{"id":730041,"date":"2026-06-11T15:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T15:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/730041\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T15:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T15:48:09","slug":"lola-young-review-buoyant-brilliant-return-from-british-pops-great-oversharer-lola-young","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/730041\/","title":{"rendered":"Lola Young review \u2013 buoyant, brilliant return from British pop\u2019s great oversharer | Lola Young"},"content":{"rendered":"

The rollercoaster ride towards international pop stardom seldom runs smooth, but few rising stars have been flung through its loops and freefalls as publicly as south London singer-songwriter Lola Young. In 2024, gen Z anthem Messy<\/a> became her breakthrough moment, but social media scrutiny surrounding her open struggles with addiction<\/a> and a stage collapse in New York<\/a> last year brought live performances to a halt.<\/p>\n

When the 25-year-old musician strolls on stage in a baggy black hoodie, she seems relieved to be here. Casual though the look may be, she is worshipped as a Y2K style guru, as evidenced by the young crowd: a blur of bleached mullets and denim jorts cry every word of her single Sad Sob Story!<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve written a few things I say to myself in the mirror,\u201d she explains in between her first two songs, pulling up her phone to share what she dubs this evening as her \u201cManchester mantra\u201d: a pep talk that \u201csometimes you forget your own power\u201d. It could have felt awkward, like a teen reading you their under-the-pillow diary, but Young is a self-confessed loudmouth with a knack for turning chronic oversharing into lovable charm.<\/p>\n

Young with her accomplished backing band. Photograph: Alexander Cropper\/Redferns<\/p>\n

D\u00a3aler<\/a>, an ode to her favourite late-night speed dial, turns a transactional relationship into a singalong love ballad, while One Thing<\/a> soars as the grooviest in the setlist, elevated by bass lines and gospel harmonies from Young\u2019s five-strong band. A Pride flag thrown from the audience is proudly wrapped around Young\u2019s microphone stand during the gritty R&B-fused-rock bop Conceited<\/a>.<\/p>\n

She breezes through the 15-song set without a hint of panic, and with the faultless vocals and trials of girlhood heard in Post Sex Clarity<\/a> \u2013 \u201cevery other man didn\u2019t mean a goddamn to me\u201d \u2013 it\u2019s difficult to leave tonight feeling anything other than like you\u2019ve made a new friend: a sister in arms united by poor decisions and questionable 2am texts to an bad ex. There\u2019s a several-minutes-long standing ovation for Messy, confirming that Young has absolutely got her mojo back.<\/p>\n

At O2 Apollo Manchester<\/a> on 11 June; then touring<\/a> the UK until 19 June<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The rollercoaster ride towards international pop stardom seldom runs smooth, but few rising stars have been flung through…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":730042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341],"class_list":["post-730041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=730041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/730042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}