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Speaker 1 (00:10):
My hard podcasts, hear more kiss podcasts, playlists, and listen
live on the Free I heard.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Ang It, I've ben everyone's wieler body.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
I'm having a great drive home Woods.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
We've got one of the absolute stars of our catalog
these days, Lola Young joins us.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Very exciting. Hey, Lola, we're so good.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
I want to start by saying something to you because
I heard MESSI for the first time, and I was like,
I want to go and watch this on YouTube. I
went to YouTube and I just double checked that this
is still the case.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
So I've watched the clip.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
I've got a fascination with top comments on YouTube, and
I was like, geez, the top comment on this clip
is absolutely hilarious, and I just double checked it. It is
still the top comment.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
On your YouTube. It has forty one thousand up votes.
Do you know what it is? No, Okay, it is.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
I am a four hundred year old swamp witch and
this is the most authentic music I've heard in three
hundred and sixty years.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Is the top That is awesome?
Speaker 4 (01:13):
I just wanted to hear it again.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
That's great.
Speaker 5 (01:17):
How does that compliment feel, Lola?
Speaker 4 (01:20):
It feels good if it was real. But also, but
like I know why they're doing that, because every comment
underneath that video is like I'm a fifty seven seven
year old woman from like epswetch.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
So like I think they're just playing off of that.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
They're like, I'm a six hundred year old Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
That makes sense. That makes sense. Okay, that's great.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
It's not like there are actually a four hundred.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
That's why I was hoping that.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
I was hoping that, which, hey, let's talk about some
new music, this new album. Now you might be able
to help us to be here because we were talking before.
Obviously we're in a commercial radio station and sitting in codes.
We're just kind of trying to brainstorm away to announce
the album title that's radio friendly?
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Have you thought about that?
Speaker 1 (02:04):
No, what are your thoughts on I'm only fudging myself,
No way, okay, okay, just a brain brainstorm some more.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
I'm only frying myself.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
Flicking we had, I'm fling myself.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
It does sound like something else.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Well, a few options, and so tell us a bit
about I'm only flicking myself.
Speaker 5 (02:26):
What what? What's the album about? Lola?
Speaker 4 (02:31):
This is about It's quite a deep album, and I
mean it's it's it's a node to kind of my
where I was at in my life, and it's a
reflection of some difficult situations I was in it. It's
like partially a love album, but it's more about learning
to kind of accept and and push past some some
(02:53):
tricky situations and experiences.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
I read a quote actually, Lola, which I'm going to
pick up right now.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
I find this really really interesting.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
You said that it's about kind of not giving a
not giving a flick and also embodying that feeling, and
it makes you feel a little bit like you've got
an alter ego because it's sort of like how you
should be feeling or how you.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
Want to be feeling. Can you talk about that a
bit more?
Speaker 4 (03:15):
Yeah, that was I think that was in reflection to
one thing, in relation to one thing, because that song
was like quite a cential song, and it was definitely
me taking on like an ego a little bit, but
more like it was like me wanting to feel like
this way, but not necessarily feeling that way. That sums
up the album quite well too, in the sense of
(03:36):
wanting being hopeful for the future, but not necessarily experiencing
or experiencing that that sense of happiness right in that moment.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Yeah, right, okay, So then so then can you comment
on where you are in that journy now now that
you have written that album and you've gone to the
place of wanting to be at a certain feeling, like
you do you feel like you're closer to that.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
Yeah, there's definitely more. It was definitely healing writing it
and very Yeah, cathartic writing it because I meant it
meant that I could push past some things and also
and also therefore kind of like look back at myself
and look back at that place I was in and
have it all, you know, have it all in song form,
which is really nice.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
I meant that I could heal a lot through some things.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Yeah, when Messi's coming out of really going viral, you're
you're in rehab.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Yeah, that's wild.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
And then you've come out what MESSI kind of in
Australia particular early this year was when that song was
hitting its straps. And now I've got a new record,
You've really gone through. Arguably, they must, like I can't
picture a more tumultuous period in terms of transitioning from
where you were there to now being one of the
biggest artists in the world. And I thought I saw
(04:47):
an interview did with Elton John where I feel like
he said some stuff, which I mean, it must have
been nice to hear things like this from him.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Have a listen.
