Mónica Marie Zorrilla Hunter Schafer got to present an award tonight to her new friend— Ella Yelich-O’Connor, or, as the rest of us know her, Lorde.But, before they were pals, Schafer was introduced to Lorde the same way we all were, she said in her speech while introducing the honoree at Variety’s Power of Women event: through her 2013 song “Royals.”“Lorde’s debut album and song were everything.
For so many young people like me, it felt like we had been found in the album and by its singer,” the “Euphoria” actor, model and LGBTQ+ activist said.Schafer then went on to regale the audience with her personal connection to Lorde’s music, stating that there is a particular magic that women and femmes share, and that the New Zealander’s music.
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