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She could have simply posted a note on Instagram, but Lorde has gone old-school and purchased a full-page newspaper ad to thank her home country for supporting her.
As posted on Twitter by a New Zealand Herald staffer, the advertisement is a hand-written note from Lorde penned shortly after the Grammy Awards, where she was the only woman nominated for Album of the Year.
“Oh, hi there!” the note reads. “I’m writing this from New York City. [My brother] Angelo and I sat in Madison Square Garden last night and saw a lot of crazy and wonderful things.
“I just wanted to say thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for loving and embracing Melodrama the way you did. My nomination belongs to you. Thank you, also, for believing in female musicians. You set a beautiful precedent. All my love, Lorde.”
It seems handwritten notes are Lorde’s preferred method of communication right now. She literally had one pinned to the back of her Grammys dress.
The letter was a powerful ode to the fight against inequality going on in Hollywood and around the world right now.
If the handwriting is a little small for you, it reads:
“Rejoice! Our times are intolerable. Take courage, for the worst is a harbinger of the best. Only dire circumstance can precipitate the overthrow of oppressors. The old and corrupt must be laid to waste before the just can triumph. Opposition indentifies and isolates the enemy. Conflict of interest must be seen for what it is. Do not support palliative gestures; they confuse the people and delay the inevitable confrontation. Delay is not tolerated for it jeopardizes the well-being of the majority. Contradiction will be heightened. The reckoning will be hastened by the staging of seed disturbances. The apocalypse will blossom.”
