Lorde has continued her X-rated era with a racy shoot for Vogue Australia. 

The New Zealander, 28, stripped off for the fashion magazine’s July issue, posing in underwear and a revealing frock. 

On the cover, the pop singer fronts the camera in a black, lacy bra paired with worn-looking loose trousers. 

Inside the magazine, Lorde wears a dramatic, plunging gown that flaunts her chest  and slender figure. 

In her interview with Vogue Australia, Lorde says she chose What Was That to be the first single from her new album, Virgin, as she felt she had regained her voice through the uptempo track. 

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Lorde has continued her X-rated era with a racy shoot for Vogue Australia. The New Zealander, 28, stripped off for the fashion magazine’s July issue, posing in underwear and a revealing frock. Pictured in Vogue 

On the cover, the pop singer fronts the camera in a black, lacy bra paired with worn-looking loose trousers

In her interview, Lorde says she chose What Was That to be the first single from her new album, Virgin, as she felt she had regained her voice through the uptempo track

Lorde also ruminated on what success means to her these days, and says it has changed. 

‘Success then was the cover of Rolling Stone, winning a Grammy, my friends thinking my EP was cool, my heroes shouting me out’ she said. 

‘Success now is having the big moments feel like play and being fully aligned inside, not just having it look right on the outside.’ 

It comes after the hitmaker sent fans into a frenzy with a surprise performance at Glastonbury on Friday, which saw her whip her top off in the sweltering heat. 

Thousands of fans flocked to the Woodsies stage after rumours of a set from the Royals hitmaker spread around Worthy Farm. 

Such was the excitement that bosses announced the stage had temporarily closed due to overcrowding shortly before her set began.

The singer – who previously graced The Pyramid stage in 2022 – performed all of her biggest hits from Ribs to Green Light, as well as a rendition of her new album. 

The show came on the same day as she dropped supporters’ jaws after unveiling the cover of her new vinyl – which featured a very racy photograph. 

It comes after the hitmaker sent fans into a frenzy with a surprise performance at Glastonbury on Friday, which saw her whip her top off in the sweltering heat

The singer – who previously graced The Pyramid stage in 2022 – performed all of her biggest hits from Ribs to Green Light, as well as a rendition of her new album 

The singer had already raised eyebrows with the project’s main artwork, which features an x-ray of her pelvis – inter-uterine device included.

However, the vinyl for Virgin – Lorde’s fourth studio album and first since 2021’s Solar Power – is even more explicit and features what appears to be her genitals beneath a pair of see-through plastic pants. 

Taking to social media to express their shock, some fans worried about their family members potentially seeing the NSFW cover. 

They shared on X/Twitter: ‘So the new Lorde vinyl just got delivered. I was not prepared for the insert’.

Another said, ‘Lorde really got her cat out like that on her vinyl huh?’

one more wrote: ‘My Lorde vinyl is getting delivered to my parent’s house I’m scared [sic].’ 

Others added: ‘when you open your Virgin vinyl and see lordussy’ and ‘should’ve stayed curious about the Lorde vinyl’. 

However, not everyone was so critical of the vinyl’s artwork and others described it as ‘beautiful’ and far from being shocking. 

The singer had already raised eyebrows with her latest album’s main artwork, which features an x-ray of her pelvis – inter-uterine device included

‘A lot of you are being very weird about the Lorde vinyl cover… who tf cares if her lordeussy was out. It’s just a body’ someone wrote. 

‘Wait… Is this the new album art from Lorde that everyone is talking about? It’s a beautiful photo, and the entire vinyl package is, too, but come on, it barely shows anything. No need for all the discourse. 90’s Madonna would kill you all [sic].’ 

Others said that the reaction to the vinyl was so extreme that they expected it to be a lot more explicit than it actually is. 

‘I really thought the Lorde vinyl insert would be a lot worse than people are saying it is, you guys are kinda dramatic’ one said. 

Lorde is one of the highest-selling New Zealand singers of all time and her 2013 song Royals reached number one in America, eventually being certified 14 times platinum.