“The Photo Felt So Joyful and Playful”: Lorde Spills All About Her Cheeky New Album Cover

Lorde straight-up broke the internet when she dropped the cover art for her next album Solar Power.

Co-hosting Smallzy’s Surgery with Kent ‘Smallzy’ Small on Nova last night, the songstress chatted about the response to the album cover, her upcoming album and tour, and of course, her beloved onion rings Instagram account.

On the absolute tizzy she sent the internet into with her album cover, Lorde said that she didn’t think of the photo as sexy when she saw it.

“The photo felt so like joyful and playful and kind of free to me, I feel like the kind of sexiness didn’t kind of compute for me, I just thought looked I looked so happy jumping over the camera,” she explained, adding: “It was kind of funny thing thinking this person’s seen my butt, this person’s seen my butt and this person’s seen my butt”.

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She continued: “I didn’t even know if I thought I looked that hot, I just thought it was such a cool, kind of tough photo, I was like this feels iconic to me, I can imagine owing the vinyl and loving it for 25 years, that was my vibe on it. I guess you have to preserve it while you’ve got it, save it for prosperity”.

Lorde said she is “hyped, hyped, hyped” to start touring again, adding that she “can’t wait for people to hear” the whole album and see the show.

“I really think it’s such a good record,  I feel so proud of it,” she said. “I’m so keen to get out there.”

Describing the vibe of the album as “’60s/’70s folk with early 2000 bubble gum pop”, she said that it’s “a little bit S Club, a little bit TLC mixed with the classics – Fleetwood Mac”.

Asked about her elusive Instagram account, @onionringsworldwide, Lorde maintained that she could not “confirm or deny” her ownership of the account.

“I am quite passionate about onion rings, I do think there is a wide spectrum of good and bad, of crunchy and soggy, of sweet and savoury, I will leave you with that,” she shared.

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“I mean I just really love onion rings,” she said, dropping the veil of secrecy. “I thought, ‘I think the people deserve to know where the great ones are.”

Lorde went on to say that “there are some pretty good ones in Sydney”, and shouted out Gowings Bar and Grill at the QT hotel in Sydney as “the place where [she] started the account”.

And finally, as message to her fans, Lorde said: “I want to say hello, I’ve missed the crap out of you, I cannot wait to squeeze you all again.

“Thank you for listening to Solar Power and I’ll see you for this tour which I think will be a massive party, so I hope you can come.”