Fans react to Lorde’s racy new album cover with hilarious memes after the Kiwi songstress exposed her derrière in a skimpy G-string
Lorde shocked her fans on Tuesday by releasing the X-rated artwork for her upcoming single, Solar Power.
In the photo, the Kiwi songstress skips across the beach in a tiny G-string with the camera pointed gratuitously at her derriere from below.
Fans reacted to the racy artwork by posting hilarious memes, many of which saw the 24-year-old airbrushed into comical scenarios.
Cheeky: Lorde shocked her fans on Tuesday by releasing the X-rated artwork for her upcoming single, Solar Power, which has no been parodied online by fans
One meme made it look like Lorde was kicking a soccer ball, while another showed her in a baby pool.
However, not everybody liked Lorde’s new direction, with some claiming that the Royals singer had ‘sold out’ by sexing up her image.
‘I’m very excited for her comeback, but it’s sad seeing again that the music industry pressures women to commodify their bodies in order to sell,’ wrote one fan.
Hilarious: Fans reacted to the racy artwork by posting hilarious memes, many of which saw the 24-year-old airbrushed into comical scenarios
Memes: One meme made it look like Lorde was kicking a soccer ball, while another showed her in a baby pool
‘Lorde is coming,’ @godgatheist wrote with the artist’s image towering above
Jokester: Another creator compared Lorde’s last album cover with the new and wrote: ‘Lorde said im done sleeping after 4 years let me go to the beach rn’
Make em laugh: A Twitter user showed the evolution of Spongebob in the gym to counter Lorde’s album covers through the years
‘Mum’s been harping on about how “predictable” and “disgusting” the new Lorde album cover is,’ wrote another.
The news follows Lorde’s first confirmed performance in three years, a headlining slot at Spain’s Primavera Festival next year.
The Auckland-raised star, real name Ella Yellich-O’Connor, became an overnight success in 2013 with the release of her first album Pure Heroine with lead single Royals.
‘She walked so Lorde can run,’ one user joked with an image of a woman with all legs from Family Guy
Shock! Fans used hilarious gifs to express their shock over Lorde’s raunchy new direction
Friends in high places: One user photoshopped an image of Lana del Rey reaching out her hand as she held onto Lorde’s thigh
Scary situation! ‘Lorde would’ve taken care of it,’ @dakdemarco captioned a meme of the singer battling it out with Godzilla
Lorde has eschewed traditional music release patterns since then, releasing just one album in the past eight years: 2017’s Melodrama.
Both albums have been commercial and critical successes; last month Lorde and songwriter Joel Little received an industry award for reaching one billion streams of Royals.
In 2019, Lorde wrote a note to her millions of fans saying the heartbreaking death of her dog, Pearl, who ‘brought an immeasurable amount of joy and purpose into my world’, would delay her third album.
Battle it out: Lorde went for world trip now she is a KARATE CHAMPION!!’ a fan captioned a meme of the artist kicking Taylor Swift
Fame: The Auckland-raised star, real name Ella Yellich-O’Connor, became an overnight success in 2013 with the release of her first album Pure Heroine with lead single Royals
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