Spiritbox’s Courtney LaPlante reveals that an old Charli XCX interview in which the pop star was ‘mistaken’ for Lorde was her “inspiration” during the recent GRAMMYs mix-up.
Spiritbox’s Courtney LaPlante recently took to Instagram Live to comment on her viral red carpet interview from the GRAMMYs.
The singer referred to an old Charli XCX interview skit where the pop star was asked about writing Royals – which is famously a Lorde single – and explained that that video was her “inspiration” when she experienced her own case of mistaken identity on February 2.
“I was like, ‘Don’t say anything too crazy,’” Courtney explained of the moment she was introduced as Poppy. “Because I don’t know Poppy and Knocked Loose well enough to go crazy on it, you know? I’m like, ‘What if they don’t like this? What if they feel like I’m mocking their achievements?’ Because I wasn’t. I was just like, ‘I think this is very funny.’
“It reminded me of [when] Charli XCX was doing an interview and someone was like, ‘What was it like writing the song Royals?’ or something like that,” Courtney continued. “And then instead of being all shitty about it, she just talked about writing Royals, and what that’s like being a teenager from New Zealand.
“So I took that as my inspiration, and I think everyone left happy, right? We got promotion of Poppy and Knocked Loose in there, I slipped a little Spiritbox and Courtney in there, too.”
Hero! Check out the clip of Courtney talking about what fans are calling ‘Poppygate’ below:
And see the full Instagram Live, if you missed it:
Spiritbox’s new album Tsunami Sea – the follow-up to 2021’s breakout LP Eternal Blue – is due out on March 7 via Pale Chord in partnership with Rise Records.
Catch the band at the following live dates very soon:
Spiritbox UK and European headline tour
February
13 London Alexandra Palace
15 Berlin Columbiahalle
16 Tilburg Poppodium 013
18 Paris L’Olympia
19 Köln Palladium
20 Frankfurt Zoom
22 Munich Tonhalle
23 Hamburg Freiheit 36
Plus, see them at Download Festival 2025.
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