--- title: Lorde Responds to Saturday Night Live Dancing Criticism description: After Lorde was mocked for her Saturday Night Live performance of "Green Light," she took to social media to respond to the criticism. canonical: https://time.com/4700910/lorde-on-snl-dancing-criticism/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-03-14T17:07:29.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:41:52.467Z og:title: Lorde Hits Back at Criticism of Her SNL Dancing og:description: "One day i will do a normal dance choreographed by a nice person" og:url: https://time.com/4700910/lorde-on-snl-dancing-criticism/ 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 Hits Back at Criticism of Her SNL Dancing twitter:description: "One day i will do a normal dance choreographed by a nice person" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Lorde Hits Back at Criticism of Her _Saturday Night Live_ Dancing  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Mar 14, 2017 5:07 PM UTC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Mar 14, 2017 5:07 PM UTC After [Lorde](http://time.com/4697463/lorde-liability-melodrama/) was mocked for her “[awkward](https://twitter.com/MusicIsMyL0ver/status/840847972644532224)” dancing during her [_Saturday Night Live_](http://time.com/4699106/snl-alec-baldwin-donald-trump-aliens-troops/)performance of “[Green Light](http://time.com/4689018/lorde-green-light/),” she took to social media to respond to the criticism. In a Monday [Facebook post](https://www.facebook.com/lordemusic/posts/1577791865571861), the New Zealand pop star made it clear she wasn’t fazed by the negative comments about her signature moves. “One day i will do a normal dance choreographed by a nice person and i will look more like your other favourite performers but we have not yet reached that day,” she captioned a video of the performance. Watch the clip below. Lorde Responds to Saturday Night Live Dancing Criticism ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4700910/lorde-on-snl-dancing-criticism/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4700910/lorde-on-snl-dancing-criticism/"},"headline":"Lorde Hits Back at Criticism of Her Saturday Night Live Dancing","datePublished":"2017-03-14T17:07:29.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:41:52.467Z","description":"\"One day i will do a normal dance choreographed by a nice person\"","url":"https://time.com/4700910/lorde-on-snl-dancing-criticism/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","Music","Saturday Night Live","Lorde","TV"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"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/4700910/lorde-on-snl-dancing-criticism/","name":"Lorde Hits Back at Criticism of Her Saturday Night Live Dancing"}}]}] ```