Her soft-treading debut LP Give Me a Minute was a promising start, but her career didn’t truly gain steam until the pandemic forced everyone inside. She attended Berklee College of Music for two years - “a huge growing period for me as an artist and also as a human,” she says - before dropping out to pursue her career. McAlpine has had plenty of practice, beginning to write songs on piano at age 12 and picking up the guitar a year or two later. “It’s the great trick of great writing specificity is universal.” “As a writer, she has a great capacity to make very mundane experiences interesting and has an exceptionally detailed perspective,” Bareilles says. Bareilles tells Billboard she messaged McAlpine after watching McAlpine cover her tune “When He Sees Me,” from Broadway’s Waitress. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Bridgers and Bareilles are both admirers of McAlpine each has DMed the newcomer, singing her praises. “Theatrical” is apt for McAlpine, as her stark songwriting style merges the hyper-specific, heartrending lyrics of Bridgers or Olivia Rodrigo - stolen glances over 7-Eleven Slurpees, visions of McAlpine’s suburban Philadelphia-area upbringing - with the sweeping crests and falls of a Sara Bareilles Broadway score. “It becomes more of a theatrical production at this level, and that is very fun for me.” “It’s a level up from the last tour in terms of venue size and also just production-wise, we’re kind of elevating everything, which is very exciting,” McAlpine says. and filling the biggest rooms of her career so far - among them Terminal 5 and Brooklyn Steel in NY, the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville and two nights at the 9:30 Club in Washington D.C. Now, her new roadshow kicking off in April is sold-out across the U.S. Last fall, she knocked “headline a tour” off her list, playing mid-size clubs like The Troubadour in Hollywood and Webster Hall in New York. While soaring numbers online are no guarantee for real-life ticket sales, McAlpine has had little trouble developing a devout IRL audience. Tens of thousands of videos using a sped-up version of “Ceilings” have amassed more than 235 million views, and translated to more than 30 million official on-demand U.S. streams, according to Luminate.)Īmong the doleful tracks was “Ceilings,” a plot-twisty ballad of heart-stomping hallucinations, which has taken off on TikTok these last three months and proven the singer’s biggest breakout hit so far. (It also broke her to a new level on streaming, with her catalog having now earned 245.6 million official on-demand U.S. The 2022 LP corralled droves of new fans with its subtle folk-pop devastations, speckled with touches of jazz, R&B and notable features from FINNEAS and Jacob Collier. The achievements she’s yet to check off vary in prestige, from playing Coachella and winning a Grammy to creating a special Lizzy McAlpine taco at HomeState, the Los Angeles chain where Phoebe Bridgers concocted her own vegan dish last year.Ī handful of goals have already been accomplished, courtesy of the tireless 23-year-old artist’s ascendence on social media and her arresting sophomore album, Five Seconds Flat. No, this is a meticulously plotted ledger of life goals, dozens of lines deep. This is no scatterbrained cluster of “maybe someday”s. ‘She's a Fairy’: Meet Dora Jar, the Alt-Pop Newcomer Who Makes Billie Eilish ‘Cry Every Time…
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