Lorde: My friends tease me for being 'Lorde'

Lorde has been nominated for a Golden Globe award. Photo/Getty

Local pop hero Lorde says her friends at home love to mercilessly tease her about her chart-topping celebrity status.

The Royals singer - who has compiled the soundtrack for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 - told UK's Time Out magazine: "It's important to me that I'm still in touch with my teenage life, even if what I'm doing every day may not be strictly teenage.

"So the second I get home I'm calling my friends. I love being young and I want to retain that for as long as possible, even if I am like an old lady and working all the time.

Although she has achieved her musical dreams at a young age, Lorde still enjoys living the life of a regular teenager and as soon as she gets home to Takapuna in Auckland, New Zealand, she reconnects with her friends.

"My friends all tease me. We'll go out and get food, and without fail one of them will say, really loud, 'Oh my god! Is that Lorde?' It's so horrible, but they're great."

The 18-year-old says that her mother stops her from letting all the acclaim and attention go to her head.

She's achieved worldwide global pop success since the release of her debut album Pure Heroine last year but she still travels everywhere with her mum, poet Sonja Yelich, and she puts a stop to any histrionics straight away.

She revealed: "I live at home, in my childhood bedroom. I travel with my mum and if I were to ever say anything a little bit diva-esque, she'd knock it right down."

Lorde is expected to appear at the New Zealand Music Awards tonight, where she is up for several Tuis including Single of the Year and Album of the Year.

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- Bang! Showbiz