Speaker 6 (04:56):
There's a track on your album to be the next single.
I'm going to tell everyone it's called Dealer. I but
my house that that's the number one single. It's unbelievable.
It's the biggest smash I've heard in years. So I
just can't tell you how proud of you I am,
because I know what you've been through and you've come
through it. On the other side, You're going to have
the best career because you can sing live, you can
(05:19):
you are just you've got the whole deal going.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
How did it feel to have Elton and empathize with
that journey?
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Yeah, it was.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
It was mad, I think, like I couldn't believe they
were saying that. And also, you know, it was very
meaningful coming from someone who's done it and done it
so well and beautifully, and you know, yeah, it was
last year was a lot, and it was a lot emotionally,
and hearing him say he was proud of me, even
though I'd never met him in person, was like, so
was so like it was even more special because it
(05:49):
meant that there's a connection that you can form with
somebody just through kind of listening to somebody's music that
he feels like safe enough and he feels like he
knows me enough through my music to be able to
say that, say something like that, which is so powerful.
And also knowing what he's gone through, knowing he's been
through addiction, and knowing that he's kind of come out
the other side. There's hoping that too. So it was
very moving and very powerful.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Did he did he share some advice with you, Lala,
just on you know, dealing with things like like fame not.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
Yeah, but I'm seeing him soon, so I'm going to
go to his house, and I'm going to still his
house because it's not an Onborn hat yet. So I'm
already I'm already, I'm already getting the.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Keys, mate.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
No no, no.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
I thought like, I'm going to give him a little
bit more time, maybe, yeah, more and if it's not
by that.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Yeah yeah, I love that.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
So, Lola, I mean, it's funny you're talking about wanting
an experience and not quite having it, and then maybe
this is a nice reflection for people who are outside
of the fame and success that you've enjoyed. Is the
feeling that you wanted when you were kind of in
the doldrums and dealing with addiction. Has that been solved
or healed through success and fame or or is it
(07:01):
still or is that solved?
Speaker 4 (07:04):
I don't think anything can be solved or healed through fame.
I think it's only what you make. And I think
I don't think anything could be can be changed necessarily
even by fame, because you're still the same person. You
still deal with the same things. But I think it's
definitely changed my outlook on how much I have to lose.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
So has it been difficult becoming famous?
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Well, yeah, I'm not. I mean it's been like a
journey of like, you know, getting to know myself a
little bit better through the lens of other people and
also just like you know, just being learning how to
navigate its complex within itself. But I do think that
I'm I'm getting there, I think, And also there are
(07:44):
some beautiful moments within that.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Can you give us an example of maybe like what's
been the hardest and then what has been the most beautiful?
Speaker 4 (07:52):
The hardest has kind of been just the expectation of
the performative personally. You feel like some of you are like,
you know, there's a per performative person inside me that
someone them feels like I have to live up to
this like idea of me that other people may see
or expect. And then the most beautiful thing is just
(08:12):
having the response and and and performing to people who
connect to your music in the same way that I
have done or in a completely different way, and hearing
people stories and memories that they've created with my music,
and also just having that kind of raw connection with
my actual with my fans or you know, whether you
(08:33):
want to call them that that interaction.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Yeah, it's been so lovely getting to know Lola. Yeah,
like it's just you you. You are such a real person.
Thank you so much for your honesty Any Canada. Good
luck with the new album again. Hopefully Dealer doesn't go
number one though, so you can have Elton John's house
and then if you do throw a party, we'd love
to be invited.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
Absolutely, I'll invite both of you.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Looking forward to it. Then we'll see you there.
