Lorde Plays a Femme Fatale in Her New Music Video (and Gets a Makeover to Match)

The hottest hitgirl in town.

The first time you watch the music video for Lorde's new song, "Magnets," off Disclosure's just-dropped album, you'll probably be a little conflicted. You feel an infinite number of praise-hands emojis towards the singer. You know she's wise and all-knowing. You call her mom, for goodness sakes. So it's hard to watch her put on her highest heels and darkest lipstick, then proceed to steal a man from another woman and ruin his life.

See what we mean?

But then when you consider a key plot twist she shared with her fans on Tumblr, the whole thing takes on a totally new meaning:

The most important detail is the girlfriend’s black eye, when she’s by the window...watch it with that moment in mind. that’s the point the whole video hinges on / takes it from being “an affair narrative” to being “dude’s girlfriend hired miss ella the hit girl to ‘seduce’ him then take him the f*** out

It also brings new meaning to the black eye Miss Ella was sporting at Kanye's fashion show a few weeks ago. Surely it wasn't just to tease this music video...but if it was? All hail.

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