But nothing’s certain in the whims of the young and very famous. Sure, there were rumors of a break up between her and her boyfriend, James Lowe, last year, after they disappeared from each other’s Instagrams. Produced by Lena Dunham’s boyfriend Jack Antonoff, the song and its accompanying music video discuss the 20-year-old singer’s “first major heartbreak,” and point to where Lorde is headed after her debut, Pure Heroine, shattered records and made headlines in 2013.
Richer in sound and experience, the album found strength in different kinds of isolation: the temporary plight of the newly heartbroken and the lifelong fate of the writer.Yesterday Lorde debuted “Green Light,” the first single from her upcoming album Melodrama.
But Lorde’s feel for suburban adolescent disconnect catalyzed into precocious power moves-such as curating the soundtrack for the third Hunger Games movie-and an astute lens on the wider world on 2017’s Melodrama. She captured the late-night trains home, clandestine kisses, and heavy symbolism of your first love remembering to buy your favorite juice-little of which, she seemed to know, lasts. Together, they wrote “Royals,” a song that not only defined her perspective-with its unimpressed, teenage dismissal of material obsessions-but also propelled her skeletal electro-pop debut, 2013’s Pure Heroine, to a Grammy nomination. After being spotted at a talent show and signing to Universal at age 12, she quickly chewed through a series of writing partners until she met Joel Little, a fellow Auckland native and former pop-punk frontman. Where previous generations of teenagers frequently had to endure middle-aged marketing managers’ ideas of what entertainment should look like, millennial teens were #blessed with one of pop culture’s greatest young laureates: New Zealand’s Ella Yelich-O’Connor, a.k.a.
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