My hard podcasts, hear more kiss podcasts, playlists, and listen
live on the Free I heard.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Ang It, I've ben everyone's wieler body.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
I'm having a great drive home Woods.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
We've got one of the absolute stars of our catalog
these days, Lola Young joins us.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Very exciting. Hey, Lola, we're so good.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
I want to start by saying something to you because
I heard MESSI for the first time, and I was like,
I want to go and watch this on YouTube. I
went to YouTube and I just double checked that this
is still the case.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
So I've watched the clip.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
I've got a fascination with top comments on YouTube, and
I was like, geez, the top comment on this clip
is absolutely hilarious, and I just double checked it. It is
still the top comment.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
On your YouTube. It has forty one thousand up votes.
Do you know what it is? No, Okay, it is.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
I am a four hundred year old swamp witch and
this is the most authentic music I've heard in three
hundred and sixty years.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Is the top That is awesome?
Speaker 4 (01:13):
I just wanted to hear it again.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
That's great.
Speaker 5 (01:17):
How does that compliment feel, Lola?
Speaker 4 (01:20):
It feels good if it was real. But also, but
like I know why they're doing that, because every comment
underneath that video is like I'm a fifty seven seven
year old woman from like epswetch.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
So like I think they're just playing off of that.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
They're like, I'm a six hundred year old Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
That makes sense. That makes sense. Okay, that's great.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
It's not like there are actually a four hundred.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
That's why I was hoping that.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
I was hoping that, which, hey, let's talk about some
new music, this new album. Now you might be able
to help us to be here because we were talking before.
Obviously we're in a commercial radio station and sitting in codes.
We're just kind of trying to brainstorm away to announce
the album title that's radio friendly?
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Have you thought about that?
Speaker 1 (02:04):
No, what are your thoughts on I'm only fudging myself,
No way, okay, okay, just a brain brainstorm some more.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
I'm only frying myself.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
Flicking we had, I'm fling myself.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
It does sound like something else.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Well, a few options, and so tell us a bit
about I'm only flicking myself.
Speaker 5 (02:26):
What what? What's the album about? Lola?
Speaker 4 (02:31):
This is about It's quite a deep album, and I
mean it's it's it's a node to kind of my
where I was at in my life, and it's a
reflection of some difficult situations I was in it. It's
like partially a love album, but it's more about learning
to kind of accept and and push past some some
(02:53):
tricky situations and experiences.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
I read a quote actually, Lola, which I'm going to
pick up right now.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
I find this really really interesting.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
You said that it's about kind of not giving a
not giving a flick and also embodying that feeling, and
it makes you feel a little bit like you've got
an alter ego because it's sort of like how you
should be feeling or how you.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
Want to be feeling. Can you talk about that a
bit more?
Speaker 4 (03:15):
Yeah, that was I think that was in reflection to
one thing, in relation to one thing, because that song
was like quite a cential song, and it was definitely
me taking on like an ego a little bit, but
more like it was like me wanting to feel like
this way, but not necessarily feeling that way. That sums
up the album quite well too, in the sense of
(03:36):
wanting being hopeful for the future, but not necessarily experiencing
or experiencing that that sense of happiness right in that moment.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Yeah, right, okay, So then so then can you comment
on where you are in that journy now now that
you have written that album and you've gone to the
place of wanting to be at a certain feeling, like
you do you feel like you're closer to that.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
Yeah, there's definitely more. It was definitely healing writing it
and very Yeah, cathartic writing it because I meant it
meant that I could push past some things and also
and also therefore kind of like look back at myself
and look back at that place I was in and
have it all, you know, have it all in song form,
which is really nice.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
I meant that I could heal a lot through some things.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Yeah, when Messi's coming out of really going viral, you're
you're in rehab.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Yeah, that's wild.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
And then you've come out what MESSI kind of in
Australia particular early this year was when that song was
hitting its straps. And now I've got a new record,
You've really gone through. Arguably, they must, like I can't
picture a more tumultuous period in terms of transitioning from
where you were there to now being one of the
biggest artists in the world. And I thought I saw
(04:47):
an interview did with Elton John where I feel like
he said some stuff, which I mean, it must have
been nice to hear things like this from him.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Have a listen.
