--- title: Lorde Trapped on Subway Car for Four Hours, Still Loves It description: Lorde still loves the New York City subway despite being trapped on the F train for four hours during a recent commute. canonical: https://time.com/4862959/lorde-trapped-on-nyc-subway/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-07-19T20:27:08.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:45:29.019Z og:title: Lorde Loves Subway Even Though She Got Stuck On It Forever og:description: "It still has a bit of romance" og:url: https://time.com/4862959/lorde-trapped-on-nyc-subway/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Lorde Loves Subway Even Though She Got Stuck On It Forever twitter:description: "It still has a bit of romance" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Lorde Still Loves the NYC Subway Even Though She Was Trapped On a Subway Car for Four Hours > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Jul 19, 2017 8:27 PM UTC  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Jul 19, 2017 8:27 PM UTC While New Yorkers across the city have been subject to [an insurmountable amount of issues this summer when it comes to the subway](http://www.businessinsider.com/new-york-subway-a-train-delay-trash-fire-2017-7), there’s one resident who still has love for the MTA: [Lorde](http://time.com/4736633/lorde-diner-subway-new-york/). While appearing on _Late Night with Seth Meyers_, the [_Melodrama_](http://time.com/lorde/) singer and [onion ring enthusiast](http://time.com/4821421/lorde-onion-ring-identity-on-fallon/) shared that despite recently being trapped on an F train for four hours, she still finds that the subway “still has a bit of romance.” “I did get stuck on the F \[train\] for four hours once,” she said before sharing that her main thoughts while on the stuck train were about the oatmeal in her bag. “I thought, if anyone finds out, this is gonna be like a prized commodity,” she joked. “It’s gonna be like _Lost_. They’re gonna be my family. We’re gonna be here forever.” In fact, Lorde loves NYC public transportation so much that she gave them a shoutout in the liner notes of her new album, citing that it helped her create her music. “I love the subway,” she said. “It was really nice, writing this record, I would sit there and listen to the work, and it helped me kind of be around people, you know, because when you’re working in a studio, you’re very isolated and hang out with kind of just a couple people. I feel like \[the subway\] reintroduced me back into society.” Watch Lorde talk about her love for the subway above. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4862959/lorde-trapped-on-nyc-subway/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4862959/lorde-trapped-on-nyc-subway/"},"headline":"Lorde Still Loves the NYC Subway Even Though She Was Trapped On a Subway Car for Four Hours","datePublished":"2017-07-19T20:27:08.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:45:29.019Z","description":"\"It still has a bit of romance\"","url":"https://time.com/4862959/lorde-trapped-on-nyc-subway/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities","Seth Meyers","Lorde","Late Night with Seth Meyers"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4862959/lorde-trapped-on-nyc-subway/","name":"Lorde Still Loves the NYC Subway Even Though She Was Trapped On a Subway Car for Four Hours"}}]}] ```