Making music has always been that way for me I always feel like I’m discovering something that I’m feeling that I haven’t been able to process yet, and I usually process it in the form of a song.” “I never really thought about it back then. I was kind of like, ‘Man, I haven’t really thought about this eighth grade thing in so long, and this impacted me so much,’” Lauv says. “Kids Are Born Stars,” for example, gave Lauv the opportunity to connect with his younger self and develop a better retroactive connection with who Ari was then. Finding a sense of catharsis in writing created out of instinct, though, was only a piece of the overarching emotional impact of making All 4 Nothing. The process was an element of a greater narrative in Lauv’s life, forfeiting some level of command over his art to allow emotion and deliverance to take over. That was the moment that I was like, ‘Okay, that’s really what’s going on here.’” I’m still pretty young, but I just feel so empty on the inside. I have so much external beauty and I’ve accomplished so many of my goals and whatever. “I was like, ‘Wow, I really feel this way.’ That was a big moment for me, because that was kind of when I realized how I feel about my life. “I almost consciously didn’t even understand what I was saying,” Lauv explains. The feeling was particularly potent when writing “26,” the first single from the album. Lauv found himself rethinking lyrics the moment they poured out of him, sometimes shocked at the emotiveness of the words.
It was that spirit of spontaneity and, in part, playfulness that allowed him to adopt a mentality that avoided overthinking and promoted living in the moment while piecing together what would later become the full project.īut an air of openness didn’t entirely push away the natural urge to second-guess even one’s best work as a creative.
That, in part, comes from a reformation of his creative process Lauv explains that he primarily used freestyling in the writing process, initially intended to be laughed off because he was hoping to teach himself the art of freestyling over beats he sourced from YouTube. Lauv knew he “wanted to know what it feels like to just be Ari again a little bit while still putting out music,” and that is reflected on some of the key tracks throughout All 4 Nothing - most notably, the soft note-to-self song “Hey Ari.” The honest track cracks the fragile front of happiness that Lauv found himself presenting and took a dive beneath the surface into what lies under the smile and, as he puts it, the “Yeah, for sure.”įans of Lauv know that he has never strayed away from vulnerable writing, but All 4 Nothing brings a rawness to the table that even the earliest depths of his discography can’t match. “So I was like, ‘Let me just be a person and share whatever I want to naturally and not force myself to do anything.’” “I was so obsessed before that I was kind of putting my artist life and that narrative above my actual personal life, and that just rotted my personal life,” Lauv explains. The road to total self-acceptance and, frankly, work-life balance didn’t begin and end with All 4 Nothing for Lauv, but it was around the process of creating the album that he finally registered the need for synergy between his career and day-to-day life. Ultimately, Lauv allowed himself the space to be a person who is an artist, rather than an artist who is a person on the side. It was an exploration of self-care and reflecting on his own needs, recognizing when it was time to slow down and step back.
On his latest album, All 4 Nothing, Lauv takes the opportunity to be more himself than ever in stride, relinquishing control of production and “finding balance” throughout the writing process. “I think there’s fun in kind of creating a bit of a fantasy world for yourself to run around in, but at the same time, I got lost in the sauce,” Lauv tells EUPHORIA. Lauv - known outside of his music as Ari Leff - is blurring the lines between Lauv the artist and Ari the person for what feels like the first time in his meteoric career.
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