Singer had previously aired rendition of song at New Zealand show
Gaby Whitehill

09:40 7th February 2014

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Lorde has covered James Blake's 'Retrograde' for Australian radio station triple j. Check out the video below.

The Grammy-winning singer had previously performed the track at a New Zealand show at the end of January, and now she's done it again - but the video is far better quality, and an actual studio session this time around. Blake's stark track is stripped down even more and Lorde displays some of her unconventional dance moves, which are fast becoming her trademark.

Check out Lorde covering 'Retrograde' below:

Lorde is currently in Australia to appear at Laneway Festival, which she is due to perform at today (February 7). The 'Royals' star is then set to perform a collaboration with Disclosure at the Brit Awards on February 19.

Below: Lorde, we salute you. The coolest things she has said since her rise to fame

  • When asked if she wants to work with David Guetta: "No. Fuck no. He's so gross."

  • "I think women who say, 'No, I'm not a feminist - I love men,' I think that is just...You don't know what it means. You think it means that, 'I don't shave under my arms, I burn my bras. Fuck men!' How could you be so uneducated, and so unwilling to learn about something which is so important to you?"

  • "Taylor Swift is so flawless, and so unattainable, and I don't think it's breeding anything good in young girls."

  • "Everyone is so obsessed with how everything looks, how the party will look through a lens the next day. We all have Tumblr and we all have Instagram and everything. People care so much about it because, now, any random can be famous on the internet if their world looks good on Tumblr."

  • "She’s great, but I listened to that Lana Del Rey record and the whole time I was just thinking it’s so unhealthy for young girls to be listening to, you know: "I'm nothing without you." This sort of shirt-tugging, desperate, don’t leave me stuff."

  • On ex-Disney stars: "The difference between those kids and me is that I grew up completely normally and went to parties and had that experience. I am way less inclined to be like, ‘Look! I’m f**king mental!'"

  • "I'm a feminist so certain things about music I find frustrating. I think pop is scarily powerful. There are a lot of shock tactics these days: people trying to outdo each other, which will probably culminate in two people f**king onstage at the Grammys."

  • "I've always really liked Kanye and I met him on Jools Holland. He was wearing a grill on his lower teeth and I had this barely suppressed desire to rub the grill. I didn't rub the grill."

  • "I think there's a funny culture in music that's only happened over the last 15 years, that if you have an opinion about something in music that isn't 100-percent good, you're a 'hater,' even if you have perfectly reasonable grounds for that critique."

  • "I love rap music because it just makes me feel way cooler than I really am."

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