Lorde Your Heroine by Marc Shapiro

Author:Marc Shapiro
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Published: 2014-06-30T16:00:00+00:00

‘I CAME DOWN WITH

A KIDNEY INFECTION JUST

AS I WAS ABOUT TO GET

ON THE PLANE,’ SHE TOLD

THE TELEGRAPH.

‘They took me to the hospital and put me on a drip and now I’m on heavy antibiotics.’

The kidney infection would clear itself up but the result of the antibiotics was that, for a number of days, Lorde would have trouble sitting upright. Consequently she was not in the greatest of spirits as she prepared to board the plane for America. Her physical discomfort was meshing uneasily with her erratic emotional state. She was not sure how well she would sleep on the transatlantic flight and so she brought along a bottle of Nyquil to help her doze during the flight.

Lorde had never flown on a plane in her life until the puddle jump to the festival. And so as she went up the gangway and into the plane, there was most likely a little bit of nerves, because America was many hours and 9000 miles away. But with her older sister Jerry along on the trip to chaperone, her bandmates and her manager, the nerves were most likely replaced by the excitement of this next and all-important phase of her career.

Spreading the gospel of Lorde in America.

This trip was set up as a preliminary first strike: an August 6 show at New York’s hip Le Poisson Rouge and a quick cross-country hop to Los Angeles and a much anticipated show at the Echoplex. This would be a fairly heavy industry trip, a meet and greet with record company executives and industry heavyweights. Lots of press and lots of happy talk loomed on the horizon. If anybody Lorde’s age managed to get into the show that night in New York, it would be more by chance than design. In a sense, Lorde had a lot to prove with this first trip across the pond.

Yes ‘Royals’ and The Love Club EP had been selling like the proverbial hot cakes and Lorde had recently captured the honour of being the first female performer in seventeen years to top the Billboard Alternative Rock Charts. Lorde’s reaction to the news was typical of how a normal teenager would take things. Her initial reaction was to be ‘cool’ about it. But, as witness her reaction in Billboard, ‘cool’ quickly dissolved into glee. ‘It feels like a combination of my birthday, Christmas and washing my hair after a month of not doing so.’

But to the US, record sales and chart listings did not mean a lot at that point. Lorde was still largely a mystery. Her music was an original force of nature. But how would Lorde go down in a live setting? It remained to be seen.

An amusing aside to the trip was the alterations that had to be made to accommodate the age and legality of Lorde in a time honoured music lifestyle that was traditionally geared toward adults. One concession that she jokingly explained in an NPR interview was the exclusion of any alcoholic beverages in the singer’s backstage refreshment rider.

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