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Lorde explains how gender influenced her track Man Of The Year

Lorde has opened up about her thought process behind her new single, Man Of The Year.

The 28-year-old singer from New Zealand will release her fourth studio album, Virgin, next month.

Ahead of the album release, she dropped lead single What Was That and this week she unleashed the second single, Man Of The Year.

Speaking on Australia's Triple J Thursday radio show she explained that attending a GQ Man Of The Year party in 2023 inspired the track.

She revealed, "I had been feeling this expansiveness of gender happening for a while, and this was my first event that I'd been to in a while.

"I wore kind of like a 'hot girl' dress. And I felt so not like myself. And it was a really cool marker, especially being at this event that was celebrating all these cool guys."

She went on, "I was like, 'Oh, I'm one of those guys, like, sometimes, when I wanna be'. And I was like, 'Whoa, I don't think the hot-girl dress is the right device for this moment.'"

She then explained that the following day she rushed into the studio alongside producer Jim-E Stack.

She recalled, "(We) were in the studio kind of hungover, and I was like, 'I wanna write a song about how I'm the Man of the Year for me.'"

Lorde has previously explained how she has reflected on her gender and how this influenced her record, telling Rolling Stone magazine earlier this month, "I'm a woman except for the days when I'm a man."

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