When an artist's first single turns into one of the biggest hits of the year, becomes a global smash and goes on to win a Grammy, the question is always whether or not he or she can match that success. Well, Lorde, who's just gone through that experience, says she takes comfort in the fact that "Team," her follow-up to "Royals," is also a sizable hit.
Lorde kicked off her U.S. headlining tour Monday night in Austin, Texas, and it'll keep her on the road through the end of the month. If you're lucky enough to get tickets to the show, though, you may want to think twice before you scream "Lorde!!!!" at the 17-year-old Grammy winner when she's on stage, or if you see her afterwards by her bus.
A while back, Lorde made what some considered to be disparaging remarks about Taylor Swift in an interview, and then apologized on her Tumblr page. Looks like there's no hard feelings between the two singers: they apparently had lunch together in New York City this week.
Like Britney Spears before her, Lorde is a teenage singer who's achieved amazing worldwide fame, but she vows that she won't suffer the kind of public meltdown that Britney went through a few years ago, nor die young of substance abuse, as Amy Winehouse did.