Between Glitter and Grit: The Story of ‘Girls in Hollywood’
In "Girls in Hollywood," Lola Wild invites us to a universe where the sheen of lights is siren-like and uncompromising. The track is drenched in indie-pop filmic, retro shiny textures stirred against disillusion outlines. Co-produced and written with Jim Wallis at London's legendary Strong Room Studios, the track borrows from ABBA's mawkish sweet-sounding sound but is triggered by smoky textures of Suki Waterhouse and Weyes Blood. It is a world of noises that is both timeless and contemporary—glamour tainted with grime, beauty tinged with tragedy.
The song starts with a synth pattern that hypnotizes like a heartbeat in agonized slow motion. Upon this basis, there is born the story of Lola—a young woman chasing the glint of Hollywood's golden lights and perpetuating greatness, only to be stuck in the cracks of a dream which never comes. At the center is still the vision of a fatigued showgirl, holding onto a beaming dream that glints no longer. The show projects this duality: lavish, cinematic beds are full of promise, then erupt into wordless desolation.
To animate this universe, Lola teamed up with film directors Jack Satchell and Mars Washington, who produced a stunning short-form visualiser that stars dynamic Roxy Van Plume and Lola herself. Retro in feel but tinged with melancholy, the film picks up on the mood of the track—a wistful regret for lost innocence, failed ambition, and the delicate dance between myth and reality. "Girls in Hollywood" doesn't just tell, it mourns the fantasy that so many wanted and so few have ever actually achieved.
To Lola Wild, the song is no chapter—it's an ode to her work. She weaves out of Hackney's brightly charged nightlife the life she lived as a showgirl and the life she currently leads as a songwriter, producer, and musician. Her music is akin to walking down foggy clubs and holographic boulevards spooked by the apparitions of Roy Orbison and David Bowie's ghosts in her vocal vibrato. With not one but two sell-out shows already under her belt and praise from Radio X and BBC Introducing, Lola is forging her own movie moment in pop right now. And in "Girls in Hollywood," she dishes up the most terrifying tales are told in the most glitzy of melodies.
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