Lorde: Kiwi entertainment icon:
Lorde owns a house in Auckland, where she grew up, but for the better part of the last year she has been living at different hotels around New York, trying to finish her second album, Melodrama. She talks to New York Times Magazine contributing writer Jonah Weiner at a diner near Columbus Circle called Flame.
“Nobody recognises me [here],” Lorde, 20, tells Weiner.
Lorde discovered the Flame by chance one night in 2013, during her first trip to America, lured by nothing more tantalising than the neon sign reading OPEN 24 HOURS.
The Flame played an important part in the making of Melodrama, she said: “I spent about four months here last year with my laptop out and my headphones on, listening to demos, looking at lists of what I needed to get done and writing songs. People must have thought I was an aspiring poet or something.”
Lorde has a sly facility with pop craft that often exhibits itself in curveballs. She likes self-reflexive lyrics, off-kilter rhyme schemes and other irregularities just pronounced enough to draw attention to her songs’ animating mechanics without breaking their spells. Even the rhythm of her career has been unpredictable.
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