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Lorde has spoken out for the first time after news emerged that she's parted ways with her manager, Scott Maclachlan, saying, "hey, men - do me and yourselves a favour, and don't underestimate my skill."
The singer was 'discovered' by Maclachlan in 2008 at the age of 11, and had been under his managerial guidance ever since - but the New Zealand Herald reported this week that the pair split around a month ago.
Lorde's photo has been removed from the website of Maclachlan's company, Saiko Management, but neither he nor Lorde had publicly spoken about it until now.
Taking to Twitter last night, Lorde wrote, "hey, men - do me and yourselves a favour and don't underestimate my skill."
Her response was probably prompted by comment pieces such as that of The Guardian's Eamonn Forde, who wrote a piece titled "Oh Lorde, pray leaving your manager wasn't a mistake." In it he wrote, "Simultaneously, the artist’s judgment is liable to decline exponentially as their self-obsession races into the stratosphere. It is very easy to get caught up in the hysteria and think the success will never end."
hey, men - do me and yourselves a favour, and don't underestimate my skill
— Lorde (@lordemusic) May 20, 2015
yes, i'm a young lass, but i'm also making the best decisions for me each day. #stayeducated 💅
— Lorde (@lordemusic) May 20, 2015
The singer also favourited a series of tweets by Twitter user @worried_mind, which said, "Music writing isn't sports writing, you don't need to report on the ramifications of a manager being dropped or speculate on the next album. You can't critique art that hasn't happened."
Meanwhile, Lorde is currently working on her second album, the follow-up to 2013's Pure Heroine.
