#605 World Tour – New Zealand & Opinions on Lorde

Sound Opinions

Society & Culture, Music, Arts

4.4 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2017

⏱️ 60 minutes

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The Sound Opinions World Tour rolls along, making its next stop in beautiful New Zealand. Hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot take a virtual trip to the other side of the world to explore the best of kiwi music, focusing on the influential jangly pop movement known as the Dunedin Sound. Plus, they review the sophomore album from New Zealand's biggest pop star, Lorde.

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0:00.0	He took the bomb. I'm W be easy Chicago and PRX, this is Sound Opinions. I'm Greg Kott.
0:26.7	And I'm Jim Deregadis.
0:28.1	Today the Sound Opinions World Tour heads to the other side of the globe
0:31.9	to make its next stop.
0:33.0	We'll take a virtual trip to New Zealand
0:35.0	and explore the best of Kiwi Pop,
0:37.0	from Flying Nun Records till today.
0:40.0	Plus, we'll review the new album from New Zealand's biggest star, Lour. That's all coming up on sound opinions.
0:55.0	That's all coming up on sound opinions.
0:59.0	This is sound opinions and Greg we're excited. We're going to the other side of the world. We're going to spend this show in New Zealand talking about that country's rich legacy of music. But to start off we have to deal with a record that's making a lot of
1:16.0	news, probably the biggest artist ever to come out in New Zealand and she is now only 20.
1:21.4	Ella Maria Lani Yellich O'Connor, better known as Lord.
1:27.0	Born in New Zealand, made her big splash in 2013. First, with a self-released single, that single is Royals. made with her collaborator Joel
1:50.8	Joel little it really set the world on fire, becomes a worldwide hit.
1:55.6	By the time the album Pure Heroin comes out at the end of 2013, she spent weeks on top of the charts in the US and in many other countries.
2:05.0	She is taking home an armful of Grammys, a Brit award, you name it.
2:10.0	People are saying that at the age of 15 and then 16, you know, she's invented a new sound.
2:15.8	It's part, uh, indie underground, part dream pop.
2:19.7	She's doing fascinating things with very minimal ingredients, mainly a striking voice and an interesting
2:27.2	personality. And then disappears. Four years, Lord has been off the scene out of the spotlight.
2:35.8	She said that that first album, Pure Heroin, quote, was my way of enshrining teenage glory.
2:41.6	The new one, she says, is about what comes next.
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