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NZ Herald
20-05-2025
- Entertainment
- NZ Herald
Lorde previews next single Man of the Year from new album Virgin
The article outlined the single's inspiration coming to Lorde as she was 'sitting on the floor of her living room, trying to visualise a version of herself 'that was fully representative of how [her] gender felt in that moment'.' 'What she saw once again was an image of herself in men's jeans, this time wearing nothing else but her gold chain and duct tape on her chest. 'The tape had this feeling of rawness to her, of it 'not being a permanent solution'.' Lorde told Rolling Stone journalist Brittany Spanos; 'I went to the cupboard, and I got the tape out, and I did it to myself'. 'I have this picture staring at myself. I was blonde [at the time]. It scared me what I saw. I didn't understand it. 'But I felt something bursting out of me. It was crazy. It was something jagged. There was this violence to it.' The singer also revealed in the interview, she now describes herself as 'in the middle gender-wise". The makeshift top in this new image shares a visual resemblance to the outfit Lorde wore to the Met Gala earlier this month. After a four-year hiatus the Green Light singer returned to the high profile fashion fundraiser event sporting a silver floating bandeau top, matching suit jacket and maxi skirt by American design Thom Browne. Virgin, Lorde's fourth album, will be released on June 27. In an email to her database announcing the album, the Auckland-born singer said she was 'proud and scared' of the soon-to-be-released work. 'The colour of the album is clear. Like bathwater, windows, ice, spit. Full transparency. The language is plain and unsentimental. The sounds are the same wherever possible.' Lorde said she was 'trying to see myself, all the way through. I was trying to make a document that reflected my femininity: raw, primal, innocent, elegant, openhearted, spiritual, masc'.
Express Tribune
16-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Express Tribune
Lorde reveals gender fluidity and says 'I'm a woman except for the days when I'm a man'
In a recent Rolling Stone interview with journalist Brittany Spanos, singer-songwriter Lorde opened up about her evolving sense of gender identity, revealing how it informs her upcoming album Virgin, due out June 27. The album's opening track features the lyric, 'Some days I'm a woman / Some days I'm a man.' When asked about this line and her current identity, Lorde shared a candid moment with fellow artist Chappell Roan. 'She was like, 'So, are you nonbinary now?' And I was like, 'I'm a woman except for the days when I'm a man.' I know that's not a very satisfying answer, but there's a part of me that is really resistant to boxing it up,' she said. While Lorde continues to identify as a cisgender woman and uses she/her pronouns, she described herself as feeling 'in the middle gender-wise.' She emphasized her comfort with fluidity, noting that she often feels connected to her teenage self—especially in the way she dressed and moved through the world when most of her friends were boys. A turning point came in 2023 when Lorde tried on a pair of men's jeans at clothing store C'H'C'M' and sent a photo to Virgin producer Jim-E Stack. 'He was like, 'I want to see the you that's in this picture represented in the music.'' She credits that moment as a creative spark that influenced the project's direction. With Virgin set to release June 27, followed by a global tour, Lorde's exploration of gender identity is poised to shape both her personal narrative and the next phase of her musical journey.
