Lorde Says New Album Will be ‘Totally Different’

Lorde is working on a new album, and it’s going to be “totally different” from her Grammy Award-winning “Pure Heroine.” The 17-year-old Kiwi songstress is confident that her next one will be even better.

In an interview with BBC Newsbeat, Lorde, whose real name is Ella Yelich-O’Connor, revealed that she is currently working on the follow-up to her critically and commercially successful album.

“I think I’ve learnt so much as a songwriter, there’s going to be so much of an improvement because of that,” she said. “I’m working on stuff quite tentatively, it’s definitely still at the beginning and yeah, it’s totally different.”

Lorde’s “Pure Heroine” has not only helped her catapult to international stardom, but has also earned her countless trophies and praises from fans and critics alike.

So why does she need to make her upcoming album different?

“I wrote the last album about the world which was the suburb where I grew up and populated by my friends and people who were really familiar to me,” she explained.

“Now I’m in a different place every day and I’m with new people every day and it’s a different vibe.”

Lorde is now a sought-after singer/songwriter. A lot of other artists have approached her for a collaboration or to write their songs.

“I do get a lot of insanely good people asking if we want to do something, which is amazing and so much fun, I really enjoy collaborating,” she said, adding that she also likes to write songs for other people.

“I literally do research, I look at an outfit of theirs that I really loved and I write as if I was in that outfit at the time,” she said, laughing.

Meanwhile, the “Royals” star has signed a deal with a third-party company to discourage ticket scalpers.

we are working with a service called artist arena which prevents ticket scalpers HOLLA so there is a small sign up process but it's 4 u :-)

— Lorde (@lordemusic) June 3, 2014

Artist Arena enforces an online scheme called Invitation Onsale, which aims to prevent scalpers – or those who buy a lot of tickets just to sell them at jacked up prices to fans – from operating.

Fans need to sign up to the site before they can buy tickets. After they are accepted, they would “have access to the best tickets.”

The scheme is available in the U.S.