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Lola Young is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Kenny Beats, WizTheMc, Arctic Monkeys, SZA and Joni Mitchell. Those roots explain a lot about how Lola Young arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Olivia Dean, Lily Allen, Rachel Chinouriri, Remi Wolf and King Princess, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Billie Eilish, Tyler, The Creator and Lil Yachty, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 42 connections around Lola Young, reaching back through Kenny Beats and forward to Billie Eilish. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Lola Emily Mary Young is an English singer and songwriter. Born and raised in South London, she attracted attention in 2016 when she won the under-16 category of Open Mic UK and reached the finals of Got What It Takes?. She released her debut single in October 2019 and then the EPs Intro, Renaissance, and After Midnight. In 2021, she recorded a version of Giorgio Moroder and Philip Oakey's "Together in Electric Dreams" for that year's John Lewis Christmas advert. Around this time, she was nominated for the Brit Award for Rising Star and came fourth on the BBC's Sound of....
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Lola Young connections
Lola Young grew out of Kenny Beats, WizTheMc, Arctic Monkeys and SZA, shares an orbit with Olivia Dean, Lily Allen, Rachel Chinouriri and Remi Wolf, went on to shape Billie Eilish, Tyler, The Creator and Lil Yachty. 42 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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