Lorde — from pop star to wedding singer
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Vic O’Connor, Sonja Yelich and Lorde at the Grammy Awards.
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Lorde wins the APRA Silver Scroll Award in Auckland.
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POP star Lorde says she will be the wedding singer at her parents’ nuptials — if she is asked.
“If they want me to sing, I will sing,” she told Confidential. “I can do that.”
Lorde’s father, Vic O’Connor, proposed to her mother Sonja Yelich with a diamond ring while visiting Niagara Falls earlier this week.
“It’s awesome. I’m so happy for them. After 30 years, you don’t think they’re ever going to get married,” Lorde, 17, said. “Now I can go to a wedding, and I’m excited about that.”
Meanwhile, Lorde, born Ella Yelich-O’Connor, has nothing but love for Australian-born rapper Iggy Azalea, after the hip-hop star dissed the Royals hit maker.
Azalea said Lorde’s tribute to tragic rocker Kurt Cobain with Nirvana at the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame induction ceremony in April was inappropriate.
“Nothing against her, but I think when you’re doing a tribute to someone that’s dead, generally it should be the person’s peer,” Iggy told Billboard Magazine. “Lorde is not Kurt Cobain’s peer. No matter if she killed the performance or not, I just don’t think it’s appropriate.”
Lorde was not fazed. “I enjoyed it. I had a good time. That’s all that mattered,” she told Confidential.
“I’ve been in a position where I’ve said something in an interview where I’ve thought: ‘Damn, I wish I could take that back.
“I don’t know how (Iggy) is feeling about it. But anyone who’s doing well deserves respect, and I respect what she’s doing.”
Lorde will perform at Festival Hall on July 15 and 16.
“I want people to walk into the show and feel like they’re in living room if I lived in a mansion in 1880. The stage is very minimalist and baroque.
“I perform in a way that’s very simple and, I hope, memorable.”
