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17-05-2025
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Lorde Was Surprised When ‘Ribs' Returned to the Charts: ‘It's Crazy That It Works on People Still'
Lorde just released her first original solo single in four years last month, but 'What Was That' wasn't the only one of her songs to debut on the Billboard Hot 100 after its release. Her Pure Heroine track 'Ribs,' which has become a fan favorite over the years, debuted at Number 99, nearly 12 years after it came out. 'It's crazy that it works on people still,' Lorde told Rolling Stone, during her interview sessions for the magazine's May cover story. 'It's a mystery to me.' More from Rolling Stone Lorde's Ultrasound Tour 2025: How to Get Tickets Online Before They're Gone Lorde Reveals Past Struggle With Eating Disorder: 'I Felt So Hungry and So Weak' Lorde Says She's 'In the Middle Gender-Wise': 'I'm a Woman Except When I'm a Man' Even before the song charted for the first time ever, Lorde took notice of her fans' love for 'Ribs' after her Washington Square Park event in April. She had announced an appearance in the park on April 22nd, but due to the immense size of the crowd, fans were ordered to disperse by the NYPD. In lieu of Lorde's appearance, the lingering audience sung and danced to 'Ribs,' among other songs of hers, in the park. She would post videos of the 'Ribs' moments in particular on her Instagram page. (Those fans who waited would be rewarded when Dev Hynes would plug in his phone to someone's speakers to play 'What Was That' and then again when Lorde would finally join them a couple hours later.) 'I'm now seeing that Virgin has this connection to Pure Heroine, and to this young, brave part of myself. I'm seeing that all these albums have connective tissue,' she said. 'Having 'Ribs' bubble up next to songs I've written when I was 28. I can't wait to see what continues to bubble up when more of this album is out. What are the connections going to be?' Lorde's new album Virgin comes out in June. Best of Rolling Stone The 50 Greatest Eminem Songs All 274 of Taylor Swift's Songs, Ranked The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time
Yahoo
16-05-2025
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Lorde Finally Announces New Album ‘Virgin': Here's When It Arrives
Lorde has released three albums, but it's been so long since she dropped one that her fourth full-length effort, Virgin — which the star announced at long last Wednesday (April 30) — might just make you feel like she's doing it for the very first time. The New Zealand native shared the news via a posting on her website, revealing the LP's blue-toned cover art and sharing that it will arrive June 27. '100% WRITTEN IN BLOOD,' she wrote, revealing that the project's collaborators include Jim-E Stack, Fabiana Palladino, Andrew Aged, Buddy Ross, Dan Nigro and Dev Hynes of Blood Orange. More from Billboard Looking Ahead: A Release Calendar of Upcoming Albums in 2025 CA7RIEL & Paco Amoroso: The Duo Disrupting Latin Music's Boundaries With Flair, Friendship and Fearlessness Don Toliver & Doja Cat Hit the Fast Lane for New Song 'Lose My Mind': Watch the Music Video The album's artwork marks Lorde's first since 2013's debut project, Pure Heroine, to not feature the 'Royals' singer on the cover. Instead, the photo shows what appears to be an X-ray of a crotch area with a zipper showing up on the scan in the front; between the bones that make up the pelvis, an IUD is visible. In a release, Lorde further teased the direction of the record. 'THE COLOUR OF THE ALBUM IS CLEAR,' she wrote in an all-caps statement. 'LIKE BATHWATER, WINDOWS, ICE, SPIT. FULL TRANSPARENCY. THE LANGUAGE IS PLAIN AND UNSENTIMENTAL. THE SOUNDS ARE THE SAME WHEREVER POSSIBLE. I 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.' 'I'M PROUD AND SCARED OF THIS ALBUM,' she added. 'THERE'S NOWHERE TO HIDE. I BELIEVE THAT PUTTING THE DEEPEST PARTS OF OURSELVES TO MUSIC IS WHAT SETS US FREE.' The announcement comes just more than a week after Lorde dropped Virgin's lead single, 'What Was That,' on April 24. The track arrived with an accompanying music video filmed in New York City, featuring footage of the singer meeting up with fans in Washington Square Park. Lorde hasn't released an album since 2021's Solar Power, which reached No. 5 on the Billboard 200. See Lorde's announcement below. Best of Billboard Chart Rewind: In 1989, New Kids on the Block Were 'Hangin' Tough' at No. 1 Janet Jackson's Biggest Billboard Hot 100 Hits H.E.R. & Chris Brown 'Come Through' to No. 1 on Adult R&B Airplay Chart
