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Lorde's upcoming album Virgin is all about her views on her personal journey with gender identity, and in the music video for its second single "Man of the Year," the singer seems to visually wrestle with her femininity and masculinity.
This is the song Lorde was "proudest" of on the project and in a recent interview with Rolling Stone she explained how "Man of the Year" came to be. “I felt like stopping taking my birth control, I had cut some sort of cord between myself and this regulated femininity,” she said. “It sounds crazy, but I felt that all of a sudden, I was off the map of femininity. And I totally believed that that allowed things to open up.”
The song was then written as a way for the artist to visualize a version of herself “that was fully representative of how [her] gender felt in that moment.”
"Man of the Year" follows the album's lead single, "What Was That," which came out last month. Virgin is slated for a June 27 release. In September, Lorde plans to hit the road on a world tour. Watch the "Man of the Year" music video below and see the full list of tour dates here.