Grammy award-winner Lorde releases her new album Pure Heroine. Provided to China Daily

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Overnight fame

A month after winning two Grammy awards for song of the year and best pop solo performance for her first single Royals, 16-year-old Ella Yelich-O'Connor, who performs as Lorde, has released her album, Pure Heroine, in China.

The album had nabbed two additional Grammy nominations, record of the year and best pop vocal album, and the singer-songwriter is still ecstatic.

"I am very excited and very honored. Obviously it's so incredible that I would win the Grammy. I feel very lucky," she says.

The song Royals was a No 1 hit in the United States, the United Kingdom and Lorde's homeland New Zealand.

She says she didn't expect millions of people to relate to the message in the song, which she wrote for herself and for her friends.

"I just thought that was kind of funny, you know, it was our wild world. I didn't realize it's a lot of people's wild world as well," she says.

According to Lorde, she wrote the song with an idea about feeling real, royal and from where she is really from. The boys in the music video are her friends from school, and one of them was wearing her jacket.

"We filmed it in my hometown, where I got training every day. I just want to show teens doing the stuff that teens actually do. It's just boutique and boring, not very cool," she says.