""I never felt like a woman until I was 26, I remember the day. My mother was sort of androgynous and showed me a lot of David Bowie, Grace Jones. I understood that was a source of power and I saw how dangerous it sometimes was to be a woman. 'I want to be the kind of woman I need to be' So, I decided that if I'm going to be a woman, I want to be exactly the kind of woman that I need to be. Part of that is sometimes being a man.""
""Some days I'm a woman, some days I'm a man.""
""I'm a woman except for the days when I'm a man.""
""I'm really resistant to boxing it up""
Lorde uses her fourth studio album as a space to explore gender, bodily experience, and androgyny. Visual choices such as chest binding in the "Man of the Year" video and lyrics like "Some days I'm a woman, some days I'm a man" illustrate gender fluidity in her work. Androgynous influences from her mother and artists like David Bowie and Grace Jones shaped perceptions of power and risk tied to womanhood. Identity has broadened to include days of feeling male as well as female, alongside reading queer authors and texts about the body. A North American tour begins in Austin, Texas, on 17 September, with UK dates in November.
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