Lorde Summer Incoming With New Album, Virgin, Announcement
After her legendary “What Was That” pop-up, Lorde has officially announced her new album, Virgin, dropping June 27.
Lorde fans have eagerly anticipated her return, which officially arrived this Wednesday.
The “Royals” singer posted the album cover on her Instagram, captioning it with its name, “Virgin.” The album is confirmed to have eleven tracks, including “What Was That.”
The album cover is an X-ray scan of her pelvis while wearing jeans and even shows her IUD—driving home the theme of the album being the most vulnerable and open version of herself and femininity.
In an email to fans, she wrote of the album, “The language is plain and unsentimental. The sounds are the same whenever possible. I was trying to see myself, all the way through. I was trying to make a document that reflected my femininity: raw, primal, innocent, elegant, openhearted, spiritual masc.”
She continued, “I’m proud and scared of this album. There’s nowhere to hide. I believe that putting the deepest parts of ourselves into music is what sets us free.”
Her recent single, “What Was That,” gave fans a taste of this with Lorde not being able to run from her memories and self.
She sings, “I cover up all the mirrors / Can’t see myself yet / I wear smoke like a wedding veil / Make a meal I won’t eat / Step out into the street, alone in a sea / It comes over me.”
In an interview with BBC Radio 1 about the album, Lorde shared, “I sort of wrote this from the perspective of, like, ‘Well, I could never say that,’ and I just sort of put off dealing with that. I was like, ‘That’s for future Ella to deal with,’ and now the day’s almost here, and future Ella is gonna have to put all these things out into the world.”
The Grammy award-winning musician also credited Charli xcx’s BRAT as motivating her work on Virgin, mentioning the reception of the vulnerability expressed on the “Girl, so confusing” remix. It encouraged her as she worked on this new, unfiltered album.
The singer’s website, which had gone blank when first teasing her recent single, now states that the album was “100% written in blood.”
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Lorde’s new album, Virgin, and merch can be pre-ordered here and will officially release on June 27.
