Ty Listens to Lola Young

Since my kids are on summer break now it is a little harder for me to listen to podcasts. I like to have the podcasts I listen to for myself. I usually listen while I am road running or driving in my car. But, with my kids in the car with me now, I just don't play them. They're exclusively being listened to on my runs now, and that's fine with me.

With the kids in the car, we are back to music, and that has its very own very special place in my heart. I love music. I always have and always will. Lately, Spotify is our streaming music platform of choice, I have been using the DJ function. I like this on Spotify because it takes me back to the days of listening to radio on a long car drive. The DJ also plays good stuff and gives me facts about my listening habits, which I find very interesting. Another feature on the DJ function that I enjoy, they will play stuff that it thinks I might like based on what I usually listen to. I'm sure other streaming platforms do the same, but I only know of Spotify because that's what I listen to. The hit rate with the DJ, for me, is probably about 70 percent. I usually like the stuff they recommend, but I also have kids who tend to skew some of my normal music. That's all well and good, but I'm not going to pick much John Williams music, he's a wonderful composer, when I'm driving around the neighborhood. Instrumental string music can get long and tired, for me, pretty quickly. But, one artist has been popping up on my DJ so much lately that I just decided I was going to check out their page.

The artist is Lola Young, and I'm kind of obsessed with what I have heard to this point. Young's voice is powerful. She can sing a bunch of different music it seems too. I have heard, to this point, a pop song, her voice in a rap song, some punk riffs and some straight forward rock. Her voice works with every single genre that I just listed. She gets in whatever the groove of the song is and totally nails the vocals. I like when she goes a little gruffer and raspy with her voice. That is when her music moves me the most when I listen. I also really enjoy the music in the background as she sings. There was one song earlier today that I heard that had a very cool piano riff that played throughout and it perfectly blended hip hop and rock, in a good way. This song was in no way akin to Limp Bizkit or Korn, any of that crummy 90's rap/rock. This was an actual good song that was rad to listen to as I was driving in my car. I also heard the punk stuff during what appeared to be a pop song, and then it took this turn that was unexpected, but pretty damn good. I looked her up just a bit and read that she does have some mental health stuff that has forced her to cancel shows. That bums me out, and I hope she is getting the help she needs because I want to hear more and more from her. I have been totally blown away by what I have heard to this point.

I am usually pretty tough on artists that I don't know anything about, but Lola Young has caught my attention and I will be listening to her a lot more in the near future. She rules, I love her voice and I cannot wait to dig deeper and deeper into her catalog. This was a great recommendation and you should check her out too. 

Ty

Ty is the Pop Culture editor for SeedSing and the other host of the X Millennial Man Podcast.

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