On June 27, 2025, and complying with the tradition of publishing album every four years, Lorde will launch Virginyour fourth studio album. The neozygy confirmed it days after premiering the first advance, What was that.
Next to the name of the project, the artist shared the cover and the number of tracks that she would include (a total of 11 songs). The cover of its next LP is starring an x -ray of the pelvis (as self -portrait), where a kind of polaroid photography, a zipper or a IUD, among other elements. The singer explained the following:
“The color of the album is clear. As the water of the bathtub, the windows, the ice, the saliva. Total transparency. The language is simple and without sentimentalisms. The sounds are the same where possible.
“I am proud of this album already scared. I can’t hide. I think putting our deepest parts in music is what makes us free,” he added.
Precisely, about That internal struggle to accept your image and self -perceptionabout your gender expression, this album is going to speak. In fact, he dropped him in his part of Girl is so confusing next to Charli XCX: “I was very stuck in my head and scared to be in your photos, since In recent years I have been at war with my body. I tried to lose weight based on hungry and then I recovered all the lost weight“.
Something that repeats again in What was that when he confesses that he had covered “all the mirrors”, because “I can’t see myself yet. I wear the smoke like a wedding veil. And I prepare a meal that I will not eat.”
-A Stereogum He has revealed that this is the first single because the beginning of everything. “I had returned to New York from London after a quite turbulent period of time in my personal life: to be single again, but also face my body and begin to feel that my (expression of) genre was expanding a little. I returned home and felt a great wave of pain. I kept thinking:” What was all this? ” The 16 or 17 years.
On the other hand, to Document Journal He said that “this album is a byproduct of the process that has meant fully entering my body and feeling the fullness of my power.”
Above all this, he has reflected on the concept of putting VIRGIN To his fourth album. “Some say that the word ‘virgin’ derives from a Greek word that means ‘without the attachment of a man’, a woman who was ‘one in herself’. Goddesses like Ishtar (from Assyria and Babylon), Diana (Roman Culture), Astarte (Greek Culture) and Isis recent interview.
Similarly, he stated that “there is evidence that the word ‘virgin’ derives from the combination of the terms ‘vir-‘ (man, virile) and ‘-gyne’ (of women, gynecology); which becomes a man-woman or an androgynous person.” He has even come back to the Bible when in the book of Genesis 1:27, he says: “God created humanity to his image and likeness. He created them to the image of God; he created man and woman.”
“Maybe God and the first human he created was intersex?
