by Marc Shapiro
PURE HEROINE, EXTENDED VERSION (2013)
Tennis Court | 400 Lux | Royals
| Ribs | Buzzcut Season | Team | Glory and Gore
| Still Sane | White Teeth Teens | A World Alone
| No Better | Bravado | Million Dollar Bills
| The Love Club | Biting Down | Swingin’ Party
EPs
THE LOVE CLUB (2013)
Bravado | Royals | Million Dollar Bills
| The Love Club | Biting Down
TENNIS COURT (2013)
Tennis Court | Swingin’ Party | Biting Down | Bravado
LIVE IN CONCERT (2013)
Buzzcut Season | Swingin’ Party | 400 Lux | Royals
COMPILATION ALBUMS
SONGS FOR THE PHILIPPINES (2013)
The Love Club
SINGLES
Royals | released 19 March 2013
Tennis Court | released 7 June 2013
Team | released 13 September 2013
No Better | released 13 December 2013
SOUNDTRACKS
HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE (2013)
Everybody Wants to Rule the World
Awards and nominations
Lorde received numerous nominations and awards during her year at the top of the charts.
BILLBOARD MUSIC AWARDS 2014
TOP NEW ARTIST
TOP ROCK SONG ‘Royals’
APRA 2013
THE SILVER SCROLL AWARD ‘Royals’
BRIT AWARDS 2014
INTERNATIONAL FEMALE SOLO ARTIST
GRAMMY AWARDS 2014
SONG OF THE YEAR ‘Royals’
BEST POP SOLO PERFORMANCE ‘Royals’
RECORD OF THE YEAR ‘Royals’ (nominated)
BEST POP VOCAL ALBUM Pure Heroine (nominated)
MTV EUROPE MUSIC AWARDS 2013
BEST NEW ZEALAND ACT
ARTIST ON THE RISE (nominated)
MTVU PEOPLE OF THE YEAR 2013
WOMAN OF THE YEAR
NEW ZEALAND MUSIC AWARDS 2013
SINGLE OF THE YEAR ‘Royals’
BREAKTHROUGH ARTIST OF THE YEAR The Love Club EP
PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARD
INTERNATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
NEW MUSICAL EXPRESS AWARDS 2014
BEST SOLO ARTIST (nominated)
PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARDS 2014
FAVOURITE BREAKOUT ARTIST (nominated)
A little about Joel
Most observers of Lorde’s rise to stardom just assume that her producer/co-writer Joel Little sprang magically into her life. But Joel, also a New Zealander born and raised, had an extensive career on the New Zealand scene well before Lorde stepped into his life.
Joel made his first big splash on the local music scene in 2001 when he was part of the hugely popular local band Goodnight Nurse. Joel sang and played guitar in this pop/punk hybrid outfit between its formation in 2001 and its ‘indefinite hiatus in 2010’. During this period Goodnight Nurse was a fixture on the New Zealand touring circuit.
Joel quite naturally grew into the songwriting role for the group. Many of the songs written for Goodnight Nurse’s two albums, Always and Never (2006) and Keep Me on Your Side (2008), were written, co-written and produced by Joel. These included the singles ‘Loner’, ‘Taking Over’, ‘Going Away’, ‘Our Song’, ‘Death Goes to Disco’, ‘All of You’, ‘The Night’, ‘I Need This’, ‘This Is It’ and ‘Lady with Me’.
Following the disbanding of Goodnight Nurse, Joel took over the production and much of the writing chores on former Goodnight Nurse musician Sam McCarthy’s spinoff electro pop group Kids at 88. This venture proved extremely creative for Joel and produced two albums, Sugarpills in 2010 and Modern Love in 2012 and a trio of chart singles, ‘My House’, ‘Just A Little Bit’ and ‘Downtown’.
Joel also took a songwriting and production flyer with Australian reality-show star turned pop star Timomatic for the song ‘Ayo (That’s What I Like)’ for the self-titled album Timomatic. Post Lorde he is also heavily involved in producing and writing an EP entitled Broods by the New Zealand pop duo of the same name.
And further down the road? Well, Joel can expect a call from Lorde anytime now. Because the pair still have a lot of work to do.
Sources
Lorde: Your Heroine owes a lot to the dedicated journalists who would discover everything there was to know about the singer, and to Lorde’s willingness, once she decided to do press, to talk to literally everybody and about everything. Thanks to the true media professionals and to Lorde for willingly letting people into her world.
MAGAZINES Billboard, Rolling Stone, Metro, New Zealand Listener, Spin, Forbes, New York Magazine, Maclean’s, New Musical Express, US, Vanity Fair, Vogue, V Magazine, Modern Drummer, NZ Musician, Clash NEWS PAPERS The Telegraph, The Sydney Morning Herald, Sunday Magazine, The Australian, The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, The Devonport Flagstaff, The North Shore Times, The New Zealand Herald, The Nelson Mail, The San Jose Mercury News, The Associated Press, The Dominion Post, The Hollywood Reporter, The New York Times, The Arizona Daily Star, The Sun, The Village Voice, The Wall Street Journal, The Observer, Herald on Sunday, Chicago Sun Times WEBSITES Pollstar, Spotify, Faster/Louder, Rookie, Stereogum, HitQuarters, News.com.au, Red Bull Music, Vulture, Stuff, Allmusic, Bullettm, Grantland, The Vine, The Huffington Post, GQ.Q, The Music, Discus, The Cut, JamesKLowe.com, Daily Entertainment News, Fader, The Music Network, The Daily Life, Reditt, Radio, PopCrush, The World According to Lorde, Feministing, Click Music, Teen Vogue RADIO News Talk ZB, MTV, Triple J, Capital FM, 95.5 WPLJ, Radio New Zealand, KROQ, KCRW, ABC News, 97.1 AMP, The Edge, Live 105 TELEVISION CNN International, 3rd Degree, VH-1, 3 News, The Today Show, Skavlan.
Photo credits
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p1, 2, 3, 5 Getty Images; p4 top Kirk Stauffer, source www.flickr.com/photos/
kirkstauffer/; p4 bottom Annette Geneva, source https://flic.kr/p/k8Jrwg;
p6 Liliane Callegari, source https://flic.kr/p/mNW4k7;
p7 Getty Images for DCP; p8 WireImage.
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title page, p105 Getty Images; p62, 84, 132, 174 Ruth Grüner;
p145 Kirk Stauffer, source www.flickr.com/photos/kirkstauffer/;
p205 Liliane Callegari, source https://flic.kr/p/mNX1UU
Graphics from iStock with the exceptions: pi, vi, 166, 222, colour insert
Wolfgang Moroder, p106 Dominicspics, p8 Christos Georghiou.
Images pi, vi, 145, 166, 222, colour insert p4 licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0;
p106, 205, colour insert p4, 6 licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0