Lorde Shocks Fans Over New Vinyl Album’s NSFW Image

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Lorde's NSFW album art isn't getting the green light from all her fans.

The "What Was That" singer raised eyebrows when she shared the accompanying art for a vinyl edition of her forthcoming album, Virgin, which hit stands on June 27.

For the special version, Lorde included a photo insert that showed a close-up photo of a person wearing clear, plastic pants that leave nothing to the imagination. In fact, the image offered a glimpse at the seated body's belly button, thighs and the person's, er, special place in between.

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Following the Vinyl's reveal, many fans expressed feeling shocked by the creative choice.

"So the new Lorde vinyl just got delivered," one user wrote on X (formerly witter) June 27. "I was not prepared for the insert."

Alongside a GIF of a young boy making a surprised face, another joked, "Mindlessly scrolling the TL then seeing Lorde’s vinyl."

However, not everyone was taken aback by the image, with some arguing that it was an artful tie-in to the album's themes regarding sex and gender identity.

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"The fact that there is actual discourse happening w people being shocked/disgusted at lorde’s vinyl album cover is crazyyyy literally that’s just her pubis…." one fan argued. "It’s so tame… are people okay??? i am sorry but how is a pic like that considered shocking…."

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But this isn't the first time that Lorde has sparked a conversation surrounding her Virgin album.

Back in April, the "Ribs" singer got the internet talking when she released the record's official cover, which showed an X-ray of a person's pelvic area that notably appeared to have an IUD—a.k.a. an intrauterine device that is used as a form of birth control—inserted in the uterus.

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"The IUD on Lorde's new cover???" one user wrote on X at the time. "CONTRACEPTIVE QUEEN."

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Another added, "NOT THE IUD BEING ON THE COVER FOR AN ALBUM CALLED VIRGIN OH MY LORDE YOUR BRAIN NEEDS STUDIED. THIS ALBUM COVER EATSSSS SO HARD."

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For more stars who have started candid conversations about sex-related topics, keep reading.

Brooks Nader

Technically, Brooks’s sister Grace Ann Nader spilled the beans on this one, revealing that the Sports Illustrated model and her Dancing With the Stars partner Gleb Savchenko did more than just rehearse their dance moves behind the scenes.

“I can tell you firsthand,” Grace Ann said on the Chicks In the Office podcast in May 2025, “every time I visited Brooks’s trailer, the trailer was shaking every single time. I never wanted to go in there. I was always knocking.”

As for Brooks, who had freshly broken up with estranged husband Billy Haire, she joked, “The trailer thing was probably why we didn’t win.”

Brooke Shields

Brooke got candid about her sex life with husband Chris Henchy in her 2025 memoir Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Old.

“I’m going through all the bodily s--t that comes with aging as a woman even in the best of times,” she wrote in the book, according to People. “The thinning hair and the peach fuzz and the brand-new belly fat and vaginal dryness and the diminishing sex drive—and in my natural state I feel less appealing to him than I ever did before.”

Furthermore, she said being intimate can be painful for her now.

“For me to fully enjoy sex at this point," Brooke added, "I need my lotions and potions, the right sleepwear (maybe calling it sleepwear is contributing to the problem), my special pillow, and maybe a tequila so I can relax.”

Katy Perry

The "California Gurls" singer revealed how she thanked ex Orlando Bloom for doing the dishes during their relationship—and it's not what you'd expect.

"If I come downstairs and the kitchen is clean, and you've done it all," Katy told Alex Cooper on a September 2024 episode of Call Her Daddy, "and you've done all the dishes, and you've closed all the pantry doors, you better be ready to get your d--k sucked."

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Chelsea Handler

Chelsea is not shy when it comes to sharing her NSFW confessions with the world. In fact, the comedian made headlines when she said a threesome with their masseuse led to her 2010 breakup with Ted Harbert.

But after she received a disappointed text from her ex-boyfriend, she had to set the record straight.

"I really want to clarify," Chelsea said on an episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon in October 2023. "I want to go on the record that that is not why our relationship ended."

