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Lorde Can’t Listen to ‘Virgin’ Deep Cut ‘Clearblue’: ‘That Whole Song Just Destroys Me’

Lorde explains why it's hard to listen to 'Clearblue' from her album 'Virgin,' a song she wrote about taking a pregnancy test.

It’s why “Ribs” from her debut Pure Heroine is so effective, and why Melodrama can feel at once like walking across shards of glass and experiencing an euphoric release. During a recent appearance on the Therapuss podcast with Jake Shane, Lorde revealed that she avoids playing back the album deep cut “Clearblue.” “There’s a song that I love so much called ‘Clearblue’ that is about unprotected sex,” she said. In her recent Rolling Stone cover story, Lorde shared: “I felt like stopping taking my birth control, I had cut some sort of cord between myself and this regulated femininity.

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