Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O'Connor, popularly known as Lorde, is singer and songwriter from New Zealand. She became interested in being a performer as a child. Eventually, at the age of sixteen, she released her first album called The Love Club EP in early 2013. The EP charted number two on the national record charts of Australia and New Zealand. Then, in mid-2013 she released her single “Royals”. The single instantly became an international musical sensation, reaching the US Billboard Hot 100. “Royals” made Lorde the youngest artist to have a number one single in the United States since Tiffany in 1987. Then later in the year, she released her first full album, Pure Heroine, which charted number three on the US Billboard 200. How is it that an artist so young can become so popular not only nationally, but internationally? The messages she relays in her music really speak to this generations teenagers. Whether she is singing about wanting to be loved, or be popular, or how pop music doesn’t always have to be about materialism, she easily relates her music to every teenager’s view of life. Lorde writes her music about what is currently going on in society, not about the diamonds, glamour …show more content…
She thinks about the imprint she is leaving on people her age, especially girls. Lorde quotes “I’m sensitive to how women are portrayed because sometimes it kind of sucks. So it’s like, "If I ever had that voice I’d want to do it this way." But being a role model is crazy because I’m probably going to screw up at some point.” So Lorde is comfortable being a role model for teenagers and other people her age, but at the same time she is frustrated about messing it up. Because she knows how much of an influence her music can have on teenagers, she wants to be able to say the right thing and be the “ideal role model”, but at the same time she just wants to sing whatever she wants to sing about and not have to worry about