During her set at the Osheaga Festival on 4 August 2017 , Lorde invited Tove Lo to sing a duet of " Homemade Dynamite " with her . Before introducing her , the singer told the crowd she wrote all the songs on her record with one person but Lo was the " one extra " person she " wrote a song with . " Lo said it was a " huge moment " for her . The track was also performed at the 2017 MTV Video Music Awards . Lorde said hours before the performance that she was diagnosed with the flu . Instead of singing , she opted to perform an interpretive dance . It was met with conflicting reviews from critics and audiences , with many calling it " bizarre " and Maroon 5 vocalist Adam Levine saying it was " utterly horrible " ; it later became a meme . Lorde later defended her performance in a podcast interview , saying that viewers overreacted to her dancing . She said that it was " sort of embarrassing to watch someone experience intense joy " which she thinks is why people find what she does " disconcerting " . The song was part of her Melodrama World Tour ( 2017 – 2018 ) set list . She also performed " Homemade Dynamite " , with six other songs , as part of a re-imagined Vevo series at the Electric Lady Studios where most of the album was recorded
2017 MTV Video Music Awards
2017 MTV Video Music Awards
Homemade Dynamite