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"  Last May, when Ella Yelich-O&amp;#039;Connor learned she&amp;#039;d been booked to play Coachella, she nearly lost her mind. Then again, at the time, the 17-year-old who performs as Lorde was still a practical unknown in the music world. Oh, how things have changed since then: the chart-topping singles, the critically adored debut album, Pure Heroine, the Grammy wins, the friendship with Taylor Swift; it&amp;#039;s all a bit baffling even for her to comprehend. Twenty four hours after she mesmerized the Coachella crowd, performing to a packed lawn despite a raging sandstorm, Lorde sat down with ELLE.com and opened up about her Coachella debut, being a role model for women, and letting people inside her private world.  Congrats on last night&amp;#039;s show! How did you feel like it went? It was a crazy show. Because there were a lot of factors. And I had all this production that we brought for the show. Did you see that incredible chandelier? So that was my chandelier that I brought. And every other band got to use it. And then it got to my set and they were like, &amp;#039;It&amp;#039;s too windy.&amp;#039; Related: Lorde Is Not Your Average Teen Pop Star Your shows feel so intimate. Playing at a festival must be a different animal. I definitely feel like it&amp;#039;s a different show because people at festivals, they&amp;#039;re not paying for a ticket just to see you. They might be there to pass the time before they see someone else or they&amp;#039;re just there for that song that they like. Their appreciation of you is different. And also I think festival crowds are way more into partying and screaming out swear words. And my set isn&amp;#039;t really like that.  Exactly. Your set thrives on its minimalism and quietness. Yah. People are like, &amp;quot;I want some sound like now!&amp;quot; But for the most part, the festivals I&amp;#039;ve played people have been super into it. Maybe it&amp;#039;s nice to have a chill part of the day where they&amp;#039;re just singing along.  Related: Meet Lorde, the Teen Pop Star Who Kicked Miley Out of #1 I think it&amp;#039;s crucial your set was at night. Me too. It totally would have been weird in the daytime.       Talking to you it seems as if you&amp;#039;re so mellow. And then when you get onstage you morph into this possessed being. I acted when I was a little kid and I&amp;#039;m definitely aware of having to carry yourself physically and mentally differently onstage. I don&amp;#039;t even think about it anymore. But I know that I look different and the vibe is different onstage. I guess because in person I&amp;#039;m a loser and shy and all like clumsy and shit. Onstage I&amp;#039;m like that as well but it&amp;#039;s my power place. It still baffles me that a year ago the world didn&amp;#039;t know Lorde. I called Jimmy my keyboardist and said, &amp;quot;We&amp;#039;re playing Coachella!&amp;quot; Because we&amp;#039;d always talked about that as the pinnacle. If we played Coachella we could die happy. When that happened nothing had really happened to me in terms of music. So it was like, &amp;quot;Whoa! People are putting so much faith in us.&amp;quot; So it was rad. Clearly your life has changed since that phone call. How do you deal with the madness of it all? Well, I guess it has been fast. But I don&amp;#039;t feel like it&amp;#039;s moving faster than I&amp;#039;m taking it in. I feel very on track with it. A lot of things, like playing Coachella, feel a lot more normal and comfortable now that we&amp;#039;ve had a lot of experiences that could be considered a big deal. But I have an awesome team who help me not burn out and die. And I always have someone from my family on the road with me. My sisters are here with me.  Did it take some time for you to get used to doing interviews and having people care about what you had to say? I&amp;#039;ve totally gotten used to it. As you know, I use press very much to my advantage. I wish I could be filtered but it&amp;#039;s impossible. Being interviewed is a really weird thing. It&amp;#039;s almost a sport. You can&amp;#039;t just be good at it straight away. It&amp;#039;s a learning curve. There must be some hesitation at letting people in. I write pretty personal music I think. So I&amp;#039;m alright with it. I&amp;#039;m used to it.  Are you able to grasp your absurd level of popularity? Or do you feel as if you&amp;#039;re stuck in your day-to-day bubble? Shows and audience participation is definitely a big thing. I could tell when I went from like this buzzy new hype act to now where people know this entire record by heart and sing every word, even the slow songs. Even the rando songs. Which songs were you surprised people are so into? There&amp;#039;s a song called &amp;quot;Still Sane&amp;quot; that I wrote very much for myself. I was just in a certain really weird vibe. I notice at shows people are like deafeningly loud singing to that song. And they&amp;#039;re excited when it comes on. It&amp;#039;s like, &amp;quot;Whoa!&amp;quot; I dunno. It&amp;#039;s a private thing for me.  So many fans, especially young woman, look to you as a role model. I definitely think about the imprint I&amp;#039;m leaving on people my age. Particularly girls. I&amp;#039;m sensitive to how women are portrayed because sometimes it kind of sucks. So it&amp;#039;s like, &amp;quot;If I ever had that voice I&amp;#039;d want to do it this way.&amp;quot; But being a role model is crazy because I&amp;#039;m probably going to screw up at some point. Probably soon. And people are going to be like, &amp;quot;You&amp;#039;re not a good role model.&amp;quot; But I figure, I&amp;#039;m 17 and I&amp;#039;m very much imperfect. I dunno. I&amp;#039;m just figuring this out as well and I think people are aware of that.  You&amp;#039;ve made mention of feeling torn between being a child and an adult. There&amp;#039;s such a fine line. Especially in your line of work. A lot of thoughts I have on age are about the physical ticking down. I think a lot about mortality and I just get way too in my head about it. Since I started making music a lot was made of how old I was and it made me think about, &amp;quot;What happens when I&amp;#039;m 25? Will people still like what I&amp;#039;m doing? Is it still important if I&amp;#039;m not this hyper-youthful being?&amp;quot; It&amp;#039;s stupid. I know I&amp;#039;m being silly. But I can&amp;#039;t help it. It&amp;#039;s just one of those things. I&amp;#039;ll get over it.  Photos: Getty Images "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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