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Lorde already announced that she will open up not only musically, but also personally than ever before on her upcoming album Virgin. A topic that she repeatedly appeals to is her gender identity. Chappell Roan in particular seems to have been an important conversation partner.
“I am a woman except on the days when I am a man”
When singer Chappell Roan Lorde asked directly: “Are you a nonbinar now?”, The New Zealander has now been able to give an answer to which she seems to identify herself. In an interview with “Rolling Stone” she gave more about the conversation of the two prize. She probably explained: “I am a woman except on the days when I am a man.” Lorde now added in the interview: “I know that this is not a very satisfactory answer, but part of me really resist it to put it in a drawer.”
Nevertheless, the singer is currently identifying with the female pronouns “You/her”. It was sexually “in the middle”. Nevertheless, Lorde made it clear: “I don’t think that [meine Identität] is radical. “
Gender identity is also a topic on Lord’s coming album
“I see these incredibly brave young people and it is complicated,” said the 28-year-old. “Saying this privately is one thing, but I want to make it clear that I don’t want to take the place away from anyone who has more at stake than me. Because as a wealthy, CIS-white woman I am comparatively very safe.”
Gender identity is also a topic that should be found in Virgin. The first track of the plate probably includes the lyrics: “Some days’ i’m a woman / some days i’m a man.”
The artwork of the album indicates another intimate topic. It presents an X-ray that presumably shows Lorde’s pelvic area, whereby in addition to a belt buckle and a zipper, a T-shaped object can also be seen. Especially because of the position, it is strongly reminiscent of a contraceptive spiral.
Like a contraceptive spiral on the cover to Virgin landed
The singer already revealed that she decided at the end of 2023 to stop her contraceptives. During this time she also wrote the already published single “What was what that” and the song “Man of the Year”, which has not yet been released. By avoiding the contraceptives, she felt a special feeling of “cutting a kind of connection between me and this regulated femininity”. In the course of this, it allowed her to “open” towards other things.
The artist explained more precisely: “I had no ovulation for ten years. And when I had ovulation for the first time, I can’t describe how crazy it was. As if I had taken one of the best drugs. It sounds crazy, but I had the feeling that I was suddenly no longer female. And I was firmly convinced that everything would open.”
Lorde’s new album Virgin has been announced for June 27th. So far, the single “What was that” has provided a first and only foretaste. The musician herself described the record as “the first music of my rebirth”.