Lorde is feeling fearless as she goes into the final two performances of her Virgin album cycle, with the pop star quoting a Taylor Swift lyric while posting about the end of her festival run on Thursday (Oct. 8).
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Sharing a photo on her Instagram Story of a matcha drink carrier that reads “Thank you” on the side, Lorde — who will play FORM Arcosanti in Arizona on Friday (Oct. 9) followed by Austin City Limits in Texas the next day — said that she felt the upcoming dates were “an exit ceremony for this album.”
“but it also feels like a beginning,” she continued. “I Can’t thank you enough for making this the most inspiring special tour i have ever been on, it was you and me all the way through. In capture it rmemeber [sic] it mode this weekend frrrrrrrrr.”
“Capture it, remember it” is a phrase made famous by the title track of Swift’s 2008 sophomore album, Fearless. The two singers have been friends for many years, with fans considering Lorde a key member in the Eras headliner’s famous “squad” back in the mid 2010s. (The New Zealander said on X in 2017 that she wasn’t a huge fan of the “squad” label, but also wrote, “taylor has been there for me in all my dark and light moments these past 5 years, all of them.”)
The back-to-back festival dates are the last shows on Lorde’s calendar after touring in support of Virgin — which debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 in July 2025 — for more than a year. She began by embarking on her Ultrasound arena trek in September of last year before kicking off her festival run at Gov Ball in June.
At one of her recent stops, Lorde made a statement by wearing a “Free Palestine” jacket on stage at the first weekend of ACL. She also posted a photo of the outfit on Instagram and pointedly tagged an unverified account for Robert Kraft, the billionaire owner of Gillette Stadium who rallied other venue heads to have Macklemore dropped from Ed Sheeran’s Loop Tour over the rapper’s onstage pro-Palestinian protests.
Also on Thursday, Lorde reposted a photo of the jacket and wrote to her ACL weekend two audience, “See you again in 2 days.”
