Lorde Explained Why She Used To Shush The Crowd At Her Concerts And It Makes Total Sense To Me

Lorde has seen all of those tweets making fun of her hushing the audience at her concerts, and she is ready to do some explaining.

For those unaware, Lorde used to tell fans to be quiet at her concerts, specifically when she would sing "Writer in the Dark." She did it so much over the course of her 2017 and 2018 tour that people have been sharing compilations of it with resurfaced videos.

While concerts are usually a place to let loose and scream a bit, Lorde says she just wanted to "try something different."

"OK, I just woke up. I just wanted to talk about this thing of me shushing people at my shows," Lorde said in a video she sent to a fan site to share.

She explained that she only told the crowd to settle down by shushing them during "one song, a couple of times" because she wanted to sing "a cappella and/or off the microphone."

"If you come to my shows, you know it’s like an hour and a half of all of us singing and screaming together," Lorde noted.

On top of that, she reminded fans that the "dramatic ass move" was for an album that was literally called Melodrama — so she doesn't think anyone should "stress too hard."

Lorde also addressed the issue during a recent show on her Solar Power tour where she played "Writer in the Dark" for the first time since 2018.

"I would put my mic down and walk all over the stage and sing the song. I was 19, y’know — very dramatic, a lot of feelings," Lorde explained.

She added that as of late, she knows the internet has decided it was a "very bad and very rude" move, but anyone who has ever come to a concert knows that it's always a "communal vibe" where everyone is "singing and screaming all the time."

And if anyone actually wants to know what she means, they should probably just come to one of her shows this summer!

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