Lorde Shows Off Her Secret Box of Old Momentos, Personal Writing, and More

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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00:00This is my box.

00:01My house was just filling up with sort of like

00:03misc bits of paper.

00:04So I was like, put them in a box.

00:06Me as a little baby.

00:08This is some Tracy Eman work.

00:10And this is a picture of my teen bedroom.

00:13Frida Kahlo down there.

00:15I'm not a diary keeper.

00:16Everything was always on notes on my phone.

00:19I was like not someone who put pen to paper ever.

00:21And that changed in 2023

00:24because I started writing my dreams down.

00:26Just sort of like got used to having

00:28that paper next to the bed.

00:29It's my dreams.

00:30Oh my God.

00:31Half of these were like motivational.

00:33This says it will get finished

00:35and you won't let it out until you believe in it 100%.

00:38Trust.

00:39Clearly panicking about that.

00:41I guess the remix was coming out.

00:43And I did a bunch of just handwritten stuff

00:46in case they needed it for the single art.

00:48This is too crazy, this box.

00:50Chateau, stationery, eclipse, colored paper in here.

00:55And I don't even really like know what is in here

00:57but I'm keen to dig in.

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