{"id":229365,"date":"2026-03-19T03:46:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T03:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/19\/lorde-confirms-shes-an-independent-artist-for-now\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T03:46:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T03:46:17","slug":"lorde-confirms-shes-an-independent-artist-for-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/19\/lorde-confirms-shes-an-independent-artist-for-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Lorde Confirms She&#8217;s an Independent Artist For Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div> <center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Lorde confirms her deal with UMG has ended. \u201cI have had an amazing experience with them. But the truth is that a 12-year-old girl pre-signed and pre-sold her creative output\u2026before she knew what she was signing away.\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5pHhgXp5rl\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/5pHhgXp5rl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Pitchfork (@pitchfork) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pitchfork\/status\/2034371837875159410?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 18, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Lorde has confirmed that her record deal with Universal Music Group has ended.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI adore them, they\u2019re incredible people, and I have had an amazing experience with them,\u201d she said about her label. \u201cBut the truth is that a 12-year-old girl pre-signed and pre-sold her creative output before she knew what it would be like and before she knew what she was signing away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lorde went on to say that she\u2019ll likely sign another deal sometime in the future. It \u201ccould well be with Universal,\u201d but added that she \u201cneeded to take a second to have nothing being bought or sold that comes from me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I see an opportunity for a clean slate I take it,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd it does feel different. It sounds like it wouldn\u2019t but it really does. I feel a feeling of openness and possibility and am inspired.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lorde is currently on the road for her Ultrasound World Tour.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/pitchfork\/status\/2034371837875159410?s=20\" target=\"_blank\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/center> <\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com\/132085200.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lorde confirms her deal with UMG has ended. \u201cI have had an amazing experience with them. But the truth is that a 12-year-old girl pre-signed and pre-sold her creative output\u2026before she knew what she was signing away.\u201dhttps:\/\/t.co\/5pHhgXp5rl \u2014 Pitchfork (@pitchfork) March 18, 2026 Lorde has confirmed that her record deal with Universal Music Group has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":229366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-229365","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}