20 Times Lorde Has Kicked Butt!
- Publish Date
- Monday, 7 November 2016, 4:07PM
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Happy birthday Lorde! One of NZ's sweetest treasures is no longer a teenager.
As our favourite global chart topper turns 20 today, spy.co.nz celebrates some of the many ways Lorde has – and continues – to kick ass.
- She won New Zealand’s most prestigious songwriting prize, the Silver Scroll Award at age 17 (and was nominated again two years later)
- She was signed to Universal Music at just 13 years old.
- She curated the soundtrack to a major blockbuster, spawning the hit single Yellow Flicker Beat and earning a Golden Globe nomination
- She set a new record for the longest stay on top of Billboard’s Alternative Chart by a female solo artist – toppling a record previously held by Alanis Morrisette.
- She met David Bowie (and later paid moving tribute to him following his death in January).
- She became a Vogue cover girl.
- She sat front row at Kayne West’s fashion show.
- She is a bona fide member of Taylor Swift’s squad.
- She ditched her manager and took on the world on her terms.
- In 2013, she was named among Time Magazine’s most influential teenagers in the world.
- The following year, she was in Forbes's "30 Under 30" list.
- She has more than 8 million social media followers hanging off her every post.
- She won two Grammys Awards and was nominated for two more.
- She has won 12 New Zealand Music Awards over three years.
- She won a Brit award for Best International Female Solo Artist.
- She used to play netball with classmate Eliza McCartney, who later became an Olympic bronze medallist in the pole vault.
- She found a fan in Britney Spears who says her music “is really different and cool.”
- She inspired her own MAC lipstick, named after her debut album Pure Heroine.
- She performed with Nirvana during their Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction.
- She was parodied on South Park
HAPPY BIRTHDAY LORDE XXX
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