Lorde recently offered her blunt opinion on AI smart glasses at a concert, as Kylie Jenner faces backlash over her collaboration with Meta to create wearable tech
Lorde got real about the rise of new technology last week, offering her blunt opinion about AI-enabled smart glasses at a recent concert.
The 29-year-old New Zealand musician, who rose to stardom as a teenager with the release of her hit debut studio album Pure Heroine, took aim at AI-powered smart glasses during her performance at Madrid’s Mad Cool Festival last week.
“You don’t know if someone is wearing sunglasses or if they’re wearing those f–ked up…” Lorde said, while pointing to her face without directly naming the wearable technology. “Can I just say, for the record, f–k the glasses,” she continued.
“Don’t get the glasses. Not sexy,” the Green Light hitmaker said, imploring her fans not to get AI glasses.
“This is sexy — this is real,” she said, referencing not wearing smart glasses.
Lorde didn’t mention Meta, Ray-Ban, or any other brand of AI-powered glasses during her speech. However, Ray-Ban was one of the festival’s sponsors.
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Lorde’s stance against AI smart wearables may not come as a surprise to longtime fans, as she has sung about throwing her phone into the ocean in her song Solar Power.
“I would see my screen-time go to like, 11 hours and I knew it was just looking at the Daily Mail,” Lorde told the New York Times in a 2021 interview, detailing the strict boundaries she created for her relationship with her phone. “I remember sitting up in bed and realizing I could get to the end of my life and have done this every day. And it’s up to me to choose, right now. So I just sort of chose.”
Lorde told the outlet that her phone now has no internet browser, and she’s locked out of her social media apps.
Her recent comments that are seemingly against AI smart glasses come as more and more wearable tech options hit retailers, with some even promoted by other celebrities.
Kylie Jenner released slim, oval-shaped AI glasses in collaboration with Meta, known as the Starfire Kylie Edition, which retail for $399 and feature hands-free communication and recording capabilities, an AI assistant, and live translation. The wearable tech’s Meta AI is also voiced by Jenner.
“2026, the year of realizing that I am the new voice of Meta AI. We love a tech moment,” Jenner said in an ad promoting her Meta Glasses.
“And I hate that meta glasses encourages the surveillance state to become even more normalized,” one Reddit user posted in response to Jenner’s collaboration with Meta. Another Reddit user wrote, “You’d think celebrities of all people would understand why these are bad to normalize.”
Others seemed to like the design of Jenner’s glasses, but disliked the AI aspect, as one user wrote, “They’re cute as hell but I kinda hate that I have to be on the lookout for even more differently styled glasses with the cameras on them.”
Critics of Meta Glasses and other AI-powered glasses have raised privacy concerns about how the stylish wearable tech can record what users see, with particular worries about users recording people without their knowledge.
According to Meta, its AI glasses feature a white light on the front of each pair, known as a capture LED, which lights up when the camera is in use, whether for a picture or video.
“We know that for wearable technology to succeed it must be trusted both by people who wear the glasses and the others around them,” Meta detailed in a response to a question about why the company chose a white light. “We looked at many options and found the white light delivered the best combination of visibility and experience.”
Despite the privacy concerns and pushback from celebrities, such as Lorde, EssilorLuxottica, the maker of Ray-Ban, said it tripled its sales of AI glasses last year, selling over 7 million pairs of the wearable tech.
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