She continued: “My kids - my community - they’re expecting spiritual transcendence from me, from these works.

“I can feel the huge amount of love and devotion that people have for me - and for people in my position - and straightaway, I wanted to be like, ‘I’m not the one that’s worthy of your devotion. “I’m aware of the way people look at me,” Lorde said. On “The Path,” the shimmering opening track of “Solar Power” that she wrote early on as a sort of thesis statement for the album, Lorde describes herself as “raised in the tall grass,” but also a “teen millionaire having nightmares from the camera flash.” “If you’re looking for a savior,” she warns, “well that’s not me.” But she offers a heady alternative: the sun.

This is a skill set that many people who become known like she did - as a gifted small-town teenager with an out-of-the-gate smash success - can feign pretty well. It’s not that she doesn’t suffer from second-guessing, insecurities, bouts of vanity, impatience or mindless cellphone scrolling.īut Lorde - the human and the artist - can usually be found one step ahead, intuitively and emotionally, having thought through her reality from most angles: how something felt to her, how she might express that, how it will be received and how she might process how she was interpreted. It’s not even that the singer and songwriter born Ella Yelich-O’Connor, now 24, presents as especially perfect, or self-assured or immune to criticism. That is, where exactly does she hide the bad parts, the off-notes, the unflattering bits of any personality that poke out awkwardly, especially after experiencing a trajectory as strange as hers? No one, famous and feted at 16, could possibly be so well-adjusted. It can be tempting, upon spending any extended amount of time around the musician Lorde, to wonder what is wrong with her.

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