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"\"We don't care/We aren't caught up in your love affair,\" declares 17-year-old New Zealand pop savant Ella Maria Lani Yelich-O'Connor on her hit \"Royals,\" a bitch-slap to status-driven music culture on behalf of every cash-strapped kid (and grown-up) exhausted by it. Lorde's debut album ended up ruling the pop charts anyway, thanks to a sultry, swaggering, hip-hop-savvy, fully grown voice and stark synth jams as earworm-y as Miley's or Katy's splashiest hits. Set against the music's minimal throb, Lorde's languidly aphoristic lyrics balance rock-star swagger and torqued-up teenage angst, so lines like \"We're hollow like the bottles that we drain\" or \"We're so happy, even when we're smiling out of fear\" have a rattle-nerve pathos and power like nothing else going in 2013."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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