Lorde covers up with gold flowers on the cover of Vogue's October issue

Lorde continued her whirlwind publicity tour in the wake of releasing her third studio album Solar Power by gracing the cover of Vogue's October issue. 

The 24-year-old singer–songwriter shared her discomfort with 'the pop star life' and decamping from Los Angeles to her hometown of Auckland, New Zealand, in the wide-ranging interview.

Lorde looked glamorous in the profile's stunning seaside photos, including the cover image, which showed her wearing nothing but a Schiaparelli top featuring golden flowers strategically protecting her modesty.

The flowers, which featured metallic stems tied across her midriff, got an extra surreal touch thanks to a mouth and an eye placed in their centers.

The reluctant pop star sparkled in a reflective silver Marni gown that fluttered in the breeze.

She wore her raven tresses wet and casually slicked back while spreading her arms gracefully.

Lorde (born Ella Yelich-O'Connor) got her toes wet in the surf while wearing a white sleeveless Alexander McQueen dress decorated with elegant gray floral stitching and a sheer tiered skirt.

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The Royals singer looked more relaxed in a sleeveless Balenciaga gown that reached down to the ground.

She paired the shimmering silver item with modest Tiffany & Co. earrings.

In her interview, Lorde expressed ambivalence about her status as a pop star and an esteemed songwriter.

'I'm great at my job, but I'm not sure I'm the man for the job,' she mused. 'I'm a highly sensitive person. I'm not built for pop star life.

'To have a public-facing existence is something I find really intense and is something I'm not good at,' she admitted. 'That natural charisma is not what I have. I have the brain in the jar.' 

Luckily, her fans seem to have gotten used to her spending so much time out of the spotlight between album cycles.

'For whatever reason people have allowed me to say, Okay, I'm going to come and do the thing — do the shoot, do the red carpet, speak to the journalists, put the music out — and when I've done it to the point of total exhaustion, when I have completely quenched that thirst, I'm going to go home, and you’re not going to see me for two or three or four years. 

'I’ll be doing the other thing, which is being there for every single birthday and dinner party and cooking every single meal and going on every single walk and taking every single bath. And when I’ve done that and I’m like, all right, that’s enough of that for a little while, I’ll come back again.' 

The hitmaker opened up about leaving Los Angeles in the wake of finishing her second album Melodrama and heading home to Auckland.

'California was a Cadillac Escalade. All these beautiful young people drinking all this tequila,' she said. 'Then I’d come home to Auckland for two weeks and have a massive blowout party at my house, and have some romantic entanglement happening that was very compelling and confusing, and then sort of leave in a cloud of smoke and go and write about that, then repeat the process.'

Once she was back home, Lorde adopted a retriever mix named Pearl and started working on the garden of the home she bought just outside the city when she was 18.

During the summer months, she and her friends rented out a seaside house on a cliff.

The experience of getting away from it all made her feel more youthful than she ever did when she was first

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