Lorde’s Transparent Virgin CD Doesn’t Play, Fans Say

On Friday, Lorde released her new album Virgin and debuted every song live in a surprise Glastonbury set. The new album is great, but it’s got some fans pissed off for a reason that has nothing to do with the music. Lorde is selling a number of physical variants of Virgin, including a “bathwater” vinyl edition and a CD that’s been printed on clear plastic, to go along with Lorde’s ideas about “full transparency.” The problem, as Digital Music News points out, is that those clear CDs apparently won’t actually play in a lot of CD players.