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Following the release of her fourth studio album, singer Lorde has been talking about gender. Virgin, released in June, has served as an outlet for the New-Zealand-born singer to explore and reflect on her relationship with gender and her body, and she has been candid when it comes to sharing her thoughts on femininity. On the video for “Man of the Year”, she binds her chest and on “Hammer” sings: “Some days I’m a woman, some days I’m a man.” She has also talked about her gender identity “broadening” and about how androgyny has shaped her idea of feminine identity. Speaking to Le Monde recently, the singer, whose real name is Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O’Connor, said: “I never felt like a woman until I was 26, I remember the day. My mother was sort of androgynous and showed me a lot of David Bowie, Grace Jones. “I understood that was a source of power and I saw how dangerous it sometimes was to be a woman. ‘I want to be the kind of woman I need to be’ “So, I decided that if I’m going...

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