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Yahoo
01-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Lorde Tucks Nude Photo Into New Album Artwork — And Fans Are Divided
Lorde is making a much-buzzed-about return to music this summer with a new album that boasts some provocative artwork. The vinyl edition of 'Virgin,' released last week, appears on the two-time Grammy winner's website with a 'Parental Advisory' warning label that reads: 'Adult Images.' The album's accompanying eight-page insert includes a nude image of Lorde with the camera zoomed in on her crotch, visible through a pair of see-through pants. Over the weekend, a representative for Lorde confirmed to Entertainment Weekly that the image is indeed of the singer, whose real name is Ella Yelich-O'Connor. Not surprisingly, the photo has drawn heated chatter among Lorde's fans. 'opened the app and the first thing I see is lorde's coochie in my face???' one person wrote on X, formerly Twitter. 'WITH BUSH mind you.' Added another: 'Unless it is playing an instrument, I don't need to see it.' Others, however, came to Lorde's defense, with some comparing it to now-iconic images of Madonna in her 'Erotica' era. 'You all came out of one of these, it's the most natural thing in the world. You wouldn't be alive if these did not exist,' one person wrote. 'Wait... Is this the new album art from Lorde that everyone is talking about? It's a beautiful photo, and the entire vinyl package is, too, but come on, it barely shows anything,' added another. 'No need for all the discourse. 90′s Madonna would've [killed] you all.' Lorde, who hails from New Zealand, is no stranger to titillating imagery. The cover of her 2021 album, 'Solar Power,' found her flashing a hint of derrière as she ran on a beach. In an interview with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Lorde said the album's cover ― an X-ray of her pelvis in which an intrauterine device, or IUD, is clearly visible ― is an homage to the Rolling Stones' 1971 album, 'Sticky Fingers,' which, incidentally, is also believed to have inspired the cover of Madonna's 1989 album, 'Like a Prayer.' 'I thought bringing that feeling to a female body was really interesting, and it sort of scared me a little bit, the image,' she said. 'I think that's sort of the feeling you need to have with art sometimes.' Imagery aside, 'Virgin' has been met with near-universal praise from music critics, with Rolling Stone calling it Lorde's 'most introspective record yet.' Grammys Producer Speaks Out On Controversy Over Bianca Censori's NSFW Look David Archuleta Is Kicking Off His 'Flirty' Era With A Powerful Message For Pride Tina Knowles Admits She Was 'Really Shocked' When Beyoncé Won Album Of The Year
RNZ News
27-06-2025
- Entertainment
- RNZ News
Lorde releases new album Virgin
music national 21 minutes ago Lorde, who originates from the North Shore, told RNZ's own Tony Stamp, she went through "existential crises" putting the album together. Stamp spoke to Charlotte Cook.
News.com.au
06-06-2025
- Entertainment
- News.com.au
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: Lorde opens up about unprotected sex and pregnancy tests
The 28-year-old singer from New Zealand will unleash her fourth studio album, titled Virgin, later this month. Among the tracks on the record is a song titled Clearblue - which she has confessed she struggles to listen to. Opening up on the Therapuss podcast, the chart-topping star explained, "There's a song that I love so much called Clearblue that is about unprotected sex.' "And just the experience of taking a pregnancy test, and like, this flood of emotions that goes through your body.'
News.com.au
05-06-2025
- Entertainment
- News.com.au
Lorde opens up about unprotected sex and pregnancy tests
The 28-year-old singer from New Zealand will unleash her fourth studio album, titled Virgin, later this month. Among the tracks on the record is a song titled Clearblue - which she has confessed she struggles to listen to. Opening up on the Therapuss podcast, the chart-topping star explained, "There's a song that I love so much called Clearblue that is about unprotected sex.' "And just the experience of taking a pregnancy test, and like, this flood of emotions that goes through your body.'
RNZ News
30-05-2025
- Entertainment
- RNZ News
Making rainbow connections
This audio is not downloadable due to copyright restrictions. Tabea Squire Photo: Eustie Kamath Once again, secondary school music students across the country are competing in Aotearoa's annual chamber music contest. But for this, the competition's 60th incarnation, composer Tabea Squire has attempted to address a perennial issue: how do you put very different ensembles on an equal footing? Squire's solution is a little like a set of Lego blocks - short musical phrases coded by colour (she calls them 'bricks') some of them pitched, some just rhythm - which competitors can arrange, repeat, mix and match as they like, to build their own piece. It's called "Rainbow Construction" and the blocks she's set out in the user manual represent all the colours of said rainbow, along with ultraviolet, which is a family of options for rests. As in the sounds you can't hear - get it? Speaking to RNZ Concert, Squire said the inspiration for the piece came from Terry Riley's "In C" which also invites players to mix and match musical ideas set out by the composer. Squire says there's only one hard and fast rule: don't transpose the notes she's written in the bricks into different keys. Otherwise it's all over to the competing groups and the instruments they use, be they steel percussion bands or string quartets or anything in between, to decide how to build their piece. And no, if it doesn't suit your ensemble, Squire says you don't have to attempt it. Meanwhile Squire, who won the composition category of the New Zealand Community Trust Chamber Music Contest in 2006, continues to work on her fully-scored music for concerts, including one which the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra will play later this year. And here's a video of another of her works, "I Dance, Unseen". District rounds for this year's NZCT Chamber Music Contest began this week, with the final in Auckland in August.
