Lorde - Pure Heroine

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Lorde - Pure Heroine

Posted: 12/9/13 at 11:17am

Who's a fan? Who's not?

I'm in love with her style, her voice, her lyrics, her feminism; pretty much the whole deal.

This song could not be better:
Bravado

"The gods who nurse this universe think little of mortals' cares. They sit in crowds on exclusive clouds and laugh at our love affairs. I might have had a real romance if they'd given me a chance. I loved him, but he didn't love me. I wanted him, but he didn't want me. Then the gods had a spree and indulged in another whim. Now he loves me, but I don't love him." - Cole Porter

Lorde - Pure Heroine

Posted: 12/9/13 at 2:55pm

Love the album and the artist. I was shocked she wasn't up for Best New Artist at the Grammys. I thought she was a lock. She has the second most nominations of any debut artist and missed out on Album and Best New Artist. Pretty impressive for someone who wrote and recorded their debut album at 15.

Lorde - Pure Heroine

Posted: 12/9/13 at 3:03pm

Didn't she miss the cutoff?

Lorde - Pure Heroine

Posted: 12/9/13 at 3:36pm

She was eligible in all categories. Her album and Royals are nominated all over the place. She just missed out on half of the big categories.

The post-Gaga Best New Artist rules are really confusing, anyway. Ed Sheeran is nominated this year after getting nominated last year for Song of the Year. I don't think he's released a new album since, so what are they nominating him for? This could be where Lorde is next year if she doesn't win anything for Royals/Pure Heroine.

Lorde - Pure Heroine

Posted: 12/9/13 at 4:38pm

"But while her disillusionment with the young, trashed, and proud pack is certainly a fresh perspective, Lorde's creative success doesn't hinge solely on skewering the thoughtless decadence of the Rihannas, Ke$has, and Mileys of the world. Instead, what really makes Pure Heroine shine is the deconstruction of their musical conceits. Lorde and her producer/co-writer, the up-and-coming Joel Little, skillfully dismantle the slick, overproduced rigidity that's so prevalent in today's pop, stripping away the glitchiness, breakbeats, and vocal processing that have become so reflexive in the past decade. Taking its production cues largely from Jessie Ware's excellent Devotion, the nihilist pop of Pure Heroine makes a strong case for the less-is-more maxim. What's left is a remarkably unpretentious and almost raw set of vignettes mostly powered by Lorde's modest, affectation-free performances."
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