Lorde Shares Unreleased ‘Lost Boys’ Snippet, Warns That ‘It’s Not a Good Song’ [VIDEO]

Lorde has released a clip of a never-before-heard track she recorded for “Pure Heroine.” However, instead of proudly showing off her creation, the Kiwi teen immediately included a disclaimer, saying “Lost Boys” is “not a good song.”

On her Tumblr account, the 18-year-old multi-Grammy winner shared to her followers a barely a minute audio of the forgotten track. She rediscovered it while browsing through her archives, and just thought it would be “a cute thing to share” with her fans.

“we wrote this song called lost boys in about march of last year, we spent a day on it and then never touched it again (it was not a good song, i promise, haha),” (sic) Lorde quipped. She did not name the other person or persons working with her on the song, though it most probably included Joel Little, who co-wrote and co-composed the songs on her “Pure Heroine” album.

“a lot of people asked what happened to lost boys, and i guess you’ll never hear the other three-quarters of the song, but there was something about these bridge melodies i thought was pretty. so here you go – a little pre-christmas look at the cutting room floor. xo,” she continued, adding, “ps. Sorry for the sh---- iphone quality.”

Lorde previously revealed that she’s already working on her second album. Before that materialises, though, the soundtrack for “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1” is now available. The young songstress was announced as the curator of the album in July. She enlisted diverse selection of artists for the soundtrack, such as Grace Jones, Simon Le Bon, Miguel, The Chemical Brothers, Diplo, Ariana Grande and Kanye West. In September, she released the first single “Yellow Flicker Beat,” which she wrote and performed.

Apart from trawling through her own archives, Lorde is also fond of trawling through inorganics of other people. As she had explained, in New Zealand, there’s a time once a year when people throw away the things they don’t need anymore. They put their unwanted items on the street for a few days before those are collected and put into a landfill.

“People drive around and go through other people’s household rubbish,” she told Stella magazine. “And, honestly, I’ve gotten amazing furniture, shoes, hats, jackets.” She added that she has just trawled through other people’s trash a few weeks ago, and, of course, she got recognised.