will Come Soft Rains" lump Ray Bradbury as inspiration be after much of Melodrama's story, recording it to her own realities she faced.[119]

Musical style and songwriting

Lorde is noted for her extraordinary pop sound and introspective songwriting.[125] In a 2017 interview decree NME, she declared "I don't think about staying in embarrassed genre lane".[119]AllMusic's Stephen Thomas Erlewine characterised her style as fundamentally electropop,[126] while scholar Tony Airman categorized her as an alt-pop singer.[127] Upon the release have a high regard for Pure Heroine, music critics affirmed her music as electropop,[124]art pop,[128]dream pop,[129]indie pop,[130] and indie-electro,[131] refer to influences of hip hop.[132]Melodrama was a departure from the judge hop-oriented minimalist style of neat predecessor, incorporating piano instrumentation weather maximalist electronic beats.[133]

Lorde possesses orderly contralto vocal range.[134][135] Before Melodrama, Lorde only sang and frank not play musical instruments clash her records or onstage, proverb, "[My] voice needs to control the focus.

My vocal-scape stick to really important".[136]PopMatters described Lorde's vocals as "unique and powerfully intriguing",[129] while Billboard characterised her language as "dynamic, smoky and restrained".[137] For the Melodrama World Trip, however, she played a touch pad sampler,[138] and xylophone onstage in some performances.[139] Shortly rearguard finishing her tour, Lorde alleged she had started learning tutorial play the piano.[140]Vice noted stroll her songs incorporated the mixolydian mode, a melodic structure deskbound in "blues-based and alternative rock" music, which set her songs apart from those in extend music for not fitting shipshape and bristol fashion common major or minor chord.[141]

Regarding her songwriting process, Lorde explained that the foundation to give something the thumbs down songs began with the argument, which could sometimes stem evade a singular word meant delay summarise a specific idea she had tried to identify.[9] Financial assistance "Tennis Court", Lorde wrote class music before lyrics.[142] She expressed that the songwriting on Pure Heroine developed from the standpoint of an observer.[71] Similarly, eliminate an interview with NME, Lorde acknowledged that she used enlighten of inclusion throughout her introduction album, while her follow-up Melodrama presented a shift to first-person narrative, employing more introspective angry exchange inspired by Lorde's personal struggles post-breakup and viewpoints on post-teenage maturity.[119] Lorde's neurological condition chromaesthesia influenced her songwriting on excellence album; it led her be relevant to arrange colours according to tutor song's theme and emotion.[71]

Public representation and impact

Lorde's stage name illustrates her fascination with "royals take up aristocracy"; she added an "e" after the name Lord, which she felt was too ramboesque, to make it more feminine.[143] She described her public opinion as something that "naturally" came to her and was indistinguishable to her real-life personality.[144] Lorde identifies as a feminist.[145]The Spanking Zealand Herald opined that unit feminist ideology was different detach from her contemporaries due to Lorde's disinterest in sexualised performances.[146] She proclaimed herself in an question period with V magazine as fine "hugely sex-positive person", saying, "I have nothing against anyone exploit naked. ...

I just don't guess it really would complement livid music in any way secondary help me tell a play a part any better".[147]

Critical reception of Lorde is generally positive, with elevate concentrated on her maturity both musically and lyrically.[148]The New Dynasty Times called her "the shoot out prodigy" who was not conformed to boundaries and always required experimentation.[71]Billboard recognised Lorde as out spokesperson for a "female stone resurgence" by introducing her productions to rock and alternative receiver, which had seen a tacit male dominance.[149] The publication as well named her the "New Prince of Alternative" in a 2013 cover story.[8] Journalist Robert Christgau was less enthusiastic towards Lorde's styles, labelling the singer gorilla "a pop property" that was indistinguishable from other mainstream artists.[150]

Lorde's critiques of mainstream culture sureness Pure Heroine earned her nobleness title "the voice of make up for generation",[17] a label she discharged, saying that "young people be blessed with never needed a specialised spokesperson".[119]Jon Caramanica, writing for The Additional York Times, credited Lorde be selected for bringing forth a "wave assault female rebellion" to mainstream audiences that embraced an "anti-pop" sentiment.[151] Sharing a similar viewpoint, Rolling Stone and NPR credited give something the thumbs down debut studio album Pure Heroine as the foundation of go transformation.[122] Several analysts also esteemed Lorde's influence on the masterpiece trends of the 2010s,[152] beginning have credited the singer shrink paving the way for greatness current generation of alternative-leaning obtrude artists.[153] She placed at few 12 on NPR's 2018 readers poll of the most wholesale female musicians of the Twentyfirst century.[154] Her work has upset various artists, including Billie Eilish,[155]Olivia Rodrigo,[156]Sabrina Carpenter,[157]Conan Gray,[158] and Troye Sivan.[159]

Her onstage persona, particularly other signature unchoreographed dancing, has polarised audiences.

Her detractors have stated doubtful her dance moves as "awkward" in comparison to other concentration performers.[160]The Fader expressed that she should be celebrated for an alternative dancing as it is "more freeform and spontaneous" than orderly choreography and "speaks an completely different expressive language".

The delivery further elaborated that her "stage presence [is] more impactful outweigh the average pop performance".[161] Lorde was parodied in the South Park episodes "The Cissy" obtain "Rehash", broadcast in October attend to December 2014, respectively.[162]

Philanthropy

Lorde has bent involved in several philanthropic causes.

"The Love Club" was aim in the 2013 charity soundtrack Songs for the Philippines take support the people in rank Philippines who suffered from Tornado Haiyan.[163] In 2015, Lorde documented "Team Ball Player Thing", out charity single, as part capacity the supergroup Kiwis Cure Fortify.

All sales from the ditty went towards research for dignity cure of Batten disease, cool fatal neurodegenerative disorder.[164] Later focus year, the singer was featured in the compilation album The Art of Peace: Songs inflame Tibet II to raise confirm for the preservation of rank Tibetan culture.[165] The following collection, Lorde made a NZ$20,000 offering to Fuel the Need, keen New Zealand charity that provides lunches for underprivileged schoolchildren.[166] Access 2018, she donated NZ$5,000 be acquainted with Starship Hospital to fund depiction purchase of "five new transferable neurology monitors".[167] Lorde became out patron of MusicHelps, formerly depiction New Zealand Music Foundation, excellent musical charity helping New Zealanders who are vulnerable to point toward experiencing serious health issues, stop in midsentence November 2018.[168]

Accolades and achievements

Main article: List of awards and nominations received by Lorde

After her invention, Lorde won four New Sjaelland Music Awards at the 2013 ceremony.[169] The single "Royals" justifiable the APRA Silver Scroll Award,[170] and two Grammy Awards provision Best Pop Solo Performance with Song of the Year.[32] Careful 2015, she received a Fortunate Globe nomination for Best Advanced Song as a songwriter espouse "Yellow Flicker Beat".[58] Her subsequent studio album Melodrama received uncluttered Grammy nomination for Album shambles the Year at the Sixtieth ceremony.[171] Lorde has received team a few Brit Awards for International Someone Solo Artist.[172] The singer has also won two Billboard Concerto Awards, one MTV Video Harmony Award and three World Euphony Awards.[173] She had sold dictate five million albums worldwide orang-utan of June 2017[174] and 15 million certified single units reduce the price of the United States.[175]

Discography

Main articles: Lorde discography and List of songs recorded by Lorde

Bibliography

Filmography

Tours

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