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  • Lorde was 16 years old when her single "Royals" reached number one in the United States. That made her the youngest artist to earn an American chart-topper since Tiffany in 1987. Lorde is the stage name of Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O'Connor, a singer-songwriter from Auckland, New Zealand. Critics describe her pop as unconventional and her songwriting as introspective. Over four studio albums she has moved from spare electronic pop to acoustic folk and back again, and not every listener has followed her. This documentary asks how a schoolgirl from Auckland's North Shore reached that moment. It asks what she did with the attention, and how she handled the public reaction when she changed direction.

  • Lorde was born on the 7th of November 1996 in Takapuna, a suburb of Auckland, to the poet Sonja Yelich and the civil engineer Vic O'Connor. Her mother's parents were Croatian immigrants from the region of Dalmatia, while her father is of Irish descent. Lorde holds both New Zealand and Croatian citizenship. Her parents announced their engagement in 2014 after 30 years together, then married in a private ceremony on Cheltenham Beach in 2017.

    Lorde is the second of four children, with an elder sister named Jerry, a younger sister named India and a younger brother named Angelo. The children grew up in the North Shore suburbs of Devonport and Bayswater. At age five, Lorde joined a drama group, where she developed her public speaking skills. Her mother urged her to read across many genres, and Lorde later credited that habit as a lyrical influence. She names the young adult dystopian novel Feed, published in 2002 by M. T. Anderson, along with J. D. Salinger, Raymond Carver and Janet Frame.

    When Lorde was six, a teacher at her school suggested that her mother test her intelligence. Sonja arranged the Woodcock-Johnson Tests of Cognitive Abilities, and the results showed that Lorde was a gifted child. She was briefly enrolled at the George Parkyn Centre, an organisation for gifted education. Sonja withdrew her, however, because of concerns about her social development.

    At Vauxhall School, Lorde placed third in the North Shore Primary Schools' Speech competition in 2006 and first in 2007. She then moved on to Belmont Intermediate School. In 2009, she and her Belmont team finished as runner-up at the Kids' Lit Quiz World Finals, a global literature contest for students aged 10 to 14. That same year, her music career began.

  • In May 2009, Lorde and her friend Louis McDonald won the annual talent show at Belmont Intermediate School as a duo. That August, the pair were guests on Jim Mora's Afternoons show on Radio New Zealand. 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 Scott Maclachlan. Maclachlan was an A&R executive at Universal Music Group, usually shortened to UMG. He signed Lorde to the label for development.

    Lorde also played in Extreme, a band at Belmont Intermediate School. On the 18th of November 2009, Extreme placed third in the North Shore Battle of the Bands finals at the Bruce Mason Centre in Takapuna. In 2010, Lorde and McDonald formed a duet called Ella & Louis. They played covers on a regular basis at local venues, including cafés in Auckland and the Victoria Theatre in Devonport.

    In 2011, UMG hired the vocal coach Frances Dickinson to give Lorde singing lessons twice a week for a year. During this period, Maclachlan tried to match her with several producers and songwriters, but none of the pairings worked. As she began writing her own songs, she learned how to "put words together" by reading short fiction.

    Lorde performed her original songs for the first time at the Victoria Theatre in November 2011. In December, Maclachlan introduced her to Joel Little, a songwriter, record producer and former lead singer of Goodnight Nurse. The two recorded five songs for an extended play at Little's Golden Age Studios in Morningside, Auckland. They finished in three weeks.

    Through all of this, Lorde attended Takapuna Grammar School from 2010 to 2013 and completed Year 12. When 2014 arrived, she chose not to return for Year 13.

  • Scott Maclachlan called The Love Club EP a "strong piece of music", yet he worried it might not turn a profit because Lorde was so obscure. In November 2012, she released it for free download through her SoundCloud account. UMG issued it commercially in March 2013, after it had been downloaded 60,000 times. The EP peaked at number two in New Zealand and Australia.

    Its lead single, "Royals", went much further. The song spent nine weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and sold more than 10 million units worldwide, which places it among the best-selling singles of all time. The Recording Industry Association of America certified it diamond. At the 56th Grammy ceremony, "Royals" won Best Pop Solo Performance and Song of the Year. It was also named Single of the Year at the 2013 New Zealand Music Awards.

