Seventeen-year-old Lorde, best known for her breakout viral hit "Royals," unexpectedly dropped a new single on iTunes titled "No Matter." The song arrived Friday, just hours after Beyoncé surprised everyone with a secret album featuring 14 songs and 17 videos.
It's been a big year for the electro pop singer-songwriter from New Zealand. Most recently, Lorde earned four nominations for next year's Grammy Awards on the strength of "Royals" and debut album Pure Heroine. To boot, her music video for "Team" temporarily crashed Vevo.
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Her Twitter and Facebook accounts offer no explanation about he release, both places she routinely turns to as a way to fill fans in about her music. But it's not a bad way to end a breakout year, right?
"No Matter" is available on iTunes for $1.29. You can preview it here:

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i was in a cab home in nyc and royals came on and i laughed and the driver asked why and i told him it was my song and he said "mine too!"
brisbane lovely people i have food poisoning but didn't want to cancel the show! literally hurled walking offstage lol. i'll be back soon ok
tempted to post on my facebook page asking people if they will give me candy crush lives
i wasn't into that new drake first listen and then heard it in the car today and realized it's so good i feel teary eyed. got next.
i feel like i need a bracelet with WHAT WOULD DRAKE DO engraved on it
i am a slave to the icebreaker sours
i wish i had interesting stuff to tweet but i've been in the studio for like seven weeks now and i'm starting to wear the same clothes even
kind of like when you enjoy a michael bay film and then feel weird
candy canes are beautiful but nasty. i admire this about them
bought a t-shirt with a glow in the dark man on it who appears to be the wizard of pizza
the weirdest lil goth at the one direction concert is meeeee
i am now the happy owner of more than 1000 temporary tattoos
if you haven't read feed, you really should. it'll make you a better person. i read it when i was 8 and had a srs introspective phase though
my friend zac just told me some HIGHLY interesting octopus facts, including how an octopus can fit into a hole the size of an average coin
not allowed to go out tonight because homework, oh man cool
i wish my prom tonight turned into that pigs' blood scene from carrie lol
i dunno how musicians can ever get over looking out onstage and just seeing oceans of people. so humbling always
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