Charlotte Lawrence
Charlotte Lawrence dives into the Navy Blue& turns her pain into fine art with her latest unmarried from her upcoming EP.
Although Charlotte grew up in the brume of Hollywood, a place where it can feel similar many things are manufactured, she's never been the type of artist who will conform to any mold. After releasing Why Practise You Love Me,a rail co-written by Charlie Puth, Lawrence had a gustatory modality of what it was like to really tap into the psyche of artists she loves—similar Joni Mitchel and Phoebe Bridgers—to acquire how they mastered the art of turning painful experiences into fine art past incorporating it all into their songwriting. Since her debut EPYoung, which was released terminal year, Lawrence has crafted her sound and focused on what brings her the most joy when it comes to music: songwriting.
Her latest release Navy Blue tells the story of a toxic relationship and the push & pull one feels when they just don't want to let go of the other person. For Lawrence, the track isn't nigh one specific person; information technology represents a few toxic relationships she'due south experienced throughout her life so far, compiled into a single vocal. Lyrics from Navy Bluish, like "Don't say the words we know are truthful/Just one more lie, information technology'due south non much to lose," sound like they could have been written by 1 of Lawrence'south idols back in the '70s, really proving how she's pulling from the same vulnerable & emotional place as inspiration when she writes songs and records them.
Right before she was nigh to hit the stage to perform in Germany, 1883 defenseless up with the LA singer/songwriter and talked all about her songwriting process, the electric current political turmoil happening in America, and why her dad (the keen American screenwriter Pecker Lawrence!) is her #ane fan.
Your debut EP Immature was released last year; how would you say your music has grown since that release?
I think as you grow and age, everything surrounding you lot—whether it exist your personal life or your career—should also grow with those things. Since my career is purely creative I feel like as I grow in my life and as I experience new things and see new people and learn more, my music kind of grows along with it. I think more of the manner my music has grown is that yous can hear how I'chiliad tapping into my love for rock and indie music a lot more. Also, artists like Joni Mitchell and Mazzy Star take really influenced the way that I create music. I've always loved onetime rock music and indie female artists, merely I never actually knew how to incorporate that into my own sound. With my own music now, whether I make a pop song and utilise stone guitars and live drums or alive pianoforte, or if I make a cool alternative song, the lyrics are ever going to tell a story. I feel like I've finally found my sound in the sense that I'm turning into the music that I dearest to mind to.
Navy Blue, the lead single of your next EP, is out today. Information technology's a really incredible song with universal lyrics that, I experience, actually summarizes a situation every person has experienced. What'due south the inspiration behind the runway? What does the track mean to yous?
The track, to me, is completely nigh a toxic relationship. I wanted to write near the toxic relationship in the sort of way that compared it to the colour navy blueish. I remember if you were asked to think of the darkest colour always, yous would think it's pitch blackness, like midnight blackness, with no light at all. If I were to say, "Oh my gosh, this relationship is midnight black. Information technology's and then dark, there's null left of information technology," that would kind of hateful that this relationship is so horrible, it'southward so toxic, that there'south no saving it, there'southward no going back, you tin can't have i more moment in this relationship because it'due south horrible for you. But the closest colour to black is navy blue and that kind of means this relationship is so dark and so toxic but there'south still a trivial bit of hope, a little bit of glimmer left, and the tagline of the song is just ane more than dark in navy bluish. The whole meaning behind the vocal is allow's just have i more nighttime in this darkness and relish it, just one more night before we have to walk away from each other and let this be.
Information technology is clear lyrics are incredibly important to y'all as an creative person. Who or what has influenced your songwriting?
Everything that I write about in my life and my experiences within my mind, but 100% my writing is influenced past the way Joni Mitchell, Mazzy Star, Fiona Apple, and fifty-fifty Phoebe Bridges tell their own stories through their music. I've been actually inspired past artists like them and all of this is me speaking on music that isn't out all the same! I'm releasing an EP in November and so, hopefully, you can tell that it's very heavily influenced past my heroes. I feel like I can tell! [Laughs]
Do yous detect it difficult to tap into a vulnerable or sad place when you're writing? Navy Blue is, obviously, quite a sad vocal, only information technology'southward upbeat. I experience like yous're good at contrasting those 2 things.
