Lorde is opening up about her decision to tape her chest for the first time and how it helped her express her gender identity.
The singer sat down with Dazed magazine for a cover story ten years after her first one with the magazine. She’s on the autumn issue, which goes on sale around the world this Thursday (September 11).
During the interview, Lorde revealed her reasoning for taping her chest for the first time back in 2023, around when she had begun writing “Man of the Year.”
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“I’d really been feeling this stuff bubble up and talking about it a lot in therapy. We started writing the song, and I saw this TV performance of it [in my mind’s eye], and it wasn’t even finished. And in the performance I saw myself in jeans, no shirt. And I thought about how I would actually do that on TV. It wasn’t a bra.”
She adds, “I had this roll of tape and grabbed it, put my jeans on, taped up, and saw myself – and was like, ‘F–k, that’s me.’ Suddenly, I could see it. It was scary.”
This isn’t the first time the Grammy-winning artist has discussed her gender. She previously spoke to Rolling Stone about her identity, revealing that her musical peer Chappell Roan once asked if she was non-binary.
The chat between them came up in the Dazed article and Lorde took the chance to clarify what transpired between her and Chappell.
“I think I misquoted that – I feel really bad. She said, very sweetly, something like, ‘So your pronouns are changing?’”
Lorde then said that she isn’t changing her pronouns at the moment.
“Right now, it feels as it should. But some days, I can’t wear women’s clothes. I’ve had to figure out how to have my make-up done in a way that doesn’t make me feel trapped or tight or like the wrong thing.”
In short, Lorde says, “It’s all a journey.”
If you missed it, Lorde released her latest album Virgin over the summer.
Source: justjared.com