When Lola Young visits Los Angeles for work – something that the singer -songwriter in southern London has done with an increasing frequency in the six years since she signed a major registration contract at the age of 18 – she generally remains among young and creatively inclined to Silver Lake.
“But right now, we are in Bel-Air,” she said with a slightly shy expression a recent morning.
By the way?
“Apparently.”
More as definitely: at the end of last year, the song by Young “Messy” became mega-violence on Tiktok thanks to a clumsy dance video Posted by influencers Jake Shane and Sofia Richie Grainge; Almost five months later, “Messy” has more than half a billion flows on Spotify and Youtube and remains at the upper part of the hot 100 of Billboard. The graph has a second young entry into “Like him», His dreamy-Nief collaboration with Tyler, the creator of his LP” Chromakopia “.
However, the full charm of “disorderly”-the last of a long line of British pop hits and self-effaceer self-effacer which include Amy Winehouse “Rehabilitation“And Lily Allen”Smile“- That's all not I feel like I have assembled everything.
“Ok, so yes, I smoke like a chimney / I am not thin and I shoot a Britney every two weeks”, sings Young on a groove of soul to the soul gently, “but cut me a little of soft / Who want me to be?” The 24 -year -old singer calls “disorderly” a “ADHD hymn” – the one who finally focused the listeners' attention to her to the point that she had to find more spacious excavations during this trip to welcome her growing team.
“This is how we are English – we say to ourselves:” No, no, no … “, trying to justify the biggest house,” said Jack Siggs, one of the managers in Young, laughing while he is sitting next to his client in an Italian restaurant in Brentwood. Dressed in a pink stripe top, her hair remote in a bun, Young is in Los Angeles to play this month Coachelor Festival and perform on Jimmy Kimmel's late evening show. Every few minutes, she discreetly blows a vape pen when the server is out of sight; Her phone is on the screen on the table, although she barely defeated the temptation to check her notifications.
Would she say that she is damaged in the brain because of the phones?
“Yes,” she replies without hesitation. “I mean, I also have brain damage to other things.” Young admires when a musician like Matty Healy of the 1975 pauses to urge his audience to put away his phones and live in the moment. “But that wouldn't work for me because so much from my brand and everything comes from social media,” she said. “So saying:” Everyone turns off the F – Telephone off ” – it's a little too much.”
Even so, its goal is now to prove that it is not only another from Tiktok Countless wonders at a blow. Coachella can be a promising launch pad, because Chappell Roan – a Young label comrade in Island Records – demonstrated 12 months ago in a very discussed performance which placed it on a better artist victory during the Grammy Awards in February.
Louis Bloom, president of the Island Emi Label group, is naturally behind her: he describes Young as a “talent once in a generation” and tells the moment when she is “at the beginning of an extraordinary career”. The same goes for Sza, which is called a fan and that Young Single as a crucial influence on the writing of frankly conversational songs which defines the second-year album of Young, “This not made for you”, which fell last summer.
“The way she flows and wanders and her melodies serve – I was massively inspired by this when” Ctrl “came out,” said Young about Sza's 2017 LP. “The fact that she validated me is really important.”
Before Sza, Young grew up by idolatrating April Lavigne and Eminem, then entered Prince and Joni Mitchell. Her back-tinking, Julia Donalds, wrote the book of popular children “The Gruffalo” and Young's parents encouraged her to sing when she was a child; Later, Young studied at the Brit School in London, the prestigious Academy of the Arts of the show which counts Winehouse, Adele and County of Rex Orange Among his former famous. With hindsight, Young says that she learned a lot about music at British school, although she also had a lot of problems “smoking grass behind the hangars” because she says it on a late breakfast of Spaghetti Carbonara.
After graduating, she met manager Nick Shymansky, who had supervised Winehouse's career earlier. Young perfected his job with a series of singles and EPS, then released his first album in 2023. (In order to be noted: the cousin of Shymansky, Elliot Graine, CEO of Atlantic Records, is married to Sofia Richie Grainge, whose video Tiktok triggered “Messy's” Ascent.)
Today, the beginnings of Young seem a little too polished; “It was not for you anyway”, a large part of which cut in Los Angeles, has a pnky quality and in tatters – thinks that the Arctic monkeys meet Mary J. Blige – which is better for her raucous voice. His writing is also clearer – not only “messy” but biting it “I would like you to be dead” And “Vain“, In which she roasted a hot and cold lover:” I heard that you say to the guys that I am the worst / you come on Monday and damn, you stink as if you have missed. »»
For all the mileage that she left the album, Young says “It is not for you anyway” has already started to feel old; She is more enthusiastic about the next album on which she works, which she hesitates to describe in detail other than saying that there is “a kind of country song on this subject”. A problem that she encounters for the first time as a songwriter is that so many of her social interactions today boil down to people who want to know things about her.
“I am an arrogant little S -, so obviously, I mean me,” explains Young, which should occur between the weekends Coachella at the fund theater on April 15. “But I also want to listen to people and find things on their lives. It's a strange balance.”
At the risk of stacking: what's going on with the prominent tattoo on his left ear? “F – If I know,” she said about the small network of wavy lines. “I regret it somehow every time I see it. Not deeply. ” She laughs. “I think I was just afraid of dying without a tattoo and to look like AP—.”
