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Lorde put blood, sweat and tears into her new music.
On Wednesday (April 30), the "Green Light" singer took to Instagram to announce her forthcoming album Virgin, her first in four years and a follow-up to 2021's Solar Power. Simply captioning the post with the album's title, Lorde shared the album cover featuring a pelvic X-ray with a zipper and belt buckle in the center.
In a note on her website, Lorde admitted that Virgin was "100% WRITTEN IN BLOOD." The project, out in June, is produced by the singer and Jim-E Stack, with Fabiana Palladino, Andrew Aged, Buddy Ross, Dan Nigro and Blood Orange's Dev Hynes.
The "Royals" musician shared even more personal meaning behind the project while describing the album in an email sent to fans, per People.
"THE COLOUR OF THE ALBUM IS CLEAR. LIKE BATHWATER, WINDOWS, ICE, SPIT. FULL TRANSPARENCY. THE LANGUAGE IS PLANE AND UNSENTIMENTAL. THE SOUNDS ARE THE SAME WHEREVER POSSIBLE," she wrote, adding, "I WAS TRYING TO SEE MYSELF, ALL THE WAY THROUGH. I WAS TRYING TO MAKE A DOCUMENT THAT REFLECTED MY FEMININITY: RAW, PRIMAL, INNOCENT, ELEGANT, OPENHEARTED, SPIRITUAL, MASC."
Lorde explained that she is both "proud and scared" of the album as it's putting everything on display in an effort to find freedom.
"THERE'S NOWHERE TO HIDE," she said. "I BELIEVE THAT PUTTING THE DEEPEST PARTS OF OURSELVES TO MUSIC IS WHAT SETS US FREE."
Fans already got their first taste of Lorde's fourth studio album with her new single "What Was That." After teasing the track on social media, she debuted the song last week in at a gathering in New York City after police initial shut the event down.
Virgin drops June 27.