Lorde has openly discussed how she has coped with being a star despite facing significant personal setbacks. Recalling her experience headlining the All Together Now festival in 2023, the “Ribs” singer admitted, “I was deep in the weeds.”
Referring to her split from ex-partner Justin Warren after nearly a decade of dating, Lorde added, “I was about a week post break-up of my long-term relationship and I was really stuck. I had sort of just come off my birth control. I was having this crazy kind of hormonal swing.”
Speaking about her forthcoming music, which will feature on her album, “Virgin,” she explained, “This record is a byproduct of an insane personal quest of the last couple of years.”
The “Buzzcut Season” crooner mentioned, “It was actually really hard for me to accept. I almost still can’t accept it. I’m lucky in that it wasn’t very long.”
Lorde continued, “It could definitely have been a lot worse. For me, any kind of restriction of who I am supposed to be just does not work. It completely blocked my creativity and cut me off from a life force.”
The 24-year-old New Zealand singer elaborated, “It took me quite a long time to realise that was happening. It’s also like this evil little rite of passage for a lot of women. I don’t think it’s a unique experience I had. It felt algorithmically predestined or something.”
“You form totally differently when people are looking at you from a young age,” Lorde stated, before concluding with a poignant thought: “I still dream probably once a month that a man is taking a photo of me with a long-lens camera. It’s deep in my subconscious that someone might be looking at me and capturing something that I’m [not ready] for them to see.”
