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Lorde was a teen phenom who followed her hit “Royals” with a critically acclaimed album. But now 24, the New Zealand musician isn’t chasing hits.

After the reign of “Royals,” her first single — which spent nine weeks at No. 1 and won two Grammys — @lorde took four years to release a follow-up. Her second album, “Melodrama,” in 2017, paled in comparison commercially, but it established the singer as a phenom-turned-auteur. Then she hoarded four more years for herself. Until now. Her new album, “Solar Power,” out Aug. 20, is what happens when a pop star outwits the system, stops trying to make hits and decides to whisper to her most devoted followers how she did it. For Lorde, the trick was having a life — a real life — far away from all of this.

“I went back to living my life,” she said, drained after a year-plus of promotion and touring for her 2017 album. “It’s hard for people to understand that.”

“The question I’ve gotten a lot recently is, ‘What have you been doing?’” she added. “I’m like, ‘Oh, no, no, no — this is a break from my life.’ I come back and perform these duties because I believe in the album.”

Tap the link in our bio to read more about Lorde’s new album and how she lived among the greenery and waterfront splendor in New Zealand where she was raised, working to figure out her boundaries. Photo by @djdumpling

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