Returning with her most candid collection to date, Lorde bares all about gender fluidity, trauma and self-discovery in Virgin, her comeback LP.
Addressing her gender identity, on the track ‘Hammer,’ – which the New Zealand pop star described as “an ode to city life and horniness” – she declares: “Some days I’m a woman, some days I’m a man.” And on her website, Lorde dubbed the song, which she co-wrote with Jim E-Stack (Caroline Polachek, Haim and Dominic Fike) as the “sound of my rebirth”.
On ‘Man Of The Year,’ the musician (born Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O’Connor) admits: “Can’t believe I’ve become someone else / someone more like myself”. In fact, she recently said she no longer recognizes the person who recorded 2021’s Solar Power.
During ‘Favorite Daughter,’ Lorde details her complex relationship with her mother, Sonja Yelich, as she sings: “Now every day the plane takes off / And every night the room fills up with / People who are convinced I’m not / Just some kid faking it for your love.”
Believing that her new collection will cause her to both lose and gain fans as she gets vulnerable on sensitive topics, the now 28-year old singer/songwriter admitted “a lot of people” won’t think she’s a “good girl anymore” after hearing Virgin.
In a recent Rolling Stone mag interview, Lorde said “There’s going to be a lot of people who don’t think I’m a good girl anymore, a good woman. It’s over.” “It will be over for a lot of people, and then for some people, I will have arrived. I’ll be where they always hoped I’d be.”
The Virgin track-listing includes:
1. Hammer
2. What Was That
3. Shapeshifter
4. Man Of The Year
5. Favourite Daughter
6. Current Affairs
7. Clearblue
8. GRWM
9. Broken Glass
10. If She Could See Me Now
11. David
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Author: Al Denté
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