With all the shows, red carpets and public appearances Lorde has made over the past year, it's not too surprising that all the action in her life would eventually catch up with her.
If you thought Bruce Springsteen's recent version of 'Royals' was going to be the oddest Lorde cover you'd hear this week, well, you were wrong. So, so wrong.
If you've been keeping score at home, rock 'n' roll journeyman Bruce Springsteen has been covering songs by artists whose home countries he's been playing in lately. So over the past couple weeks, we've gotten Bossified versions of AC/DC's 'Highway to Hell' and the Bee Gees' 'Stayin' Alive' in Australia that vary in their levels of tolerance.
Lorde makes headlines once or twice a week, and it's almost always because she's pissed about something. This is understandable. She's a super smart, sorta awkward 17-year-old who comes from a weird country (New Zealand), rocks old-lady shoes and Cramps T-shirts and sings startlingly self-aware electro-pop songs about being young and terrified but also kind of hopeful and invigorated.
By most accounts, the BRIT Awards (the equivalent of the Grammys . . . and just as relevant) were a total snooze yesterday. But apparently there were a couple of shining moments to stir the artists and music execs dozing off in their seats.