No Music For Genocide
Lorde Screams ‘Free Palestine’ at MSG: A Pathetic Cry for Relevance
At her Madison Square Garden concert, Lorde interrupted her own song to shout “Free f***ing Palestine,” turning the stage into a propaganda spectacle while her music sales quietly flounder. But don't be fooled - it isn’t activism.
Oh, for crying out loud, here we go again with Lorde, the once-promising Kiwi pop star who's now scraping the bottom of the barrel for any scrap of attention she can muster. At her so-called "sold-out" concert at Madison Square Garden on October 1, 2025, this fading 28-year-old interrupted her dusty 2013 hit "Team" to screech "Free f***ing Palestine!" while the stage lit up in the Palestinian flag colors of red, white, and green.
The crowd, probably a mix of clueless zoomers and virtue-signaling hipsters, ate it up with cheers, but let's call it what it is: a shameless, embarrassing ploy to ride Palestine's coattails back into the spotlight. Pathetic doesn't even begin to cover it.
And just to twist the knife in her own irrelevance, within 24 hours, her already-forgotten catalog vanished from Apple Music and YouTube Music in Israel, poof, like it was never there, except for a handful of scraps.
Sure, Spotify might still have it (for now), but who cares?
This stunt reeks of her jumping on the "No Music For Genocide" bandwagon, a trendy boycott circle-jerk where over 1,000 B-list artists like Björk and Paramore pretend they're making a difference by geo-blocking their tunes from the Jewish state.
It's all in the name of protesting Gaza and whatever else fits the narrative – but really, it's Lorde trying to mask her flopping career behind a veil of fake activism. Universal Music Israel wisely ignored the drama; why dignify this nonsense?
Born Ella Whatever-Her-Name-Is in New Zealand, Lorde burst onto the scene at 16 with "Royals" and Pure Heroine, snagging Grammys and pretending to be the voice of a generation. But fast-forward: Melodrama was meh, Solar Power bombed harder than her relevance, and now her 2025 album Virgin is limping along with pitiful sales numbers from Luminate.
She's not filling arenas on talent anymore; no, she needs to hijack a geopolitical crisis to get people talking.
Remember 2017? She bailed on a Tel Aviv gig because BDS bullies whined at her, leading to a lawsuit where actual fans got compensated for her cowardice.
Then in 2023, she gushed over some Palestinian artist's cover of her song amid Gaza footage, "incredibly moving," she called it, like she's the arbiter of art's "true purpose." Give me a break; it's all calculated embarrassment to stay in the headlines.
The backlash? Spot on. Real fans and pro-Israel voices are furious, shouting "Am Yisrael Chai" back at her nonsense and calling out the blatant antisemitism in targeting the only Jewish nation. Critics are ripping her apart as a hypocritical has-been whose music "won’t be missed" and they're right. Her "Ultrasound World Tour" is trudging through North America, with tickets gathering dust, while she echoes has-beens like Roger Waters in these pathetic boycotts.
This isn't activism; it's a sad, embarrassing grasp at fading fame, exploiting a complex conflict for clicks. Lorde, your 15 minutes expired years ago.
You won't be missed.