    Pure Heroine, her debut studio album, arrived in September 2013 and appeared on several year-end best album lists. Reviewers noted its portrait of suburban teenage disillusionment and its critiques of mainstream culture. By February 2014, it had sold more than one million copies in the United States. That made it the first debut album by a female artist to reach that mark since Adele's 19 in 2008. Worldwide sales stood at six million as of June 2021. The album earned a Grammy nomination for Best Pop Vocal Album and won the 2014 Taite Music Prize.

    Three more singles followed. "Tennis Court" reached number one in New Zealand, "Team" charted at number six in the United States, and "Glory and Gore" went exclusively to American radio. At the 2014 New Zealand Music Awards, Lorde won six awards. They included Album of the Year and Best Pop Album for Pure Heroine, and Single of the Year for "Team". She also took Highest Selling New Zealand Single for "Royals", Best Female Solo Artist and the International Achievement Award.

    In November 2013, Songs Music Publishing signed her to a publishing deal reportedly worth US$2.5 million. Companies including Sony Music Entertainment and UMG had bid against one another for her. The agreement gave the publisher the right to license her music for films and advertising. Time named her one of the world's most influential teenagers in 2013 and 2014. Forbes placed her on its 2014 30 Under 30 list as the youngest individual featured. Billboard added her to its 21 Under 21 list in 2013-2014 and 2015.

    In late 2013, she performed a cover of Tears for Fears' 1985 song "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" for the film The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. In the first half of 2014, she played the Laneway Festival in Sydney, the Chile, Argentina and Brazil editions of Lollapalooza, and Coachella in California. A concert tour began in North America in early 2014.

    In April 2014, Lorde joined the surviving members of Nirvana to perform "All Apologies" at the band's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction. Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl said they chose her because her perceptive lyrics carried what they called "Nirvana aesthetics".

    Lorde then curated the soundtrack for the 2014 film The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1. She oversaw the selection of its music and recorded four tracks herself, including the lead single "Yellow Flicker Beat". That song earned her a Golden Globe nomination for Best Original Song in 2015. It also won Single of the Year at the 2015 New Zealand Music Awards, her third consecutive win in that category. Later in 2015, she appeared on "Magnets", a song by the British electronic duo Disclosure from their album Caracal.

  • In January 2016, Lorde moved to Ponsonby, an inner-city suburb of Auckland. Her relationship with the New Zealand photographer James Lowe, which had begun in late 2013, ended in early 2016. In February, at the 2016 Brit Awards, she joined David Bowie's final touring band for a tribute to his 1971 song "Life on Mars". The pianist Mike Garson explained that Bowie's family and management picked her because Bowie admired her. Garson said Bowie felt she was "the future of music". Her cover was widely acknowledged as one of the finest tributes to him.

    Later in 2016, Lorde co-wrote "Heartlines", a song by the New Zealand duo Broods from their album Conscious.

    "Green Light", the lead single from her second album, came out in March 2017 to critical acclaim. NME and The Guardian both ranked it the best song of the year. It reached number one in New Zealand, number four in Australia, number nine in Canada and number nineteen in the United States. Two more singles supported the album. They were "Perfect Places" and a remix of "Homemade Dynamite" featuring Khalid, Post Malone and SZA.

    Melodrama was released on the 16th of June 2017, produced mainly by Lorde and Jack Antonoff. It debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200, which gave Lorde her first American chart-topper. It also reached number one in Australia, Canada and New Zealand. The album explores heartbreak and the messy feelings of late adolescence, evoked by a breakup.

    Critics praised the emotional weight of her writing and Antonoff's pop production. Metacritic placed Melodrama second on its list of the best albums of 2017, based on publications' year-end lists. Only Kendrick Lamar's Damn ranked higher. The album was nominated for Album of the Year at the 60th Annual Grammy Awards, and it has since been ranked on the Rolling Stone list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. At the 2017 New Zealand Music Awards, Melodrama won Album of the Year and "Green Light" won Single of the Year. Lorde also collected Best Solo Artist, Best Pop Artist, the People's Choice Award and the International Achievement Award.

