Lorde had promised something special for today's performance at the MTV Video Music Awards.
But no one expected this.
The Kiwi pop star had been scheduled to perform Homemade Dynamite, a popular song from her recent second album Melodrama, at today's live awards ceremony.
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Instead, she emerged on stage in grey pants and a silver tutu and gave the song its own interpretive dance routine without singing a single word.