It*s been just over a year since Lorde released her now-platinum debut, Pure Heroine, where she sang wistfully about "getting on my first plane." The 18-year-old has since racked up major frequent-flier miles, becoming an alt-pop cultural icon (two South Park parodies in one month!) along the way. In October, her tour finally led back to her native New Zealand: "It definitely feels like a bit of a victory lap," she says. She*s also found time to assemble an eclectic soundtrack for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 – and to give passing thought to a new album of her own. Here*s what we learned checking in with pop*s most talented teen.
She*s the Boss
"Everyone my age read the books and saw the films," Lorde says of Hunger Games. "I got a call: *You*ve been asked to write the end-credit song.* But I wanted ownership in the process. They came back: *Would you like to do the soundtrack?* I was like, *Uh, that would work.*" She appeared on five tracks, including a Diplo-produced duet with Ariana Grande and a collaboration with the Chemical Brothers and R&B star Miguel ("He*s the best possible person with vocal melodies that I know") – and also got Kanye West to "rework" her single "Yellow Flicker Beat." ("He*s so private I feel weird talking about how he does stuff. I feel lucky to even be in a room with him.")
In addition to Grace Jones ("this high priestess presiding over us all") and Charli XCX, the LP spotlights rising artists like Raury, Tinashe and XOV – "artists I heard on YouTube and had 10,000 hits. I thought what they were doing was cool and could be taken to a different, interesting place."
She*s Taking Her Time With Her Next Album
"I*m very tentatively starting," she says. "I*ve done a lot of writing, lyrically, but I started the soundtrack just as I was getting into album stuff, and that took up all of my creative head. But I have been plotting out ideas. I guess other people don*t write like that, but for me it*s all about what I want to say with the records. I don*t really have any sort of timetable. I*m not in any kind of rush. Part of me thinks that the longer I leave it, the better a musician I*ll be. [Laughs] I used to do the same thing with homework! But I don*t know if I*ll be good at having time off."
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