Lola Young doesn’t fit into a box. She has the storytelling of Adele, but the attitude of a punk band from a squat in South London. Her breakthrough didn’t come through slick marketing, but through pure, undiluted honesty that went viral on TikTok. She sings about toxic relationships, mental instability, and self-worth with a humor and directness that is rare.
10. 6 Feet Under
While the piano plays a somber chord progression, a young Lola Young confesses her darkest thoughts. “I think about death sometimes.” It sounds heavy, and it is, but her voice lifts it into something beautiful. It is the sound of a young artist looking her demons right in the eye and translating them into soulful poetry.
9. Ruin My Make Up
Everyone knows the feeling: you’ve done your best to look good, and then someone makes you cry. This song captures that specific mix of sadness and frustration over your own vanity. The beat is slow and dragging, and Lola sounds more vulnerable here than usual. A modern break-up ballad for the generation that knows mascara is expensive.
8. Revolve Around You
Here we hear another side of her: groovy, almost funky, but still with that typical raw edge. It’s about obsessive love, the kind where you completely lose yourself in the other person. The production is a bit slicker, which shows she can handle more radio-friendly R&B perfectly fine without losing her quirkiness.
7. Blind Love
If you want to know what Lola is capable of vocally, put this track on. It is a classic soul ballad reminiscent of the young Amy Winehouse. She effortlessly switches between whisper-soft passages and powerful belts. The song is about looking back at a relationship and only seeing in hindsight everything that was wrong.
6. Big Brown Eyes
A track from her recent project where she strips her sound down even further to the essence: a guitar, a beat, and a story. She paints a portrait of a boy who looks good but is empty inside. Her diction here is phenomenal; she almost spits the words out, half singing, half rapping, with that unmistakable London accent.
5. Wish You Were Dead
Subtlety is overrated. The title leaves little to the imagination. This is the ultimate anti-love song, full of black humor and aggression. Instead of wishing the ex would make amends, Lola wishes… well, the opposite. Great to scream along to at the top of your lungs in the car.
4. Together In Electric Dreams
For the famous John Lewis Christmas commercial, Lola took on this 80s classic. Where the original is a cheerful synth-pop track, she turns it into a quiet, piano-driven tear-jerker. It proves her ability to strip a song completely bare and expose the emotional core. Suddenly, the lyrics no longer sound euphoric, but like a heartbreaking longing.
3. Messy
The title track of her album summarizes her entire persona. Life is not neat, relationships are not perfect, and Lola isn’t either. “I’m not dramatic, I’m just messy.” The production is messy in the best possible way, with distorted guitars and drums that sound like they were recorded in a garage.
2. Don’t Hate Me
The song that made her go viral, and rightly so. The opening line “You said I’m boring, I think you’re boring” is already iconic. It is an explosion of frustration about not being understood and being labeled as ‘too much’. The transition from the quiet verses to the loud chorus is brilliant. This is Lola at her fiercest: unapologetic and direct.
1. Conceited
That bassline. From the first second, you know this is a hit. “Conceited” is about self-confidence that is mistaken by others for arrogance. Lola doesn’t walk here, she parades. Her flow is rhythmic and cool, and the lyrics are full of one-liners you’d want to print on a T-shirt. It is the perfect mix of pop, indie, and hip-hop attitude. This is the track that transformed her from a promise into a star.
