With the discharge of her 2021 debut album, if i might make it go quiet, different singer-songwriter lady in crimson blurred the road between contemplative songwriting and chaotic manufacturing, leaving the Norwegian artist born Marie Ulven with the difficult activity of crafting an equally compelling follow-up. But I’m Doing It Once more Child! (out April 12 on Columbia Data) lives as much as the troublesome normal set for sophomore albums: Her songwriting cuts faster to the core, whereas Matias Tellez’s manufacturing fuses much more influences.
Lady in crimson, 25, describes the album as an “elevated” model of her earlier output. “It feels extra artistic,” she says, “extra enjoyable and extra playful, and just a little bit extra assured. I’m not enjoying it secure, which is necessary … Every thing is simply getting pushed additional.” She breaks down the inspirations that influenced I’m Doing It Once more Child!, from working alongside fellow pop superstars to refining her culinary tastes.
Taylor Swift
Whereas ending her album in 2023, lady in crimson earned a coveted spot as one of many openers for Swift’s The Eras Tour. “It was like watching historical past being written within the second — like, ‘I’m part of historical past now,’” she remembers, nonetheless in awe. Opening 5 dates in June, she explains, was greater than only a cool alternative; it supplied a profession’s value of academic experiences in lower than a month. “I discovered a lot from watching Taylor’s reveals and seeing how exhausting she works,” she remembers. “My new factor is I’ll ask myself, ‘What would Taylor do?,’ as a result of I’m so impressed by her work ethic: ‘We’re not complaining, we’re simply getting sh-t finished.’”
High-quality Eating
Within the technique of elevating her music, lady in crimson discovered that “my palate and my style for meals and drinks utterly modified.” Embarking on gastronomic adventures at Michelin-star eating places, and even learning to turn out to be a sommelier (“I’ve this delusion the place I feel I might be something,” she jokes), the singer discovered herself taking up extra complicated subjects in her music. “I feel meals is very linked to all the pieces you’re feeling. So attempting a bunch of very nice wines and good meals gave me extra depth to work with in manufacturing,” she explains. “I do know that sounds actually f–king pretentious, but it surely’s true!”
Nineteen Sixties New York
On the ultimate observe of the album, “*****,” lady in crimson pines for the artwork scene of Nineteen Sixties Decrease Manhattan, particularly Andy Warhol’s iconic studio The Manufacturing facility: “Six out of six, I by no means miss, you’ve bought to be delusional to be within the biz at The Manufacturing facility,” she sings. The artist says studying Patti Smith’s memoir, Simply Children, launched her to the scene’s historical past and made her instantly yearn for the “electrical” occasions she wasn’t alive for. “I simply really feel like we’re lacking that vitality now,” she says. “With Studio 54 and The Manufacturing facility and all these superb artists working collectively to provide nice artwork — it’s simply so cool. I want we had extra of that right now.”
Cartier Watches
“I had by no means thought of watches in my whole life,” Ulven says with fun. However when her longtime collaborator Matias Tellez began explaining his love of timepieces, the singer says she adopted the identical obsession. She quickly developed a particular infatuation with Cartier’s model of trendy wristwear, and satisfied Tellez to purchase matching engraved gold watches to commemorate the album’s launch. “It’s kind of about manifesting,” she says. “All these iconic folks have worn these Cartier watches, and there’s one thing about desirous to put on one thing that iconic folks wore.”
A model of this story initially appeared within the March 2, 2024, situation of Billboard.