--- title: Lorde Covers Kanye West's Love Lockdown, Runaway in Chicago description: Lorde paid tribute to Chicago native Kanye West by covering his songs "Love Lockdown" and "Runaway" during a stop in his hometown. canonical: https://time.com/5220344/lorde-covers-kanye-west-songs-in-chicago/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-03-29T14:53:48.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:51:42.860Z og:title: Lorde Covers Kanye West Songs in the Most Appropriate Place og:description: "It must be nice to come from the same place as Kanye West" og:url: https://time.com/5220344/lorde-covers-kanye-west-songs-in-chicago/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7c6334679d3904a5/69892c53e76ad27e1863187d/lorde-covers-kanye-west-love-lockdown-in-chicago.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Christian Dior : Outside Arrivals - Paris Fashion Week Womenswear Fall/Winter 2015/2016 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Lorde Covers Kanye West Songs in the Most Appropriate Place twitter:description: "It must be nice to come from the same place as Kanye West" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7c6334679d3904a5/69892c53e76ad27e1863187d/lorde-covers-kanye-west-love-lockdown-in-chicago.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Lorde Covers Her 'Idol' Kanye West Songs in the Most Appropriate Place  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Mar 29, 2018 2:53 PM UTC  PARIS, FRANCE - MARCH 06: Kanye West and Lorde attend the Christian Dior show as part of the Paris Fashion Week Womenswear Fall/Winter 2015/2016 on March 6, 2015 in Paris, France. (Photo by Antonio de Moraes Barros Filho/WireImage) PARIS, FRANCE - MARCH 06: Kanye West and Lorde attend the Christian Dior show as part of the Paris Fashion Week Womenswear Fall/Winter 2015/2016 on March 6, 2015 in Paris, France. (Photo by Antonio de Moraes Barros Filho/WireImage)Antonio de Moraes Barros Filho—WireImage  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Mar 29, 2018 2:53 PM UTC [Lorde](http://time.com/lorde/) paid tribute to [Kanye West](http://time.com/4411055/kanye-west-taylor-swift-kim-kardashian-feud/) during a concert in his hometown of Chicago by singing a capella covers of his songs, “Love Lockdown” and “Runaway” on Tuesday night. The New Zealand pop singer, who’s currently on her [_Melodrama_](http://time.com/4923621/rihanna-inspired-lorde-melodrama/) tour following her album of the same name, gave a shoutout to West and Chi-town’s residents before launching into her covers. “Thanks Chicago! It must be nice to come from the same place as Kanye West,” she said. The two artists are friendly, having collaborated on [a remix of “Yellow Flicker Beat”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuY4MSh1V-I) together in 2014\. Lorde has also said that West is her [“idol”](https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/6304100/lorde-billboard-cover-story) and was one of the celebrities in attendance at [his Yeezy Season 2](https://www.racked.com/2015/9/16/9339731/kanye-west-yeezy-season-2-drake-kylie-jenner-lorde) presentation. See Lorde’s Kanye covers below. > [](https://twitter.com/CorbinReiff/status/978822637509111809) > [](https://twitter.com/CadillacGabe/status/978855553316376577) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5220344/lorde-covers-kanye-west-songs-in-chicago/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5220344/lorde-covers-kanye-west-songs-in-chicago/"},"headline":"Lorde Covers Her 'Idol' Kanye West Songs in the Most Appropriate Place","datePublished":"2018-03-29T14:53:48.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:51:42.860Z","description":"\"It must be nice to come from the same place as Kanye West\"","url":"https://time.com/5220344/lorde-covers-kanye-west-songs-in-chicago/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Music"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7c6334679d3904a5/69892c53e76ad27e1863187d/lorde-covers-kanye-west-love-lockdown-in-chicago.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7c6334679d3904a5/69892c53e76ad27e1863187d/lorde-covers-kanye-west-love-lockdown-in-chicago.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Christian Dior : Outside Arrivals - Paris Fashion Week Womenswear Fall/Winter 2015/2016","caption":"Christian Dior : Outside Arrivals - Paris Fashion Week Womenswear Fall/Winter 2015/2016","creditText":"Antonio de Moraes Barros Filho—WireImage","representativeOfPage":true}],"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/5220344/lorde-covers-kanye-west-songs-in-chicago/","name":"Lorde Covers Her 'Idol' Kanye West Songs in the Most Appropriate Place"}}]}] ```