New Zealand singer songwriter, 17 year-old Lorde (Ella Yelich O’Connor) has won two Grammy Awards this week with her song Royals taking out Song of the Year and also Best Pop Solo Performance.
To win her gongs Lorde had to beat off performers such as Pink, Bruno Mars, Katy Perry, and Ben Haggerty, Justin Timberlake.
Lorde also performed Royals before the Grammy’s audience at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. Her stage presence captured the intrigue of critics and fellow performers and her smudged ink marks on her
fingertips and hands left observers pondering the artistic meaning… one reviewer her in NZ suggesting it a statement against glitz or underscoring the fact that everytime New Zealanders pass through LAX Airport we are fingerprinted and retina-scanned. The song Royals reached number one on the US charts for nine consecutive weeks in 2013 and her album Pure Heroine is selling by the millions.
She has already made the cover of Rolling Stone magazine in the States.
Many here in New Zealand credit her lyrics as defining her generation, and on achieving her awards she received messages from the Governor General, the Prime Minister and of course from thousands of her fans.
When asked about the win, she replied to media: “Yeah, this time the weirdo won out.”
Also… in politics the Prime Minister John Key and Labour leader David Cunliffe have mapped out the theme of their politics for election year.
Key is intent on underscoring fiscal prudence economic management, and Cunliffe engineering a progressive productive export-led economy that returns value and potential to middle and low income families.
The two distinct and polarised positions will give voters clear choices once New Zealanders go to the polls this year. Key insists Kiwis should not chance a change in government at a time when New Zealand has a
chance to climb out of the Global Financial Crisis, and rebuild Christchurch after the devastating earthquakes of 2011.
Cunliffe on the other hand is saying John Key’s Government is milking the incomes of ordinary Kiwis to pay for his corporate welfare handouts.
If Kiwis vote for a change, Cunliffe says they can expect a government based on fairness will be created.
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With her song “Royals” Lorde speaks to a generation.
Watch out John Key, your cringe worthy crawling to the Royal couple and their adorable sprog may back fire.
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