Lorde
New Zealand singer, songwriter and producer · New Zealand · On the map · Musicians · Born 1996 · age 30 · also Croatia
She turned teenage ennui into a weapon. "Royals" stripped pop down to a bassline and a sneer at luxury rap clichés, spent nine weeks at number one, and announced that someone from New Zealand who hated the genre's surface could still own it.
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Jack Antonoff Produced Melodrama and Green Light- Joel Little Produced Pure Heroine, Royals and Tennis Court
- Frank Dukes Produced Melodrama and Green Light
Olivia Rodrigo Influenced by Lorde
Dan Nigro Produced Virgin (2025)
Charli XCX Duets: Girl, So Confusing (2024)- Paul Epworth Produced Yellow Flicker Beat (2014)
Andrew Wyatt Produced Perfect Places (2017)
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Lorde performing at the Victoria Theatre in 2010
Lorde performing at Coachella in 2014
Lorde performing in 2017
Lorde performing on her Solar Power Tour at the Primavera Sound of São Paulo, November 2022
Lorde performing at the Glastonbury Festival (2025)
Lorde is known for her unchoreographed dancing onstage.In their own words 2
, The only thing to contemplate there is this raw force. It's as much terror as beauty. You don't feel welcomed by the natural world - I completely felt like an interloper.
I'm a feminist and the theme of her song is, 'When you're ready come and get it from me.' I'm sick of women being portrayed this way.
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Ella Yelich-O'Connor signed with Universal Music Group at twelve after a talent show caught their eye, then spent two years with producer Joel Little building what became The Love Club EP - released free on SoundCloud in 2012. "Royals" moved 10 million units and made her debut album Pure Heroine a 2013 event; a year later she was curating The Hunger Games soundtrack and landing on Forbes and Time lists as a teenage phenomenon. Melodrama, her 2017 collaboration with Jack Antonoff, debuted atop the Billboard 200 and later earned a place in Rolling Stone's 500 greatest albums - a tighter, more vulnerable record that cemented her as a songwriter with range. Solar Power in 2021 chased indie folk and psychedelic textures and split opinion; Virgin in 2025, made with Jim-E Stack, returned to electronic pop and won the critics back. Two Grammys, 20 Aotearoa Music Awards, co-writes for Broods and Bleachers - and still only in her twenties.
