Lorde might have come a long way from the days of decrying the life of ‘Cristal, Maybach, diamonds on your timepiece’, but she’s still down to earth, the sort of jolly goth you’d get doing weird stuff around the edges of the school playground at lunchtime.
If you don’t get what we mean? Well, she’s just admitted to a spot of bin-raiding. It’s not full-on freeganism (when people spy supermarkets’ immense waste and take a dip in to get some very-near-but-not-too-near-its-sell-by-date dinner), but a gentler sort. Still, Lorde’s a bin-raider, fishing about in skips for bargain goods.
The thing is, she won’t use that terminology for it, instead anointing the age-old practice of picking up stuff left out on the street to ‘trawl the inorganics’.
She told The Telegraph, ‘I'm boring, because my favourite thing to do is trawl the inorganics. Do you have inorganics here?
‘It stays on the street for a few days and then it's collected and put into a landfill somewhere. But people drive around and go through other people's household rubbish. And, honestly, I've gotten amazing furniture, shoes, hats, jackets.’
The only downside with this Kiwi (we’re guessing?) activity – which is set to worsen now she’s admitted to it and all her impressionable young fans will follow her in having a good root around the rubbish – is that she gets recognised doing it. ‘I did this three weeks ago! Recognised every single time. So embarrassing!’
To be fair, if one person’s trash is another’s treasure, you’re being super-environmentally friendly and getting some pretty and useful finds, so it’s really not that embarrassing to be trash-diving, is it? If it was, we’re sure Lorde wouldn’t admit to it.
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This article originally appeared on The Debrief.