"We did have a lot of threesomes‚ and that, while that's private it's already out there," she continued, "so I'm gonna double down on that and just say that we didn't break up because I left him for the masseuse. That didn't happen."

Heidi Klum

The America's Got Talent judge has something NSFW behind her closet doors—and she calls it her "sex closet."

"It's a big closet. But, there's outfits in here and things, you know," she said on The Skinny Confidential Him & Her Show podcast in September 2024. "You can have a lot of things. You can have wigs, you can have outfits, shoes, boots."

She even revealed that her daughter Leni Klum accidentally encountered the space.

"She found my sex closet," Heidi said on an episode of the Call Her Daddy podcast in January 2024. "She fully knew what it was. But, also she was with a friend and she filmed it and they were giggling, and I was like, 'Oh my God.'"

John Cena

John shared a behind-the-scenes look into what filming a sex scene is really like.

"There is nothing intimate about it," he said on an episode of Club Shay Shay in August 2024. "Nothing. So, like, it's really embarrassing."

And looking back to his role in 2015's Trainwreck, he was not prepared for the kind of scenes he would be filming with costar Amy Schumer.

"Amy is an angel," he continued. "She made the environment so comfortable, and then when I got the part, eventually they were like, 'Yeah, it's a sex scene and we want you to do elaborate and crazy stunt sex, and all those lines you had? We're probably not going to use them, we're just going to do this stunt sex scene.'"

Shailene Woodley

Despite describing herself as a "very sexual person," Shailene has shared she has some serious "beef" with porn, naming it the "junk food" of pleasure.

"The way that sex is presented on the surface in this country is so fabricated," she said on the She MD podcast in September 2024, "and it’s such a performance instead of true intimacy, vulnerability and connection."

"Pleasure is so important, and we just rip each other off of it because I think we don't necessarily even know what’s possible," she continued. "And that’s my big beef with porn is I'm like, 'You’re selling everybody McDonald’s when you could have like, whoa.'"

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Goldie Hawn

After spending four years with partner Kurt Russell, Goldie revealed her biggest secret for a successful, long term relationship—Good sex.

“You have to have good sex,” she told E! News in September 2024. “Because sex is something that connects you and creates more belonging. People who have healthy sexual relationships usually last a lot longer. But it's not just because of the act, it's because of the warmth and the intimacy that it creates.”

Ice-T

Ice-T revealed the secret to his and Coco Austin's decades-long marriage—and yes, it involves the bedroom.

"Jungle sex," he told E! News in January 2024. "That flame has to stay lit."

"When that flame goes out and you're not really attracted to each other anymore," he continued, "you have to address that very quickly because it's something that's necessary."

Demi Lovato

For Demi, the bedroom is where she is most confident.

"I feel the most confident when I'm having sex," she told the LadyGang podcast in September 2023. "'Cause you're so present that you're not thinking about what is actually like…what clouds your judgement throughout the rest of the day, or at least that's how it is for me. It's not that way for everybody."

Lisa Rinna

After spending decades with husband Harry Hamlin, Lisa got candid about how aging has affected their sex lives.

"I do think that desire levels change for a man," the actress told Cosmopolitan in January 2024. "That's just the natural evolution of life. So it's figuring out how to coexist without taking that personally as a woman. I think that it's almost more about companionship and about creating space for the ebb and flow of sexuality."

"We really have great sex together, and we always have," she continued. "It's just that maybe it doesn't happen quite as often as it did when you're in your 30s and in your 20s, I would say. And I think that's normal."

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Zoe Saldaña & Marco Perego-Saldaña

Zoe and her husband Marco have created a code word to talk about sex around their kids.

"We 'play Legos naked,'" Marco revealed on The Drew Barrymore Show in April 2024, Zoe chiming in to clarify that the term means "sexy time."

But the couple worried that their older twin boys were catching onto the lingo.

"They were like, 'Are you guys kissing? Are you guys gonna go play naked with your Legos?'" Zoe recounted. "And we're like, 'No, we're not going to do that.'"

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