    To promote the album, she embarked on the Melodrama World Tour in 2017 and 2018, with Khalid, Run the Jewels, Mitski and Tove Styrke as opening acts. In March 2017, she had also co-written and sung background vocals on "Don't Take the Money", a song by the American indie pop band Bleachers.

  • On the 20th of May 2020, Lorde revealed that she had started work on her third studio album with Antonoff, after the death of her dog. In November 2020, she announced Going South, a book about her visit to Antarctica in January 2019. The photographs were taken by the photographer Harriet Were.

    Solar Power came out on the 20th of August 2021. Its acoustic, indie folk sound departed from her earlier electropop albums, and critics were divided. A year later, she described the reaction as "really confounding" and "painful". Even so, the album reached number one in Australia and New Zealand. The title track hit number two in New Zealand, and the other singles were "Stoned at the Nail Salon" and "Mood Ring". The Solar Power Tour ran from 2022 to 2023. She headlined Primavera Sound in Spain in June 2022, then its Brazil edition in November 2022.

    At the Boardmasters Festival in Cornwall, England, in August 2023, Lorde debuted two new songs, "Silver Moon" and "Invisible Ink". She went on to play Øyafestivalen, Sziget Festival and Flow Festival that month.

    In March 2024, she released a cover of Talking Heads' "Take Me to the River" for A24 Music's tribute album Everyone's Getting Involved. In June 2024, she co-wrote and featured on a remix of Charli XCX's "Girl, So Confusing". The two performed it at Charli XCX's Madison Square Garden concert in New York City and at Coachella in April 2025. The remix won the Aotearoa Music Award for Single of the Year. In September 2024, Jennifer Knoepfle of Universal Music Publishing confirmed that Lorde had signed with its publishing arm earlier that year. The remix was her first release under that deal.

    In April 2025, she released "What Was That", the lead single from her fourth studio album. It reached number one in New Zealand and became her first top-10 single in Australia. It was also her first top-40 single on the US Billboard Hot 100 since 2017. The album, Virgin, followed in June 2025. Lorde worked on it with the musician Jim-E Stack, and two further singles, "Man of the Year" and "Hammer", came from it. Critics reviewed it generally positively for its emotional songwriting.

    Virgin debuted at number one in Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom, and at number two in the United States. Lorde became the first New Zealand artist to have six tracks on the Aotearoa Music Charts at once. On release day, she played the whole album in an unannounced set at the 2025 Glastonbury Festival. Around that time, she said the project had broken her apart and "forged a new creature" out of her. The Ultrasound World Tour began in September 2025, with arena and festival shows across North America, Europe, Oceania and South America.

    Her deal with UMG expired in December 2025. In voice memos to fans in March 2026, she said she might sign another record deal, possibly with UMG. First, she explained, she needed time to experience being an independent artist.

  • For "Tennis Court", Lorde wrote the music before the lyrics, which was the exception for her. Usually, she explained, a song begins with words, sometimes from a single word chosen to sum up an idea she was trying to pin down. She said the writing on Pure Heroine took the viewpoint of an observer. In an interview with NME, she acknowledged using words of inclusion throughout that debut. Melodrama then shifted to first-person narrative, with more introspective lyrics drawn from her struggles after a breakup and her views on maturing beyond the teenage years. A neurological condition called chromesthesia also shaped that album. It led her to arrange colours according to each song's theme and emotion.

    Her mother, a poet, is the primary influence she names for her lyrics. She also lists Kurt Vonnegut, Wells Tower, Tobias Wolff, Claire Vaye Watkins, Sylvia Plath, Walt Whitman and T. S. Eliot, noting in particular how they build their sentences.

    Billie Holiday, Sam Cooke, Etta James and Otis Redding were the American jazz and soul musicians she grew up hearing. She admires them for "harvesting their suffering". Her parents' favourite records, by Cat Stevens, Neil Young and Fleetwood Mac, filled her early years. While making Pure Heroine, she cited the electronic producers SBTRKT, Grimes and Sleigh Bells for how they treated vocals, chopping and layering them. She was also drawn to the initially hidden identities of Burial and the Weeknd, saying, "I feel like mystery is more interesting."

