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Lorde doesn't know:

The “Royals” singer told Rolling Stone writer Brittany Spanos in a recent interview that the gender-swinging lyrics in the opening track to her upcoming album “Virgin” reflect her personal life. “Some days I’m a woman / Some days I’m a man,” the lyrics go. “I ask her how she identifies now, what it means and what’s changed,” Spanos wrote in the interview. “'[Chappell Roan] asked me this,’ Lorde recalls. The pair have become close friends over the past year. ‘She was like, “So, are you nonbinary now?” And I was like, “I’m a woman except for the days when I’m a man.” I know that’s not a very satisfying answer, but there’s a part of me that is really resistant to boxing it up.’” Spanos continued describing Lorde as someone who calls herself a cis woman with the same pronouns but “in the middle gender-wise.” Though Lorde still calls herself a cis woman and her pronouns remain unchanged, she describes herself as ‘in the middle gender-­wise,’ a person more comfortable with the fluidity of her expression. In some ways, she feels like her teenage self again, back when her friends were mostly boys and there was a looseness in how she dressed and acted.” Spanos said that Lorde credited “Virgin” producer and writer Jim-E Stack for her thoughts about gender. “In 2023, she went shopping at clothing store C’H’C’M’ and tried on a pair of men’s jeans,” Spanos wrote. “She sent a picture to Stack to get his opinion. ‘He was like, “I want to see the you that’s in this picture represented in the music.” This was before I had any sense of my gender broadening at all.’”

Then she was a he...