Spiritbox’s Courtney LaPlante Comments on the Poppy Mixup at the Grammys
Okay, it’s been a week since the whole Courtney LaPlante/Poppy mix up at the Grammys and I feel like I’m kind of over it at this point. It was funny, but it’s been a week and I’m pretty much over it and have moved on to being amused by Kendrick Lamar’s impressive level of pettiness at the Super Bowl, right down to the “a minor” flags he flew to mock Drake that didn’t make it on television. That shit was hilarious. But I figure we might as well squeeze one more story out of the LaPlante/Poppy debacle because we kind of got the DVD commentary of the whole incident, if you will, and I felt like I had to report on that.
In an Instagram chat that was reported on by our friends over at Metal Injection, LaPlante gave a little bit of an explanation of what was going through her head during the Grammys incident and she explained that she was inspired by an incident where pop star Charlie XCX was mistaken for Lorde, but that she didn’t want to go too crazy with it since she doesn’t know Knocked Loose and Poppy well enough to do that:
“I was like, ‘don’t say anything too crazy’ because I don’t know Poppy and Knocked Loose well enough to go crazy on it, you know? What if they don’t like this? What if they feel like I’m mocking their achievements, because I wasn’t – I think this is very funny.
“It reminded me of [when] Charlie XCX was doing an interview and someone was like ‘what was it like writing [the Lorde song] ‘Royals’ or something like that?’ And instead of being all shitty about it, she just talked about writing ‘Royals’ and being a teenager from New Zealand. 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.”
That’s fair and I appreciate LaPlante not going off on some tangent that could have started a Spiritbox/Knocked Loose beef. Maybe the whole incident will eventually lead to a Spiritbox/Knocked Loose/Poppy collaboration, or at the very least a tour. But if they call it something like the “Lookalikes Tour,” then that’s just poking the bear once too often.
