Lorde, the New Zealand-conceived pop star, came into the fire-lit parlor of her downtown Manhattan inn a couple of minutes past 11, apologizing for the delay of great importance — interesting story, she said. She'd been driving every day to a Greenwich Village recording studio, stopping without end at new music, however today U2, who had held the space, arrived and secured it. Lorde found a littler studio accessible more remote uptown, and however the move was badly arranged, she saw the funniness in being coincidentally ousted by Bono — it was only one more marker of how odd her life has been since she wound up plainly acclaimed, four years prior, at 16. "I really observed the Edge in the exercise center here," she said with a smile. "I contemplated saying something, however I chose, Nahhh/italianska."