Lorde Reveals How Her Black Jeans and Shoestring Belt Helped Influence 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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00:00These jeans had to be with me throughout making this album.

00:02I put them on and immediately I was like,

00:05okay, this is the person who makes this album.

00:08They're kind of boyish and cut and they sit quite low on me

00:12and they needed something to be held up.

00:16And at the time I had no belt and I would use a shoelace,

00:19which is something that my skater friends would do.

00:22There's a look that I think is really cool.

00:25And again, sort of like connects me to a young part of myself.

00:30Okay.

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