The song was released digitally on the iTunes Stores worldwide by Republic Records on 29 September 2014. The song was engineered by Matt Wiggins and Erik Kase Romero. "Yellow Flicker Beat" was recorded at the Lakehouse Recording Studios in Asbury Park, New Jersey on 28 and 29 August 2014. On 23 September 2014, Lorde announced that the song, titled "Yellow Flicker Beat", would be released on 29 September 2014. On 31 July 2014, it was announced that Lorde would be the curator for the soundtrack of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1 (2014) after a recommendation from her publisher. Music critics compared its production to the singer's work on her 2013 debut album Pure Heroine. Carley noted that the lines, "The scars that mark my body / They're silver and gold" and "My blood is a flood of rubies, precious stones" showcased "a big step towards more mature lyrics" on Lorde's part. Zuel opined that the line was "also the beginning of the end of something". Beginning in a slow and measured way, the song features the "touched by pain" lyrics-"I'm a princess cut from marble / smoother than a storm." As the drums start, Lorde sings "This is the start". The song's lyrics refer to the rise of Katniss Everdeen, the heroine of The Hunger Games (2008–2010) young adult dystopian novel trilogy. "Yellow Flicker Beat" is an electropop and art pop song, with minimal synthesisers, drums, and vocal samples in its production. The song moves at a tempo of 96 beats per minute, and Lorde's vocals span a range of E ♭ 3 to E ♭ 5. According to the sheet music published at, the track is composed in the key of A minor and follows the chord progression Am–Dm–Am–E and in the common time signature. "Yellow Flicker Beat" was written by Lorde (credited under her birth-name Ella Yelich-O'Connor) and Joel Little and produced by Little and Paul Epworth. "Yellow Flicker Beat" references the rise of The Hunger Games ' heroine Katniss Everdeen, portrayed by Jennifer Lawrence ( pictured in 2015) The song was nominated for Best Original Song at the Golden Globe Awards and Best Song at the Critics' Choice Awards. Lorde performed the original version at the 2014 American Music Awards on 23 November 2014.
Four days later, a remix of the song titled "Flicker (Kanye West Rework)" co-produced by Lorde and Kanye West was released. A music video for the song, directed by Emily Kai Bock, was released on 7 November 2014.
Commercially, the song peaked at number 34 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and entered the record charts of several nations, including Australia, Canada and New Zealand.
"Yellow Flicker Beat" was well received by music critics, who praised its lyrical content for being more mature than that of Lorde's previous releases. The track's lyrics refer to the rise of Katniss Everdeen, the heroine of The Hunger Games (2008–2010) young adult dystopian novel trilogy. Music critics compared its instrumentation style to the singer's work on her 2013 debut album Pure Heroine. Written by Lorde and Joel Little and produced by Little and Paul Epworth, it is as an art pop and electropop song with minimal synthesisers, drums, and vocal samples in its production. " Yellow Flicker Beat" is a song by New Zealand singer-songwriter Lorde released on 29 September 2014 as the lead single from the soundtrack for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1 by Republic Records.
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