Even though she’s dropped an album every four years, Lorde’s career has felt so start-stop that it’s surprising to realize we’ve had a dozen trips around the sun since “Royals” lofted her, at the age of just 16, to Grammy-winning, global stardom in a matter of months. She drops an album, tours, and then basically hides in plain sight until she’s ready to do it again. That’s not a criticism — props to her for handling fame so fully on her own terms, despite the anxieties she’s spoken of in her musical collaboration/ therapy session with Charli xcx on “Girl, So Confusing,” and the robust publicity and social-media campaign
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