Man of the Year is the second track from Lorde’s upcoming album Virgin dropping on June 27…
The latest single from Lorde’s fourth album Virgin, along with an accompanying music video, has been released with the singer calling it the one she’s most proud of. Man of the Year, co-produced by Lorde and Jim-E Stack, is a song the singer said was “an offering from really deep inside me.”
The lyrics for the song feature language that Lorde has been using throughout recent interviews discussing her gender identity. In the opening verse she sings “you met me at a really strange time in my life.” In the recent issue of Rolling Stone, Lorde told journalist Brittany Spanos about a conversation she had with Chappell Roan, where the Hot To Go singer asked if Lorde considered herself non-binary. “I was like, ‘I’m a woman except for the days when I’m a man.’”
Other lyrics like “take my knife and I cut the cord” and “now I’m broken open?” seem to reference her experience no longer taking birth control. “I felt like stopping taking my birth control, I had cut some sort of cord between myself and this regulated femininity,” she added in the Rolling Stone interview. “It sounds crazy, but I felt that all of a sudden, I was off the map of femininity. And I totally believed that that allowed things to open up.” She goes on to sing in the song, “My babe can’t believe I’ve become someone else, Someone more like myself.”
The music video, directed by Grant Singer, starts with Lorde sitting in a seemingly empty warehouse in a baggy tee and jeans. She proceeds to remove her shirt and duct tapes her chest before crossing the room into a sea of sand.
The image of her duct taped chest is reminiscent of her Thom Browne look from the 2025 Met Gala in which she teased to Vogue correspondent Emma Chamberlain that her outfit was an “easter egg” for something yet to come. “To me it really represents where I’m at gender-wise. I feel like a man and a woman, kind of vibe,” she explained on the Met Gala’s blue carpet.
Along with the release of the second single, Lorde revealed the track listing for Virgin coming out June 27. Songs like Hammer, Shapeshifter, Favorite Daughter, If She Could See Me Now suggest the singer will take listeners on a personal journey that reflects her recent revelations.
The artist will also be supporting the album with the Ultrasound World Tour with stops across North America and Europe. The tour is set to commence on 17 September 2025 in Austin, Texas, United States, and conclude on 9 December 2025 in Stockholm, Sweden.
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