    For Melodrama, she took melodic cues from musicians including the 1975, especially their song "Somebody Else", along with Phil Collins, Rihanna and Robyn. Frank Ocean's 2016 album Blonde encouraged her to avoid "traditional song structures". She often played Paul Simon's 1986 album Graceland on New York subways and in taxis home from parties in Auckland. Much of the album's story drew on Ray Bradbury's 1950 science fiction short story "There Will Come Soft Rains", which she related to her own realities.

    Pure Heroine blends minimalist electropop, art pop, dream pop and indie-electro with hip-hop influences. Melodrama broke from that style, using piano-based arrangements, maximalist synths and drum machine beats. In a 2017 interview with NME, Lorde said, "I don't think about staying in my genre lane."

    She has a contralto vocal range. Before Melodrama, she only sang on her records and onstage, saying her voice needed the focus. PopMatters called her vocals "unique and powerfully intriguing", while Billboard called her voice "dynamic, smoky and restrained". On the Melodrama World Tour, she played a drum pad sampler and xylophone in some performances. Soon after the tour, she said she had started learning piano. Vice noted that her songs use the mixolydian mode, a structure from blues-based and alternative rock, so they fit neither a plain major nor minor sound.

  • Her stage name reflects a fascination with "royals and aristocracy". She felt the name Lord was too masculine, so she added an "e". Lorde has said her public image came to her naturally and matches her real personality. She identifies as a feminist. The New Zealand Herald observed that her feminism differed from that of her contemporaries because she showed no interest in sexualised performances. In an interview with V magazine, she called herself a "hugely sex-positive person".

    The New York Times called her "the pop prodigy". Billboard named her the "New Queen of Alternative" in a 2013 cover story and credited her with bringing her work to rock and alternative radio. Robert Christgau was less impressed, labelling her "a pop property" indistinguishable from other mainstream artists. Her critiques of mainstream culture on Pure Heroine earned her the title "the voice of her generation". She dismissed it, saying that "young people have never needed a specialised spokesperson". Jon Caramanica of The New York Times credited her with bringing a "wave of female rebellion" to mainstream audiences, and Rolling Stone and NPR pointed to Pure Heroine as its foundation.

    NPR readers ranked her number 12 among the most influential female musicians of the 21st century in a 2018 poll. In 2025, Billboard placed her at number 44 on its list of the Top 100 Women Artists of the 21st Century. Her influence has been traced to Billie Eilish, Olivia Rodrigo, Sabrina Carpenter, Conan Gray and Troye Sivan. Her trophies include 20 Aotearoa Music Awards, two Brit Awards for International Female Solo Artist, two Billboard Music Awards, one MTV Video Music Award and three World Music Awards. She has 37 million certified single units in the United States.

    Her unchoreographed dancing has divided audiences. Detractors call it "awkward", but The Fader argued it is "more freeform and spontaneous" than structured choreography. South Park parodied her in the episodes "The Cissy" in October 2014 and "Rehash" in December 2014.

    Before the release of Virgin, people speculated about her gender identity after a change in her dress sense and her social media posts. At the 2025 Met Gala, she told Emma Chamberlain she felt "like a man and a woman". She later told Rolling Stone she identifies as "in the middle, gender-wise."

    Her charity work began early. Her song "The Love Club" appeared on the 2013 charity album Songs for the Philippines, which supported people hit by Typhoon Haiyan. In 2015, she recorded "Team Ball Player Thing" with the supergroup Kiwis Cure Batten, and all sales went to research on Batten disease. She also appeared on The Art of Peace: Songs for Tibet II that year, raising money to preserve Tibetan culture. In 2016, she gave NZ$20,000 to Fuel the Need, which provides lunches for underprivileged schoolchildren. In 2018, she gave NZ$5,000 to Starship Hospital for "five new portable neurology monitors". That November, she became a patron of MusicHelps.