Yahoo
16-05-2025
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Everything We Know About Lorde's ‘Virgin' So Far
This summer, Lorde will finally deliver what fans are sure is going to be an immaculate conception: Virgin, her long-awaited fourth studio album. More from Billboard YoungBoy Never Broke Again Announces 2025 MASA Tour: See the Dates Wolf Alice Returns With Bold New Single 'Bloom Baby Bloom,' Announces Fourth Album Lorde Watched Pamela Anderson & Tommy Lee's Sex Tape After a Psychedelic Trip: 'I Found It to Be So Beautiful' As revealed April 30, the New Zealander's next LP is set to arrive soon via Universal Music New Zealand and Republic Records, bringing an end to a four-year album drought during which Lorde has spent much of her time out of the spotlight. Finally reemerging shortly prior to the announcement, the hitmaker shared the first taste of what Virgin will sound like on April 24 by releasing lead single 'What Was That,' a synth-pop dance track that catches fans up to speed on what they missed since they last heard from her (lots of MDMA and dancing at New York City nightclub Baby's All Right, it would seem). The track was accompanied by a DIY music video, featuring footage of the star performing it in front of a swarm of fans gathered at Washington Square Park — hours after many of them had been kicked out by authorities when the size of her crowd became too disruptive. The numbers she pulled that day made it clear: Lorde was back. It was a resurrection that her disciples had been waiting for since her last album, Solar Power, dropped in 2021, reaching No. 5 on the Billboard 200. The soft, summery album followed 2017's Melodrama and 2013's Pure Heroine — and with fans knowing full well how different each of those three albums is, it only mades the anticipation surrounding Virgin greater. What will it sound like? What are the songs about? Will there be any collaborations? And while many of those questions won't be answered until the release date, Billboard is keeping track of everything we learn about the LP in the weeks before it drops. Keep reading to see what there is to know about Lorde's Virgin — from the day it's coming out to the producers behind it and more — below. As revealed by Lorde the day she announced Virgin, the album will arrive June 27. In a note posted to her website when she announced Virgin, Lorde revealed that the project was produced with Jim-E Stack, Fabiana Palladino, Andrew Aged, Buddy Ross, Dan Nigro and Dev Hynes of Blood Orange. Later, she'd reveal that both Stack and Hynes would also be joining her as supporting acts on her Ultrasound Tour in support of the album. Virgin marks a departure from Lorde's usual collaborator, Jack Antonoff, who worked on her previous two albums: Melodrama and Solar Power. Of parting ways with the Bleachers frontman, whom she called a 'positive, supportive collaborator,' she said in her May Rolling Stone cover story, 'I just have to trust when my intuition says to keep moving.' Lorde's debut album, Pure Heroine, was produced by Joel Little. In debuting the Virgin cover, Lorde unveiled what is arguably her most daring album artwork yet. Tinted blue, the photo is an X-ray of a woman's pelvis, showing her spine, hip bones and IUD installed in her uterus. It's also the singer's first album cover that does not feature her face since Pure Heroine. After it dropped, fans praised her for picking such a 'weird' and 'intriguing' image to represent the music, with one listener writing on X, 'Lorde's new album being a transparent view of her femininity and the title being a societal construct tied to womanhood and the album cover being an Xray of a woman's reproductive organs while she's clothed … oh the symbolism.' In a statement about the album, Lorde teased that — similar to 'What Was That' — Virgin would be an unflinching look at her life and herself over the past few years. 'THE COLOUR OF THE ALBUM IS CLEAR,' she wrote. 'LIKE BATHWATER, WINDOWS, ICE, SPIT. FULL TRANSPARENCY. THE LANGUAGE IS PLAIN AND UNSENTIMENTAL. THE SOUNDS ARE THE SAME WHEREVER POSSIBLE. I 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.' The singer added that the project was '100% WRITTEN IN BLOOD.' In an interview with BBC Radio 1, Lorde revealed that her 'Girl, So Confusing' remix collaborator, Charli xcx, motivated her to step up her game on Virgin by releasing such a game-changing album with Brat. 'It forced me to further define what I was doing, because Charli had so masterfully defined everything about Brat, and I knew that what I was doing was very distinct to that,' Lorde said. 