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" I went from playing for nobody and having awkward experiences at award shows to now being all over the place playing sold-out shows for people who know all of the words. "
Lauv
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" Any one thing can get in the way of you and your brain being comfortable and being inspired. It's the difference between a really big song and a song that never existed. "
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You
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" It's tough to know what I'm going to write about. I never really know until it starts happening. "
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Never
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" I put out my first song, 'The Other,' in 2015 just on Soundcloud. It was always my most popular song but never really went far in a mainstream way. Then, a couple years after it came out, I watched it go from 8 million to, like, 100 million. "
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" Ever since I visited Paris when I was younger, the sappy side of me really wanted to write a song about it someday. "
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" One of my favorite cities is Tokyo because of sushi, and Asian food in general, but then also the way Tokyo operates, because it's so clean, and there's space for a lot of variety of stores. "
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" I am realising this now more as I grow up: that I never really felt connected to locations. In some sense, I always kind of felt a little lost in that I never had any hometown pride. While I experience a lot different places and experiences, I always felt a little detached. "
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I Am
" In day-to-day life, there's so much that's calculated: so many fake, surface-level interactions that don't amount to anything. "
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" I just think that any person who wants music to be their career shouldn't focus on a record label. I have seen friends who sign to a label too early in their career, and they lost control over their music, and their releases were delayed or never put out. "
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Friends
Music
Control
" I could never write a proper party song. "
Lauv
Song
Party
Never
" All the best art and music feels like some type of truth - even if it's really simple - that you just can't deny. A listener can feel that. "
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Music
Simple
Truth
" I think a lot of pop music is escapist. "
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Lot
Pop Music
Music
" I love exploring the more complicated side of love. I feel like I've always gravitated toward that. "
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Love
Complicated
Feel
" For whatever reason, I've always gravitated towards music that feels nostalgic or longing or beautifully tragic. "
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Music
Reason
Whatever
" 'Lauv' comes from the Latvian word for lion, and my mom's side of the family is from Latvia - it's a place I've been probably 15 times or more. I'm also a Leo, and my real name, Ari, means lion. "
Lauv
Mom
Lion
Place
" All of this music, It's definitely been the most freeing thing that I've ever done. "
Lauv
Freeing
Ever
Done
" For a lot of people going through their first love, you're both still figuring yourself out. "
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Love
People
You
" Everybody in L.A. is a songwriter, producer, actor, creative. For some reason, you're supposed to go to a bar and all hang out and act like you like each other. There is a lot of fake stuff that goes on. "
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You
Reason
Go
" I love nostalgia. "
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I Love
Love
Nostalgia
" I think streaming, in general, is democratising music in general. "
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Music
I Think
General
" With pretty much everything that I've done, in terms of going from being a songwriter and producer for other artists to doing my stuff, all the songs that I've kept to myself have always been me writing about my life. "
Lauv
Done
Life
Writing
" Kids can tell if you're being genuine or not. "
Lauv
Tell
Genuine
Being
" I've been through so many different phases, partly because I moved around so much. I never found my identity based on where I was from. It was always pick up and explore something else. "
Lauv
Explore
Always
Never
" 'I Met You When I Was 18' is a collection of songs, a story about moving to New York City when I was 18 and falling in love for the first time. A story about trying to figure out your own identity whilst being deeply intertwined with someone else's. "
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Love
New York
Time
" People come up to me with tattoos of my lyrics! "
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Up
Come
Lyrics
" I think everybody goes through that, especially... being in love for the first time. Some people, they're lucky enough that that ends up being who they're with for the rest of their lives, and sometimes it doesn't work out. "
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Think
Rest
People
" I've always hated the feeling of trying to be cool or trying to fit in. "
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Always
Hated
Feeling
" I miss the energy of New York City and being able to step out of my apartment and see so much unique culture all the time around me without having to seek it out. In L.A., I have to sort of seek out everything I'm trying to do. It makes it less spontaneous. "
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City
New York
Step
" I sort of feel that I have to constantly be really, really honest with the way I feel, and I have to get that out. "
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Honest
" I write a lot of sad songs! "
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Lot
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" I feel like Drake could literally put out anything - like, the sound of seagulls over a beat - and it could be the Number One song on Spotify. "
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Song
Sound
Over