Lorde is opening up about her decision to tape her chest for the first time and how it helped her express her gender identity.

The singer sat down with Dazed magazine for a cover story ten years after her first one with the magazine. She’s on the autumn issue, which goes on sale around the world this Thursday (September 11).

During the interview, Lorde revealed her reasoning for taping her chest for the first time back in 2023, around when she had begun writing “Man of the Year.”

“I’d really been feeling this stuff bubble up and talking about it a lot in therapy. We started writing the song, and I saw this TV performance of it [in my mind’s eye], and it wasn’t even finished. And in the performance I saw myself in jeans, no shirt. And I thought about how I would actually do that

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