Lorde Defends 'Dramatic' Decision to Shush Fans After 'Melodrama' Tour Video Goes Viral

Lorde is speaking out after a supercut video from her 2017 Melodrama tour recently went viral on social media.

In the clip, the 25-year-old singer is seen instructing her fans to be quiet so she can perform her song “Writer in the Dark” a capella, prompting backlash from some social media users.

Over the weekend, Lorde shared a video to the Instagram account @lordecontent, in which she addressed the clip and the reaction it’s gotten online.

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“That was something that I did on that one song a couple times when I wanted to sing it a cappella and/or off the microphone so people could hear me and because I wanted to try something different,” she said.

“If you come to my shows, you know it’s an hour-and-a-half of all of us singing and screaming together,” the Solar Power singer added. “Also, that dramatic-ass move was literally for an album called Melodrama, so don’t stress too hard.”

According to People, Lorde also spoke out about the “Writer in the Dark” performances during a concert in Chicago on April 23.

“I would put my mic down and walk all over the stage and sing the song,” she said during the concert. “I was 19, you know—very dramatic, a lot of feelings. The Internet has decided this was very bad and very rude. I think they mustn’t have come to one of these shows, because it’s such a communal vibe. We’re all singing and screaming all the time.”

“But I think occasionally there are moments for silence and moments for sound,” she continued. “There are moments that belong to just one person and there are moments that are all of ours, and that’s just life. But I had a weird moment with it, I was like, ‘Huh, I’ve been misunderstood.’ I was sitting there this morning, having gone on the Internet, and I was like, ‘Oh, people don’t get me.’”

“Then I thought about the room of people I was going to be hanging out with on this Saturday night in Chicago… I know what’s important, you know? We’re fine.”

“So I’m going to sing this song. I haven’t sung it since 2018, and all I ask of you is to sing this as loudly as you’d like, so we can show the f—ing trolls what it sounds like,” she said as she launched into “Writer in the Dark.”

Lorde recently responded to criticism of her latest album.