{"id":2996,"date":"2013-12-12T17:32:28","date_gmt":"2013-12-12T21:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/?p=2996"},"modified":"2024-09-08T22:52:43","modified_gmt":"2024-09-09T02:52:43","slug":"favorite-songs-of-2013-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/2013\/12\/12\/favorite-songs-of-2013-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Favorite Songs Of 2013, #7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>7 &#8211; &#8220;Royals&#8221; &#8211; Lorde<br \/>\nWhat a run. I first heard of Lorde late last year (iTunes tells me I added &#8220;Royals&#8221; to my library on Jan. 26, 2013). Then, the novelty of a sixteen-year-old New Zealander making interesting music was enough to get her some attention. By spring all the cool music websites were in love with her. Come mid-summer, the smart people station in Bloomington had her in heavy rotation. And now, of course, she&#8217;s inescapable. Oh, and there\u2019s the matter of the song being inspired by <a href=\"http:\/\/deadspin.com\/this-picture-of-george-brett-inspired-that-lorde-song-1478665015\">an old picture of George Brett<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Which isn\u2019t a bad thing. While \u201cRoyals\u201d has no doubt been over-played, her album, <em>Pure Heroine<\/em>, is fantastic, start-to-finish. Let\u2019s hope she doesn\u2019t fall prey to the many perils of fame. If she\u2019s this good as a teenager, there\u2019s no telling what she has in store as she gets older, wiser, and more worldly.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>7 &#8211; &#8220;Royals&#8221; &#8211; Lorde What a run. I first heard of Lorde late last year (iTunes tells me I added &#8220;Royals&#8221; to my library on Jan. 26, 2013). Then, the novelty of a sixteen-year-old New Zealander making interesting music was enough to get her some attention. By spring all the cool music websites were in love with her. Come mid-summer, the smart people station in Bloomington had her in heavy rotation. And now, of course, she&#8217;s inescapable. Oh, and there\u2019s the matter of the song being inspired by an old picture of George Brett. Which isn\u2019t a bad thing. While \u201cRoyals\u201d has no doubt been over-played, her album, Pure Heroine, is fantastic, start-to-finish. Let\u2019s hope she doesn\u2019t fall prey to the many perils of fame. If she\u2019s this good as a teenager, there\u2019s no telling what she has in store as she gets older, wiser, and more worldly. &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[71,9],"class_list":["post-2996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-favorite-songs","tag-music"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14383,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2996\/revisions\/14383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}