at Rolling Stone and other publications<\/a> that her view of identity evolved after she wrapped her chest for the first time while working on the song \u201cMan of the Year\u201d in 2023. She said her pronouns have not changed\u00a0but described the album as a rebirth in her relationship with gender dysphoria.<\/p>\nArticle continues below this ad<\/p>\n
\u201cWe need to learn how to generate the feeling of freedom. It\u2019s getting scary out there and, even if you aren\u2019t free, you can go to a place in your body for one minute, one song, one movie,\u201d Lorde said before playing \u201cMan of the Year\u201d and her hit song \u201cTeam.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Lorde headlines Austin City Limits Music Festival on Saturday, Oct. 3, 2026.<\/p>\n
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Fans went wild for \u201cGirl, so confusing,\u201d her 2024 song with Charli xcx, who also played ACL Fest on Friday. \u201cThis song goes out to Charli xcx, that\u2019s my b\u2014,\u201d Lorde said, punctuating the moment with a drag from a cigarette.<\/p>\n
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The set neared its end with \u201cDavid,\u201d a song that references Michelangelo\u2019s famed marble statue as a symbol of how Lorde was molded to fit an image as a rising star before reclaiming her autonomy.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A huge banner reading \u201cI don\u2019t belong to anyone\u201d and \u201c2013\u201d unfurled over the crowd. Lorde ended the performance with her anthem \u201cRibs.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cLook at a painting. Go swimming. Keep dancing. Keep doing drugs. Keep having sex. Keep moving,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s important to get comfortable with that feeling of freedom.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lorde headlines Austin City Limits Music Festival on Saturday, Oct. 3, 2026. Mars Salazar\/American-Statesman \u201cI last played ACL…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":456448,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-456447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}