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

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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 where addressed the clip and the reaction it’s gotten online. Click inside to read more… “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.