"A hot late-summer breeze blows across a Burbank parking lot as Lorde sits beneath a tattered canopy outside the rehearsal studio where she's preparing for her latest world tour. The 28-year-old singer and songwriter from New Zealand has been here for 10 days figuring out how to bring her album "Virgin" to the stage; in a few hours, she'll fly home to New York for a friend's wedding before heading to Austin, Texas, for the tour's opening date."
"Born Ella Yelich-O'Connor, Lorde broke out at age 16 with "Royals," her stark and whispery debut single - "a speech barely scaffolded with melody," she calls it now - about the illusory satisfactions of a consumer culture run amok. "Royals" topped Billboard's Hot 100 for nine straight weeks in 2013 and went on to win two Grammys, including the award for song of the year."
"Yet by 2021's " Solar Power, " Lorde was singing about abandoning the hurly-burly of pop stardom in the always-on social-media era. "I throw my cellular device in the water," she cooed blissfully in the LP's strummy title track, "Can you reach me? No, you can't." "Virgin," which came out in June, finds her inching back into the fray. Streaked with harsh if alluring electronic textures"
Lorde is rehearsing in Burbank beneath a tattered canopy as she readies dancers and staging for her Virgin world tour. The 28-year-old New Zealand singer spent ten days figuring out how to translate the album to a live show before flying for personal events and the tour opener in Austin. She uses unconventional prep routines, including Japanese takeout and IV vitamin drips. Lorde rose to fame at 16 with Royals, which topped the Hot 100 and won Grammys, influencing a decade of brooding pop. After retreating during Solar Power and rejecting nonstop social media, she now inches back into the pop fray with Virgin's electronic textures.
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