Overview

• Lorde describes her gender identity as 'in the middle gender-wise,' alternating between feeling like a woman and a man on different days.
• The opening track of her upcoming album 'Virgin,' releasing June 27, includes the lyric, 'Some days I’m a woman/Some days I’m a man.'
• Key moments in her gender exploration include going off birth control in 2023 and experimenting with masculine clothing, which influenced her creative process.
• She emphasizes her privilege as a wealthy, cisgender, white woman and acknowledges the struggles faced by more vulnerable LGBTQ+ communities.
• The album’s X-ray cover art, featuring an IUD, symbolizes themes of bodily autonomy and her critique of regulated femininity.