New Zealand singer-songwriter Lorde has launched Virgin, her fourth studio album. The Onion sat down with the artist to debate identification, inspiration, and what’s subsequent.
The Onion: How has your music developed as you’ve gotten older?
Lorde: After I was youthful I used to be actually intimidated by the black keys on the piano, however now I can’t get sufficient of them.
The Onion: What impressed the X-ray album cowl?
Lorde: It’s an homage to the TV present Bones.
The Onion: Are you touring quickly?
Lorde: I hope not. I simply signed up for a pizza-making class.
The Onion: What’s your writing course of like?
Lorde: My secretary sorts up my ideas and faxes them to Jack Antonoff.
The Onion: Who’re some artists you’d prefer to collaborate with sooner or later?
Lorde: I’ve at all times needed to work with a type of guys who paints themselves silver and pretends to be a statue.
The Onion: You’ve described your self as “within the center gender-wise.” What does this imply to you?
Lorde: Sitting on a horse in outsized Wranglers, no high. Alternatively, standing barefoot within the rain in a marriage costume. And in each of those situations it’s closely implied that I’m a ghost.
The Onion: What are some issues to think about when tying a bowline knot?
Lorde: The bowline is an especially safe knot, however may be laborious to regulate. All of it comes right down to context.
The Onion: What’s subsequent for you?
Lorde: Disappearing into some tall grass.
