“Last song before Virgin. First song on the album,” singer says of final single before album arrives
Lorde has released the final song before the arrival of her forthcoming studio album, Virgin. On Thursday night, the singer-songwriter dropped the new single “Hammer.”
“Hammer. Last song before Virgin,” Lorde wrote on social media. “First song on the album. An ode to city life and horniness tbh.”
Last month, Lorde unveiled the 11-song track list for Virgin, and in a Rolling Stone cover story, described the record’s lyrics as being “right on the edge of gross.” “I think coming more into my body, I came into an understanding of the grotesque nature of it and the glory and all these things,” she said at the time.
The singer released synth-pop number “What Was That” and the grittier, “Man of the Year,” earlier this year. Lorde accompanied the former with a video of herself alone throughout New York before meeting up with fans and dancing in the center of Washington Square Park. While discussing the latter, Lorde revealed that “Man of the Year” was intrinsic to her embracing the fluidity of her gender identity.
The cover art for Virgin, out June 27, is an X-ray of Lorde’s pelvis that shows the exact placement of her IUD. When speaking to Rolling Stone cover story, Lorde said: “I felt like stopping taking my birth control, I had cut some sort of cord between myself and this regulated femininity. 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.”
