It looks like Jack White has joined Nirvana and Bruce Springsteen on the list of rockers who think Lorde is pretty cool. At a show in Milwaukee on July 21, White performed a cover of the New Zealand pop star's massive hit "Royals." As of right now, the only video footage of this performance is a brief, blurry video posted to Instagram, but it's definitely enough to get the picture and realize just how strange this must have been for the audience.
Pitchfork reports that White has also performed covers of Jay-Z's "99 Problems" and the Stooges' "I Wanna Be Your Dog" during previous stops on his current tour.
You can check out the Instagram video here:
UPDATE: The video has since been removed from Instagram.
In contrast to Jack White's full band arrangement of "Royals," Bruce Springsteen performed a solo acoustic version of the song at a show in Auckland, New Zealand, Lorde's hometown, back in February. You can watch that performance below:
But wait, there's more! Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic performed an instrumental accordion version of "Royals" at a FairVote benefit concert in Takoma Park, Maryland, just a month before he and his bandmates Dave Grohl and Pat Smear performed "All Apologies" at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony with Lorde on vocals. You can check out Novoselic's version of "Royals" below, along with Lorde's rendition of "All Apologies" with Nirvana:
Novoselic isn't the only Nirvana member to be a big fan of Lorde. Here's what Dave Grohl had to say about the first time he heard "Royals":
"I was so happy and relieved that my two girls were singing a popular song on the radio that had some substance and depth, which I considered to be healthy for them as kids."
