Some days, I wonder if we will ever get another Lorde. A disillusioned 16-year-old in her bedroom singing about the vapid obsession with celebrity culture and exorbitant wealth; dark platform boots, all-black clothes, sitting pretty atop Billboard charts and toting two shiny Grammys .

That was 12 years ago . Since then, we’ve had our fair share of burgeoning teenaged pop stars skyrocketing into stardom, supernova-ing, popcorning into brilliant new players in the pop scene, much like Lorde herself. Still, there was something so special about Lorde’s debut. The minimalist bones of Pure Heroine were a catalyst for a new movement of darkwave female pop; a teen from a small New Zealand suburb changing the sonic geography of pop music forever.

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