'It's an amazing thing when a peer throws the gauntlet down like that, you're like, 'OK, I've got to pick it up.' I've spoken to a lot of peers who've all had the same feeling.' In an interview with Document Journal ahead of Virgin's release, Lorde got candid about struggling with body image and disordered eating around the time she started writing the album. 'I had made my body very small, because I thought that that was what you did as a woman and a woman on display,' she told the publication, emphasizing that under-eating only had the effect of making her feel 'weak.' 'It was like, 'I'm not going to put anything out until I'm in my body the way I know I'm supposed to be, to be able to do my work,'' she continued. 'That's all I did the last four years, basically. This album is a byproduct of that process of fully coming into my body and feeling the fullness of my power.' After she started to recover from her struggles with disordered eating, Lorde says she was able to really recognize the fluidity of her gender for the first time. To Rolling Stone, she shared that the topic is prevalent throughout Virgin, especially on its opening track and a song titled 'Man of the Year.' The former features the lyric, 'Some days I'm a woman/ Some days I'm a man,' while the latter was written after the singer put duct tape over her chest in a moment of trying to find a look 'that was fully representative of how [her] gender felt in that moment.' '[Chappell Roan] asked me this,' Lorde told the publication when asked how she identifies now. '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.' According to Lorde, the lyrics on Virgin are blunt, visceral and discuss bodily truths in a way that's 'right on the edge of gross.' 'I think coming more into my body, I came into an understanding of the grotesque nature of it and the glory and all these things,' she told Rolling Stone. 'I often really tried to hit this kind of gnarliness or grossness. 'You tasted my underwear.' I've never heard that in a song, you know? It felt like the right way to tell this whole chapter.' Rooting the album in her own physicality stemmed not just from her eating disorder recovery and gender fluidity, but also from quitting birth control pills, getting an IUD (as seen in the Virgin cover art) and reading books on pregnancy as she was crafting the record. To match the unflinching nature of the writing, Rolling Stone reports that she created sounds that were 'percussive and prioritized rhythm,' designed to 'work on the body before the brain.' 'This is going to sound crazy, but I said to myself, 'We get it. You're smart. You don't need to telegraph it,'' she added of the project's lyricism. 'Whereas in the past, I'm really trying to craft these lyrics. This time I was like, 'No, be smart enough to let it be really basic. Be plain with language and see what happens.'' Best of Billboard Chart Rewind: In 1989, New Kids on the Block Were 'Hangin' Tough' at No. 1 Janet Jackson's Biggest Billboard Hot 100 Hits H.E.R. & Chris Brown 'Come Through' to No. 1 on Adult R&B Airplay Chart
Irish Independent
13-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Independent
Lorde is coming to Dublin: everything you need to know about getting tickets for her RDS gig
Here's everything you need to know about it – including how to get tickets for what's sure to be one of the hottest pop gigs of 2025. When does Lorde's Ultrasound tour begin? The North American, European and UK leg kicks off in Austin, Texas on September 17, and will conclude on December 9 in Stockholm. When and where is Lorde playing in Ireland? Lorde will play her first Irish solo headline show at the RDS Simmonscourt in Dublin on Saturday, November 22, 2025. How can I get tickets for Lorde's Dublin date? Artist pre-sale registration opened last Thursday, and you can register for a code at this link, and begins on Wednesday, May 14 at 10am. The Spotify pre-sale begins on Thursday, May 15 at 10am. How do I get a Spotify code, you're wondering? Spotify selects fans that are active listeners and followers of the artist to receive pre-sale codes, so if you're an avid Lorde fan, make sure your Spotify settings are enabled to receive emails. If you have no luck with either of those routes, tickets go on general sale via Ticketmaster on Friday, May 16, at 10am. Prices start from €82 including booking fee and service charge. The show is over-16s only, and under-18s must be accompanied by an adult. She's also earned the respect of her peers outside the pop world, too. In 2014, she sang All Apologies with the surviving members of Nirvana at their Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction. Not