- 2025-01-22
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MUSIC
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Lola Young Performs “Messy” on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
British singer-songwriter Lola Young appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon to perform “Messy”.
This marks her musical guest debut on The Tonight Show and TV debut performance.
The song is featured on her latest album “This Wasn't Meant for You Anyway”, which was released last June via Island Records.
The song currently sits at No. 3 on the UK Singles Chart. it became her first charting song.
She wrote the song with Conor Dickinson in 2023. Produced by Solomonophonic, Manuka, Monsune, and Carter Lang.
Lola Young said of the song, “This song is one of the most honest songs I've ever written, its about not being able to make someone you love happy, when you're just being you, which actually sucks. How the hell can being yourself actually be so uncomfortable sometimes? I actually loved writing this and I fully poured my heart into making this song too. Shout out to everyone that was involved in helping turn this song that i wrote in my bedroom into a proper raw but beautiful sounding record. I hope you can cry to this one, or maybe try putting it on and cleaning that bloody room of yours.”- She told BBC Radio 1 about the song, “It's a realization of I feel like a lot of relationships whether it's actually not being even just romantic relationships I've been in. My own insecurities over bad. Relationship and then as a result of that. They pick up on my insecurities and feel like, you're not theirs. You're not that one thing or the other uses right in between. And even that's not enough for that person. And so it's been a journey of me, like figuring out how to put that in the song, but I've managed to do it and I'm proud of it.”
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She said of the song in an interview with Metal Magazine, “'Messy' is an ADHD anthem, it really showcases everything I felt during my last relationship, but also it is deeper than that, as it talks about how I feel about myself in general - being too messy one day and too clean another, struggling to find that balance in myself.” - source : NBC
