Lorde, Stoned at the Nail Salon, Sees the Bigger Picture
"Well, my hot blood's been burning for so many summers now / It's time to cool it down, wherever that leads..." Lorde is not old. But she's always felt old, right from the start. "I've never felt more alone / It feels so scary getting old," she confessed on 2013's "Ribs" from her critically…
Britney, Lorde, Demi Lovato, Celine Dion & More Team Up to End Anti-LGBT Violence in Brazil
Much like the newly made-great-again country of the United States, Brazil is going through it at this particularly bleak moment in time - and anti-LGBTQ violence is on the rise, horrifyingly. To raise awareness of the growing problem, Brazilian pop singer-slash-activist Yann enlisted some of the…
The 'Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1' Soundtrack: Track-By-Track
You've got to hand it to Lorde: She's a killer curator. (Then again, as a member of the Tumblr generation, this should come as no surprise.) When it was first revealed earlier this summer that the newly 18-year-old Pure Heroine darkling would be single-handedly assembling the entirety of the…
The Lorde-Curated Soundtrack for 'Hunger Games: Mockingjay' Looks Like Fan Fiction, But It's Real
So, okay: Lorde gets it. Over the summer, the Pure Heroine alt-pop princess was enlisted to singlehandedly curate the Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 1 soundtrack. A tough task for any teen! But, as it turns out, she did a fucking bang-up job. In fact, the list of performers that made the cut is…
I'm On Lorde's "Team" Now, Too
So, I haven't actually written about Lorde yet. Err...HEY! LOOK OVER THERE. IT'S JESUS! No. I know. It's overdue. The thing is, it took me a long time to come around to the (newly) 17 year old New Zealand gloom-pop poetess. I didn't like "Royals" when I heard it earlier this year and, frankly, I…