“Still Sane” catches her wondering if her new fame has changed her – and if not if, then when – while the tropical-music-influenced “Buzzcut Season” seeks an escape from all the tragedy and suffering in the world. While Lorde and Little were keen to release another EP, it wasn’t long before what they were working on grew into a full-length album.īut some of Pure Heroine’s best moments come when Lorde just lets herself be a teenager. The EP was a success, it was downloaded 60,000 times with virtually no promotion, spurring Lorde’s label to release it commercially. Over a three-week period in 2012, the two finished “Royals” and four other songs for Lorde’s debut EP, The Love Club, which was uploaded to SoundCloud later that year. After a few false starts with other songwriters, Lorde began working with fellow-Aucklander Joel Little, who’d had some success down under as a member of pop-punk band Goodnight Nurse, in December 2011. When it was recorded, the ground hadn’t even been broken for Pure Heroine. “Royals” was almost a year old when it hit the airwaves. Listen to the expanded edition of Pure Heroine now. Clearly, Lorde was onto something, and “Royals” topped the Billboard Hot 100 for nine weeks. There’s not much to the song’s arrangement – finger snaps, a hip-hop beat, a wobbling bass after the first chorus – but it’s enough to get stuck in your head, and it doesn’t distract from Lorde herself, whose deep vocals and sly, self-assured delivery made her one of the most immediately compelling singers since Adele. Following the release of Lorde’s debut album, on September 27, 2013, it was near impossible to go out into a public setting and not hear "Royals," the smash hit that made Lorde a household name and helped Pure Heroine become one of the biggest records of the year.Įven if you haven’t heard “Royals” in years, it’s likely that just seeing the title has caused its slinky, subdued groove to worm its way back into your mind.
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