There\u2019s a creeping self-consciousness you feel when you listen to Lola Young\u2019s I\u2019m Only F*cking Myself, her first album after experiencing life-changing virality with her song \u201cMessy.\u201d Most artists, you\u2019d assume, would use this critical moment to deliver something of supreme confidence and head-screwed-on-rightness as a display of their fitness level for the incoming, debilitating level of stardom. Not Lola Young. On I\u2019m Only F*cking Myself, you get the sense that the South Londoner, who sings with a walloping mockney-accented croon, is mascara-stained-eyes stumbling through her most successful period yet: missing her (coke) dealer, having loads of unremarkable, messy sex, and pissing off everyone in her inner circle. \u201cI should probably take my medication \u2018cause it\u2019s been days but I\u2019ve been busy getting high,\u201d she admits on stripped-down guitar ballad \u201cwho f**king cares?\u201d All of these things make I\u2019m Only F**king Myself an intense listen, but also a remarkable entrance from a breed of pop star that\u2019s become increasingly rare: one who can sing about their struggles without it feeling like they\u2019ve got an eye simultaneously trained on a camera lens. It might not be everyone\u2019s cup of tea, but what can\u2019t be denied is its bristling originality. \u2014Steffanee Wang<\/p>\n
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