Lorde is on the point of ask some robust questions on her new single “Man of the Yr,” which the singer introduced is popping out Wednesday (Could 28) whereas dropping a music video teaser on Instagram.
In a clip from the visible posted someday previous to the observe’s launch, a topless Lorde spins round in a swivel chair and appears down at her naked chest. “Who’s gonna love me like this?” she sings in a snippet of the track. “Who might get me like this, when he stream down by way of me?”
“M.O.T.Y. Tomorrow late New York time,” the New Zealand native captioned the put up. “Written in blood.”
The teaser comes greater than per week after Lorde first announced that “Man of the Yr” would function the second single from June-slated album Virgin, following lead observe “What Was That,” which dropped in April. In her current Rolling Stone cowl story, the Grammy winner shared that she wrote “Man of the Yr” about her personal broadening gender identification, which she says fell into place after she stopped taking oral contraceptives.
“I felt like stopping taking my contraception, I had lower some form of wire between myself and this regulated femininity,” she informed the publication. “It sounds loopy, however I felt that rapidly, I used to be off the map of femininity. And I completely believed that that allowed issues to open up.”
Simply earlier than writing “Man of the Yr” — which Lorde has additionally mentioned is her “favourite” observe on Virgin — the star taped her chest down with duct tape in an effort to appreciate a imaginative and prescient of herself “that was absolutely consultant of how [her] gender felt in that second,” she informed Rolling Stone. She seems that manner on the duvet artwork for “Man of the Yr,” carrying nothing however the silver tape and a pair of denims.
Elsewhere within the interview, Lorde confirmed that she nonetheless makes use of “she” and “her” pronouns, however some days feels more like a man than a lady. “[Chappell Roan] requested me this … She was like, ‘So, are you nonbinary now?’” she recalled to the publciation. “I used to be like, ‘I’m a lady apart from the times once I’m a person.’ I do know that’s not a really satisfying reply, however there’s part of me that’s actually immune to boxing it up.”
See Lorde’s “Man of the Yr” teaser beneath.