--- title: Lorde Promises New Music on Facebook description: The Kiwi singer/songwriter shared a heartfelt note to Facebook, assuring her fans she has music in the works, although it's not yet ready. canonical: https://time.com/4560667/lorde-new-music-2017/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-11-07T16:27:40.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:38:26.646Z og:title: Teen Queen Lorde, Now 20, Promises New Music Is Coming Soon og:description: The musician shared a heartfelt Facebook post about her journey to adulthood. og:url: https://time.com/4560667/lorde-new-music-2017/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Teen Queen Lorde, Now 20, Promises New Music Is Coming Soon twitter:description: The musician shared a heartfelt Facebook post about her journey to adulthood. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Lorde Celebrates 20th Birthday With a Heartfelt Promise That New Music Is Coming 'Soon' > Sponsored content. 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Mysteriously little was known about the teenager, but her moody, [anthem “Royals”](http://time.com/3956960/taylor-swift-1989-tour-lorde-royals/?iid=sr-link2) off of debut album _Pure Heroine_ was radio gold. She [championed authenticity](http://time.com/4073724/lorde-fan-questions-tumblr/?iid=sr-link4), [charmed Drake](http://time.com/4038674/drake-lorde-kanye-west-fashion-show/?iid=sr-link5), and became Swift’s BFF of the moment. In the last few years, however, Lorde has [kept a decidedly low profile](http://time.com/4425153/lordes-uber-driver-is-pumped-about-famous-people-who-arent-lorde/?iid=sr-link3). On Sunday—as she prepared for her 20th birthday—Lorde shared an emotion-filled note to Facebook about what she’s working on. “Sometime in the last year or so, part of me crossed over. For one thing, I made a very deliberate choice to withdraw for a little while from a public life. I haven’t had my hair or makeup done in a year, the free handbags dried up LONG ago, and the paparazzi at the airport are almost always for someone else,” she wrote in the rather poetic farewell note to her adolescence. “I maxed out every single emotion I have in the best possible way, the colours still aching behind my eyes like this weird blissful hangover,” she explained of the past year. “My heart broke. I moved out of home and into the city and I made new friends and started to realize that no-one is just good or bad, that everyone is both.” As for an update on that long-anticipated followup album? If _Pure Heroine_ was a shrine to “teenage glory,” then the next release will be “about what comes next,” she explained. But don’t get too excited: “You’ll have to hold on. The big day is not tomorrow, or even next month realistically, but soon,” she said, adding that she’s currently working in the studio in New York. “The party is about to start. 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