What, Exactly, Is the Deal With Lorde's Vinyl Insert for ‘Virgin'?
The rollout of Lorde's fourth studio album, Virgin, has had everyone talking about—among other things—the reproductive system and its many uses. (Am I the only one still confused about the whole ovulation-is-so-cool-and-freeing conversation?) So it's only natural that the album's vinyl edition, also released today, should include an insert with the image of…a woman's lower torso and groin in a pair of unzipped plastic pants? (While some have speculated that the, well, vulva on display belongs to the 28-year-old musician herself, it should be stated outright that we really can't know that for sure.)
While this is huge for the Bush is Back agenda—the pubic styling choice, not the political dynasty, thank actual God—it's also a ringing endorsement for physical media. While Lorde was perfectly happy to blast her (or, you know, someone's) pelvic X-ray out to one and all via Virgin's album cover, only the real ones who purchased a hard copy were blessed with a graven image of what the internet has inventively dubbed 'the Lord(e)ussy.'
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