Like wildflowers you must allow yourself to grow in all the places people thought you never would.
LordeAround the middle of last year I started listening to a lot of rap, like Nicki Minaj and Drake... They all sing about such opulence, stuff that just didnโt relate to me - or anyone that I knew. I began thinking, โHow are we listening to this? Itโs completely irrelevant.โ
LordeSo many interviews, even ones that I consider really intelligent and good writers, will do the, like, 'Oh, you're not taking your clothes off like Miley Cyrus and all these girls' thing, which to me is just the weirdest thing to say to someone. ... Now when people are like, 'Tell me what you think of Miley!' I'll say, 'What do you think of Miley?' and they'll flounder and say, 'Well, I think she's really talented...' and I'm like, there you go.
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