#ella marija

[bryqe]

for the pop history books,

chapter tumblr girls 2012-13-14-15

charli, lorde, marina. my entire world collapsing!

[pinkdykeclub]

no bc she wearing the same dress she wore for the melodrama tour and making me sobbing

[bitingdown17]

lorde's story on 7/11/24

were getting new music !!

[bo1908]

Lorde

[lestcat-de-lioncourt]

Me saying “I love Lordi” and they’re like “omg don’t you mean “Lorde” omg I love Lorde too!!”

And I’m like no, I mean Lordi, I mean Lordi the band, I mean this guy Mr. Lordi who is the lead singer of Lordi

[seashellawe]

PURE HEROINE

[theditchlillies]

Lorde // Pure Heroine // 27 September 2013

"Ten years goes really fast. One minute you’re wearing a leather collar with a giant crystal hanging off it to a Chanel party, and the next you’re blonde. A lot of stuff isn’t good after ten years. But I am still totally touched by this sweet record. I have deep respect for the vision of the little one making it. 

Going back through all of this has reminded me of something that feels important to point out, whether you make art or not: everything starts out as a bunch of bullshit in a laptop. Pure Heroine was a handful of Photo Booth selfies and emotional Word documents and Tumblr posts (and a gorgeous over-decorated bedroom) before it was even one song. I had no reason, on paper, to believe that I was capable of anything. But if you can trust that the first impulse you had to create came from a place of deep wisdom, develop a few principles for your decision-making, and absorb a lot of stuff you find inspiring, you’ll have something special on your hands. " -Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O'Connor // 27 Sep 2023

[higherentity]

[imsorrryifyourelivingandyoure17]

so random but i totally forgot about the time spotify sent me a gift to advertise solar power and i’m so curious to know how many people actually have this

[bryqe]

my eye post-crying, 2020 - lorde story “rebirth”, 2024

[pinkdykeclub]

is like she just giving us pure heroine melodrama and solar power contents so making my whole world collapse in the same time i love my mummy

[bitingdown17]

the pure heroine vibes oh we are so back

[bo1908]

Lorde

[lorde-stories]

— from lorde’s story yesterday

[karina-ows]

lorde, 2021

[theditchlillies]

Lorde // Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O'Connor // Pure Heroine // email on 27 September 2023

" It’s close to midnight, and I’ve just finished scrolling through my entire computer and phone archive from 2011-2013. Going on this memory lane ride has reminded me, for one thing, what a different time it was technologically. We were just starting to be able to see ourselves in real time, but we weren’t constantly connected. I had an iPod touch until halfway through 2013, which didn’t have a front camera or internet access, and my sister and I shared a MacBook, which is where we did our schoolwork and I wrote my lyrics. I took my first few years of selfies on Photo Booth…. Just let that… sink in!!!

In this stage, it felt like I pulled everything off by the skin of my teeth. Every week was the most exciting week of my whole life, I was so tired and still didn’t have a winter coat and took everyone clamouring for a piece of me completely for granted. I had zero cultural context, had no idea if an interview or TV show was huge or small, and so breezed through it all truly not giving a fuck. I am not a naturally nonchalant person, it was literally just too much to care about, I could hardly get up in the morning, so I just said absolutely whatever I felt like, all kinds of wild shit, if someone did something corny I’d say so, I was ruthless in that way that only teens are. Then through that year we went on our first tours, met you guys for the first time, hours and hours of hugs after the show, my favourite part so far and where it started to feel real for me. James took a lot of beautiful film photos through that time, and I’m really grateful he did."

-Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O'Connor