Lorde celebrated a big birthday on Monday night with close friends, cake, balloons -- and a handmade card from Taylor Swift.
The "Royals" singer shared photos and a video clip of the 20th birthday celebrations on Facebook.
Earlier, Swift posted a photo of a handmade birthday card on Instagram along with the caption: “Thank you for the music you make, the advice you give, the thoughts you provoke, and the way you've made my life more beautiful since the first day we met up in New York and ate burgers on a park bench and got attacked by squirrels. I. Love. You. So. Much. Ella.”
via Instagram/TaylorSwift
Lorde, whose real name is Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O’Connor, marked the occasion on Sunday with a Facebook post on the last day of her teen years. The New Zealander admitted she was consumed by turning 20.
“It’s all I’ve been able to think about for days. I walk around the city, up by the park and by the health food store and down into the subway, this new age hanging in front of my eyes like two of those Mylar balloons that never come down,” she wrote.
“Can people see it, I wonder, that I’m about to cross over? On the subway I stare at boys I want to kiss and girls I want to hug. Do you see me?”
Lorde explained her decision to “withdraw for a little while from public life” after the massive success of her 2013 album Pure Heroine, to “learn more about who I was.”
“I haven’t had my hair or makeup done in a year, the free handbags dried up LONG ago, and the paparazzi at the airport are almost always for someone else,” she said. “And let me tell you, as much as I love being full noise album cycle girl, it's been a motherf—ing joy.”
The singer said she had her heart broken, she moved away from the family home, and she made new friends and “started to realize that no-one is just good or bad, that everyone is both.”
Lorde revealed she is currently in New York working on a new record — a collection of songs she boasted are the best she’s ever written.
“Writing Pure Heroine was my way of enshrining our teenage glory, putting it up in lights forever so that part of me never dies, and this record - well, this one is about what comes next.”
She didn’t reveal the album title or its release date, though.
“You'll have to hold on,” she teased.