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I'm speaking for a bunch of girls when I say that the idea that feminism is completely natural and shouldn't even be something that people find mildly surprising, it's just a part of being a girl in 2013.
Lorde / Singer-Songwriter
Being A Girl
Bunch
Feminism
Surprising
Speaking
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My dad is a civil engineer, and my mom is a stay-at-home mom. The fact that my parents weren't really involved in music was kind of good, because it meant that I had something that was private and personal.
Lorde / Singer-Songwriter
Dad
Mom
Involved
Stay At Home
Stay At Home Mom
Good Music Dad
Meant
Civil
Engineer
Fact
Parents
Personal
Private
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I've been in some situations where people have treated me like a fascinating toy. You know, it's just like an interesting kind of fun thing to have a play with. It's very weird for me. I feel like a tiny baby.
Lorde / Singer-Songwriter
Fascinating
Interesting
Tiny
Treated
Weird
Me Fun People
Fun Thing
Me Weird Fun
Situations
Toy
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People respond to something which intrigues them instead of something that gives them all the information - particularly in pop, which is, like, the genre for knowing way too much about everyone and everything.
Lorde / Singer-Songwriter
Genre
Information People Way
Respond
Intrigues
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I think I'm speaking for a bunch of girls when I say that the idea that feminism is completely natural and shouldn't even be something that people find mildly surprising. It's just a part of being a girl in 2013.
Lorde / Singer-Songwriter
Girl
Reality
Thinking
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I come from a big, loud family, and I'm the quieter one. Performing is something I have to switch on. I've heard I get real sassy onstage, which I'm not in real life! It's fun to be that person for an hour a night.
Lorde / Singer-Songwriter
Fun
Heard
Loud
Night
Performing
Real Life
Sassy
Life Family Night
Hour
Onstage
Quieter
Switch
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I get paralyzingly nervous a lot of times, so I tried bravado. The way I dress and carry myself, a lot of people find it intimidating. I think my whole career can be boiled down to the one word I always say in meetings: 'strength.'
Lorde / Singer-Songwriter
Bravado
Intimidating
Meetings
Nervous
One Word
Whole
Strength Myself Always
Career
Carry
Times
Word
Tried
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Musicians like James Blake were a big influence on me. How he uses his vocals is amazing. And then Yeasayer and Animal Collective, who aren't pop bands exactly, but they do something that is so catchy and undeniable and so much fun.
Lorde / Singer-Songwriter
Animal
Blake
Catchy
Bands
Big Influence
Collective
James
Musicians
So Much Fun
Undeniable
Uses
Vocals
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People have told me that Ive helped them feel confident, like they can say things they want to say. They can talk about feminism in class without people calling them a lesbian. Thats so amazing that I can make someone feel like that.
Lorde / Singer-Songwriter
Class
Feminism
People
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The phrase 'teen hottie' literally makes me want to throw up. I'm a pop princess at heart. Pop is about distilling what you want to say and making it easy. And the way I write isn't about making things easy. It's a weird juxtaposition.
Lorde / Singer-Songwriter
Heart
Princess
Writing
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I'm usually really drawn to a song, and I know it would be good to cover if it sounds like something that I could write, or I wished I could write. Sometimes a writer just sounds like they're in your head, and that is really cool for me.
Lorde / Singer-Songwriter
Cool
Song
Good Your Me
Cool Good Me
Writer
Cover
Drawn
Head
Wished
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With pop music and pop musicians, you know everything about everyone all the time, particularly their physical appearance. With female musicians, that's made a big thing of, and I think people, certainly with me, have appreciated a bit of mystery.
Lorde / Singer-Songwriter
Music
Appearance
Female
Made
Mystery
People
Physical Appearance
Pop Music
Rock N Roll
Thinking
Time Me People
Time Music Me
Everyone
Bit
Big Thing
Certainly
Particularly
Musicians
Physical
Pop
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I think young people are the most creative and the coolest - people that we should be learning from. Even when I'm at a party, I'm analyzing it and thinking about it in the context of how I would write about it. That side of me never switches off.
Lorde / Singer-Songwriter
Analyzing
Creative
Party
Context
Coolest
Young People
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Obviously I've had this fascination with aristocracy my whole life. Like, the kings and queens of 500 years ago... they're like rock stars. If there was a 'TMZ' 500 years ago, it would be about, like, Henry VIII and Marie Antoinette and all those people.
Lorde / Singer-Songwriter
Queens
Aristocracy
Fascination
Marie
Stars
Years Ago
Life Stars People
Henry
Obviously
Rock Stars
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I am really into how words sound out loud, so I was always the kid who would, like, read the page of the book to herself in her room over and over and over. And Raymond Carver is great for that. Tobias Wolff is an author who is really good for that as well.