    On the 9th of September 2021, she released Te Ao Mārama, a companion to Solar Power sung entirely in Te Reo Māori. Hana Mereraiha translated it, with help from Sir Tīmoti Kāretu and Hēmi Kelly, and Dame Hinewehi Mohi led the project. All proceeds go to Forest & Bird and Te Hua Kawariki.

    Her politics have drawn attention too. In December 2017, Lorde cancelled a concert planned for June 2018 in Israel, after an online campaign by activists supporting the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement. She did not explicitly give her reasons, but said she had been unaware of the political turmoil there. Pro-Palestine groups welcomed the decision and pro-Israel groups criticised it. In October 2025, at Madison Square Garden, she voiced solidarity with the Palestinians from the stage. She later removed her songs from Apple Music in Israel as part of the No Music for Genocide movement. In January 2026, she donated $204,000 to the Minnesota Immigration Rights Action Committee and Immigrant Defense Network.

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Common questions

Who is Lorde?

Lorde is the stage name of Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O'Connor, a New Zealand singer-songwriter born on the 7th of November 1996 in Takapuna, a suburb of Auckland. She is known for unconventional pop music and introspective songwriting.

How successful was Lorde's song Royals?

Royals spent nine weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and sold more than 10 million units worldwide. It was certified diamond by the Recording Industry Association of America and won two Grammy Awards, for Best Pop Solo Performance and Song of the Year.

How did Lorde get her record deal with Universal Music Group?

Lorde and her friend Louis McDonald won the Belmont Intermediate School talent show in May 2009. McDonald's father then sent recordings of the duo to Scott Maclachlan, an A&R executive at Universal Music Group, who signed her for development.

What albums has Lorde released?

Lorde has released four studio albums. They are Pure Heroine in 2013, Melodrama in 2017, Solar Power in 2021 and Virgin in 2025.

Who produced Lorde's albums?

Joel Little worked with Lorde on The Love Club EP, which led to Pure Heroine. Melodrama was produced mainly by Lorde and Jack Antonoff, and Virgin was co-produced with Jim-E Stack.

What awards has Lorde won?

Lorde has won 20 Aotearoa Music Awards, two Grammy Awards, two Brit Awards and a Taite Music Prize. She also received a nomination for a Golden Globe Award for the song Yellow Flicker Beat.

What is chromesthesia and how does it affect Lorde's songwriting?

Chromesthesia is a neurological condition that Lorde has. It influenced her songwriting on Melodrama by leading her to arrange colours according to each song's theme and emotion.

