This reads like something from Nathan Fielder's The Rehearsal, lol

DOWNSTAIRS FROM LORDE’S apartment, a Sprinter van is waiting to take us to the Bushwick, Brooklyn, studio where she is filming a couple of scenes for her video. When we arrive, we enter into a dark, cavernous space where I see a 14-foot-tall, aboveground cylindrical structure. There’s a stunt coordinator waiting for her. The tube, complete with a ladder inside, is meant to act as a stand-in for an underground manhole. As her manager points out to me, it’s unbelievably hard to rent out an actual manhole.

All good album info here.

Unlike Solar Power and Melodrama, Lorde didn’t start writing this new music with an album title or concept in mind. Her goal was physicality, creating sounds that were percussive and prioritized rhythm. She wanted the music to work on the body before the brain. “This is going to sound crazy, but I said to myself, ‘We get it. You’re smart. You don’t need to telegraph it,’” she explains. “Whereas in the past, I’m really trying to craft these lyrics. This time I was like, ‘No, be smart enough to let it be really basic. Be plain with language and see what happens.’”

The physicality bleeds through in more than just the beats. Her lyrics on Virgin are vivid and at times grotesque, full of action and fluids and bodily functions. There’s spit and mouthwash and ovulation and glimpses of Lorde riding her bike, swallowing MDMA, dragging on a cigarette.

“I think coming more into my body, I came into an understanding of the grotesque nature of it and the glory and all these things,” she explains. “It’s right on the edge of gross. I often really tried to hit this kind of gnarliness or grossness. ‘You tasted my underwear.’ I’ve never heard that in a song, you know? It felt like the right way to tell this whole chapter.”

The shoot is hot, too.

Virgin. So soon.

No! Asking this question to Lorde is mean and deranged!

man that rolling stone piece is amazing. so so excited and love everything she said about her gender and how it influenced the project, I need that man of the year record. and the part about the duct tape made the met gala outfit make way more sense. so inspired by her

Damn @Fries

she's kinda lost the plot a little bit but it kinda makes me more excited for the album cus this is clearly her biggest risk artistically to date

last album was her losing the plot

great singer but strikes me as so insecure

I'm fully in on this record. First single is her best song since melodrama easily

Feel like her and her team trying too hard to do like a brat style rollout and it's not really working and people are actually being put off by her being weird in the press

whatever she’s doing it’s selling out all her shows

Back in queue for the 3rd time..... This time is the one... i feel it

i guess lorde tickets were not gods plan

Got through no tickets

She could've easily done bigger venues without the current rollout though. Atleast for the EU leg

100%. With this rollout (and the year or two after Solar Power) she’s been more transparent and open about her insecurities.

Streets saying she being messy for talking about watching a leaked sextape of Pam Anderson

She’s actually working with some of the same people as Charli. The dude who was recording her at Washington Square Park (you can see him in the WWT video) was Charli’s lead videographer during the Brat era.

And she’s always had issues with saying stupid things on social media and in interviews.

I think the fact she’s so private about everything gives an air of mystique around what she does outside of music, which is why the fanbase jumps on every interview she does

I saw people mad about her comments on that, what she said about being off birth control for the first time in her life and it, and also shock at her past relationship with Justin Warren.

So basically everything except the music

I thought this was a funny tidbit from the cover story.

Bonding over being Drake fans growing up 😭

@Magenta @Vietbrah

Nasty stuff.