Lorde / Singer-Songwriter
Carver
Loud
Good Great Always
Good Great I Am
Author
Herself
Page
Raymond
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We all have Tumblr, and we all have Instagram and everything. People care so much about it because, now, any random can be famous on the Internet if their world looks good on Tumblr. And so everyone at high school strives for this kind of aesthetic correctness.
Lorde / Singer-Songwriter
Famous
Aesthetic
Correctness
High School
Instagram
Internet
Looks
Random
Tumblr
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Around the middle of last year I started listening to a lot of rap, like Nicki Minaj and Drake... They all sing about such opulence, stuff that just didn’t relate to me - or anyone that I knew. I began thinking, “How are we listening to this? It’s completely irrelevant.”
Lorde / Singer-Songwriter
Rap
Thinking
Years
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I find a lot of feminist reading quite confusing and that often there's a set of rules, and people will be like, 'Oh, this person isn't a true feminist because they don't embody this one thing,' and I don't know, often it can be a gray area, and it can be a hard thing to navigate.
Lorde / Singer-Songwriter
Confusing
Gray
Gray Area
Navigate
One Thing
Reading
Rules
Area
People Will True
Oh
Embody
People True Will
Hard Thing
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My advice to young people wanting to make music and to be in this industry is to really spend your time making music. Make so much music you have no friends. Make music. Figure out what it is you love, and... because if you're making cool art, then everything else will fall into line.
Lorde / Singer-Songwriter
Friends
Music
Cool
Advice
Fall
Industry
No Friends
Young
Love Time Art
Cool Love Art
Cool Love Time
Else
Everything Else
Figure
Love Cool Time
Spend
Line
Making
Wanting
Young People
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When I was trying to come up with a stage name, I thought 'Lord' was super rad, but really masculine - ever since I was a little kid, I have been really into royals and aristocracy. So to make Lord more feminine, I just put an 'e' on the end! Some people think it's religious, but it's not.
Lorde / Singer-Songwriter
Aristocracy
Feminine
Little Kid
Lord
Masculine
Religious
Stage
Royals
Some People
Super
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I actually love Twitter and Instagram. I do think it's so strange to think that 20 years ago, people would never have known personal stuff about musicians and actors, but I like it. As long as I don't obsessively overshare, it's OK. And when I do overshare, it's just, like, me saying, 'I've got $7 in my bank account!'
Lorde / Singer-Songwriter
Instagram
Personal Stuff
Strange
Stuff
Years Ago
Love Me Long
Account
Twitter
Actor
Bank
Bank Account
Musicians
Ok
Personal
Saying
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I've totally learned in this process that 99% of the time, your gut is right, and you know what's right for you. I know exactly what's right for my career and for my art, and sometimes, even if the whole room is saying, 'Don't do that, don't do that,' you know that doing that is going to be good for you, in the long run.
Lorde / Singer-Songwriter
Art
Running
Badass
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Ever since I was a kid, I've been into clothes, but not really labels- that's kind of only been in the last year or so. It's something I've always cared about. I used to just constantly thrift and make stuff and cut stuff up and borrow my dad's stuff and borrow my little brother's stuff and all that jazz. ... It's just, if something is cool, then it's cool.
Lorde / Singer-Songwriter
Dad
Brother
Fashion
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So many interviews, even ones that I consider really intelligent and good writers, will do the, like, 'Oh, you're not taking your clothes off like Miley Cyrus and all these girls' thing, which to me is just the weirdest thing to say to someone. ... Now when people are like, 'Tell me what you think of Miley!' I'll say, 'What do you think of Miley?' and they'll flounder and say, 'Well, I think she's really talented...' and I'm like, there you go.
Lorde / Singer-Songwriter
Girl
Fashion
Intelligent
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I think I'm speaking for a bunch of girls when I say that the idea that feminism is completely natural and shouldn't even be something that people find mildly surprising. ...I find a lot of feminist reading quite confusing and that often there's a set of rules, and people will be like, 'Oh, this person isn't a true feminist because they don't embody this one thing,' and I don't know, often there is a lot of gray area that can be hard to navigate.
Lorde / Singer-Songwriter
Girl
Fashion
Reading
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A lot of times when people meet me, theyll definitely try to make me feel young or inexperienced. Like, Its all taken care of. Teenagers are such a discerning group of people. Theyll immediately sniff out anything that feels contrived. Im, like, constantly scanning myself to see if Im some corporate executive version of a teenager. Ive developed something of a fearsome reputation. People know that if you talk down to me, I will roll my eyes or whatever.
Lorde / Singer-Songwriter
Eye
Taken
Teenager
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