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The New Zealand "Royals" singer Lorde graces the cover of Billboard's November 8 issue and chats about her soundtrack for The Hunger Games — Mockinjay Part 1.
"It would've been selfish for me to make ambient house music. With a film like that, everyone liked it, not just people like me." The 17-year-old singer said. The Hunger Games soundtrack will be her first project since her 2013 debut, Pure Heroine, which sold 1.5 million copies in the U.S.
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The film, set to release in late November is the third installment of Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) in her journey through District 13 after she shatters the games forever. With the strong advice of President Coin (Julianne Moore) Katniss will fight to save the life of Peeta (Josh Hutcherson).
"I knew this was right for me as an artist and I felt it would be cool for my career. People that see me as having a couple of hits and performing on an awards show would see that, between records, I'd committed to a pretty serious body of work."
Lorde's music concept consists of electronica, pop and rock. In 2013 she was named Time's most influential teenagers in the world. She chose her stage name Lord because of her interest in aritocracy, but thought it was too masculine, so she added an "e" to the end of it to make it more feminine.
She describes The Hunger Games movies as "youth" and "strength." The young breakout singer was asked by Lionsgate president Eric Feig to record a track for the end of the credits. "At first they were like, 'You can just do an EP,' I'd really wanted to A&R a record. And I basically got to do that."
