Lorde performs at the Glastonbury Festival, June 23, 2017.
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Lorde has apologised after using what she later decribed as an "extremely poorly chosen quote" on Instagram. The singer wrote “And iiii will always love you,” alongside a picture of her bathtub, a comment some fans felt was insensitive due to Whitney Houston's death in 2012.
Lorde apologizes after enraging social media by posting a bathtub photo with Whitney Houston lyrics. pic.twitter.com/uUYqLqirTX
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Acknowledging that referencing Houston's 1992 after she died of accidental drowning was innapropriate, Lorde said she had not thought it through. “Extremely extremely poorly chosen quote,” she wrote in a subsequent Instagram story. “I’m so sorry for offending anyone—I hadn’t even put this together I was just excited to take a bath.”
She added in a second post: “IT IS NOT MY FKN DAY TODAY.”
Lorde is currently on tour and was recently joined on stage by Jack Antonoff to cover St. Vincent's "New York" in the city.
