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. Lorde's debut album Pure Heroine is available from September 28th.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. One Miley fan tweeted that Lorde's eyes were 'too far apart' to which she responded with 'their right' and admitted she really liked Miley's music. When questioned about the death threats and attacks from Miley Cyrus fans on Twitter for knocking her off the top of the iTunes chart, Lorde seemed to remain light-hearted about the subject. Watch Lorde perform 'Royals' on Later With Jools Holland below The bridge was the only part I wrote afterward, and then it took us kind of a few days in the studio figuring it out.

She added: 'It didn't even end up getting rearranged that much. I like it.'ĭuring the interview Lorde also spoke about her hit single 'Royals' and claims she wrote it in under an hour one afternoon. 'And so I combated it by making this song super warm soundng and comforting sonically, which is nice. 'It's cool because at the time I was quite stressed about this thing,' she said. Refusing to own up as to which song she wasn't so fond of in a recent interview with AMP radio, the New Zealand singer did mention that the she's loving the track 'Ribs', which features on the album.

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