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Lorde Says She Started to Feel Her ‘Gender Broadening a Little Bit’
While reflecting on what led to Virgin, her “music of rebirth.”
On the eve of her Washington Square Park pop-up, she reflected on the circumstances that led to her new single, “What Was That,” in an interview with Document Journal. Lorde, who previously told fans in a 2022 newsletter that she was growing out her unibrow “as an entry point for playing with conventions of beauty/gender/form,” said she worked on her new album, Virgin, at a time when she was “also coming into my masculinity a bit more as well.” In a recent newsletter to fans, she described her upcoming project as an attempt to “make a document that reflected my femininity: raw, primal, innocent, elegant, masc.” On May 1, she shared screenshots on her Instagram Story from a blog post by clinician and researcher Kristine Shields that state that some people believe “virgin” once meant a “one-in-herself” woman who was “not attached to a man” and thus was a term used to convey strength and independence. Another sentence that she highlighted declares, “There is also evidence that the word ‘virgin’ derived from the combination of the Latin words ‘vir-’ (for man, as in ‘virile’) and ‘-gyne’ (for woman, as in gynecology) - a man-woman or androgynous person.” How big of a role will all these ideas play when it comes to the lyrics and concept of the full track list?
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