'Total Gift'
Singer also opens up about her personal battles while making the 2025 LP in a newsletter to fans: "Living in these songs had an incantatory effect. I felt myself change”
Lorde marked the one-year anniversary of Virgin by sharing nearly 50 demos from the album, as well as shared a personal note about the making of the LP.
“On Sunday night I was putting my clothes away and realized Virgin had been out for almost a year,” Lorde wrote in her newsletter to fans.
“I decided something had to be done about that. To be honest I haven’t really known how to talk about Virgin since it came out. I’d thought I was accustomed and even a bit desensitized to marketing and commodifying my feelings at this point in my life, but sharing Virgin felt raw and exposing in a new way.* I interviewed poorly, couldn’t write here, haven’t posted much. I think I needed to just be quiet for a while. It also makes sense to me that such physical work would resist being trapped with language. But some time has passed, and I wanna try to find the words.”
