“I said to myself, ‘What is the most honest thing I can do?’ And in my opinion, it was opening the song with [Taika’s] voice, from a voice note. We always send them to each other back and forth. And it just came out really naturally and I just think there’s something really pure about inviting people into my life through my music, which I think I have done with this album more than ever before.”

Covering our Spring 2023 issue, Rita Ora talks documenting her love for Taika Waititi in her upcoming album, harnessing autonomy in the next chapter of her career, and why she thinks Louis Theroux would be a great addition to RuPaul’s Drag Race. Preorder the issue now at wonderland.com

Rita Ora wears Fendi.