--- description: Lorde goes full-goth warrior princess on the new track title: Lorde - Yellow Flicker Beat: Song from the Hunger Games - Mockingjay image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1c12cdb67b7ce0bb/6986a5d913c79fc29b194203/yellow-flicker-beat1-608x608.jpg?branch=production&width=1440&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Lorde Crafts a 'Yellow Flicker Beat' For _The Hunger Games: Mockingjay_ Soundtrack by [Melissa Locker](/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Sep 29, 2014 4:34 PM CUT  by [Melissa Locker](/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Sep 29, 2014 4:34 PM CUT Lorde’s contribution to the soundtrack she curated for _The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 1_ is here. In a statement posted on [Tumblr](http://lordemusic.tumblr.com/post/98727189651/yellow-flicker-beat-and-an-anniversary "undefined"), the 17-year old singer —Ella Yelich-O’Connor — wrote, “It’s my first offering from what I hope will be a soundtrack you love. It’s my attempt at getting inside her head, Katniss’. I hope you like it.” In the track, Lorde sings: “I’m a princess cut from marble, smoother than a storm/ And the scars that mark my body, they’re silver and gold.” The lyrics, paired with the dusky and lilting tone of the song, show off Lorde’s skill at crafting a character that combines Katniss Everdeen’s toughness with her own gothic overtones; it’s cut in the same darkly grooving vein as her LP _Pure Heroine._ Like so many other teenage girls, Lorde also took to Tumblr to post some thoughts on her journey into the dark heart of superstardom and her work on curating _The Hunger Games: Mockingjay —Part 1_ soundtrack: --- > “” --- _The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 1_ soundtrack is out 11/18 on [Republic](http://www.republicrecords.com/ "undefined"). _The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 1_ opens in theaters on November 21st. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3445344/lorde-yellow-flicker-beat-hunger-games/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3445344/lorde-yellow-flicker-beat-hunger-games/"},"headline":"Lorde Crafts a 'Yellow Flicker Beat' For The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Soundtrack","datePublished":"2014-09-29T16:34:21.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-31T07:56:13.443Z","description":"Lorde goes full-goth warrior princess on the new track","url":"https://time.com/3445344/lorde-yellow-flicker-beat-hunger-games/","keywords":["movies","Music","The Hunger Games","Lorde","The Hunger Games Mockingjay Part 1"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1c12cdb67b7ce0bb/6986a5d913c79fc29b194203/yellow-flicker-beat1-608x608.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1c12cdb67b7ce0bb/6986a5d913c79fc29b194203/yellow-flicker-beat1-608x608.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Yellow-Flicker-Beat1-608x608","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3445344/lorde-yellow-flicker-beat-hunger-games/","name":"Lorde Crafts a 'Yellow Flicker Beat' For The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Soundtrack"}}]}] ```