Lorde scoffs at romance rumours with songwriting partner Jack Antonoff and slams 'sexist narrative' that she's part of his 'stable' of female collaborators
Lorde has set the record straight on her working relationship with songwriter Jack Antonoff in a new interview with The New York Times.
The Kiwi songstress, 24, hit back at the 'growing narrative' concerning her connection to Antonoff, 34, following his involvement in her new album Solar Power.
Lorde, whose real name is Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O'Connor, said it was 'insulting' and 'sexist' for critics to refer to Solar Power as 'a Jack Antonoff record'.
'Retro and sexist': Lorde (left) has scoffed at romance rumours with songwriter Jack Antonoff (right) and slammed the 'narrative' that she's part of his 'stable' of female collaborators
'I haven't made a Jack Antonoff record. I've made a Lorde record and he's helped me make it and very much deferred to me on production and arrangement,' she said.
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'Jack would agree with this. To give him that amount of credit is frankly insulting.'
Lorde then criticised the speculation surrounding her personal relationship with Antonoff, as well as the idea she's part of his so-called 'stable' of female collaborators.
'Frankly insulting': The Kiwi songstress, 24, hit back at the 'growing narrative' concerning her connection to Antonoff, 34, following his involvement in her new album Solar Power
'She called the narrative - which has also included speculation about the pair's romantic and sexual life - "retro" and "sexist",' reported The New York Times.
Antonoff, who penned 10 songs for Lorde's sophomore release Melodrama, has worked with a slew of major female artists including Taylor Swift and Lana Del Rey.
In July, Lorde again rubbished rumours of romance with Antonoff, telling Ash London Live on Australia's Hit Network she sees him as a 'platonic husband'.
Setting the record straight: 'She called the narrative - which has also included speculation about the pair's romantic and sexual life - "retro" and "sexist",' reported The New York Times
Just friends: In July, Lorde again rubbished rumours of romance with Antonoff, telling Ash London Live on Australia's Hit Network she sees him as a 'platonic husband'
Lorde said: 'Jack's and my relationship is really deep and is like a marriage in some ways - a platonic marriage.
'We're in it for life I think at this point. We've been very close for five or six years now. We don't seem to get sick of each other. But who knows, anything could happen.'
Elsewhere in the interview, Lorde – who remains out of the limelight when she is not working – also revealed she prefers being a 'normal person' to a pop star.
'We're not dating!' In 2018, Jack denied rumours they were a couple on Twitter. Lorde echoed that sentiment, telling fans on Instagram that she and the Fun band member were not together
She said: 'The good thing about the way I do it is that I get to be a normal person for years at a time and then I have six weird months that are really fun and surreal and busy, and then I go back to being a I go back to being a normal person.
'I never feel like I'm depriving myself.'
In 2018, Antonoff denied rumours they were a couple on Twitter.
Lorde echoed that sentiment, telling fans on Instagram that she and the Fun band member were not together.
'Guys… Jack and I are not dating, for the last time,' she said. 'I love him, he's awesome, but we're not dating! Please!'
Pictured: Lorde performing on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert in July
