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The Independent
26-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Independent
Watch: Lorde secretly gatecrashes her own fan event in Sydney
Lorde surprised fans by sneaking into a club night held in her honour in Australia on Sunday evening (25 May). Video from Sydney venue Mary's Underground shows the New Zealand -born pop star dancing with fans to her track Supercut, before sneaking behind the DJ decks with Emma Parke to play her recent single What Was That. DJ of the event, Emma Parke, posted to Instagram saying: 'Still in disbelief. Feeling unbelievably grateful to @lorde for making this a night we'll talk about for years.' 'After years of throwing events, this was one of the most rewarding nights of my life. Completely unmatched,' she continued.
Perth Now
16-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
Lorde turned to MDMA to overcome stage fright
Lorde overcame stage fright with MDMA and psilocybin therapy. The 'Royals' hitmaker has suffered from debilitating nerves since she was a child but underwent numerous sessions between 2022 and 2024 where she would take psychedelic drugs in a supervised setting and they left her feeling much more free and at ease with exploring new cities before her shows instead of dreading a panic attack in her hotel room. She told Rolling Stone magazine: 'I was touring without stage fright for the first time." Freed from her fears, Lorde found she was able to connect with her audience in a new way. She said: 'I would play 'Supercut', and all of a sudden there was a hook around my guts and everyone in the room was having the same feeling, [like] there'd been a huge pressure change. It made me realise how much I love and kind of need that very deep, visceral response to feel my music.' The 28-year-old star also found the psychedelic treatments helped improve her relationship with her body, having been in the grips of an eating disorder. She said of a realisation she had: '[I've] been in the same body [my] whole life. I understood it. I was like, 'These arms climbed the jungle gym. And they held an award on a TV show.' I understood the whole spectrum of it and began to enjoy the complexity and ruggedness.' Lorde recalled the night before she released her 2021 album 'Solar Power' and how she was consumed with how she never felt thin enough. She said: 'I felt so hungry and so weak. I was on TV [that] morning, and I didn't eat because I wanted my tummy to be small in the dress. It was just this sucking of a life force or something.' Months later, ahead of the North American leg of her 'Solar Power' tour, Lorde wrote an email newsletter to her fans explaining the shows had "set so much right" inside her but she was still consumed by counting calories. She said: 'I don't know how those two things can be true: that I'm having this really amazing, rich experience of playing the shows and meeting these kids, and [yet] I'm also looking at the pictures afterward and feeling deep loathing at the sight of my beautiful, tiny tummy, thinking it was so unforgivable what I had allowed it to become." These days, Lorde has a healthier relationship with food and her body and it has helped her regain her focus on her music. She said: 'Once I stopped doing that, I had all this energy for making stuff. 'I could see that if I cut that cord, maybe I would get something back that I needed to do my work. And it was totally true. Got it all back, and way more.'
NZ Herald
16-05-2025
- Entertainment
- NZ Herald
Lorde reveals psychedelic therapy helped with eating disorder and stage fright
Ahead of the release of Virgin, her first album in four years, Lorde told journalist Brittany Spanos that MDMA and psilocybin therapy helped her navigate a difficult period marked by stage fright, an eating disorder, and the end of a long-term relationship. Spanos describes Virgin, set for release on June 27, as 'feral, wild, and physical, full of Lorde's most from-the-gut singing ever'. The album is said to be Lorde's most vulnerable yet, with the 28-year-old admitting to the publication she is 'terrified' to open up about the album. 'There's going to be a lot of people who don't think I'm a good girl any more, a good woman. It's over,' she told Spanos. 'It will be over for a lot of people; for some people, I will have arrived. I'll be where they always hoped I'd be.' View this post on Instagram A post shared by Rolling Stone (@rollingstone) Lorde revealed she undertook psychedelic therapy using MDMA and psilocybin between 2022 and 2024 – a currently illegal form of psychiatric PTSD treatment - to combat crippling stage fright. She said the Solar Power tour was the first time she performed without that fear, which helped her better connect with audiences. 'I would play Supercut and all of a sudden there was a hook around my guts and everyone in the room was having the same feeling, [like] there'd been a huge pressure change. 'It made me realise how much I love and kind of need that very deep, visceral response to feel my music.' In the interview, Lorde also disclosed that she was struggling with a then undiagnosed eating disorder during the Solar Power tour and press cycle – an illness that began during the pandemic. The singer spoke candidly about undertaking a high-profile press tour while in the grip of the illness. 'I felt so hungry and so weak,' she said. 'I was on TV [that] morning, and I didn't eat because I wanted my tummy to be small in the dress. It was just this sucking of a life force or something.' View this post on Instagram A post shared by Rolling Stone (@rollingstone) The disorder, she said, affected her ability to enjoy the tour. 'I don't know how those two things can be true: that I'm having this really amazing, rich experience of playing the shows and meeting these kids, and [yet] I'm also looking at the pictures afterward and feeling deep loathing at the sight of my beautiful, tiny tummy, thinking it was so unforgivable what I had allowed it to become.' Lorde said the therapy helped her find a path through her disordered eating habits and obsessive calorie and protein tracking. 'Once I stopped doing that, I had all this energy for making stuff,' Lorde said. 'I could see that if I cut that cord, maybe I would get something back that I needed to do my work. And it was totally true. Got it all back, and way more.' Elsewhere in the revealing interview, Lorde confirmed her 2023 break-up with Auckland music executive Justin Warren, with whom she had been in a relationship for eight years. 