Wednesday, 11 September 2013

Lorde Covers Billboard Magazine + Talks Love For Nicki Minaj & New Single 'Team'


Lorde, the reigning queen of Alternative-Rock covers the latest issue of Billboard Magazine.

The 16-year-old New Zealand native (real name: Ella Yelich-O'Connor) chatted about Nicki Minaj, her early writings, adjusting to fame and her next single, Team.

You were writing short stories before you started writing songs. What were some of the things you wrote about?

I was like 11 or 12 when I was writing them, so they were probably pretty awful. I wrote a lot of autobiographical stuff, and then I wrote total fiction, because I started reading Carver and I became obsessed with... a [Carver] story will be about a couple, and this couple could exist in any neighborhood, in any city in America. There's a sense that they're not solid or not real -- they represent anyone, which I thought was cool. I wrote in that way for a while.

There's a line on your still-unreleased next single, "Team," that goes, "I'm kind of over being told to throw my hands up in the air… so there." Is that your take on most modern music?

Yeah, absolutely. In that song, there are a few lines which are kind of me being the 'realistic' pop star: "We live in cities you'll never see onscreen," which is like, no one comes to New Zealand, no one knows anything about New Zealand, and here I am, trying to grow up and become a person. I've been countering that with going to New York and seeing this place that's in every movie and every TV show. Part of me wanted to go back to writing for me and for my friends, and write something that I felt related to us a little bit.

What modern music do you personally love?

I'm a big James Blake fan, and I always have been. And I really like Burial -- I've kind of gone back through and listened to all of Burial's music. But I also got the Nick Minaj album "Roman Reloaded," which I've been really into. She is so fucking good, man, I can't even fathom it. I watched this amazing video the other day, of her just riffing about sex. She was putting on makeup and talking, and she's a total feminist, and I was like, 'Man, you are a badass, Nicki.' I love it.


For more on this issue head to Billboard.com. This issue will hit newsstands September 14. You can order a copy online HERE!



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