Speaker 6 (04:56):
There's a track on your album to be the next single.
I'm going to tell everyone it's called Dealer. I but
my house that that's the number one single. It's unbelievable.
It's the biggest smash I've heard in years. So I
just can't tell you how proud of you I am,
because I know what you've been through and you've come
through it. On the other side, You're going to have
the best career because you can sing live, you can
(05:19):
you are just you've got the whole deal going.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
How did it feel to have Elton and empathize with
that journey?
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Yeah, it was.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
It was mad, I think, like I couldn't believe they
were saying that. And also, you know, it was very
meaningful coming from someone who's done it and done it
so well and beautifully, and you know, yeah, it was
last year was a lot, and it was a lot emotionally,
and hearing him say he was proud of me, even
though I'd never met him in person, was like, so
was so like it was even more special because it
(05:49):
meant that there's a connection that you can form with
somebody just through kind of listening to somebody's music that
he feels like safe enough and he feels like he
knows me enough through my music to be able to
say that, say something like that, which is so powerful.
And also knowing what he's gone through, knowing he's been
through addiction, and knowing that he's kind of come out
the other side. There's hoping that too. So it was
very moving and very powerful.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Did he did he share some advice with you, Lala,
just on you know, dealing with things like like fame not.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
Yeah, but I'm seeing him soon, so I'm going to
go to his house, and I'm going to still his
house because it's not an Onborn hat yet. So I'm
already I'm already, I'm already getting the.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Keys, mate.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
No no, no.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
I thought like, I'm going to give him a little
bit more time, maybe, yeah, more and if it's not
by that.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Yeah yeah, I love that.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
So, Lola, I mean, it's funny you're talking about wanting
an experience and not quite having it, and then maybe
this is a nice reflection for people who are outside
of the fame and success that you've enjoyed. Is the
feeling that you wanted when you were kind of in
the doldrums and dealing with addiction. Has that been solved
or healed through success and fame or or is it
(07:01):
still or is that solved?
Speaker 4 (07:04):
I don't think anything can be solved or healed through fame.
I think it's only what you make. And I think
I don't think anything could be can be changed necessarily
even by fame, because you're still the same person. You
still deal with the same things. But I think it's
definitely changed my outlook on how much I have to lose.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
So has it been difficult becoming famous?
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Well, yeah, I'm not. I mean it's been like a
journey of like, you know, getting to know myself a
little bit better through the lens of other people and
also just like you know, just being learning how to
navigate its complex within itself. But I do think that
I'm I'm getting there, I think, And also there are
(07:44):
some beautiful moments within that.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Can you give us an example of maybe like what's
been the hardest and then what has been the most beautiful?
Speaker 4 (07:52):
The hardest has kind of been just the expectation of
the performative personally. You feel like some of you are like,
you know, there's a per performative person inside me that
someone them feels like I have to live up to
this like idea of me that other people may see
or expect. And then the most beautiful thing is just
(08:12):
having the response and and and performing to people who
connect to your music in the same way that I
have done or in a completely different way, and hearing
people stories and memories that they've created with my music,
and also just having that kind of raw connection with
my actual with my fans or you know, whether you
(08:33):
want to call them that that interaction.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Yeah, it's been so lovely getting to know Lola. Yeah,
like it's just you you. You are such a real person.
Thank you so much for your honesty Any Canada. Good
luck with the new album again. Hopefully Dealer doesn't go
number one though, so you can have Elton John's house
and then if you do throw a party, we'd love
to be invited.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
Absolutely, I'll invite both of you.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Looking forward to it. Then we'll see you there.
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