'It was so painful, as they are, but there was real dignity to it and grace and a lot of respect. It continues to be a relationship that I cherish.' The pair, who have a 17-year age gap, met when the artist signed to Universal Music, the label Warren worked for. Reconnecting with herself as a single person, while recovering from her eating disorder, led to a period of physical and creative reinvention. This included exploring her gender identity. Spanos reveals that on Virgin 's opening track, Lorde sings 'Some days I'm a woman/Some days I'm a man.' Lorde said fellow singer Chappell Roan had inquired whether she was non-binary, to which she responded, '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 now described herself as 'in the middle gender-wise" but called herself a cis woman and uses she/her pronouns. Lorde acknowledged her privilege as a 'wealthy, cis, white woman,' saying it allowed her to explore identity privately without facing the risks many others do when their gender doesn't align with their birth assignment. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Rolling Stone (@rollingstone) One of the surprising disclosures from the almost 6000-word interview involves Lorde seeking out and watching the Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee sex tape, a tape the couple maintain was stolen and leaked, leading to lawsuits, and an obsession with the pair. In Netflix's 2023 documentary Pamela, a love story, Anderson said the fallout ruined not only her career but her credibility in the public eye. 'I found it to be so beautiful,' Lorde, 28, told the publication. 'And maybe it's f****d up that I watched it, but I saw two people that were so in love with each other.' The Auckland-born singer, now based in New York, spoke of the contrast the American city offers to life in New Zealand. 'I used to have this feeling of when I go [to the United States], when I'm in these spaces, I'm an artist, and then I go home and I'm myself,' she explains. 'And that's crazy. It's not what being an artist is like. You're an artist all day, whatever country you're in. I think building a home here has helped me to see that.' The interview ends with Lorde embracing the most impassioned parts of herself. 'I'm kind of an intense b***h,' she said. 'I've connected with the mission to do what only I can do. It's enough.'
Metro
15-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Metro
Lorde says she's 'in the middle gender-wise' as she opens up on identity
New Zealand singer Lorde has opened up about her gender identity as she reveals that she has a much more 'expansive' feeling. The Kiwi singer, 28, is set to release her new album Virgin next month, her first album since Solar Power in 2021. While promoting her new record, the pop star has revealed that she had a different approach to this album, and has had some major changes in her personal life. 'My gender got way more expansive when I gave my body more room,' she told Rolling Stone. The outlet adds that this change in gender expression is clear in her album, and in the opening track, she sings: 'Some days I'm a woman/Some days I'm a man.' When asked by the outlet how she now identifies herself, Lorde revealed that it's something she has spoken about with fellow pop sensation Chappell Roan. '[Chappell Roan] asked me this, she revealed. '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 that she still considers herself a cis woman and her pronouns are still she/her but she says she describes herself as 'in the middle gender-wise.' She added that as part of her gender discovery, she has found herself trying on men's clothing in shops in 2023, adding: 'This was before I had any sense of my gender broadening at all.' She also revealed that she is now off birth control after a decade on hormones and most definitely feeling the effects, saying that her natural menstrual cycle is the best drug she's taken. 'But I hadn't ovulated in 10 years. And when I ovulated for the first time, I cannot describe to you how crazy it was. 'One of the best drugs I've ever done.' Speaking about drugs, the singer revealed that she explored a drug therapy that saw her combine MDMA and psilocybin therapy (a type of PTSD treatment) to try and help her combat her crippling stage fright. She revealed that the sessions took place between 2022 and 2024 and had a huge impact on her mind and body. 'I was touring without stage fright for the first time,' she said, adding that it also helped her to connect with her music. 'I would play 'Supercut, and all of a sudden there was a hook around my guts and everyone in the room was having the same feeling, [like] there'd been a huge pressure change. It made me realise how much I love and kind of need that very deep, visceral response to feel my music.' More Trending In an interview earlier this year with Document Journal, she spoke more about how the psychedelic therapy helped her. 'Reading is huge for me. Psychedelic therapy, honestly, is a huge cornerstone to my well-being and practice and just keeps me alive to what's out there and what's possible.' She then emphasised the importance drug-taking has played in her art: 'I'm obviously really fortunate not to have the genes of an addictive personality, but I remember first smoking weed as a teenager, and seeing my brain for what it was. 'If I hadn't smoked weed, I don't think I would be an artist.' Got a story? If you've got a celebrity story, video or pictures get in touch with the entertainment team by emailing us celebtips@ calling 020 3615 2145 or by visiting our Submit Stuff page – we'd love to hear from you. MORE: Rock band cancels tour after drummer hauled off plane and detained by US border control MORE: Julia Fox wears her period blood with pride MORE: James Bond actor Joe Don Baker dies aged 89
Glasgow Times
08-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Glasgow Times
Global superstar announced Glasgow gig as part of tour
Lorde will perform at the city's OVO Hydro on Wednesday, November 19, 2025. The 28-year-old will be bringing her Ultrasound tour to the West End venue. Born in New Zealand, the talented singer-songwriter has been making music since 2009. The alternative pop icon is known for her huge tunes such as Ribs, What Was That, Team, and Supercut. READ MORE: Rock band announced concert at beloved Glasgow venue READ MORE: Well-known rock band announce exciting summer gig in Glasgow ANNOUNCED 📣 Lorde makes her grand return to Glasgow with the Ultrasound tour - coming to the OVO Hydro on 19 November 🤩#OVOLive presale | 10am, Wed 14 May On sale | 10am, Fri 16 May➡️ — OVO Hydro (@OVOHydro) May 8, 2025 Tickets for Lorde's concert at the Hydro will go on sale from Friday, May 16, at 10am. Meanwhile, fans will be able to grab presale tickets from 10am on Wednesday, May 14.
