I think Lorde is spectacular. Love “Team,” and the cover of “Swingin’ Party” isn’t too bad.
Haim, on the other hand, I could take or leave. I think wholesale lifting the drumbeat from “Heartache Tonight” by the Eagles for the intro to “The Wire” works on some meta level, but “Forever” just totally steals “Wanna be Starting Something” that I was "mamma say mamma sah ma mahkoosah"ing all the way across the room.
…the only late night talk show we get to see in NZ is Letterman and he screens late at night on a channel not many people watch: all the other guys, Leno, Fallon, Conan, are virtually unknown.
…can I claim that I called that? 
They sound great, and it is great to hear them giving props by singing a Sheryl Crow song - easy to connect those dots. Lorde sounds great; but…she is so full of herself right now, though, the kid - I hope she’s got the songs in her to walk the talk; that would be fun. Otherwise, it is already just this side of too much…
Entertainment Weekly and Rolling Stone have been rather obsessed with Lorde over the last few weeks. Both have run multiple interviews/quotes from her and I don’t think she comes across as full of herself at all. She comes across as a pretty ordinary teenage art school brat. At 17, your average art school brat is only slightly more pretentious than your average teenager (just better spoken, really). Where she goes after that is when the real fun starts.
Can’t argue with any of that. I think it was her hip-hoppish gestures that were more than a bit much. She sounded great.
So, almost a year down the road from the first post… anybody still listening?
Seems like both these acts went stale as week-old French bread.
Gatopescado, I still listen to Lorde frequently, although I do think that my local alternative radio station plays her just a little too often.
I never got into Haim, but lots of folks I follow on tumblr seem to be into the band
I’m going to Lollapalooza Friday, and I’m hoping to see Lorde. I like the two songs they keep playing on the radio (“Team” and “Royals”), although I admit the overall theme of each song is identical. I’m going mostly so I can see Eminem, but I think she’ll be a good by-product of the whole experience.
Yep - I don’t keep up on the popularity aspect of musicians unless that is the only thing to really know about them, say, with Justin Bieber or some twit like that.
As for Lorde, she has gotten around a lot - she was tapped to sing a Nirvana song with the surviving members at the RRHoF induction ceremony - it may be a load of crap, but hard to deny that getting picked for something like that says something about the artist’s current popularity.
As for Haim - they haven’t broken through with a similar huge pop hit as Royals, but seem to be respected. I won’t be surprised if they have some staying power…
I was impressed with her show. She’s definitely not a flashy performer, but she executed her songs very well. Eminem, BTW, was awesome.
As for Haim, I’m not at all familiar with their work, but Kesha is a big fan of theirs. That’s a huge endorsement in my book 
…just bumping this because Lorde has released a new song for the next Hunger Games movie:
Its stuck in my brain. And the lyrics are suitably haunting.