Lorde was a very young and surprising success when she first became famous at the beginning of 2010s. She was groundbreaking and her new style and aesthetic caused a big commotion in the music industry (definitely in a good way).

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The amazing singer behind Royals and many other hits has had a very interesting ride since her rise to fame, but there are many things about her life and her career people might not know about. For those fans eager to learn more about this eccentric and talented artist, here are 10 interesting facts about her they probably didn't know.

10 Her Heritage

Although Lorde was born and lived her whole life in New Zealand, her mother is a Croatian immigrant and taught her a lot about her home country. Lorde values that heritage a lot, and she even has dual citizenship because of her mother.

She said she was "a bit of a fancy, famous Croatian," so she was able to get the Croatian citizenship faster. When she appeared in Marc Maron's podcast, the singer talked about her heritage and the many influences of the Croatian traditions in New Zealand. She also has Irish heritage from her father.

9 She Was In Her School's Band

Lorde's passion for music comes from way before fame was even a possibility in her mind. In fact, when she was just twelve years old, she was already a sort of celebrity in her school, as part of a group named Extreme, Belmont Intermediate School's band.

A video has been discovered not so long ago, which shows the singer in middle school, playing on stage with her bandmates, which were also just pre-teens. They were competing on the North Shore Battle of the Bands, and they made it to the finals.

8 Her Parents' Engagement

Even though they'd been together for 30 years, Lorde's parents didn't get engaged until 2014. Her father proposed to her mother while on a trip to Niagara Falls. "BEST DAY - went to niagara falls - my dad proposed to my mum after almost 30 years together," the singer tweeted about it that day.

The couple got married three years later in a small, private ceremony in Auckland. Lorde was beyond happy for her parents, and as can be seen from her mother Sonja's Instagram post, it was an amazing day.

7 Nirvana And The Rock n' Roll Hall Of Fame

In 2014, Nirvana was inducted in the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame, and the band needed singers to complete the difficult task of filling Kurt Cobain's shoes for one night. Lorde was part of the chosen ones, along with Sonic Youth's bass player, Kim Gordon, Annie Clark (aka St. Vincent), and Joan Jett. Lorde ended the show singing All Apologies.

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Drummer Dave Grohl said Lorde was selected because "there’s something about her that represented or resembled the Nirvana aesthetic. She has an incredible future ahead of her as a writer, performer and vocalist."

6 How She Developed Her Songwriting Skills

One of the reasons Lorde's success was so astonishing was because of how young she was and how incredible her songs were. It was impressive to see a teenager write those kinds of lyrics, and people wondered about how she became such a good songwriter.

This is the answer Lorde gave: "When I was 14, I began to read a lot of short fiction, and I had such a reaction to it. The words were where they should be," she recalled. "I'd read Tobias Wolfe stories out loud to figure out what he was doing to make things rise or crash the way they did."

5 She Was Praised By Bowie

When a person is acknowledged by one of the greatest musicians of all times it's impossible to doubt their talent. David Bowie met Lorde and heard her music, and even though he never got to say it personally, he really appreciated her, and the people close to him made sure she and the rest of the world knew it.

"David really liked Lorde, and he felt like she was the future of music, and they had a few wonderful moments together," said Mike Garson, who was David Bowie's pianist.

4 How She Wrote Royals

The song Lorde owes her fame and success to is the amazing hit Royals. When it came out in 2013 it went to number 1 in the Billboard 100 charts, and she became the youngest artist to top the chart in 26 years. "It was a big idea to fit into a song that's pretty short," she said. "But I attacked it like a story or an essay."

That song has a clear anti-materialistic message and has been compared by many people to Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit. Lorde has been very critical to the whole pop scene, and this song seems to be a statement about that.

3 David Bowie Tribute

David Bowie's passing in 2016 was tragic, but he left behind an extensive and beautiful catalog to remember him by. Lorde was a big fan of Bowie's, and the White Duke really liked her music. That's why, when it came time to put together a tribute for the Brit Awards, Lorde was an obvious choice.

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She played many of his songs with Bowie's band, and his son, director Duncan Jones, was very moved by Lorde's performance. He expressed it on social media that same night, thanking her for the great work.

2 Feminism And Pop Music

Being exposed to show-business from a very early age forced Lorde to have to protect her image and be careful about what she was showing the world. Her aesthetic was different from the beginning, so it raised many questions, especially when compared to other pop-stars. Luckily, she was smart enough to keep an eye on those things despite being young.

"I'm a feminist so certain things about pop music I find frustrating. I think pop is scarily powerful. There are a lot of shock tactics these days: people trying to outdo each other, which will probably culminate in two people f***ing on stage at the Grammys," she said about it.

1 Melodrama

Four years after the release of Pure Heroine, her first record, Lorde finally released Melodrama. She made the fans wait for that one, but there were a lot of things happening in her life, which inevitably influenced the record and made it a completely different thing from the first one. She said in an interview with the New York Times that she began writing it in New Zealand, but she traveled around the world exploring different environments that might affect her writing.

She said she wanted to "skim the whole album," and "make sure I was touching all the bases I wanted to touch: ‘Oh, I haven’t said this, so let me find a good place to do it.’" Lorde also color-coded the songs. "A song about partying would get a certain color, but it might be a sad song, and that got its own color, too."

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