Posted on 05/16/2025 9:09:14 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The "What Was That" singer also opened up about her eating disorder in a new interview.
In the lead-up to her new album Virgin, Lorde has started to slowly open up about her broadening gender identity with the world. But before she was ready to do that, she confided in one of her new friends: Chappell Roan.
In a Rolling Stone cover story published Thursday (May 15), the New Zealand native revealed that she and the “Pink Pony Club” singer have gotten quite close over the past year, and that one of the things they’ve discussed is Lorde’s changing relationship with gender. When asked how she identifies now, the “Royals” artist told the publication, “[Chappell Roan] asked me this … She was like, ‘So, are you nonbinary now?'”
“I was like, ‘I’m a woman except for the days when I’m a man,'” Lorde continued. “I know that’s not a very satisfying answer, but there’s a part of me that is really resistant to boxing it up.”
The musician also explained that she still identifies as a cisgender woman who uses “she” and “her” pronouns. But the complexities of her newfound gender fluidity informed much of the June-slated Virgin, the opening track of which Rolling Stone reveals finds her declaring, “Some days I’m a woman/ Some days I’m a man.”
Even so, Lorde added that she doesn’t think her gender expression is “radical” compared to what most transgender and nonbinary people face on a daily basis. In the United States in particular, the rights of LGBTQ people have been under constant threat for years, something Roan — a longtime advocate for the community and a queer-identifying artist herself — has spoken out about many times.
“I see these incredibly brave young people, and it’s complicated,” Lorde said. “Making the expression privately is one thing, but I want to make very clear that I’m not trying to take any space from anyone who has more on the line than me. Because I’m, comparatively, in a very safe place as a wealthy, cis, white woman.”
The star’s embrasure of her new gender expression is one of several personal transformations that has occurred since she last dropped an album, 2021’s Solar Power, four years ago. In addition to breaking up with Universal Music executive Justin Warren after about eight years together — “It was so painful, as they are, but there was real dignity to it,” she told the publication of the split — Lorde also recovered from an eating disorder, something she’s also been increasingly open about in the weeks ahead of Virgin‘s June 27 release.
“I felt so hungry and so weak,” she recalled of being obsessed with calories and protein intakes around the time Solar Power came out, specifically the day it dropped. “I was on TV [that] morning, and I didn’t eat because I wanted my tummy to be small in the dress. It was just this sucking of a life force or something.”
As in the days of Lot.
Every imagination toward perverse rebellion against the Lord God.
Disgusting.
So I shouldn’t always call her Queen Bee.
Just imagine if it decided to be a Man with days when it’s a Woman.
Would that be more bizarre or less bizarre? “It” is probably just looking for headlines. As they say in HoWood, “There’s no bad publicity”.
I’ll give her props for one thing: She can really eat her spicy food.
If you’re any kind of LGBT it makes you levels better and more rights.
I’ve never woken up and felt like a woman. Not that way, anyway.
Doofuses at Billboard going along with insanity like it’s totally fine. I’m telling you...women plus social media may destroy us all.
Love that movie though Tom thinks the
outer space aliens are coming for us LOL
[“I was like, ‘I’m a woman except for the days when I’m a man,’” Lorde continued.]
The name Legion would be more appropriate.
Make certain that there are about 2,000 pigs nearby...
Sodom and Gomorrah are referenced in
the New Testament as an example for
ALL subsequent generations.
Elsewhere Jesus notes that rejecting the Gospel is even worse. WOW 😮
2nd Peter 2:6-9
King James Version
6 And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;
7 And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the Wicked:
8 (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;)
9 The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the Day of Judgment to be punished:
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Peter%202%3A6-9&version=KJV
Matthew 10:14-16
21st Century King James Version
14 And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words,
when ye depart out of that house or city, shake off the dust of your feet.
15 Verily I say unto you, it shall be more tolerable for the land of
Sodom and Gomorrah in the Day of Judgment than for that city.
16 “Behold, I send you forth as Sheep in the midst of Wolves.
Be ye therefore wise as Serpents and harmless as Doves.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2010%3A14-16&version=KJ21
Clever. Thanks for the giggle.
I’m not a Swiftie but she’s a billionaire because part of her “schtick” is maintaining some semblance of normalcy. So no, I don’t think the oddities are as popular as you think. Most listeners at this point can also separate the music from the personality.
That was a good episode. Randy is such a dork.
Men and women like this are mentally ill. Further they can be tyrannical when they demand others play along with their mental illness.
They need help. They dont need encouragement or celebration, you dont celebrate someone because they have a mental illness. The left does because they exploit people like this as a wedge issue they can use. But we should never. We need to get them help. There are so many stories of people who did the work and got help and are now at least able to see they were messed up, if not feeling ok/good.
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