In the lead-up to her new album Virgin, Lorde has started to slowly open up about her broadening gender identity with the world. But before she was ready to do that, she confided in one of her new friends: Chappell Roan.

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 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.