Lorde (born 1996) is a New Zealand singer-songwriter known for
employing unconventional musical styles and thoughtful songwriting. She
signed with Universal Music Group (UMG) in 2009 and collaborated with
producer Joel Little in 2011 to record material. The pair's first
collaborative effort, an extended play titled The Love Club, was
released by UMG in 2013, and its international chart-topping single
"Royals" helped Lorde rise to prominence. Her debut studio album Pure
Heroine followed that year and achieved critical and commercial success.
The following year, she curated the soundtrack for the 2014 film The
Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1 and recorded several tracks, including
the single "Yellow Flicker Beat". Her second studio album Melodrama
(2017) garnered widespread acclaim and reached number one on the US
Billboard 200. Lorde's music is primarily electropop and contains
elements of subgenres such as dream pop and indie-electro.
(This article is part of a featured topic: Overview of Lorde.).
Read more:
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1845:
A long-running feud between two towns in Wisconsin came to a
head when a schooner crashed into a bridge; they later merged to form
the city of Milwaukee.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milwaukee_Bridge_War>
1913:
Raja Harishchandra (scene pictured), the first Indian feature-
length film, was released.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raja_Harishchandra>
1942:
Second World War: Japanese forces began an invasion of Tulagi
and nearby islands in the British Solomon Islands, enabling them to
threaten and intercept supply and communication routes between the
United States and Australasia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Tulagi_%28May_1942%29>
1999:
A Doppler on Wheels team measured the fastest winds recorded on
Earth, at 301 ± 20 mph (484 ± 32 km/h), in a tornado near Bridge
Creek, Oklahoma.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_Bridge_Creek%E2%80%93Moore_tornado>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
legman:
1. (originally US) A person hired to carrying out errands or (often)
menial tasks, frequently requiring travel from place to place; an errand
boy or errand girl, a runner.
2. (originally US, journalism) A reporter who frequently travels to
conduct research, interview witnesses, etc.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/legman>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Every single one of you, whether you like it or not, is a bastion
of democracy. And if you ever begin to doubt your responsibilities. If
you ever begin to doubt how meaningful it is, look no further than
what's happening in Ukraine. Look at what's happening there. Journalists
are risking and even losing their lives to show the world what's really
happening. You realize how amazing it is. Like in America, you have
the right to seek the truth and speak the truth, even if it makes people
in power uncomfortable. Even if it makes your viewers or readers
uncomfortable. Do you understand how amazing that is? I stood here
tonight and I made fun of the President of the United States, and I'm
going to be fine. — I'm going to be fine, right? Like, do you really
understand what a blessing it is? Maybe it's happened for so long that
you — it might slip your mind, it's a blessing.
--Trevor Noah
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Trevor_Noah>