It's this 'ordinary' teenage life that Lorde's debut album captures beautifully, with references to mum and dad letting her stay home, riding on buses with her 'knees pulled in' and a boyfriend buying her orange juice.
'Every song's like, "gold teeth, Grey Goose, tripping in the bathroom",' she sings on 'Royals', critiquing mainstream rap music as she highlights its disconnect from her own life. Lorde - real name Ella Yellich-Connor - is too smart and self-aware to be precocious. But despite the success of 'Royals' and the fact she signed a record company development deal some three years ago, the word 'precocious' doesn't suit this striking, dark-haired girl from the suburbs of Auckland, New Zealand. She's a 16-year-old singer-songwriter who, thanks to the brilliant 'Royals' already has a US Number One single to her name. Lorde (rhymes with 'scored', not 'bawdy') is a hard one to pin down.
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