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Ping Pong over the Abyss
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And you’ re hurting no one! Especially if you’ re masturbating by yourself – you’ re hurting no one, you’ re just making yourself happy. So how can that be something bad? I don’ t understand.”
Lo says she first heard a‘ Lady Wood’ reference on some hip TV series – a female character demanding sexual satisfaction said something like,‘ Hey – I’ m losing wood over here!’ She toyed with different ways to phrase it, and – thinking‘ girl wood’ sounded too awkward – went with the current wording, first dedicating a tune to the idea, then an entire album banner.“ So instead of saying,‘ I’ m a chick with balls,’ I’ m saying,‘ I’ ve got lady wood’ – I thought it was the best album title,” she says.
Lo also applauds fellow singer Alicia Keys for choosing to appear without makeup – an honesty-based movement whose time has definitely come. Like Naomi Wolff’ s classic treatise The Beauty Myth, it addresses our conventional views of beauty, and the continued existence of an unusually-vast cosmetic industry itself. What if all women, everywhere, simply stopped applying makeup on one particular day? 17 aisles at Target would shut down alone, plus an entire floor at Macy’ s. Lo isn’ t sure if she’ s ready to say goodbye to that whole industry. She never thought much about her looks when she was a behind-the-scenes composer with Wolf Cousins, which is still her publisher, through Warner Chapell Music
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Scandinavia.
“ But makeup became part of my life when I started doing this,” the vocalist cedes.“ Since I became an artist, I’ ve become way more aware, because people are always looking at you. But honestly, I’ m comfortable with both – I can love to dress up and get my face done, or I can also just roll up in no makeup and whatever I want to wear and be like,‘ This is me today.’ Again, it’ s every woman’ s choice. But I love that Alicia Keys is doing that, though. She’ s fully refusing, and I feel like a lot more artists are using social media now to go without makeup and show their true selves. Beauty is so subjective, and I think it should stay that way.”
What wisdom does Lo want to impart to young female fans? Again, she’ s prochoice.“ I want them to choose whether or not they want to learn something from me at all,” she concludes.“ Because I’ m not here to teach them about anything – I’ m just here to share my own emotions. But I would say, if anything, I’ d tell them,‘ Just be who you are, flaws and all – you don’ t have to apologize, you don’ t have to make excuses for yourself.’ I think a lot of girls make excuses, and are overly hard on themselves.
“ But it’ s like,‘ Hey, come on – you’ re you. And that’ s just fine!”
Appearing 2 / 16 at House Of Blues, Chicago
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