This morning an almost 18-year-old Lorde released her video for “Yellow Flicker Beat,” another minimalist single with addictive power. It’s the first single released for “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1” soundtrack and has been breaking records all over the place, most notable as the #1 Most Added song at Alternative Radio and “Most Adds on a Female Artist in Mediabase History”. Whew.

Even though she’s not even 18 (she still has one day, technically), the inimitable Lorde is absolutely dominating the worldwide music sphere and is challenging artists to up their own games to try and keep up with her.

What were we doing at 18? Probably detoxing and signing up for predatory credit cards, but it was just so long ago we’ve just plum forgot.

This morning an almost 18-year-old Lorde released her video for “Yellow Flicker Beat,” another minimalist single with addictive power. It’s the first single released for “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1” soundtrack and has been breaking records all over the place, most notable as the #1 Most Added song at Alternative Radio and “Most Adds on a Female Artist in Mediabase History”. Whew.

We dig the representation of ballroom parties past about halfway through the adventure and felt an overhwhelming desire to throw The Shining on our Netflix cue because of it. One can never have enough The Shining references in life …

Not only did Lorde contribute four original songs on the soundtrack, but she curated all of the artists featured on it as well. The album holds serious firepower with collaborations from Major Lazer and Ariana Grande, Charli XCX and Simon Le Bon and even has a little rework from Kanye “Zestfully Clean” West himself.

It looks like a crowd-pleaser, and could very well be one of our favorite soundtracks of the past decade. After Disney’s Frozen, OF COURSE!

Tracklisting:

Meltdown – Stromae (ft. Lorde, Pusha T, Q-Tip & Haim)
Dead Air – CHVRCHES
Scream My Name – Tove Lo
Kingdom – Charli XCX (ft. Simon Le Bon)
All My Love – Major Lazer (ft. Ariana Grande)
Lost Souls – Raury
Yellow Flicker Beat – Lorde
The Leap – Tinashe
Plan The Escape [Son Lux Cover] – Bat For Lashes
Original Beast – Grace Jones
Flicker [Kanye West Rework] – Lorde
Animal – XOV
This Is Not A Game – The Chemical Brothers (ft. Miguel)
Ladder Song – Lorde