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Lola Young: This Wasn’t Meant for You Anyway review – winningly messy mix of zingers and vulnerability
The rising star covers all of pop’s bases with a refreshing scuffed charm
Mostly addressed to a series of disappointing exes, Lola Young’s second album doubles down on a winning combination of zingers and vulnerability. Both approaches work: Young, from south London and the Brit School via a series of toxic situations, doesn’t mince her wordsto others, or towards herself. The album’s guitar-heavy standout, Conceited, is a strutting R&B takedown of a narcissistic type with a mosh-pit chorus worthy of Arctic Monkeys, while Wish You Were Dead offers a blow-by-blow account of a fight between lovers so realistic there must be jumpy footage of it circulating online.
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