Everyone's mad about Lorde here. Royals was on high rotation for months and months and months. Check out the rest of her EP - I've only listened to parts of it, because I heard Million Dollar Bills on the radio and it was horrible, but the opening track, Bravado, is pretty damn nice.
Really? I just heard it on the radio this morning and I'm in love but I can tell it's going to be on high rotation soon so I'm trying not to listen to it. I can also tell it's going to burn out fast. Not really impressed with her other stuff though. Bravado is alright. Royals reminds me a little of MIAs Paper Planes the first time you heard it.
Everyone was really impressed because she's supposedly this local 16yo girl who self-produced and released the stuff herself, but talk within the industry here suggests she's a product that a couple of years of planning went into, which is interesting. Good exposure for Kiwi music, though. But yeah, Royals was definitely the strongest part of that EP.