- 2025-02-04
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MUSIC
Lola Young Performs “Messy” on The Graham Norton Show
British singer-songwriter Lola Young appeared on The Graham Norton Show to perform “Messy”.
This marks her first performance on The Graham Norton Show in three years, since she previously performed “So Sorry” in 2022.
The song was released as the sixth single from her latest album “This Wasn't Meant for You Anyway”, which was released on June 21, 2024.
It went viral on TikTok. The track reached No. 1 on the UK Singles Chart and No. 24 on the US Billboard Hot 100. It became her first charting song and earned a Gold certification in both the UK and the US.
Also, the single reached the top 10 in several other countries, including Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Latvia, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, and Switzerland.
The track was written by Conor Dickinson and Lola Young. Produced by Solomonophonic, manuka, Monsune, and Carter Lang.- Lola Young 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, “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.” - source : BBC One