Q&A: LILA GOLD DROPS BEDROOM
The follow-up to last year's pop bubbler, "Big Sad Eyes" (produced by DJDS), "Bedroom" slows down Lila's experimental, layered pop sound into a down-tempo ballad, letting her own production chops & vocals shine. Written at the end of her bed, the track mirrors Lila's struggles with depression, anxiety, growing up and turning to fantasy as an escape. A deep dreamer, Lila finds songwriting and producing to be a cathartic release, wrapping her heavy, existential doubts up into infectious pop bangers.
Lila is releasing her debut single as an independent artist, and the process is making her feel nothing but optimistic and proud. In a brief conversation with us, the singer opens up about the making of the single, the concept and inspiration, and her uncontained excitement for her first official EP.
On what inspired her first single:
With this song, I wrote it on the guitar, I was just like strumming my guitar—obviously strumming my guitar—it was just like two simple chords that I was just looping on and it felt like a lullaby and I really liked it immediately. I wanted to chase whatever little, tiny idea I had and I followed the trail and I started making the track with just the inspiration from those two chords. It totally started with my guitar and in a very simple way. Once I have the melody I kind of toss the guitar aside and then it just sparks an idea and then I go from there.
On how the idea and the concept came about:
I was feeling very confined, it was summer in New York and it was really fucking hot and I was in my bedroom where I recorded, and it was so hot I was sweating just sitting still. And I had this idea that I felt kind of confined in my bedroom and a little bit restless. It was like a restless, weird, strange moment. Like I felt like I grew into myself a lot but I had a lot of growing pains, and I wanted to fill my belly up with doing lots of fun things all the time and getting out there in the city, just playing around. But I felt kind of weird that summer, and I stayed in my bedroom a lot and it was really fucking hot and I was sweating and so I came up with this line: I wish I could sink to the bottom of the ocean in my bedroom—that’s where it came from. It wasn’t even that I didn’t wanna go out because it was hot, I was just feeling really weird. I was feeling unsure about myself and going through a lot of changes; a spot of anxiety and depression but this came out of it which felt really good I guess it’s all right.
On her new releases and upcoming EP:
Because it’s my first EP and kind of my first whole body of work, it feels like I worked so much and put so much into my sound and developed so much leading up to this that it feels like a really natural progression for me. It feels like the first I ever really did and i’m really excited.
At the moment, “Bedroom,” is my favorite [track] but I will probably feel some type of way about it...and then I’ll like it again and then I’ll hate it.
On possible live shows and plans for the future:
I will probably come back to New York and do some shows, definitely do some local shows in LA too. And just keep on releasing stuff and just enjoying having stuff out and seeing people's reactions I think that’s the coolest thing. Especially my friends, I just wanna share my music with them. I think about everything on a smaller scale because that’s what matters to me most and then I hope it transcends out of that. But I just really want my friends and the people that I love to enjoy what I make, that’s really important to me.