“Don’t you think that it’s boring, how people talk?” starts off “Tennis Court”. The album starts with a very minimal 808 beat. Essentially this is her discography thus far, aside from a dark reconstructed version of Tears For Fears’ “Everybody Wants To Rule The World” on the recent Hunger Games: Catching Fire soundtrack. This week an MP3 version was released, Pure Heroine Extended, which contains the remaining four tracks from The Love Club, and the b-side “Swingin Party”. At only ten tracks, it is a short but precise collection with no filler. Originally Pure Heroine only contained one carry-over from The Love Club, “Royals”. It had some extremely impressive moments and set the world up for Pure Heroine. Quickly her first EP The Love Club made its rounds, only available in the states as a download, but in New Zealand as a physical CD. Lorde has the vocals and writing ability of a woman twice her age. Then we found out Lorde was only 16 when she recorded the song, and we were shocked. In the middle of many songs that are produced as loud and pushed to the max as possible, songs about partying til dawn and “put your hands up”, comes a beautifully layered but minimal song about how completely irrelevant and plastic all of that is. That saying pretty much sums up the success of New Zealand newcomer Lorde’s surprise smash of the year “Royals”. There’s a saying that goes “when a man screams, you must learn to whisper”.
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