Lorde‘s custom Thom Browne ensemble at the Met Ball may contain hints about her forthcoming LP, Virgin. Speaking to Emma Chamberlain on the red carpet for Vogue, the singer the grey two-piece dress is an “Easter egg” for the new music.
“This is my creation,” the singer said. “It’s something of an Easter egg. All will be revealed. I just love the open back. To me it represents where I’m at gender-wise. I feel like a man and a woman, you know?”
This year’s Met Ball was themed around new exhibition “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style.” On Instagram following the event, Lorde thanked Thom Brown for the “modern mystic attire.”
“It was amazing to feel so much joy and energy and pain and healing and reclamation that had happened, was happening, on the carpet and in the room, I’m grateful to have been invited into that space,” she wrote. “I felt all the parts of me that had come together in the years since I last attended. My skin was a mess but my insides shone past it.”
Virgin, Lorde’s first album in four years, is set for release on June 27. It was produced by her and Jim-E Stack with contributions from Dev Hynes, Daniel Nigro, Fabiana Palladino, Andrew Aged, and Buddy Ross. She has so far shared single “What Was That,” a hypnotic, synth-pop number that harkens back to her Melodrama era.
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In an email to fans announcing the LP, Lorde said she was “trying to make a document that reflected my femininity: raw, primal, innocent, elegant, openhearted, spiritual, masc.” “I’m proud and scared of this album,” she added. “There’s nowhere to hide. I believe that putting the deepest parts of ourselves to music is what sets us free.”
She also reflected on those ideas in a recent interview with Document, saying, “I had come back from London to New York after this period of great turbulence in my personal life. Becoming single, but also really facing my body stuff head-on, and starting to feel my gender broadening a little bit. Just being back in my house and feeling this big wave of grief. I just kept thinking, ‘What was all of that?’”
