@LØLØ’s long awaited sophomore album God Forbid a Girl Spits Out Her Feelings has finally arrived and it is everything you would want for an artist’s second album. It pays homage to her musical roots, but demonstrates strong growth in songwriting and production. She continues to play in the pop-punk roots that she grew up in, but gives it a modern pop flair with catchy hooks that will definitely help her break out into the mainstream. Her four lead singles off the album “me with no shirt on,” “007,” “american zombie,” “the punisher,” and “devil wears converse,” all have catchy hooks that have become ear worms for me. I have not been able to get these songs out of my head since each one of them was released.
When it comes to the music production, LØLØ excels at balancing the album out with a healthy mix of guitar-driven pop-rock with softer and stripped down songs. For all the poppy, dancey songs like “devil wears converse,” there are more somber and emotionally raw songs like “whiskey & coke.” What helps tie the production together though is the unfiltered energy and honesty from LØLØ’s songwriting.
LØLØ has described, in multiple interviews, how very diaristic the album is, and what we get are lyrics that are vulnerable, sarcastic and confessional all at the same time. She is able to balance her self-deprecation and sincerity in her lyrics that explore unhealthy patterns in relationships. Who hasn’t felt like “the dumbest girl in the world,” for running back to someone who you know is bad for you, but you think you can fix anyway?
With lyrics like:
I could crush a hundred spiders, but I can’t control the rain. And a boy who doesn’t want to is never gonna change
LØLØ is able to create relatable and authentic songs that do not have to rely on heavy-handed, over-wrought metaphors and analogies to get her point across. There are universal relationship themes that run through these songs told with emotional messiness that makes the album relatable at its core.
All in all, God Forbid a Girl Spits Out Her Feelings will make you look inward and confront some of your own uncomfortable truths while at the same dancing and singing your heart out from start to finish. Maybe through LØLØ’s music we all might be a little bit wearier of the boy in the Converse sneakers and 90s band tees.