Lorde changed the sound of modern music. With Virgin, she’s stuck in her own head. The action is as spiritual as it is physical: “I might have been born again,” she sings on the opener. The ensuing ...
When it strode onto the scene in 2013, the pop song “Royals” defiantly took over the Billboard Hot 100 and changed the face of that decade’s popular music. New Zealand artist Lorde won two Grammys as ...