Lorde Quotes

Most of the music you hear on the radio today is developed for making money. It doesn't feel true or honest. You can feel it in the music.

I enjoy music that is commercial.

It's refreshing to hear something that's pop but doesn't sound like Britney Spears.

All that pop that you see on the radio? It's just the worst crud I've ever heard in my life. It's designed to make money, and that's about it.

I've always listened to Top 40 music.

I love mainstream music.

I'm personally looking for artists that are along the lines of today's pop stars. Whether it be a Rihanna or a Justin Bieber or a Kanye West or a Beyonce or a Lady Gaga, I'm looking for talent that's like that, that's what I love.

Pop music will never be low brow.

I seriously hate pop music and all things super-commercial.

There are plenty of bands who never get in the charts and it doesn't mean that they're not any good. Actually, a lot of the top ten is filled with stuff that just sounds the same. I could guess what's in there now - probably a bit of GaGa, Beyonce and some U.S. R&B males.

I love pop music. Who doesn't?

A lot of what gets on the radio isn't saying anything other than somebody wants to be famous and will do whatever they're told to get it.

I grew up singing ballads, but what I really wanted to get into was the mainstream music on the radio because I really love the beats and everything.

I don't like a lot of pop music. But I like the idea of pop music.

I'm a pop artist, and that's what I'll always be. I don't want to be a 'credible artist.'

Music became so commercialized that I just didn't want anything to do with it. I renounced the industry before it became the fashionable thing to do.

With country, it's hard to penetrate the thick layers of commercialism that have been applied like shellac coatings over the real thing.

'Push It,' to me, was very pop. And back then, you were called 'sell-out' to be pop.

That culture, of looking at catchy music as a negative thing, is weird. It has nothing to do with me, or the music I was into growing up. The Stones and the Beatles only tried to write hits. Every Motown song, every Credence Clearwater song - they were trying to write hits.

Now chart music is a genre all of its own and it's slipped away from what I understand pop music as. It's pretty difficult to take; it clogs up the airwaves.

Right now I'm listening to a lot of Top 40 music, because THAT'S MY JOB.

The only thing that exists to me is commercial pop music.

I don't think 'pop' should mean that you had no talent.

There's a difference between a pop star and an artist. Pop stars have to be perfect all the time; an artist is allowed, on occasion, to suck. And I put myself in that category because I sometimes suck. I'm not trying to please the masses. It's not going to happen, so I don't try.

I guess now music is so saturated and so microwaved. It's, like, 15 minutes in the microwave and boom, you've got something. Nobody's putting passion or any thought behind it anymore.