LVRBOY- My Open Letter to You
My debut mini album, “ghost in my room,” is a collection of the songs you’ve heard from me thus far, plus a few others. We began recording songs for the album before the LVRBOY project was even announced, so it’s been a long time coming. I had a vision of how this mini album would be created; write songs, work on them up to a certain point, and then continue writing and recording songs in an attempt to beat out the ones we had already begun. I’ve been asked if, with having so many songs written and recorded, it was hard to choose which songs would go on this first mini album but, in all honesty, it wasn’t. The songs I chose for the first mini album (which is the first half of a larger body of work) were chosen because I felt they were the perfect introduction to who I am. Almost all of the songs are about the same failed relationship because, for whatever reason, when I feel lonely or sad I revert back to that time. It was both euphoric and therapeutic writing and making this record, so I hope you all enjoy it and, for those of you that have been following and supporting me from the beginning, thank you so much from the bottom of my heart. I started LVRBOY because I wanted to be totally honest about who I was, and I wanted listeners to connect with me through that transparency. I’m just a hopeless romantic who loves love but is just as confused about it as everyone else. I’m just trying to be a beacon of light to help you navigate through it, one song at a time. Enjoy the record.
LV u,
-LVRBOY
Photo credit: Jacqueline Day
TRACK BREAK-DOWN
Track 1: “now that i’m leaving”
I decided to start the record with the first single I released back in September 2019 as somewhat of a nostalgic gesture. I wrote this song about thinking I wanted to end a relationship, only to find I had made a mistake after I walked away from it. “now that i’m leaving” is about regretting that decision to leave.
Here is one listeners haven’t heard yet. “homesick” is about the pit in your stomach you experience after returning home post-breakup. Even though your ex is no longer there, your memories together still linger throughout the house. The first line of the song, “Damn, I still feel it, like your ghost is in my room,” coined the name of the mini album.
Track 3: “i don’t think about u”
This one was so healing to write. The entire thing is essentially a letter to an ex saying, “I thought you were the one, you put me through hell, and if you’re saying you want me back then it’s too late, because I don’t think about you anymore. When we wrote “i don’t think about u,” I pushed it up and made it the second single, despite having numerous songs recorded already. I remember writing this with Kendall Brower and Drew Schueler and thinking to myself, “I want all of my lyrics from here on out to be this personal.” The story behind this one is pretty spot on with what actually went down. Go have a listen.
I feel so nostalgic whenever I talk about this song. “change my mind” was the first LVRBOY song I ever wrote. Despite me releasing it as the third single, I knew this one was special. I wrote this song with my best friend, STRUAN, the day I met him and, after we wrote it, I remember saying “this is who I am.” It couldn’t have been more than three days later that LVRBOY was conceptualized. “change my mind” is about an ex making multiple attempts to make me miss her and, although it worked, it didn’t change the fact that I couldn’t be with her. This is my favorite song I’ve ever written.
Track 5: “make it” feat. STRUAN
This one was obviously the most fun one to create. Almost every single song you hear from LVRBOY, I’ve written with STRUAN. On any given day, we can sit down and write a song together in 20 minutes and, on other days, songs can be a real headache. “make it,” although seemingly conversational, took us days to write. STRUAN and I knew we wanted to do a double feature, so we embarked on quite the journey to write it. We wrote four possible feature songs before we landed on “make it” (some of them will see the light of day on STRUAN’s next project). When I set out to write a song, I usually like the title to be a phrase we use in everyday life, so it took awhile to find the one that fit both our stories. I had the guitar part and STRUAN started singing that chorus melody over it, “all those nights drunk in the kitchen…” He and I had ended relationships that held great potential and, while talking though it, we couldn’t find a clear cut reason as to why it ended; it just did. I said, “what about, ‘I really thought we would make it?’” Then we were off to the races. Blending both of our styles, we co-produced it with my producer, Garrett Miller, and released it, along with a music video.
The last track on the mini album, “nothing to say,” is another new one for listeners. As I said before, the completion of a song didn’t mean it would make it on the mini album. The most important thing I wanted audiences to gather from this body of work is a great understanding of who I am, both as a person and as an artist. Writing “nothing to say” was a defining moment in my career as LVRBOY and, in a way, I think the type of song it is really solidified my artist project. I love all of the songs on, “ghost in my room,” but Track 6 was one that didn’t follow any parameters, and it still came out sounding like me. I wrote this one with STRUAN and Rikki Randall (my quarantine crew) about being in a relationship with someone that isn’t sure what they want, so there’s a lot of push and pull from both parties. “I’m scared that you’ll always be somewhere in between ‘I love you’ and nothing to say.”
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