Lorde's "Man Of The Year" Lyrics Explore Her Gender Identity

MusicThe new single is from her upcoming album, Virgin.by Jake ViswanathMay 29, 2025Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images Entertainment/Getty ImagesLorde is going through a transformation. On May 29, Lorde released her new single “Man of the Year,” which she called “the song I’m proudest of” on her upcoming fourth studio album, Virgin.In a recent interview with Rolling Stone, the singer revealed that after her eight-year relationship ended in 2023, she started exploring her gender identity and described herself as “in the middle gender-­wise.” As a result, she wrote “Man of the Year” as an attempt to visualize a version of herself that “was fully representative of how [her] gender felt in that moment.”On the stark piano ballad, co-produced by Jim E. Stack, Lorde examines how her breakup coincides with her new ideas of gender. “My babe can't believe I've become someone else,” she sings. “Someone more like myself.” She even wonders if she’ll ever find love again as her true self. “Who's gon'...