Sat 11 Oct 2014 In: New Zealand Daily News View at Wayback View at NDHA
Lorde has reacted to her joke portrayal on South Park with her impression it contained a message of transgender acceptance. The show known for mocking celebrities made Lorde out to be the female persona of a local geologist, Randy Marsh, who wanted to use the women’s bathroom – and when in there started writing songs, before taking to the stage to sing "ya ya ya, I am Lorde ya ya ya". Randy’s wife Sharon offers the message "Lorde represents something in all of us a truth that wants to be heard… If I could talk to Lorde right now, you know what I'd tell her I'd tell her not to let me change who she is." Lorde says the episode is actually “surprisingly cute”, “and from what I can tell also has a message of transgender acceptance (I'm still very new with this type of humour so I'm not sure if was actually genuine but it seemed so to me),” Lorde has since written about the show. The New Zealand singer added “Well shit this is downright sweet,” and “take that haters I got a South Park episode.”
Credit: GayNZ.com Daily News staff
First published: Saturday, 11th October 2014 - 8:37am