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Lorde recently embarked on the North American leg of the international tour behind her third studio LP, August 2021's Solar Power. On Monday night, the New Zealand singer-songwriter played New York's famed Radio City Music Hall, where she strayed from her regular set to perform a cover of "HENTAI," a raunchy slow jam from Spanish flamenco-pop star Rosalía's own recently released third album, MOTOMAMI.
Lorde's Spanish pronunciation was shaky — note the painfully hard "h" in "Hazme un tape, modo Spike" — but she powered through, showing a clear appreciation for the track. Watch a clip from her performance below.
“I’ve listened to the Rosalía album every day since it came out," Lorde recently wrote in her newsletter. "[F]uck, it’s so good, I gagged when I heard that interpolation of [Burial's] 'Archangel,' 'Hentai' is genius... [P]rojects like this remind me why I live for pop music — at its best, there’s nothing better.”
