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- Summary: The fourth full-length studio release from New Zealand pop artist Lorde was co-produced with Jim-E Stack and feature contributions from Andrew Aged,, Devonte Hynes, Dan Nigro, Fabiana Palladino, and Buddy Ross.
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- Record Label: Republic
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Jun 30, 2025Virgin is an album so earnestly, painfully vulnerable you can almost see straight through to the blood and guts. It’s not always polished or pretty, but it doesn’t have to be. It’s alive.
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Jun 27, 2025On Virgin, she is transcendentally witchy, harmonizing with herself both literally and spiritually, a pop star in the throes of creative rebirth.
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Jul 15, 2025“Man of the Year” marks the album’s turning point. .... Maturity requires sacrifice, which, throughout her fourth album, Lorde discovers by separating herself from the person the world sees and often expects.
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Jun 27, 2025Virgin is the kind of album that makes you realize something you hadn't really before: until now, Lorde was operating at an emotional distance. .... Virgin feels like a rebirth.
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Jun 27, 2025That ecstatic sense of possibility—of being many things at once, of following your impulses in all directions, all the time—is the animating force of Virgin.
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Jun 30, 2025Virgin may not be Lorde’s most polished album, but it’s certainly her most compelling and revealing
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Jun 30, 2025It is, in the main, an album of fits and starts, notions that don’t pan out — her most piecemeal work to date.