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Lorde's New Song ‘Hammer' Is ‘an Ode to City Life and Horniness'
Lorde's back with a new single. 'Hammer' is the third offering from her upcoming album, Virgin, which will officially drop a week from today.
It's the first track on the LP and, as Lorde put it, is 'an ode to city life and horniness tbh.' Written by her and Jim-E Stack, the song pays homage to both of those themes with the opening lines: 'There's a heat in the pavement, my mercury's raising / Don't know if it's love or if it's ovulation.'
Some lyrics also nod to gender expression: 'Some days I'm a woman, some days I'm a man,' she sings.
On her website, Lorde described the song as, 'MAGIC JEWELRY. NINE MOONS. LARRY THE PIGEON MAN. FLIRTING WITH THE GUY AT MNZ. OVULATION. CRISP SPRING SUN. IMMENSE GRATITUDE TO BE ALIVE. BRAIDING WITH LANGUAGE. BUDDY'S GRANULAR SYNTH. LOGIC OPEN ON THE PLANE. BIG BREAKTHROUGH IN LONDON. FIRST SONG SENT TO MIX. ALWAYS TRACK 1. THE SOUND OF MY REBIRTH.'
Earlier today, she dropped the music video directed by Renell Medrano. She's shown swinging naked in a hammock, smoking with her friends, running in a field, and getting a butt tattoo in the woods.
You can check out the full lyrics to the track below, courtesy of Genius.