bad going for a 17-year-old. What themes does Lorde generally write about? For one of the world's most famous pop stars, Lorde seems to shun the fame game a lot of the time. Many of her songs have been about the vacuous nature of celebrity culture and her disillusionment with it, like the aforementioned Royals and 400 Lux. ADVERTISEMENT Others have been inspired directly by her personal experiences – including 2021's Solar Power album, which had songs influenced by the death of her beloved dog Pearl and a trip to Antarctica, or 2017's Melodrama, which was written in the wake of her first major relationship ending. Where has Lorde been for the last few years? After releasing her last album Solar in 2021, she embarked on its accompanying tour, which took in a date at the Forbidden Fruit festival at Dublin's Royal Hospital, Kilmainham, in June 2022. That took her up to summer 2023, and she began working on Virgin early that same year. To date, she has been consistent with releasing albums every four years since her 2013 debut Pure Heroine, so an album was expected in 2025. We need your consent to load this Social Media content. We use a number of different Social Media outlets to manage extra content that can set cookies on your device and collect data about your activity. How did Lorde first become famous? The now-28-year-old burst on to the scene in 2013 with Royals – a slice of stylish art-pop and razor-sharp social commentary that was galaxies better than any 16-year-old's debut single ought to be. The song was a global smash hit and the album, Pure Heroine, marked her out as a major new talent. Since then, Lorde's career has been on an upward trajectory. Her other major hits have included Tennis Court and Team from the same album; the brilliant Green Light, from her second album, Melodrama; Yellow Flicker Beat, which was released as the lead single from The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 soundtrack, and the title track from her third album, Solar Power. We need your consent to load this Social Media content. We use a number of different Social Media outlets to manage extra content that can set cookies on your device and collect data about your activity. Please review your details and accept them to load the content Who's supporting Lorde at the RDS in Dublin? There are various guests accompanying her on the tour, but the Dublin date will see Lorde supported by London indie and alternative rock musician Nilufer Yanya, as well as American producer and musician Jim-E Stack, who co-produced and co-wrote much of Virgin alongside Lorde. Yanya, who has Irish roots, has released three albums, her last being 2024's My Method Actor. Stack, who has also produced artists including Bon Iver, Haim, Diplo and more, has released two studio albums, the most recent being 2020's Ephemera. The doors will open at 5pm and the show starts at 6.30pm, so get in early if you want to catch the support acts. What do we know about Lorde's new album, Virgin? Lorde released What Was That, the first single from Virgin, two weeks ago. The track was hailed by critics as one that 'sounds like summer, carried by a captivating synth arrangement and an intoxicating chorus' and a 'hypnotic synth-pop stunner'. It was reportedly influenced by a 'deep breakup' that the 28-year-old went through. She told fans that it left her feeling, 'every meal [was] a battle. Flashbacks and waves. Feeling grief's vortex and letting it take me. Opening my mouth and recording what fell out' – so the album continues that trend, we can expect more of the same explorations of heartache, catharsis and recovery. Many have also drawn parallels between What Was That and her 2017 album Melodrama, which was also influenced by the end of her first relationship. In a recent voice note to fans, which was sent in the wake of her appearance at last week's Met Gala, she also spoke about overcoming body image issues and disordered eating in recent years. That ties in with her pre-stated desire for 'full transparency' with this album, and how she wanted it to be a 'document' that reflected her femininity: 'raw, primal, innocent, elegant, openhearted, spiritual, masc.' 'The themes are always the same,' as her Insta bio puts it. 