- Singer Lorde has returned with new music for the first time in years
- In an interview with Rolling Stone, she said she’s “in the middle” of gender spectrum
- The star said she even discussed her gender identity with US singer Chapell Roan
New Zealand singer Lorde has shared an update with fans on her gender identity. She revealed in an interview that she is somewhere in the middle regarding her gender identity.
The singer, 28, has been quiet for four years but is finally gearing up to release another album. Back in 2021, Lorde released Solar Power. In mid-April, she released the first single, What Was That, for her upcoming album. Virgin, the fourth studio album by the singer, will be released on 27 June.
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So, why the gender question? Well, lyrics on her upcoming album say, “Some days I’m a woman/Some days I’m a man.”
As a result, the interviewer asked the singer if this had any meaning regarding her gender identity.
What did Lorde say about her gender?
In her interview with Rolling Stone, the 28-year-old revealed that US singer Chapell Roan asked her the same question.
She continued, “She was like, ‘So, are you nonbinary now?’ And I was like, ‘I’m a woman except for the days when I’m a man.’ I know that’s not a very satisfying answer, but there’s a part of me that is really resistant to boxing it up.”
Roan, 27, is notoriously outspoken about gender and sexuality. She is famously seen wearing makeup influenced by drag queens in her performances. Additionally, Roan is an openly queer popstar, but has not delved much into her personal gender identity.
However, the Green Light singer did clarify that she still identifies as a cisgender woman and uses she and her pronouns. In terms of how she feels about her gender, she says she is “in the middle gender-wise”.
How did she figure it out?
The New Zealand-born singer said back in 2023 she tried on a pair of men’s jeans. When she did this, she sent pictures to Jim E-Stack, a person she worked with on her upcoming album.
He was like, ‘I want to see the you that’s in this picture represented in the music,’” Lorde recalled. “This was before I had any sense of my gender broadening at all.”
However, Lorde clarified to the magazine that she did not want her revelation to take away from the identities of transgender people. Regarding her chosen gender identity, she said she doesn’t think it’s “radical,” and she acknowledged she is privileged as a “wealthy, cis, white woman.”
