However, after the initial euphoria, the label was unclear on what to do next. Despite the relative lack of success, her extensive promotional tours helped her to become a captivating performer.įollowing an appearance at music conference South by Southwest in 2006, she sparked a bidding war between several labels, and landed her first major-label deal with the now-defunct Island Def Jam Music Group.
Growing up in New York, LP's family expected her to become "something like a doctor or a lawyer," but her decision to be a singer-songwriter was an early one," I didn't feel like doing anything else." She put a band together in her 20's, but the initial feedback was not encouraging, "I was always told I didn't have songs." Nevertheless, she persevered and released two albums on independent labels, Heart-Shaped Scar in 2001 and Suburban Sprawl & Alcohol in 2004. You know, I would have had to pay them all back." She acknowledges that the choice to drop her was an impersonal business decision, albeit an expensive one. I detect a wry smile in her voice when she explains how the label ate the entire debt. Her former label agreed to write-off the $1.6 million which had been invested in their partnership.
"Those three songs have been so good for me," continues LP with some degree of understatement.
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