One hit wonder Lorde: ‘I’m a Woman Except When I’m a Man’

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Lorde still identifies as a cis woman, and her pronouns remain unchanged, but in a new Rolling Stone cover story, she opened up about growing more comfortable with the fluidity of her gender expression as she worked on her upcoming album, Virgin. As she puts it on the album’s opening track: “Some days I’m a woman/Some days I’m a man.”

Lorde said she is “in the middle gender-wise,” and to clarify what this meant, she mentioned a recent conversation with Chappell Roan, who’s become a good friend. Roan asked Lorde flat-out if she was non-binary, and Lorde tells RS she responded, “I’m a woman except for the days when I’m a man.”

She added, “I know that’s not a very satisfying answer but there’s a part of me that is really resistant to boxing it up.”

For Lorde, this new way of thinking about gender has been part of a larger creative, emotional, and physical journey she embarked after releasing her 2021 album Solar Power, and as she worked on Virgin. She called this process “the ooze” — an act of letting herself take up more space in all areas of her life.

“My gender got way more expansive when I gave my body more room,” she said.

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I like soup, unless I'm in the mood for a sandwich. But sometimes I like to dip my sandwich in my soup and that really confuses me.

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