When you know, you know.
You know exactly what LP means when she sings. Without the limits of genre, the multiplatinum singer-songwriter, with more than +2 billion streams to her name, has created a powerful sound and devoted following all her own. LP’s YouTube channel currently receives more than 2.4 million views a day and her songs are streamed upwards of 2 million times a day around the world. Her soulful lyrics can reveal an intimate truth in one breath and swaggerly flip the middle finger the next. Her songs can extend to fans a seductive invitation or deliver a deep sense of purpose that lingers in your thoughts and feelings. Either way, LP has a rarity of character that consistently relates to audiences without filter or judgement. With each record release, she builds on a body of work that is full of complexity, truth and self-discovery.
“I feel like I’m the kind of artist that people are still discovering,” she tells me over Zoom. “The people that do discover me and like it right away are like, hold up, wait, this person has this much music?! And I had never even heard it, you know? And I just want that to be more and more and more, you know. It’s like, I’m not comparing myself to this person, but you think about someone like Nick Drake, like there are many new people that don’t know him and then to go back into like, what the f**k is this? You know, this existed, like it’s cool. And I think that that’s always the goal to, you know, create a body of work that you feel proud of.”
LP brings her current tour to Place Bell in Laval this week and we caught up with her to find out what makes the perfect show, how the songs change in a live setting and how she feels about hitting 2 billion streams.
Watch the interview below:
In June 2014, LP released her major-label debut album, Forever for Now, through Warner Bros. The album featured the breakthrough track, “Into the Wild,” which was prominently used in a national Citibank television advertisement campaign.
Her follow-up album, Lost on You, saw LP break through on her own terms with the lead single “Lost On You” becoming a global behemoth of a break-up song, reaching number one in 18 countries. The album’s second track “Muddy Waters,” was notably featured in the Season 4 finale of Netflix’s Orange Is the New Black.
Last year, LP continued her upward trajectory by releasing her highly anticipated sixth album Churches via SOTA Records and was featured on the cover of SPIN Magazine. Churches’ first single “The One That You Love” generated 27 million+ YouTube views of the official video, 24 million+ Spotify streams, and had its TV debut on Late Night with Seth Meyers. The album’s second single “How Low Can You Go” has 8.5 million+ streams on Spotify, 7.5 million+ YouTube views, and hit Triple-A radio’s Top 3 most added songs. The video for the third single, “One Last Time” co-starring actor/filmmaker/model Jaime King, racked up 19 million+ YouTube views and 24+ million streams on Spotify.
Asked about Churches latest single “Goodbye,” LP says, “‘Goodbye’ is a blast for the soul. A spring cleaning to free myself and hopefully others from the shackles of my own mind. The light is always there if you want it. I definitely want it.”
Tickets for LP at Place Bell are available HERE.
