Lorde’s new album Virgin is out this Friday. She’s been rolling out a couple of tracks from it already, together with “Man Of The Yr,” final week’s “Hammer,” and the lead single “What Was That,” which she debuted at an impromptu listening social gathering in New York’s Washington Sq. Park that acquired delayed a couple of hours as a result of the cops shut it down at first. In “What Was That,” Lorde sings about going to Child’s All Proper, the small and beloved Williamsburg, Brooklyn venue (whose equally-beloved founder Billy Jones sadly died of mind most cancers earlier this month). And so with just some days to go earlier than Virgin is out, Lorde hosted a listening social gathering at Child’s on Sunday night time the place she performed the album in full.
As she did with that Washington Sq. Park ordeal, Lorde teased the occasion by sending out a advertising textual content to followers studying “NY………Message in case you’re round late tn.” She began the social gathering round midnight, and apparently they had been giving out promotional lighters. (Did anybody occur to seize an additional one they can provide me, by the way in which?) Lorde additionally streamed it on her TikTok for the parents who couldn’t make it out to Child’s, the place apparently folks had been sending her digital cowboy hats and mustaches to put on? “Some days I’m a person,” certainly. She additionally introduced a “Full Transparency” clear LP variant of Virgin.
New York appears to be a recurring setting of Virgin — Lorde mentions getting piercings on Canal Road in “Hammer” — and proper now, town is experiencing what’s in all probability some of the thrilling mayoral elections in current historical past. Quite a lot of that’s because of the very fashionable democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani, who might very effectively beat disgraced ex-governor Andrew Cuomo within the major election. It’s not each mayoral race you get a candidate so superior that individuals who don’t even dwell of their metropolis are endorsing them. However Lorde, who’s from New Zealand, shared her endorsement of Mamdani on Instagram Sunday: “I can’t vote but when I might I’d rank the one candidate with a transparent imaginative and prescient of town we need to dwell in — one that appears past the wealthiest New Yorkers to supply wise and caring paths ahead.” To paraphrase “What Was That” once more: Nicely, I would like him to be mayor identical to that. Election day is tomorrow, June 24.
See clips from Lorde’s listening social gathering at Child’s and her Mamdani endorsement under.
Lorde has despatched New York followers a message!
“NY……..Message in case you’re round late tn”
: @eating_pants_ pic.twitter.com/eLjeD83YhA
— The Lorde Cult (@TheLordeCult) June 22, 2025
New textual content from Lorde:
“I feel it’s time for full transparency…..”
— Lorde Updates 🧬⛓️ (@LordeUpdatesBR) June 23, 2025
Lorde is shock enjoying her complete new album VIRGIN at Child’s All Proper rn, dancing with followers like she’s certainly one of them, and livestreaming each second on TikTok as if a buddy is chaotically FaceTiming in.
direct-to-fan, intimate, not overly produced, and so true to her model. pic.twitter.com/odbf7PkPWt
— ted (on farcaster) (@tednotlasso) June 23, 2025
Lorde’s bottle is dwell on tiktok ft.terry pic.twitter.com/nRRH90dD3J
— elga_ilanos (@lostmyhead102) June 23, 2025
Lorde being on-line once more is so humorous as a result of why the fuck are they sending her cowboy hats on TikTok dwell pic.twitter.com/B0AV0u4Fip
— Sadd (@lakesndmistakes) June 23, 2025
@lorde pic.twitter.com/ov2Wy3Wvpr
— Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@ZohranKMamdani) June 22, 2025