Lorde Explains How "Sexy" 5 Gum Helped Inspire Her New Album

Rolling Stone

In our new video segment with Rolling Stone's June 2025 cover star, Lorde shows off some of her artifacts that helped inspire her upcoming fourth album 'Virgin.'  1. Water Bottle 2. 5 Gum 3. Electronics  4. T-Rex Tape 5. Box of written materials  6. Black jeans and shoelace belt 7. Japanese cloths

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00:00I've come came out when I was a teenager I don't know I connect it with like the

00:05time of like vitamin water like these kind of like sexy everyday products

00:09this in New Zealand felt like cutting edge and fabulous it totally connects me

00:13to this young excited version of myself where I just thought I was so cool and

00:19it was all possibility chewing this in the studio something about it like

00:24brought me into myself in a way that I really like unfortunately the flavor of

00:28this is disgusting to me now I'm like I almost want to chew about a real old piece

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