Lorde Addresses Decision to Shush Fans After Concert Video Resurfaces

“I would put my mic down and walk all over the stage and sing the song,” she said during the concert. “I was 19, you know—very dramatic, a lot of feelings. The Internet has decided this was very bad and very rude. I think they mustn’t have come to one of these shows, because it’s such a communal vibe. We’re all singing and screaming all the time.”
 
“But I think occasionally there are moments for silence and moments for sound,” she continued. “There are moments that belong to just one person and there are moments that are all of ours, and that’s just life. But I had a weird moment with it, I was like, ‘Huh, I’ve been misunderstood.’ I was sitting there this morning, having gone on the Internet, and I was like, ‘Oh, people don’t get me.'”