Bravado (song)

[5] Chris Schulz, from The New Zealand Herald, described "Bravado" as a chamber pop piece,[6] while The Village Voice's Brittany Spanos called it an electropop song.

[12] At a point of the song, Lorde confesses "to a battle between shyness and show-business aspirations": I learned not to want The quiet of the room with no one around to find me out I want the applause, the approval, the things that make me go oh.

[1] Lorde held a concert at Le Poisson Rouge in New York, which was her first U.S. live show, and performed the song among other tracks from The Love Club EP.

[15] In November 2013, Lorde performed the song on the Late Show with David Letterman to promote The Love Club EP and Pure Heroine.

[14] In a review published in The Dominion Post, Tom Cardy compared the track's style to that of works by Florence Welch and Marina Diamandis, labelling it a "sharp, refreshing and smart" song.