12/19/2023 0 Comments Im still in love with you boyInstead, ‘All 4 Nothing’ is a window into Lauv existing on multiple timelines, exploring the good, the bad and the ugly. “A couple of times I killed it,” he admits, “but usually not very good”. “This album was more like, ‘Let’s remove all the different versions of me this is just me’.” He was so committed to enabling a natural creative flow that he experimented with freestyle rap. The freedom he granted himself in the creative process was starkly different to ‘~how i’m feeling~’, where each song fell within one of six personas. The end result is an album that is not confined to any one direction, while still showcasing his knack for earworm vocals and rich melodic production. ‘All 4 Nothing’ is Lauv’s journey to embracing more of the good stuff life has to offer, and learning to savour the process along the way. “Falling in love with my girlfriend was this experience of full surrender and like, ‘This feels really nice, and I don’t want to lose this’, but also in the back of my head I’m like, ‘But I could lose it at any moment’.” Or, as he described it on his TikTok, it’s a song about “falling in love when ur an anxious person and you finally let go and give in to it”. “But I felt a lot of anxiety and shame around that.” That’s where the album’s title track ‘All 4 Nothing (I’m So In Love)’ celebrates the moment everything started to fall into place. “I found that I’m an extremely loving person,” he says. “ Love my friends to death / But I never call and I never text” he sings on ‘Modern Loneliness’, while on ‘Drugs and the Internet’ he reflects on the people he pushed away: “ I traded all my friends for drugs and the internet / Ah, shit / Am I winner yet?”).īut something else he found in this period of self-reflection was the reason to make a change. The album featured three songs about feeling “lonely”. It’s a regret he’s been pondering since his 2020 debut album, ‘ ~how i’m feeling~’, a long-awaited release that followed a near-decade of releasing music online. “I let music take up so much space in my life to the point where everything else was kind of just stagnant.” “I spent a lot of time chasing goals and achievements as opposed to growing relationships with people in my life,” he says. And feeling like, ‘What the fuck do I do to feel OK?’” The problem seemed to stem from his obsessive desire to achieve external validation in the search for fulfilment, which caused him to neglect those close to him. “And then that happens – and I still feel the same. “For so much of my life I was just like, ‘All I want to do is make music that connects with a lot of people,” he says. His 2018 single ‘I Like me Better’ has amassed more than two billion streams, while ‘i’m so tired’ featuring Troye Sivan and ‘fuck, i’m lonely’ with Anne-Marie were UK Top 10 and Top 40 hits respectively.īut something was still amiss. “ 26 and I’m rich / How the hell did it come to this?” he asks on the single, questioning why, after arriving at the destination he always dreamed of, did he still feel empty?Īfter all, the hallmarks of traditional success were certainty there. “I feel like it sets up the problem of why this album exists,” Lauv, now 27, adds. “ Can I tell you a story / ‘Bout a boy who broke his own heart? / And he always blamed everybody else / But the truth is that he did it to himself,” he sings on album opener and recent single ‘26’, which he describes as the “prelude” of the record. The weighty epiphany would serve as the turning point on the journey to more authentic output from LA-based pop star Lauv – real name Ari Leff – that could only flourish when he set out to confront the source of his restlessness. And then, I came back around and realised, I don’t feel an innate sense of deserving to be happy.” “At one point, I was like, ‘I want to step away from music’. “I had such an existential breakdown,” he says. What he unearthed was a realisation that would determine the direction of his upcoming second album, ‘All 4 Nothing’. When the time came for Lauv to start writing his second album, the singer found himself looking inward.
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