Lorde Instagrammed a photo of her bathtub with a Whitney Houston lyric, oh noooo
People are still talking about whether Lorde and Jack Antonoff are happening, but I get the feeling that the “are they bangin’ or nah?” story is mostly just hipster nonsense at this point. Clearly, I believe they have banged in the past and probably still are bangin’, but that’s not the official story and so… whatever. I’m tired of debating it. So let’s debate this instead: did Lorde knowingly Instagram a super-offensive photo and comment about Whitney Houston?? Here’s the now-deleted Instagram:
lorde is probably sitting in the tub not realizing what she just did pic.twitter.com/m38R1hYPzk
— jake (@HUNTYCHAN) April 6, 2018
First off, I have tub envy. Why does everyone else have great bathtubs and I don’t? Second of all, the photo would have been amazing without comment. No one would have said sh-t about it other than “wow you have an amazing bathtub.” Third of all, attaching the photo of a bathtub to lyrics closely associated with Whitney Houston is… just an odd thing to do, in general. Fourth, given than Whitney died in the bathtub, it’s just wrong.
Now all that being said, I sort of feel for Lorde because that’s the kind of mistake I would make too, like forgetting to go that one extra step of making the connection for why something is inappropriate or mean. In any case, Lorde deleted it and made an apology on her Instagram Story, writing that: “Extremely extremely poorly chosen quote. I’m so sorry for offending anyone — I hadn’t even put this together I was just excited to take a bath. I’m an idiot. Love Whitney forever and ever. Sorry again.”
its like i have ESP or something pic.twitter.com/eEaUYlK01E
— jake (@HUNTYCHAN) April 6, 2018
Forgiven or nah? I really don’t believe she was trying to be shady.
Photos courtesy of Getty.
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