Lorde's latest single, "Man of the Year," is a reflection of her complex feelings about gender, particularly shaped by her recent decision to stop using birth control. In her cover story with Rolling Stone, she describes how this change made her feel liberated from traditional femininity, allowing her to express a more authentic version of her identity in the song. "Man of the Year" is part of her upcoming album, Virgin, which will be released on June 27th and follows her previous single "What Was That." Lorde will also embark on the "Ultrasound" tour in September.
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.
'Man of the Year' speaks to her evolving feelings regarding gender and was written in an effort to visualize a version of herself that was fully representative of how [her] gender felt in that moment.
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