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A hot late-summer breeze blows across a Burbank parking lot as Lorde sits beneath a tattered canopy outside the rehearsal studio where she’s preparing for her latest world tour.

The 28-year-old singer and songwriter from New Zealand has been here for 10 days figuring out how to bring her album “Virgin” to the stage; in a few hours, she’ll fly home to New York for a friend’s wedding before heading to Austin, Texas, for the tour’s opening date.

First, though: one final run-through of the show with the dancers she’s recruited to complement her own movement, which she describes as “quite wild and difficult to corral.” To ready her body, she ordered in Japanese last night, then had some

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