Hits include: "Tennis Court",
"Royals", "Love Bug",
"400 Lux",
"A World Alone", "Glory And Gore",
"Ribs", "Team", "The Love Club",
"White Teeth Teens", "Bravado",
"Million Dollar Bills", "Still Sane",
"Yellow Flicker Beat", "Green Light",
"Perfect Places", "Solar Power",
"Stoned at the Nail Salon",
"Mood Ring".
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GRAMMY AWARD winning Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O'Connor, known
professionally as Lorde, is a New Zealand singer-songwriter.
Her discography includes three studio albums, four extended plays, 11 singles
and nine music videos.
Taking inspiration from aristocracy for her stage name, Lorde is known
for her unconventional musical styles and introspective songwriting. Her music
is primarily electropop with elements of dream pop and indie-electro.
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Lorde's accolades include two Grammy Awards, two Brit Awards, and a
Golden Globe nomination. She appeared in Time's list of the most influential
teenagers in 2013 and 2014, and the 2014 edition of Forbes 30 Under 30. In
addition to her solo work, she has co-written songs for other artists, including
Broods and Bleachers.
Lorde grew up listening to American jazz and soul musicians Billie
Holiday, Sam Cooke, Etta James, and Otis Redding, whose music she admires for
"harvesting their suffering." She also listened to her parents'
favorite
records by the likes of Cat Stevens,
Neil Young, and
Fleetwood Mac in
her early years.
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Lyrically, Lorde cited her mother, a poet, as the primary influence for her
songwriting. She also named several authors, including Kurt Vonnegut, Raymond
Carver, Wells Tower, Tobias Wolff, Claire Vaye Watkins, Sylvia Plath, Walt
Whitman, and T. S. Eliot as lyrical inspirations, particularly noting their
sentence structures.
When writing her second album, Melodrama, Lorde took
inspiration from the melodic styles of a variety of musicians, including
Phil Collins,
Don Henley,
Rihanna,
Florence +
the Machine, Tom Petty, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, and
Robyn.
During
the recording process, Lorde stated that
Frank Ocean's 2016 album,
Blonde, inspired her to eschew "traditional song structures." She frequently
listened to Paul Simon's
1986 album, Graceland, while riding subways in New York City and on taxi
rides on the way home from parties in her hometown of Auckland. She cited the
1950 science fiction short story "There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury as
inspiration for much of Melodrama's story, relating it to her own realities she
faced.
During production of Pure Heroine, Lorde cited influences from electronic
music producers, including SBTRKT,
Grimes, and
Sleigh Bells,
impressed by "their vocals in a really interesting way, whether it might be
chopping up a vocal part or really lash or layering a vocal." Lorde also
stated that she was inspired by the initially hidden identities of Burial and
the Weeknd, explaining, "I
feel like mystery is more interesting." Other inspirations include
Grace Jones,
James Blake, Yeasayer,
Animal
Collective, Bon Iver,
the Smiths, Arcade Fire,
Laurie Anderson, Kanye West,
Prince, and David Bowie.
Her work has influenced several contemporary artists, including
Billie Eilish,
Olivia Rodrigo,
Sabrina
Carpenter, Conan Gray,
and Troye Sivan.
Lorde is noted for her unconventional pop sound and introspective
songwriting.
In May 2009, Lorde and her friend Louis McDonald won the Belmont
Intermediate School annual talent show as a duo. In August that year, Lorde
and McDonald made a guest appearance on Jim Mora's Afternoons show on
Radio New Zealand. There, they performed covers of Pixie Lott's "Mama Do (Uh Oh,
Uh Oh)" and Kings of
Leon's "Use Somebody". McDonald's father then sent his recordings of the
duo covering "Mama Do" and Duffy's "Warwick Avenue" to Universal Music Group (UMG)'s
A&R executive Scott Maclachlan. Maclachlan subsequently signed her to UMG for
development.
In November 2013, Lorde signed a publishing deal with Songs Music
Publishing, worth a reported US $2.5 million, after a bidding war between
companies, including Sony Music Entertainment and her label UMG. The agreement
gave the publisher the right to license Lorde's music for films and advertising.
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".
After her breakthrough, Lorde won four New Zealand Music Awards at the
2013 ceremony. The single "Royals" earned the APRA Silver Scroll Award, and two
Grammy Awards for Best Pop Solo Performance and Song of the Year. In 2015, she
received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Original Song as a songwriter for
"Yellow Flicker Beat". Her second studio album, Melodrama, received a
Grammy nomination for Album of the Year at the 60th ceremony.
Lorde has received two Brit Awards for International Female Solo Artist.
The singer has also won two Billboard Music Awards, one MTV Video Music Award
and three World Music Awards. As of June 2017, she had sold more than five
million albums worldwide and 15 million certified single units in the
United States.
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