![]() ![]() I had a health scare that made me think it was now or never. To tell my stories through my songs, and get it out of myself. So I think that’s a big one for me right now, because it’s something I needed to do. And I don’t know, I always wanted to do it, but never had the courage. I never had the courage to say, “Okay, this is my music, this is what I do.” I always played music with other people, hiding a lot. For me the hardest was to feel confident, and this album is like a dream of mine. Because you think they’re supposed to fulfill this role, and when they don’t, there can be a lot of trauma that comes from that. It’s hard to look at people and try to take them out of their suffering, I guess. Because in the end, (parents are) people, too, and they struggle. I don’t think there’s any other way, really. I’m still working on it, but I feel like I’m getting closer every day to finally forgive. And I was on my own really, so it took a lot of time. So every decision I took, was sometimes just out of my feelings. Growing up, I had absolutely no guidance. LY: I guess just being far away helped a lot, at least for me to try to figure out who I was, and what I wanted to do with my life, and how to do it. Mossy: So you said you and your family are better now. I left Paris when I turned 23, and I left home when I was 18, when I could legally leave. I’m an actress, so I studied theater for awhile there. So I lived in Paris for awhile, and then I moved to Barcelona. Now it’s a little bit better, but I think very young, I felt like I had to go. I don’t have a really good relationship with my parents. I guess I had kind of a bit of a hard childhood. I have a small family, just a brother and my parents. Mossy: You have an interesting background. So I just thought it would be cool to use her name, and then use Young from the Young Cleaners. And I really love the French musician, Lizzy Mercier Descloux. ![]() LY: I used to have this project called Young Cleaners. Mossy: Where does the name Lizzy Young come from? What Lizzy Young’s album is telling us that’s not always so obvious, is that there actually were some good things to come out of 2020. Possibly because we’re increasingly becoming unthinking people, who probably use common sense way less than we should. In her video for “ Obvious,” Young wildly and badass-edly destroys a car, while seeming to poke fun at how silly it is that we sometimes need to be told the simplest of facts. In her album, Young paves a way for empowerment, by showing us how to calmly laugh at life, while still admitting to how fucking depressing it can be. To lead by example with new attitudes and ideas. That maybe the best way to right the injustices of our past, is by quietly taking the reigns instead. Young is showing us that women don’t necessarily need to shout to be heard. Lizzy Young’s debut album “Coocoo Banana” (out today), is truly revolutionary. Where she’d not only have a snappy comeback for backtalkers, she’d elegantly deliver her sass with a French accent. She’s the friend you wish you had in high school. She delivers truth in a deadpan voice, over hypnotic beats and beautifully textured melodies. Lizzy has an uncanny ability to have a laugh at life’s expense. There’s just something so very satisfying about watching posh, refined women bustling around, while someone sings “she farts while she walks” in my ears. She has a song called “She Farts While She Walks.” Which, I have to say, has become my favorite tune to listen to when I find myself on the Upper East Side. “Coocoo Banana-” Album of the Coocoo Banana Year ![]()
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