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Lorde makes public apology after quoting Whitney Houston lyrics in a bathtub
Singer Lorde is coming under fire for writing Whitney Houston lyrics alongside an image of a bathtub in which she posted to her Instagram.
Emily Treadgold
Lorde is recieving some backlash after posting an Instagram that shows an image of a bathtub along with a caption that fans interpreted as being insulting to the late Whitney Houston.
She captioned the photo, "and iii will always love you," a reference to Houston's iconic song. The legendary singer was found dead in 2012 at a Beverly Hills hotel room in a bathtub.
Lorde has since issued multiple apologies about the caption and deleted the photo, saying it wasn't her intention to insult the singer when she posted the picture.
"Extremely extremely poorly chosen quote," the 21-year-old said. "I'm so sorry for offending anyone I hadn't even put this together I was just excited to take a bath. I'm an idiot. Love Whitney forever and ever. Sorry again."
Some of her followers said that it was extremely inappropriate while others claimed Lorde most likely had no intention of insulting Houston.
One Twitter user said, "don't think there's anything sadder than lorde being excited to take a bath on her day off, just to have the entire internet come after her for a short period of time because she used the wrong quote for the wrong occasion."
Extremely extremely poorly chosen quote. I'm so sorry for offending anyone I hadn't even put this together I was just excited to take a bath. I'm an idiot. Love Whitney forever and ever. Sorry again.
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This is disgusting idk how people find it funny. Whitney was a legend. she was amazing. she was a queen. she was a strong black woman. I like lorde but this is truly disgusting pic.twitter.com/B5cR3tolaU
— black female (@privsari) April 6, 2018
Lorde had to have known that by drawing a bath full of water, taking a picture it, and then using one of Whitney's songs as a caption that people would get and suspect that she was being shady. It's quite obvious. Maybe she didn't mean it but still.
— (@MJFinesseLover) April 6, 2018
To all the people saying Lorde is cancelled bc of insta pic of the bath and the Whitney lyrics caption... people do stuff like that ALL THE TIME it was obvs just a very bad coincidence and i genuinely dont think Lorde would do that purposefully...
— Elliott (@ouhoooh) April 6, 2018
don't think there's anything sadder than lorde being excited to take a bath on her day off, just to have the entire internet come after her for a short period of time because she used the wrong quote for the wrong occasion
— Brett Werner (@bluefIickerbeat) April 6, 2018
