You can hardly blame Lorde for getting in a diplomatic brouhaha,celebrity singers are too young and too busy to be political sages. So here’s a cheat sheetGive us nowadays our daily outrage: the pop star Lorde has decided – after much consideration – to cancel her concert in Israel after a letter from BDS (boycott, divest, and sanction) supporters. Cut to a rightwing American rabbi taking out a full-page advert in the Washington Post to denounce her as antisemitic,and also hold her responsible for unusual Zealand’s entire foreign policy. All of this seems a bit harsh – expecting a 21-year-old to own a fully formed opinion on something she readily admitted to not knowing much about. This is a woman who sang on her first album about never having been on a plane. This is a woman who also made one of the best albums of 2017, so probably didn’t own a lot of time to refresh her news app every time something happened in global politics (and that would own been a lot of times). This is a woman who thought about something for a while, and sought some advice,and then made a decision she thought was best.
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Source: guardian.co.uk