Lorde - Royals
Lorde - Royals Song : Royals Artist : Lorde Album : Pure Heroine [2013], Track 3 - The Love Club - EP [2012], Track 2 Recorded : 2012 At Golden Age Studios, Auckland, New Zealand Released : 8 March 2013 Genre : Minimal, Art Pop Length : 3:09 - 3:21 (U.S. Video Mix) SongWriter(s) : Ella Yelich O'Connor Joel Little Producer : Joel Little The official video for "Royals" was directed by Joel Kefali and released on Lorde's official YouTube channel on 12 May 2013 with a US version released on 18 June 2013 on her VEVO account. In line with the subject of the song, the video for "Royals" mostly consists of normal teenagers doing unexceptional things in slow motion. And the actors in the music video are Lorde schoolmates. In the international version, with the exception of one extended frame of Lorde singing, Lorde herself rarely appears in the video. On her lack of appearance in the video, Lorde said, "The music video for me was about creating a piece...