Lorde discusses ‘insane' creative process behind music

Lorde just explained how she has put up with being a star despite having setbacks in life.

Back in 2023, when she was headlining the All Together Now festival, the Ribs singer recalled, “I was deep in the weeds.”

“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,” Lorde added referring to the split from her ex-partner, Justin Warren, after dating him for nearly ten years.

Speaking of her upcoming music, that would be present for fans to hear from her album, Virgin, she explained, “This record is a byproduct of an insane personal quest of the last couple of years.”

“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,” the Buzzcut Season crooner mentioned.

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.”

“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,” the 24-year-old New Zealand singer explained.

“You form totally differently when people are looking at you from a young age,” Lorde said, before concluding with the 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.”