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.).
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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
_____________________________ 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
___________________________ 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
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