--- title: 12 Year Old Lorde Sings Use Somebody by Kings of Leon description: Listen to Lorde's gorgeous cover of the Kings of Leon hit "Use Somebody" from when she was just 12 years old. canonical: https://time.com/3555104/lorde-kings-leon/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-11-03T20:17:28.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:14:19.163Z og:title: Hear 12-Year-Old Lorde Sing a Beautiful Cover of 'Use Somebody' by Kings of Leon og:description: Listen to Lorde's gorgeous cover of the Kings of Leon hit "Use Somebody" from when she was just 12 years old. og:url: https://time.com/3555104/lorde-kings-leon/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf411561d0b6a4185/69869e75169ab0c86727a9e2/lorde-cows.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: lorde-cows og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Hear 12-Year-Old Lorde Sing a Beautiful Cover of 'Use Somebody' by Kings of Leon twitter:description: Listen to Lorde's gorgeous cover of the Kings of Leon hit "Use Somebody" from when she was just 12 years old. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf411561d0b6a4185/69869e75169ab0c86727a9e2/lorde-cows.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Hear 12-Year-Old Lorde Sing a Beautiful Cover of 'Use Somebody' by Kings of Leon by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Nov 3, 2014 8:17 PM UTC  Mark Horton/WireImage – Getty Images by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Nov 3, 2014 8:17 PM UTC At age 17, most people’s proudest accomplishments include a few junior varsity soccer championships or maybe a 5 on the AP World History exam. Lorde’s accomplishments at age 17 include two Grammys and a platinum-certified debut album — not to mention [curating the soundtrack](http://time.com/3528367/lorde-mockingjay-soundtrack/) to the newest _Hunger Games_ installment. If that’s not enough to make you feel unaccomplished, then listen to Lorde’s gorgeous cover of the Kings of Leon hit “Use Somebody” from when she was just 12 years old. Back then, she was an Auckland resident named Ella Yelich-O’Connor who dropped by [a local radio station](http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/afternoons/audio/2033420/ella-yelich-o%27connor) to play a few songs. And, yeah, she was really good — and surprisingly emotive for such a young person. Though this audio has been floating around the Internet for a while now, the version of “Use Somebody” is beginning to [resurface again](http://consequenceofsound.net/2014/11/lorde-age-12-covers-kings-of-leons-use-somebody/) this week. We’re totally cool with that. [Read more: The 25 most influential teens of 2014](http://time.com/3486048/most-influential-teens-2014/) _Read next:_ [_Lorde’s Mockingjay Soundtrack Features Kanye West, Chemical Brothers and Charli XCX_](http://time.com/3528367/lorde-mockingjay-soundtrack/?xid=time%5Freadnext) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3555104/lorde-kings-leon/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3555104/lorde-kings-leon/"},"headline":"Hear 12-Year-Old Lorde Sing a Beautiful Cover of 'Use Somebody' by Kings of Leon","datePublished":"2014-11-03T20:17:28.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:14:19.163Z","description":"Listen to Lorde's gorgeous cover of the Kings of Leon hit \"Use Somebody\" from when she was just 12 years old.","url":"https://time.com/3555104/lorde-kings-leon/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Music","Lorde","New Zealand","royals","celebrity"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf411561d0b6a4185/69869e75169ab0c86727a9e2/lorde-cows.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf411561d0b6a4185/69869e75169ab0c86727a9e2/lorde-cows.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"lorde-cows","caption":"","creditText":"Mark Horton/WireImage – Getty Images","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":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3555104/lorde-kings-leon/","name":"Hear 12-Year-Old Lorde Sing a Beautiful Cover of 'Use Somebody' by Kings of Leon"}}]}] ```