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"Lorde has stood by her criticism of Selena Gomez, saying she &amp;quot;can&amp;#039;t help but express&amp;quot; her &amp;quot;strong opinions&amp;quot;. The 16-year-old &amp;#039;Royals&amp;#039; singer recently called Gomez&amp;#039;s song &amp;#039;Come &amp;amp; Get It&amp;#039; anti-feminist, to which Gomez later hit back by saying &amp;quot;it&amp;#039;s not feminism if you&amp;#039;re tearing down another artist&amp;quot;.   Speaking about her comments, Lorde has now told MTV News: &amp;quot;I think there&amp;#039;s a funny culture in music that&amp;#039;s only happened over the last 15 years, that if you have an opinion about something in music that isn&amp;#039;t 100% good, you&amp;#039;re a &amp;#039;hater&amp;#039;. &amp;quot;Even if you have perfectly reasonable grounds for that critique. People will say exactly what they think about a movie or a TV show, and that&amp;#039;s fine, but as soon as you say it about a record, you&amp;#039;re like some little zombie in a funny dungeon. &amp;quot;I have pretty strong morals and opinions being in pop music, and I can&amp;#039;t help but express those, which I think people appreciate. I mean, I don&amp;#039;t think I say anything that isn&amp;#039;t backed up. Most of the time I will stand by things that I&amp;#039;ve said.&amp;quot;   Meanwhile, Cher Lloyd has called Lorde &amp;quot;a knob&amp;quot; for criticising Gomez, telling J-14: &amp;quot;Why does she have to go and do that? She&amp;#039;s doing so well - what a knob. &amp;quot;Why would she do that? She&amp;#039;s sitting at number one. I think she&amp;#039;s going to eat her words, which she obviously already has, and I think for someone who&amp;#039;s gaining so much success so early, she should be considering herself lucky - it takes a lot of work.&amp;quot; Lorde will release her new single &amp;#039;Royals&amp;#039; in the UK on October 20 after the track hit the top of the US Hot 100 earlier this month. Watch the music video for Lorde&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Royals&amp;#039; below:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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