'A return to innocence – the mysteries of the blood – an itch for the transcendental.' Right y'are, Lorde. What is the cover image for the album? Virgin marks the first time that Lorde's face has not graced the cover of an album. This time, it's an X-ray of a woman's pelvis with a belt buckle, a zipper and an IUD visible within the frame. Some fans have theorised that it's a clever inversion of The Rolling Stones' Sticky Fingers album cover, which was conceived by Andy Warhol, and was a brash celebration of masculinity – and if you look closely enough, you can see the denim fasteners on either hipbone that are usually visible on jeans. In any case, there's a lot of symbolism going on. She's friends with Taylor Swift, right? Are there any famous names on the album? Details on special guests – and even song titles – have been scant so far. Apart from a co-writing credit attributed to English pop artist Fabiana Palladino, it looks like there are no big names on Virgin. Considering she has never collaborated with another artist on her previous three albums, she's unlikely to buck that trend this time. Lorde's Ultrasound tour hits Dublin's RDS Simmonscourt on Saturday, November 22, 2025
Yahoo
09-05-2025
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Lorde Is Spreading the "Virgin" Gospel on Another World Tour This Fall
"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Praise the Lorde—new music from the two-time Grammy-winning artist is finally on the way. Four years after the release of Solar Power, Lorde is at last amping up to release her highly-anticipated fourth studio album, Virgin. Ahead, we break down everything we know about the project so far. Virgin is set for release on June 27. Lorde already released the lead single off of the record, 'What Was That,' on April 24. In a newsletter emailed to fans, Lorde, who has sound-to-color synesthesia, described the project. '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. I 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.' She added, 'I'm proud and scared of this album. There's nowhere to hide. I believe that putting the deepest parts of ourselves to music is what sets us free.' Lorde has a tendency to drop new albums in four-year intervals; she released her debut album, Pure Heroine, in 2013, followed by her sophomore album, Melodrama, in 2017 and her third album, Solar Power, in 2021. Virgin follows that pattern, with the album's arrival following four years after Solar Power. Virgin's cover features a blue X-ray of the pelvis bone, with a metallic zipper placed right in the center. Considering the pairing of this particular body part and the album's title, Lorde only knows what the pop star is trying to hint to us. Lorde is set to kick off the Ultrasound World Tour just a few short months after Virgin's release. The tour will run from September 17 to December 9, with the singer expected to make stops in the U.S., France, the U.K., Italy, Germany, Denmark, and Sweden. She'll be accompanied by a bevy of buzzy opening acts, including Virgin collaborators Blood Orange and Jim-E STack, plus The Japanse House, Empress Of, Nilüfer Yana, Chanel Beads, and Oklou. Pre-sale begins on May 14 while general on sale starts on May 16. To sign up for the pre-sale, click here. Lorde made her TikTok debut on April 9 with a 15-second clip of herself marching through New York City's Washington Square Park. Dressed in a white button-down, baggy jeans, a silver chainlink belt, and headphones, the singer broke out into a run as the synth beat for 'What Was That' dropped. 'Since I was 17, I gave you everything / Now we wake from a dream, well baby, what was that?/ What was that?' she sang in the audio clip. The TikTok hinted at a surprise performance at Washington Square Park, where she played the track for fans for the first time. The song's official music video also included footage from her impromptu appearance at the park. This isn't the first time that Lorde has used social media to tease her forthcoming music. Last July, she shared a brief clip of a new song on her Instagram Story. The audio, which lasted for barely two seconds, was played against photos of herself hard at work in the studio, according to Billboard. For her fourth album, Lorde has teamed up with producer Jim-E Stack, who is known for his work with Gracie Abrams, Bon Iver, The Kid Laroi, and Dominic Fike. He seemingly confirmed the collaboration by posting a photo of Lorde in the studio to his Instagram last August. She also worked with Daniel Nigro, the Grammy-winning producer known for his collaborations with the likes of Olivia Rodrigo and Chappell Roan. Lorde has also tapped her friend, Dev Hynes (who goes by the stage name Blood Orange), to work on the album. The two have been spotted together in New York City multiple times over the past year. You Might Also Like 4 Investment-Worthy Skincare Finds From Sephora The 17 Best Retinol Creams Worth Adding to Your Skin Care Routine
