Lorde has been pretty busy since her debut album, Pure Heroine, dropped last year. The "Royals" singer has been parodied on South Park, performed with Nirvana at the band's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony and was even charged with curating the soundtrack for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1.
In a recent interview with Rolling Stone's Brian Hiatt, Lorde talked about her many adventures in music, which included a tour stop in her native New Zealand last month.
"It definitely feels like a bit of a victory lap," she said.
The singer got the Hunger Games gig in July and it has taken up a lot of her precious time.
"Everyone my age read the books and saw the films," the 18-year-old said about the franchise. "I got a call: 'You've been asked to write the end-credit song.' But I wanted ownership in the process. They came back: 'Would you like to do the soundtrack?' I was like, 'Uh, that would work.'"
Lorde goes on to talk about her performance of "All Apologies" with Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl in April.
"I knew it was a big deal," she said, "but I don't think I really understood how much weight those three minutes had."
Pure Heroine came out September 2013, and since then Lorde has dropped a cover of the Tears for Fears classic "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" and a new single, which will be included on her Hunger Games soundtrack, titled "Yellow Flicker Beat." New material is currently being worked on by the singer.
"I'm very tentatively starting," she said. "I've done a lot of writing, lyrically, but I started the soundtrack just as I was getting into album stuff, and that took up all of my creative head. But I have been plotting out ideas."
The soundtrack is out Nov. 17.