Thank you! Honestly, I find so much more inspiration when I'm pitiful. When I'chiliad genuinely happy and in love, it'southward a little harder for me to write, I don't know why! Only, I suppose, it'due south part of existence an artist. My whole affair is, as I said earlier, my idols are some of the best lyricists, in my stance, ever. The thing I'm most attracted & drawn to in music is the lyrics. Whether I'm going to release a ballad or whether I'm going to release an upbeat song like Navy Blue, the lyrics are the most important thing to me. I feel like, if you write what you believe in and you write how you feel and y'all write something that'due south authentic to y'all, it doesn't really matter what type of music you put behind it as long equally you're carrying that emotion through those lyrics. I think the song could exist emotional because I listen to Navy Bluish and yeah, it's fun and it's kind of empowering in a sense that makes you desire to stomp your feet and jump when that chorus hits, but it also still makes me experience lamentable. I think the whole dissimilarity of the dark lyrics to the upbeat melody kind of reflects my relationship with music; I use writing as this sort of therapy if I'thousand feeling sad about something like a breakup, I'll plow information technology into words and make art out of the hurting. It kind of reflects this thought of feeling the emotions behind the sad lyrics just by reading them, but you can brand something beautiful out of information technology. Y'all tin just f*cking dance to information technology and bask information technology and turn something lamentable into something happy!
You named your upcoming tour later on the track, too! Performing music alive to your fans can exist quite cathartic and, every bit you said, make something sad into something happy. Will this kind of experience like a manner to heal from past toxic situations y'all've been in?
I don't know really! The song wasn't most whatsoever specific person, simply it was almost a whole bunch of people. I'm simply 19 just I've lived a lot and I grew up pretty fast. When I was younger starting dating and going through this or that, and I arranged all of my relationships that affected me negatively into one song and wrote almost it. Right when we finished the song and I was in that room with the people I made it with and nosotros heard it, I was like "Oh my god I dearest this and so much. This is so me! This is and so special to me." So I wanted to make the whole bout about that feeling I had and so.
The video for your song Why Do You Love Me is very cinematic. Are you lot somebody that thinks a lot about visuals when you lot're writing?
100%! I know, again, it'south the same as what I was saying about finding inspiration for my music. I can picture visuals fashion meliorate. If it'south more than of a lamentable vocal or more of a simple piano type song or guitar-driven song, it's easier for me to motion picture exactly what I want with it. And so with Why Practice Y'all Love Me it is a piffling bit harder because it's a pop vocal, only when I fabricated the song I instantly idea the video has to exist near some shitty, crazy human relationship, simply I need something special and it's something similar weird and I want to be painted like super psychotic. If you heed to the lyrics, I exercise sound crazy.
That'southward okay, we've all been there.
Exactly! We've all been crazy, it's fine. [Laughs] I'one thousand going to put something in the video that adds that level of psycho so that'south why I burnt the f*cking dude'southward motorcar, you know? Alasdair McLellan, who shot and directed the video, is such a genius and I've been a fan of his forever, so I kind of allow him take the reins. Nosotros spoke on the phone for hours and hours earlier we made the video and it'south 100% a collaboration, but at the end of the twenty-four hour period I was similar dude, honestly, simply go for information technology & I trust you. I gave him what I wanted it to be and told him to brand it his ain, and it worked out perfectly.
You've worked with some incredibly talented people in the music manufacture, like Ryan Tedder and Andrew Watt. What accept y'all learned from working people like them?
The people that I've been working with, Andrew Watt, Ryan Tedder, Charlie Puth, Louis Bell, & Ali Tamposi, y'all hear their names and y'all're similar, holy shit, these are the best of the best. They've written the most incredible songs and they're so talented. It'southward mind-blowing but at the core, they're all some of my best friends; Charlie is i of my best friends, Ryan is one of my best friends, Andrew, Ali, all of them are all my all-time friends. I never really looked at them as these huge, crazy iconic people considering you become so used to spooky with them. It wasn't until I was really in the studio and seeing them piece of work and watching them create and seeing how their mind works that I was like, "Oh, my God, these people are geniuses and on some other level!" I was a little nervous going to the studio with five powerhouses who knew exactly what they're doing. I was afraid that I'k was non going to be good enough, which is just me existence insecure. But right when I went in [to the studio], egos are left at the door, there is no competition. Everybody's equal. Every idea matters. Every vocalization counts. I'chiliad then grateful that I get to work with them.
Something I institute actually sweet was your dad posting well-nigh your music and talking about how proud he was of yous on Twitter. It's and so, so lovely!
