Lorde has shared that the experiencing of binding her chest for the ‘Man of the Year’ music video helped her ‘come into some understanding about myself’, amid her wider grapple with gender.

In the run up to the release of her fourth studio album, Virgin , Lorde released several singles, one of which was the quickly-viral hit “Man of the Year” . In the music video for the song, the Kiwi star binds her chest , and on “Hammer”, sings: “ Some days I’m a woman, some days I’m a man. “

Speaking to Dazed as part of September’s cover issue, Lorde has shared that amid a wider reassessment of her own relationship with gender, she found that binding her chest (the act of flattening one’s breasts) helped her feel “pure”.

“Something really happened for me when I taped my chest for the first time. I c

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