Lorde is happy to be an "elder statesman" at the age of just 24.
The "Stoned at the Nail Salon" singer explained she rarely uses social media because she didn't want to find herself in a position of constantly pursuing "likes" on her posts and after finding herself at a "crossroads", she concluded she was ready to move forward in her life.
Speaking to Apple Music's Zane Lowe, she said: "I realised I was trying to come up with a funny Instagram caption and do a photo of me that looked cool that I would hope would get a certain amount of likes. It sounds obvious, but that's cooked.
"For me, I'm not a girl that gets a bunch of likes. I am who I am, and I've got to lean into that. I think for the last one I was 21 and still like the kids, and then the culture started to change and I didn't know that I wanted to change with it. I didn't know if I wanted to be a TikTok girl, an Instagram Stories girl, and it was a real crossroads.