Lorde goes topless for new video after stirring controversy over her gender
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Lorde went topless this week as she teased the upcoming music video for her song Man of the Year.
The 28-year-old music artist — who is Rolling Stone's June cover star — skipped a shirt while acting out a scene in which she looked down at her bare chest with a concerned expression.
Another shot showed her spinning in a chair that was the sole piece of furniture in an empty room.
Dressed in a pair of blue jeans, she was barefoot with her dark hair spilling around her. She wrote in a caption to her 11.2 million Instagram followers, 'M.O.T.Y. Tomorrow late New York time. Written in blood.'
It comes after earlier this month the Royals hitmaker was accused of 'gender baiting' when she opened up about her 'expansive' identity in her Rolling Stone interview.
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She revealed in the profile, 'My gender got way more expansive when I gave my body more room.'
The star shared that a conversation with fellow musician Chappell Roan encouraged her to reevaluate her gender identity.
When Roan asked Lorde if she was non-binary, she answered: 'I'm a woman except for the days when I'm a man.'
Lorde explained to the outlet, 'I know that's not a very satisfying answer but there's a part of me that is really resistant to boxing it up.'
Despite towing the line between masculinity and femininity, the singer-songwriter said she still calls herself a cisgender woman and her pronouns remain she/her.
She noted that she doesn't think 'my identity is radical' as 'comparatively, I'm in a very safe place as a wealthy, cis, white woman.'
'Making the expression privately is one thing, but I want to make very clear that I'm not trying to take any space from anyone who has more on the line than me,' Lorde, born Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O'Connor, stated.
Some readers took to social media to express their confusion over the seemingly contradictory remarks.
Others accused her of 'gender baiting' to drum up publicity for her album, with one person writing on X: 'Gender baiting is a sure marketing winner.'
Someone else said, 'Holy sh**t, can we please stop with this c**p? Pop artists are cringe. I don't care what you identify as or your sexual orientation, but using it to sell records is getting played out. You all spew the same s**t.'
'We don't want this wokeness,' someone else declared while another critic agreed, 'Oh my god shut up.'
The harsh comments continued, 'this is f*****g absurd,' 'Cringey gimmick,' and, 'We're tired.'
Lorde's music video for her latest single — off her upcoming album Virgin, out on June 27 — drops on May 29.
