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Lorde thinks pop used to be "shameful" but don't worry she'll help sort that out

  • November 8, 2013
  • Brad O'Mance

LordeLorde would quite like to help pop get taken a bit more seriously if that's okay with everyone else.

Having a chat to the Daily Telegraph about her sudden pop baptism, she said the following words in the following order:

"I didn’t expect to be in this world but I think it’s kind of cool. For a long time pop has been this laughable, shameful thing."

Hm…

"But it’s actually grat­i­fy­ing and fun and can unite pop­u­la­tions, which I think is incred­ibly powerful. So hopefully I am showing that pop can be taken seriously."

She also had something to say about all the people banging on about her being this sort of anti-Miley Cyrus figure.

"That is def­in­itely an older person’s reaction to my songs," she explains. "I would abso­lutely take my clothes off if I wanted to and that would be my choice and I would be empowered by it."

So there we have it.

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