Welcome to the household enterprise, Lourdes Leon. Madonna's eldest little one launched her new Lolahol moniker with a jungle-infused debut track and a scintillating music video.
For many who had “Madonna‘s firstborn kicks off her music profession with a drum-and-bass monitor” in your 2022 Bingo playing cards, come declare your prize. Lourdes “Lola” Leon, the 25-year-old daughter of Madonna, 64, and Carlos Leon, 56, dropped her debut track, “Lock & Key,” on Wednesday (Aug. 24) beneath her new stage identify, Lolahol. She additionally launched a music video, one which noticed Lolahol take a web page out of her mom’s e-book by rocking a provocative outfit–particularly, a pair of nipple pasties with a Kylie Minogue-esque silvery jumpsuit (they appear to be en vogue in the meanwhile.) In direction of the tip of the video, Lolahol enjoys a full mermaid fantasy by frolicking the crashing waves whereas carrying a fishnet and a prime woven out of a discarded piece of rope.
Musically, “Lock & Key” is sort of an sudden shock. Lolahol’s debut incorporates jungle breakbeats, a sound first pioneered within the early 90s UK Rave scene (which might result in the rise of drum and bass in the course of the last decade.) The track, as Rolling Stonefamous, makes use of components of trip-hop, and Lolahol’s ethereal vocals dance between the road of bed room pop and darkish alt-pop, as she appears to exist between the planes. Whereas Lourdes’ mom is not any stranger to the dance ground — she, in actual fact, simply launched an enormous assortment of her fifty No. 1 dance tracks — not many would anticipate Lolahol’s first outing to be “Amen” break-inspired monitor that glows with emotion.
“Why can’t I simply lock right into a Polly pocket,” she sings. “It may all be crystal clear / Hold a photograph of you in my locket / hooked on the consolation / Until the comforter will get / too scorching too scorching to sleep / I’m tossing and tearing.”
The track — co-produced by the experimental artist Eartheater, Samuel Burgess, and Hara Kiri – is sort of a surprising debut, and it wouldn’t be uncommon to seek out it on Warp Information (truly, it’s on Chemical X, the label that Eartheater launched in August 2021.) Plus, with the 90s/early 2000s revival in play, “Lock & Key” may place Lolahol as a Cassandra in getting a bounce begin on a possible IDM resurgence.
This track is a shock since Lourdes stated in 2021 that she hadn’t any aspirations of following in her mom’s footsteps. As for music, I can sing. I simply don’t care about it. Possibly it’s too near house,” she stated in an Interviewjournal dialog with Debi Mazar. “I don’t have a particular purpose. I most likely ought to. Financially, modeling is a great resolution. I get pleasure from being very hands-on with the campaigns I do, in order that I’m not simply modeling, per se. I dance, I've a really particular sense of favor, and I’m keen on aesthetics, so I like to include all these components of myself into my initiatives.”
“I need to create a world by which fashions have extra company over what they’re doing,” she added, “and so they’re not simply silent clothes racks. That’s the age that we’re coming into within the trend world: fashions as personalities and artists.”