Lorde's latest album Solar Power was inspired by a life-changing trip to Antarctica in 2019, but during a recent chat with Euphoriaâs Hunter Schafer on the A24 podcast, the pop singer admitted that despite it being âthe best five days of my life,â it was a "naughty" thing to do and she "probably shouldn't have gone."
The New Zealand native started her story by recalling how she was âtotally obsessedâ with Antarctica as a child, and that fascination only grew as she âstarted to engage more with our planet.â
âI felt like I needed to go there. I had this reaction, people call it âlast chance tourismâ which is going somewhere before itâs too late and that was my first thought,â Lorde explained.
And though the trip was wonderful and she knows she'll ânever do anything like it again, it was so crazy from start to finish,â the 25-year-old confessed that âgoing there and actually having that experience made me realise, âoh no, you canât go around doing this.â"
"This is the opposite of what youâre supposed to do," she continued. "I probably shouldnât have gone to Antartica, it was naughty to use my pop star resources and burn that jet fuel to go there.â
âI wrote this (100-page) book [about the trip] and the proceeds went to a couple of scholarships for people doing their doctorates in climate science," Lorde noted, "so that felt like a good way to give back.â