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  106. 106Lorde impone su hedonismo ecológico en el Primavera SoundJordi Bianciotto — 10 June 2022
  107. 107Primavera Sound São Paulo: el festival agradecidoSalicrú Marta — 8 November 2022
  108. 108News'I'm Beginning a Journey': The Inside Story of Lorde's Surprise Mini-Album In Te Reo MāoriLeonie Hayden
  109. 109Lorde Embraces Te Reo Māori9 September 2021
  110. 110MagazineCaroline Polachek joins Lorde at Sziget Festival to perform "Green Light"Tyler Damara Kelly — 2023-08-15
  111. 111MagazineLorde Covers 'Take Me to the River' for Talking Heads Tribute Album2024-03-28
  112. 112MagazineSabrina Carpenter, Taylor Swift, Lorde, Megan Thee Stallion and More Make It a Hot Girl Summer for Universal Music PublishingJem Aswad — 4 September 2024
  113. 113MagazineCharli XCX Makes Coachella 'Brat' With Billie Eilish, Lorde, And Troye SivanTomás Mier et al. — 13 April 2025
  114. 114MagazineStan Waker, Fazerdaze, Lorde & More Win at 2025 Aotearoa Music AwardsConor Lochrie — 29 May 2025
  115. 115MagazineLorde Announces Final 'Virgin' Single Before Album Release, Calls It an 'Ode to City Life & Horniness'Hannah Dailey — 28 June 2025
  116. 116MagazineLorde Lands First ARIA Top 10 Since 2017 With 'What Was That'Jessica Lynch — 2 May 2025
  117. 117MagazineWhat Does Lorde's Virgin First-Week Performance Say About the Album's Ultimate Legacy?Christine Werthman — 2025-07-08
  118. 118NewsLorde Claims Top 40 #1 Album with VirginRecorded Music NZ — 7 July 2025
  119. 119NewsOn Virgin, Lorde Has Never Been Less Certain or More AliveMary Kate Carr — 28 June 2025
  120. 120MagazineLorde – VirginLauren Hague — 27 June 2025
  121. 121'Messy, ugly, full of sharp edges': How the world reacted to Lorde's new albumMitchell Hageman — 27 June 2025
  122. 122NewsLorde Secret Set at Glastonbury Review – New Album Playthrough Is Bold but a Little FoolhardyElle Hunt — 27 June 2025
  123. 123NewsMarlon Williams, Lorde, Tami Neilson: Aotearoa Music Awards 2026 finalists revealed2026-04-16
  124. 124Magazine2026 Aotearoa Music Awards: Check Out the Full Winners ListConor Lochrie — 2026-05-28
  125. 125NewsLorde releases new album 'Virgin': Read her heartfelt post about the project
  126. 126MagazineLorde Announces Ultrasound Tour Dates Ahead of 'Virgin': 'Come See What's Under the Skin'Hannah Dailey — 8 May 2025
  127. 127NewsLorde is bringing her Ultrasound world tour home down under in early 2026Fry Courtney — 10 July 2025
  128. 128MagazineLorde: O que esperar do show da cantora no Lollapalooza 2026?Gabriela Nangino — 2026-03-18
  129. 129NewsSabrina Carpenter y Lorde emocionaron en el Día 2 del Asuncionico2026-03-19
  130. 130NewsLorde Shouts 'Free F...ing Palestine' During New York Concert3 October 2025
  131. 131NewsNew Zealand Singer Lorde Removes Her Songs From Apple Music in IsraelShay Ringel — 3 October 2025
  132. 132NewsLorde Leaves Universal Music GroupAlex Suskind — 2026-03-18
  133. 133NewsLorde, 16-Year-Old New Zealand Musician, Talks 'Royals' Video, Feminism And MoreNoah Michelson — 24 July 2013
  134. 134NewsLorde – New MusicJames Lachno — 11 September 2013
  135. 135Lorde In-Studio W/ KennedyKYSR — 20 August 2013
  136. 136Lorde Q&APip Cowley — V Music Australia
  137. 137Lorde on Influences – And CosmeticsJulie Naughton and Pete Born — 20 May 2014
  138. 138Get to Know Lorde, The 16-Year-Old Pop Star Everyone's Talking AboutCasey Lewis — 19 July 2013
  139. 139MagazineLorde: The Rise of Pop's Edgiest TeenJonah Weiner — 28 October 2013
  140. 140Lorde 'I Relate to Kanye West and I Feel Intimidated by Teenage Girls'Leah Simpson — 5 November 2013
  141. 141NewsLorde Reveals David Bowie Was Inspiration for Second Album as New Single Green Light Released3 March 2017
