Lorde's touching tribute to David Bowie
After the death of David Bowie, Lorde added to the celebrity tributes by sharing a sweet Facebook post.
“The night I met him I played at an expensive Vogue benefit with a lot
of fresh flowers, honouring Tilda,” the 19-year-old wrote.
“I was not quite seventeen, America was very new to me, and I was distinctly uneasy and distrustful toward everything happening in my life that was putting me in these flat-voiced, narrow-eyed, champagneish rooms. I played my three songs, thrashing and twitching in platform boots.”
The singer added that she had never met a hero of hers and “liked it” but “David was different”:
That night something changed in me - I felt a calmness grow, a sureness. I think in those brief moments, he heralded me into my next new life, an old rock and roll alien angel in a perfect grey suit. I realized everything I’d ever done, or would do from then on, would be done like maybe he was watching.
Sad news. The official twitter & facebook pages for David Bowie just posted that he has passed away. We have lost a legend way too soon.
— Lorde_fix (@Lorde_fix) January 11, 20161979 - Bowie’s backhand lipstick smear (‘Boys Keep Swinging’ music vid)
2014 - Lorde’s live performance @ the AMAs pic.twitter.com/kNlEQLODZm
— Lorde_fix (@Lorde_fix) January 11, 2016Lorde's AMA performace in honor of David Bowie in November
Lorde's full Facebook tribute:
When a hero dies, everyone wants a quote. I woke up this morning with a tender head from tears and that big red cup of...
Posted by Lorde on Monday, January 11, 2016