So The Craft has long been one of our most favourite fucked-up teen films. From a canon which includes Heathers, Wild Things and Virgin Suicides, we can't get enough of the meaner-than-Mean Girls high school horror flicks. Then came Lorde, whose get-up at the Grammys made us we want to rewatch 1988's The Craft immediately and dress like Neve Campbell even more immediately.
Ella Maria Leni Yelich-O'Connor became the third youngest Grammy award winner in history when she won best pop song of the year for Royals, accepting her award in a gothic-inspired outfit that not only looked like she flew into LA's Staples Centre on a broomstick, but was the antithesis to those lingerie-clad popstars we usually see gyrating on stage. And we loved it. With her signature aubergine lips (her MAC make-up artist revealed on Twitter that it was a combo of MAC's Cyber and Heroine shades, £15 each, lined with lip pencil in Vino, £12), Wednesday Adams centre-parted hair, eerily ink-stained fingers (also sported by Rick Owen's wife, Michelle Lamy) and a Balenciaga Pre-Fall floor-length black gown (try ASOS's ruched maxi dress, £50) – from which she changed into a crisp white shirt (check out Whistles' version, on sale for £55) and black high-waisted trousers to perform – Lorde was one part Japanese avant-garde, two parts mod witchy. We aren't the only ones who fell for Lorde's gothic-lite turn – the stage also featured a giant angel statue – as it seemingly earned Lorde a big fat hug from Tay Tay.
Lorde wasn't the only woman doing monochrome at The Grammys. Grill-gurning Madonna was wearing an identical tuxedo to her 8-year-old son, David Banda, which raises an interesting question about if and when it's OK to dress like your young son (she's also buying him grills). But with Lorde, we had no questions, only answers: yes to noir on the red carpet, yes to roadtesting creepy new nail trends and a big fat yes to plum-stained lips and dressing just like Neve in her cinematic heyday.
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This article originally appeared on The Debrief.