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" What&amp;#039;s the first thing that pops into your head when somebody says &amp;#039;Lorde&amp;#039;? Candyfloss? Dancing gummy bears? Um...not exactly. Which might be why she&amp;#039;s refused to join whipped cream bra enthusiast Katy Perry on her Prismatic world tour this year in favor of headlining her own gigs. Yup - Lorde turned down K-Pez&amp;#039;s offer to support her on tour to &amp;#039;establish herself&amp;#039; as one of those artiste-types in her own right, playing her own shows to her own fans without the awkward &amp;#039;we&amp;#039;re-not-really-here-to-see-you-shall-we-just-sit-down&amp;#039; bit. Chatting on Kyle Sandilands&amp;#039; radio show, Lorde said: &amp;quot;I think in the really early stages of any artist&amp;#039;s career it&amp;#039;s important for them to establish themselves for themselves. I&amp;#039;m just basically really stubborn and I want to be really independent and so I wanted to be headlining my own shows as opposed to supporting someone else.&amp;quot; MORE: Check out Lorde&amp;#039;s New Collection for MAC Well, like, it didn&amp;#039;t really harm The Saturdays or 5 Seconds of Summer&amp;#039;s careers, babe, but each to their own and all that. Would you like to see Lorde headline her own show? Do you think Lorde and Katy would be a weird tour duo? Let us hear your answers in the comments! Originally posted on: Sugarscape.com "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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