  142. 142Lorde On Her Inspirations, Style, And Rise To FameMadeline Boardman — 16 January 2014
  143. 143Lorde Royals Pure Heroine InterviewJenn Selby — 28 October 2013
  144. 144ZMTV – Lorde Interview (Polly Speaks to Lorde Before The iHeartRadio NZ Launch)Polly Gillespie — ZM — 18 September 2013
  145. 145NewsWatch Lorde Cover One Of Her 'Favorite Songs' On Tour
  146. 146NewsThe Return of LordeJonah Weiner — 12 April 2017
  147. 147MagazineLorde Says Rihanna Inspired One of the Most Emotional Tracks on Her Latest AlbumCady Lang — 31 August 2017
  148. 148MagazineLorde Reveals 'Green Light' Was Inspired by Florence + the Machine on Tavi Gevinson's 'Rookie' PodcastWinston Cook-Wilson — 5 April 2017
  149. 149MagazineLorde Talks Fame, Growing up and Her New Album 'Melodrama'Emily Mackay — 16 June 2017
  150. 150NewsLorde: 'I Want to Be Leonard Cohen. I Want to Be Joni Mitchell'Tom Lamont — 17 June 2017
  151. 151MagazineLorde Uses Robyn's 'Dancing On My Own' as Studio InspirationJason Lipshutz — 7 May 2015
  152. 152MagazineThe Influences on Lorde's 'Melodrama': Frank Ocean, Robyn, Bowie and 10 Other Artists Who Shaped Its SoundClaire Shaffer — 24 June 2017
  153. 15350 Best Songs of 2013: No. 15 – Lorde: 'Royals'
  154. 154NewsLorde Review: Modern, Unconventional Pop at Its BestCara Waters — 26 November 2017
  155. 155Lorde BiographyStephen Thomas Erlewine
  156. 156JournalLorde's Auckland: Stepping Out of "The Bubble"Tony Mitchell — 2018
  157. 157Alt Pop Star Lorde Has Returned for Her Crown on New Single 'What Was That'Mark Beaumont — 24 April 2025
  158. 158Lorde Is Brilliantly Reborn on VirginMaya Georgi — 26 June 2025
  159. 159Lorde
  160. 160Lorde – Pure Heroine Album ReviewJon Hadusek — 30 September 2013
  161. 161NewsIn an Age of Manufactured Stars, Lorde Is a Refreshing ChangeBrad Wheeler — 7 October 2013
  162. 162Lorde: Pure HeroineEvan Sawdey — 10 October 2013
  163. 163Lorde Review – Voice of the Generation, With a Dash of Gold Lamé and ConfettiStan Mahoney — 8 July 2014
  164. 164Album Review: Lorde – Pure HeroineSammy Maine — 28 October 2013
  165. 165Lorde: Melodrama Review – Maximum OverwroughtKitty Empire — 18 June 2017
  166. 166The 50 Greatest Synth-Pop Albums of All TimeMatt Mitchell — 21 July 2023
  167. 167Lorde, Solar Power (2021)26 June 2025
  168. 168NewsThe Lorde Has RisenCarl Wilson — 27 June 2025
  169. 169NewsReview Lorde: Green Light Review – Comeback Track Signals New Dance Diva DirectionMaura Johnston — 2 March 2017
  170. 170NewsLorde Really Is 17, But the New Zealand Singer-Songwriter Who Plays Jacobs Pavilion Has an Old SoulChuck Yarborough — 17 September 2014
  171. 171Mutual Admiration, Across the Sea, Across the YearsMelena Ryzik — 20 May 2014
  172. 172MagazineLorde, 'Pure Heroine' Track-By-Track ReviewJason Lipshutz — 25 September 2013
  173. 173NewsReview: At the Oracle Arena Last Night, Lorde Gave Fans What They've Been Waiting ForAzucena Rasilla — 14 March 2018
  174. 174NewsLorde at Alexandra Palace, London, Review: Artist Performs Her Clever, Danceable Pop at a Perfect Live ShowDaniel Wright — 28 September 2017
  175. 175NewsLorde Is Teaching Herself Piano for Her New AlbumClarisse Loughrey — 28 November 2018
  176. 176NewsHere's the Music Theory Behind Why Lorde's Songwriting Is Objectively KickassPhil Witmer — 3 March 2017
  177. 177VideoLyrical Influences (VEVO LIFT): Brought to You By McDonald'sVEVO/YouTube — 2013
  178. 178Lorde 101: Who Is This 16-Year-Old New Zealand Singer Everyone's Talking About?Lindsey Weber — 19 August 2013
  179. 179Lorde Keeps It Real About Sex AppealSarah Harvey — 29 December 2013
  180. 180Lorde Says Sex on Stage the Next Step for Pop Stars4 November 2013
  181. 181NewsLorde Makes Feminism a Class IssueRosemary Overell — 31 January 2014
