Swift and Lorde‘s friendship blossomed after the “Merciless Summer time” singer despatched Lorde a bouquet of flowers after a stay efficiency, and the 2 met in individual at Shake Shack to get to know every extra, per Individuals. From there, Lorde and Swift carried out collectively throughout Swift’s “1989” tour present in Washington DC in 2015, however they have not been seen a lot in public since.

In 2017, Lorde sparked rumors about tensions with Swift after she revealed in a June 2017 interview with Australia’s Dawn (by way of E! Information) that “I do not hang around with these folks in any respect,” allegedly in regard to Swift and the “Squad.”

Shortly after, nonetheless, the “Royals” artist clarified her feedback on Twitter, writing partly (by way of Related Press), “I need to say yet one more time that Taylor has been there for me in all my darkish and light-weight moments these previous 5 years. All of them. I really feel actually horrible that it could ever appear to be I wasn’t faithfully her individual.”

Since this delicate drama, Lorde and Swift haven’t been seen in public collectively. Nonetheless, on June 16, 2023, Lorde shared an Instagram Story exhibiting off a textual content Swift despatched her the week her album “Melodrama” dropped in 2017. “You’ll all the time be imagined in my thoughts in a rowboat with Annie Lennox floating down a river of cool cerebral ethereal desires however don’t-f*ck-with-me vibes throughout you,” Swift wrote within the textual content. “And I do not assume first week file gross sales singularly outline a legacy.”

Lorde captioned the Story, “Taylor was very form and never fallacious,” added a coronary heart emoji and tagged Swift within the publish, exhibiting that the pair nonetheless appear to have numerous love for each other.