Lorde has opened about the creative process behind his fourth studio album, Virgenrevealing that a “reexamination of his gender expression” played an important role in his formation.
In an interview with artist Martine Syms for DAILY DOCUMENTThe New Zealand singer shared that he has recently “entered my masculinity a little more”, and that her new album is a “by -product” of “completely in my body and feeling the fullness of my power.”
While arguing her guest performance with Charli XCX in Coachella, Syms observed that the duo looked like “two really strong and powerful people who are also so hot and talented and having fun, becoming themselves in a way that was probably not possible 20 years ago.”
Lorde accredited continuous progress in the music and popular culture industry: “Where you feel like this room for your humanity or be yourself is a bit more precious.”
Before creating VirgenLorde said that “he read many queer writers” and revealed that the album began to take shape after he wrote the main single, ‘What Was That’, who marked a “rebirth” of his art.
“I had returned from London to New York after this period of great turbulence in my personal life,” Lorde explained. “Becoming a single, but also facing my body from my body in front, and beginning to feel my genre expanding a little.
“Just be back in my house and feel this great wave of pain. I just kept thinking, what was all that? Either my seven -year relationship or a pandemic or sacrificing my body to my career since I was 16 or 17 years old.
“This feeling of Oh my God, a lot has moved me through me. And there is so much mystery and pain. I just held the microphone and walked around the room and said everything. I didn’t write anything, which was great. ”
In an email to fans who reveal the title and cover of Virgen—It has an radiography of a blue tones pelvis with a visible IU, Lorde described the album as a reflection of his femininity. Among the words that used to characterize that femininity was “mascúa.”
“The color of the album is clear. As the bath water, the windows, the ice, the sword. Complete transparency. The language is clear and un sentimental. The sounds are the same whenever possible,” he wrote.
“I was trying to see myself, until the end. I was trying to make a document that reflected my femininity: raw, primary, innocent, elegant, open heart, spiritual, mascúa.”
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Due to launch on June 27, Virgen Mark Lorde’s first long -term album from Solar polar (2021), which delivered singles such as the main song, ‘Stoned at The Nail Salon’, ‘Fallen Fruit’ and ‘Mood Ring’.
Virgen‘The mentioned main single,’ What What Were That ‘, received overwhelming praise of fans and critics and debuted in number one in their country of origin. In addition, Electropop Bangger became its first picture of the list in Us Spotify since its simple debut of 2011 ‘Royals’.
You can read Lorde’s full interview with Martine Syms for DAILY DOCUMENT Here, and see the music video of ‘What Was That’ below.
