In a new cover story interview with Rolling Stone, the "What Was That" singer, 28, opened up about feeling "in the middle gender-wise" rather than identifying strictly as a man or a woman and recalled once duct-taping her chest in order to express how she thought of herself in the moment.

Lorde has discussed her gender identity in a new in-depth Rolling Stone interview with Brittany Spanos. In the story, Spanos reveals that the lyrics to the opening track of Lorde’s upcoming album “Virgin” include,

In my experience, nobody loves gossip about the LGBTQ+ community more than…well, members of said community. To wit: I’ve recently been involved in a lot of conversations about what, precisely, is going on with Lorde ’s gender identity, a topic that the 28-year-old musician shed new light on in an interview with Rolling Stone this week.