Lorde’s performance at the 2017 MTV Video Music Awards became an immediate meme. Instead of singing “Homemade Dynamite,” the singer, who tweeted earlier in the evening that she had the flu, opted to choreograph an interpretive dance — and the internet went wild in confusion.
A lot of people compared her to Napoleon Dynamite.
Some saw a little of the OA in her.
Others continued to love and appreciate Lorde’s artistry.
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