  182. 182Praise the LordeWilliam Defebaugh — 16 December 2013
  183. 183Lorde Review: Star Shines Under the Burden of ExpectationGeorge Palathingal — 22 November 2017
  184. 184MagazineLorde, HAIM Bring Girl Power To AlternativeGary Trust — 11 October 2013
  185. 185MagazineLorde: The Billboard Cover StoryJason Lipshutz — 6 September 2013
  186. 186LordeRobert Christgau — Robert Christgau Consumer Guide
  187. 187In Lorde's Wake, A Groundswell of Female Rebels in PopJon Caramanica — 30 August 2015
  188. 188Lorde Is The 21st Century's Author Of Adolescent EvolutionCyrena Tourous — NPR — 31 August 2018
  189. 189MagazineHow Pop Music's Teenage Dream EndedSpencer Kornhaber — 2 September 2020
  190. 190NewsPop Music Makes Way for the Post-Diva StarNeil Shah — 7 July 2018
  191. 191Turning the Tables: Your List Of The 21st Century's Most Influential Women MusiciansMarissa Lorusso — NPR — 20 November 2018
  192. 192MagazineBillboard's Top 100 Women Artists of the 21st Century Chart, Nos. 100-1Trevor Anderson et al. — 19 March 2025
  193. 193MagazineHere's What Finneas Thinks When People Ask About 'The Next Billie Eilish'Rania Aniftos — 28 April 2020
  194. 194MagazineOlivia Rodrigo on Heartbreak, Taylor Swift and Her TV ObsessionFrankie Dunn — 14 January 2021
  195. 195Sabrina Carpenter – TOP Magazine (Live)22 July 2019
  196. 196MagazineConan Gray on TikTok, Lorde and His New Record Kid KrowDouglas Greenwood — 20 March 2020
  197. 197Troye Sivan – Fans, Favorites + FangirlingPopCrush — 8 September 2015
  198. 198NewsLorde hits back at critics of her SNL danceNewshub Staff — 14 March 2017
  199. 199NewsWhy Lorde Is A Great DancerAimee Cliff — 25 April 2017
  200. 200MagazineWatch Lorde Return to 'South Park' & See Her ReactionChris Payne — 9 October 2014
  201. 201MagazineLet Lorde Express Her Image In PeaceAngie Jaime — 23 July 2024
  202. 202MagazineLorde Reflects on Body Image Struggles & Eating Improperly 'For Weeks' Ahead of the 2021 Met GalaHannah Dailey — 7 May 2025
  203. 203MagazineLorde: 'I'm an Intense Bitch'Brittany Spanos — 15 May 2025
  204. 204Lorde Features on Typhoon Haiyan Charity Album3News — 26 November 2013
  205. 205NewsLorde, Flight of the Conchords, Peter Jackson and All Blacks Record Charity SongElle Hunt — 11 September 2015
  206. 206NewsKate Bush and Lorde Feature on Birthday Album for Dalai Lama2 July 2015
  207. 207MagazineLorde Makes Big Donation to New Zealand Children's CharityGil Kaufman — 30 June 2016
  208. 208NewsLorde Donates $5000 to Starship Children's HospitalNewshub — 24 June 2018
  209. 209NewsLorde Becomes Patron of MusicHelps, A Musical Charity Helping Kiwis in NeedNewshub — 7 November 2018
  210. 210Lorde Posts ‘Ice Out’ and Donates $204,000 From Minneapolis Merch Sales to the Immigrant Defense Network and MoreSteven J. Horowitz — Feb 3, 2026
  211. 211NewsLorde Wins Big at 2013 NZ Music Awards21 November 2013
  212. 212NewsLorde's Royals Wins APRA Silver Scroll AwardLydia Jenkins — 16 October 2013
  213. 21360th Annual Grammy AwardsNational Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences
  214. 214Lorde wins international female solo artist award at 2014 BritsTshepo Mokoena — 19 February 2014
  215. 215NewsBrit awards nominations 2018: Dua Lipa beats Ed Sheeran with fiveBen Beaumont-Thomas — 13 January 2018
  216. 216MagazineBillboard Music Awards 2014: Full Winners List18 May 2014
  217. 217NewsLorde Becomes First Female Artist To Win Best Rock Video VMACraig Flaster — MTV News — 24 August 2014
  218. 218NewsLorde: 'I Am Basically a Witch'3 June 2017
  219. 219Gold and Platinum: Top Artists (Digital Singles)Recording Industry Association of America
  220. 220NewsWatch Lorde Get Drowned out by Male Feminists in SNL SketchSam Moore — 12 March 2017

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