He'due south the honestly funniest social media user of all fourth dimension.
He's such a proud dad, I love information technology. It's ambrosial.
He's SUCH a Dad! As we're speaking, I'm in Frg and right now he has to live in London for a testify he'due south doing and correct at present he's flying to Germany to come see me perform! He's such a roadie, I honey him so much. Information technology's the cutest thing of all time. He's my number i fan!
He's been creating amazing work in Hollywood for years. What advice has he given yous?
He's given me the all-time advice of all time. E'er since I was little he's been my role model and it's really cool because I take an idol that I tin can meet all the time. When he was 12 years old, he became obsessed with writing and started studying it in school and working so hard on it. Somewhen, he was able to pursue his passion, so I have that creative role model in my life. When I was around 10-years-quondam and I started showing such a huge interest in singing and writing and playing music he instantly was like, Permit's have you get piano lessons! Allow'due south start singing! Let's do this, you got this! He has just always been my number ane supporter. I call up the biggest advice he gave me equally a kid was one time you find your passion, it's special. Not many people in the world accept such a strong passion for something that they can genuinely make into a career. It'southward rare and I felt so lucky at such a young age. He really only pushed me to work actually hard and I did. I'one thousand so grateful because I love what I do then much, I owe it all to him.
A few weeks ago on Instagram, yous posted almost the #BansOffMyBody petition to support Planned Parenthood and yous've been song most the desperate need for gun control. Some people will shy away from posting virtually social issues because of the negative feedback they can become from some parties. Why practise you feel information technology's so of import for yous, specifically, to be vocal almost issues?
I call up correct now America is really, really dark. Our President is dark, the things that are happening are nighttime, and it'southward sad. Even just thinking about it and talking about it makes me sad. I think the one positive matter out of everything that's been happening in my generation is finally sticking up for things that they believe in and taking a stand up and it never used to exist similar this. I feel like young people were never really politically vocal or active and just song almost what they believed in. I really potent strongly believe in issues like women's rights, gun command laws, basic ceremonious rights, rights for immigrants and people of color. I take some sort of platform on Instagram and if I'm not using it to speak what I believe, to speak my truth, then what's the f*cking point of having it? In regards to Planned Parenthood and the laws in Atlanta and the laws that Trump is trying to put through in the whole country? That is mindblowing to me. To me, I'm never going to say "I believe in abortion! I believe against abortion!" No, I just believe that it's the woman'southward choice. I don't want any homo telling me what to do with my body. No man should tell me what I should do with my body, nobody but I should exist able to determine what'south correct for my trunk, you know? It just bewilders me some people in this world think that'south not how it should exist. I feel I want to exist as vocal equally I can virtually that upshot and doing this partnership with Planned Parenthood and all these other artists that are joining them and speaking up against it has probably been my favorite matter that I've done this year.
You were likewise young to vote in the terminal election, right?
Yeah, I was too young but now I can! I registered to vote right as soon every bit I turned 18. I'm non going to be able to speak super-strongly on this point, but wasn't it like the highest percentage of young people that registered to vote this year than always?
Probably! Information technology's insane. Gen-Z is incredible. It but shows you how pissed off immature people are.
Yeah. I feel like fifty-fifty in the past when people were pissed off, it was still kind of silent. Politics were never really spoken about and, finally, it's like everybody from the historic period of thirteen to 25 is standing up and saying "No, no, what's happening isn't right and I'm going to try to make the change."
Exactly. If there is a proficient thing that can come up out of that mess, information technology was getting young people more politically involved.
It is the one positive affair that came from this f*cking presidency.
What is the one album, volume or film that you would say has inspired y'all the most?
It always changes! I'm a very avid music listener, flick watcher, and volume reader, but right now I would say the album is Illinois by Sufjan Stevens, the book is Scar Tissue by nevertheless bellyaching by book is scar tissue by Anthony Kiedis, and the movie is Me and Earl and the Dying Girl. I was greatly inspired by that movie.
Besides the tour, what's coming up adjacent?
Navy Bluish, the single and the tour. Later on that, I'm releasing another unmarried, which is also my favourite vocal I've ever written in my entire life called God Must Be Doing Cocaine. And so I'k releasing an EP while I'grand on bout and there will be an album side by side year!
Check out Charlotte on the Navy Blue Bout this fall.
Interview by Kelsey Barnes.
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