Zealand singer Lorde Photo: IC Lorde Men's Nike Zoom KD 5 Elite Low Black White Australia , the New Zealand singer who enjoyed phenomenal success while still a teenager, celebrated her 20th birthday Monday by announcing a new album that will explore becoming an adult.
The long-awaited follow-up to her blockbuster 2013 debut album Pure Heroine will be out soon, she said, without giving a date.
"Writing Pure Heroine was my way of enshrining our teenage glory, putting it up in lights forever so that part of me never dies, and this record - well Men's Nike KD 6 Black Jade Green Australia , this one is about what comes next," she wrote on Facebook around midnight in New York, where she has been recording the album.
Turning 20, "I'm not a kid any more, and more and more I'm realizing that the weirdness of those Mylar balloons is going to be okay," she added Men's Nike KD 7 Orange Blue White Australia , referring to the shiny balloons given for celebrations.
Having written songs since age 13, Lorde became an international sensation with her song "Royals," a mocking look at the pursuit of material wealth that won the Grammy for Song of the Year in 2014.
Lorde, whose real name is Ella Yelich-O'Connor, has managed to avoid the excesses and tabloid headline-generating lifestyle that are notorious among child stars.
She made "a very deliberate choice to withdraw from public life" over the past year, she wrote Men's Nike KD 7 Grey Pink Australia , and enjoyed the greater anonymity for the most part.
"I started to discover in a profound, scary, blood-aching way who I was