In a characteristically spicy Tweet, Lorde has slammed reports that there is some kind of drama between her and long-time friend Taylor Swift, advising the media to “go sip a beverage and head out on a walk.”
The trouble started, as things so often do, with a Sunrise interview, when the ‘Supercut‘ singer told Kochie that she doesn’t necessarily hang out with her musical idols, saying:
“The second you think too hard about it, you’ll go insane. It’s best to be like, ‘We’re in wonderland and it’s just what happens around here.’ I don’t hang out with these people at all.”
The host then pressed her about the fact that she’s part of Taylor’s squad, the vaunted group of gal pals who clomp all over Manhattan and The Hamptons leaving lesser beings in their wake. She responded:
“I mean … You make friends in different places, but I think for the most part, I’m not calling up my idols for advice, necessarily.”
The gossip blogs quickly picked up on that, and began to run with the trouble in paradise angle, leading to headlines like Lorde Reveals She’s No Longer In Taylor Swift’s Squad.
Earlier today, Lorde took to social media to tell the world she’d seen the stories and was not having a bar of them, saying:
Wow, something of a frustrating thing to have to address online but here we go.Taylor is a dear friend. I love her very much.In the interview in question I had just been talking about Bowie and Patti Smith – those were the “idols” I was referring to that I was saying I’m not friends with, not Taylor!I’ve always found people’s perception of this ‘squad’ idea frustrating in the past; it was never some exclusive club of secret society, but a wide circle of people,some of whom I know, and some who I’ve never met, like most wide groups of friends. Forgive me for the wide eyeroll I popped when it was brought up as if we’re all blood members of a secret cult.Really shitty to take up to headlines about whether or not you’ve jumped ship on someone you deeply respect and ride for. I want to say one more time that Taylor has been there for me in all my dark and light moments these past five years, all of them. I fucked up an interview question, now go sip a beverage and head out on a walk.
— Lorde (@lorde) July 7, 2017
So there you have it, folks. We are glad that Lorde and Taylor are still tight and very glad indeed that Lorde herself has introduced the instantly-iconic phrase “go sip a beverage and head out on a walk” into our vernacular.
Source: Twitter.
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