Ella maria lani yelich o connor biography

There’s a drink they make at the Soho House in New York that Lorde likes – she had one when she was there last week, but she can’t quite remember what went in it.

The Soho House is a big-bucks members-only club with outposts in the world’s fancier cities, and tonight she’s at the Los Angeles chapter, gazing out from a sumptuously upholstered booth at the city lights stretching onward to the Pacific, trying to describe the drink to a waitress.

“A sort of fancy-lemonade situation, with a cucumber?” she says. “I don’t know if it’s lemonade.” The waitress furrows her brow. Lorde is in L.A. to drop in on Ellen and perform her transfixingly hushed, sneakily catchy single, ‘Royals‘, which is currently the most popular song in America – it beat out Katy Perry’s ‘Roar‘ and Miley Cyrus&r