Lorde publishes screenshot of text message exchange with Taylor Swift

Imagine having Taylor Swift in your contact list? Lorde shared a rare look at a text she received from the singer back when her album Melodrama came out in 2017.

In an industry where we hear so much about female musicians being in competition with each other, it’s refreshing to see that so many have each other’s backs. Case in point: Lorde and Taylor Swift. 

The Midnight’s singer offered Lorde some comforting words about how the initial chart performance of an album doesn’t necessarily indicate its overall success.

The beginning of Swift’s text was cut off, but Swift wrote to Lorde, ‘You will always be imagined in my mind in a rowboat with Annie Lennox floating down a river of cool cerebral ethereal dreams… And I don’t think first week record sales singularly define a legacy.’

Lorde was clearly grateful for the support and responded, ‘I love you so much for this.’

Lorde added a caption to the shot on her Instagram Story, writing, ‘Taylor was very kind and not wrong @taylorswift.’

The Kiwi popstar’s second album was released six years ago this week. 

In a series of Instagram stories since disappeared from her profile, the Royals singer, 26, recounted anecdotes from her experience of making the album. ‘In this time I mostly lived in the Park Hyatt in New York,’ she wrote. 

‘I was 18/19 and had truly no idea that it was an extremely expensive hotel and thus spent most of my advance on hotel bills.’

She also shared a photo of herself in an empty bathtub in front of a laptop. ‘Lots of dramatic lyric writing sessions such as this. I was so anxious all the time, my heart was like a little baby birds.’

Lorde last spoke in depth about Swift in July 2017 when an interview was misconstrued as her indicating she was no longer friendly with the 33-year-old.

‘Taylor is a dear friend. I love her very much… I’ve always found people’s perception of this ‘’squad’’ idea frustrating in the past; it was never some exclusive club or secret society, but a wide circle of people, some of whom I know, and some I’ve never met, like the most wide group of friends,’ she wrote at the time.

‘Forgive me for the mild eyeroll I popped when it was brought up as if we’re all blood members of a secret cult… I want to say one more time that Taylor has been there for me in all my dark and light moments these past 5 years.’

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