Lorde Crowned With Best Album and Best Single Of 2017 By NME
2017 has been"The Year Of OurLorde", NME hasofficially declared.
The magazine revealed their end-of-year lists in today's issue and Lorde has been accredited with both the Best Album and Best Track - a.k.a Best Single - titles.
After releasing one of the most critically-acclaimed albums of the year, the news is hardly surprising but rather amazing to see the materialbeing recognised.
Lorde rules NME's two music lists with second album'Melodrama'and its lead single 'Green Light', ranking higherthan massive releases from Stormzy, Kendrick Lamar, Selena Gomez and Paramore.
"I am glad that someone thinks it ['Green Light'] is the best song of the year," she says. "I'm really proud of that song, I worked so hard on it, harder than I've worked on anything."
The album itself was inspired largely by the singer's first heartbreak, which she confesses was "extremely hard" to write about, saying the process was very slow at times.
Kendrick Lamar's'DAMN.', SZA's'CTRL'and Lana Del Rey's'Lust For Life'all made the Top 10 of NME's Best Albums of the Year, while Stormzy's debut album is listed at 14.
Behind 'Green Light', Charli XCX has been titled the second Best Song of the Year with 'Boys' while Cardi B's breakout anthem 'Bodak Yellow' sits at 8 and Selena Gomez's 'Bad Liar' comes in at 10.
The anticipation for Lorde's return to music was incredible and she certainly did not let us down with 'Melodrama'.
Congratulations, Lorde!
Words: Ross McNeilage
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