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Lorde has revealed that her dress at the 2025 Met Gala was an “Easter egg” for her upcoming album ‘Virgin’ – see what she had to say below.
Yesterday (May 6), the ‘Royals’ singer walked the red carpet at the Met Gala ahead of the arrival of her fourth record ‘Virgin’, which is due for release on June 27. While on the carpet, she was stopped by Emma Chamberlain for Vogue, where they discussed her custom dress.
Lorde told Chamberlain that her dress was a Thom Browne piece, which she created, going on to tease that it’s “something of an Easter egg. More will be revealed,” going on to add that it “really represents where I’m at gender-wise. I feel like a man and a woman… it’s a take on the cummerbund.”
The interview, which took place during Vogue‘s pre-Gala livestream coverage, has since been captured by fans and shared on social media – check out a clip of the interaction below.
Following the Met Gala ceremony, Lorde took to social media to show off her greyish-silver dress. She thanked Thom Browne for the “modern mystic attire”, which had her “nana’s brooches on my jacket”.
“It was amazing to feel so much joy and energy and pain and healing and reclamation that had happened, was happening, on the carpet and in the room, I’m grateful to have been invited into that space. I felt all the parts of me that had come together in the years since I last attended. My skin was a mess but my insides shone past it. Pāua shards and city debris on the bitten nails… In his speech Colman Domingo said thank your ancestors, he was talking specifically to Black people but it was a beautiful thing to have said, I touched the brooches and did so.”
The cummerbund element of Lorde’s dress sees her flip the garment – typically used by men in tuxedoes – for her top, and expanded threading for her lower dress.
This isn’t the first time Lorde has experimented with her idea of genders. In an email to fans announcing ‘Virgin’, she shared that the record reflects “MY FEMININITY: RAW, PRIMAL, INNOCENT, ELEGANT, OPENHEARTED, SPIRITUAL, MASC”.
Additionally, she recently had a chat with Document Journal that was published on May 1 that sees her further hint at her “gender broadening”, and her latest single ‘What Was That’ being product of her growth.
“I had come back from London to New York after this period of great turbulence in my personal life,” she said. “Becoming single, but also really facing my body stuff head-on, and starting to feel my gender broadening a little bit. Just being back in my house and feeling this big wave of grief. I just kept thinking, ‘What was all of that?’”
Lorde’s fourth album ‘Virgin’ was co-produced by the singer alongside Jim-E Stack. Fabiana Palladino, Andrew Aged, Buddy Ross, Dan Nigro and Blood Orange’s Devonté Hynes were also involved.
As for the inspiration behind the project, Lorde said: “The colour of the album is clear. Like bathwater, windows, ice, spit. Full transparency. The language is plain and unsentimental. The sounds are the same wherever possible. I was trying to see myself, all the way through.
“I was trying to make a document that reflected my femininity: raw, primal, innocent, elegant, openhearted, spiritual, masc. I’m proud and scared of this album. There’s nowhere to hide. I believe that putting the deepest parts of ourselves to music is what sets us free.”
She has since talked about how collaborating with Charli XCX influenced the record. Meanwhile, fans have been reacting to the intriguing cover artwork for Lorde’s upcoming album.
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Lil Yachty usually does a great job at feeding his fans new music. It seems like every other week he's got new snippets to tease or loosies dropping on DSPS whenever he feels like it. Just several hours ago, the Georgia multi-hyphenate hopped on over to his SoundCloud page, tHE CONCRETE LeaK sYstem, to share some long-lost recordings.
Per HipHopNMore, there's 11 in total and the origins of them range from 2022-2025. Some of you may remember that Lil Yachty updated this account almost a year ago with 14 tracks. Back then he unleased some unheard collaborations with his 2016 XXL Freshman classmate 21 Savage and singer Vory.
In the time since then, Yachty did drop off a pair of freestyles as well. But this is the latest major collection to be added to tHE CONCRETE LeaK sYstem.
Overall, the cuts here feel reminiscent of his earlier material in that they are more trap focused. However, the main some extra charm with most of the beats featuring some slightly left-field quirks.
They definitely don't relate at all to what Lil Boat has been experimenting with solo catalog wise. His 2023 album Let's Start Here. was a psychedelic rock exploration. Then, there's his 2024 collaboration joint with James Blake, Bad Cameo.
On that, Lil Yachty stepped into the London artist's soundscape in some ways by bringing his warbly singing voice to neo-soul, alternative R&B, and ambient pop.
But unfortunately for the 27-year-old, him sharing of all of this music with his fans has been interrupted to some degree. That's because Yachty is still going back and forth with former Concrete Boys group mate, KARRAHBOOO.
Her initial split from Boat's collective was a shocking development when it originally happened about a year ago. However, as the two rappers repeatedly went at each other's throats, we began to learn more. Yachty was claiming that KARRAHBOOO was incredibly disrespectful to those involved with the group.
Moreover, it led to him claiming that he was writing all of her verses and tracks. KARRAHBOOO has since retaliated, of course, but she really went after him recently. Just two weeks ago, she alleged that he mistreats women poorly overall. "U have a daughter and u treating women like this is mindblowing like I know u never see her but still that doesn’t make sense how evil this man is to women (not just me)," she said in part.
