Lorde Music Video: Royals Singer Follows Up With New Single Team [WATCH]
After the successful release of her debut single "Royals," Lorde unveils her latest visual for the follow-up track, "Team."
Directed by Young Replicant, the video was filmed in Brooklyn's graffiti-plastered Red Hook neighborhood at a rubble-strewn tunnel by the river. In the clip, the black-and-white clad 17-year-old singer is the queen of a society in which teenagers rule the world, and they must pass an initiation with motorcycle jousting battle. Lorde has styled her signature wild hair into tight cornrows and wears gothic black lipstick.
Produced by Joel Little, the hitmaker sings her mid-tempo song through the fog in her hideaway, surrounded by lush palm leaves and teenagers passing around a gallon of blue liquid. "We live in cities you'll never see on screen / Not very pretty, but we sure know how to run things / Living in ruins of the palace within my dreams / And you know, we're on each other's team," Lorde belts out.
"Omg you crashed vevo!" Lorde tweeted about her latest visual to her 618,000 followers. "I think you're all overloading the video... let it breathe! hehe."
In addition, the New Zealand pop sensation explained the concept of the music video on her Facebook page.
"this video was borne from a dream i had a few months ago about teenagers in their own world, a world with hierarchies and initiations, where the boy who was second in command had acne on his face, and so did the girl who was queen," Lorde wrote.
"i dreamt about this world being so different to anything anyone had ever seen, a dark world full of tropical plants and ruins and sweat. and of this world, i dreamt about tests that didn't need to be passed in order to be allowed in: sometimes the person who loses is stronger. enjoy xx" she added.
"Team" is Lorde's second single off her debut album "Pure Heroine." According to Nielsen SoundScan, the album has moved 413,000 copies since September, and was named it the seventh best album of the year by Rolling Stone.
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