The best-kept secret of 2019 is out. Charlotte Lawrence just might be the next great rebellion in pop music. It’s true, “Why Do You Love Me” is the name of the buzzworthy hit that lifted her trajectory high above the independent pop scene. The 21-year-old hasn’t released her debut album yet and she’s already talking about crossing over into the rock genre before she retires. She loves to go against the grain. You can hear it in the way she expresses herself. But in order to truly understand the artistic direction of this singer-songwriter, we have to take a little trip down memory lane…all the way back to the year 2020…when she was a relatively unknown singer attending a film screening for Birds of Prey with her dad. As Charlotte Lawrence sat through the opening credits of the movie, during opening weekend, she had a slight inkling that her new song could be a part of the film’s soundtrack. But then…something totally unexpected happened.  Shortly after the first scene got underway on the silver screen, the main character, Harley Quinn, blew up the Ace Chemicals processing plant by sending a big rig truck right through its gates. And that’s when Charlotte’s song slowly started to emerge in the background.“I went to the movie theater with my dad, just us two, it was empty and we were like Holy shit! No Way!” said Charlotte Lawrence. “I had no idea (my song) was going to be in the movie. And I had no idea that it was going to be that big of a part in the movie. The movie gave the song a whole new meaning. When I recorded (Joke’s on You), it was just a cool, fun, ‘fuck you’ song….and then I heard it with the movie on. It just adds this whole epic badass meaning to it. The movie was all girls and the soundtrack was all women.  It was so awesome. And I felt so honored to be alongside such fuckin’ cool chicks…it just felt great. That was a big milestone for me.” Birds of Prey: The Album peaked at number 23 on the Billboard Charts. It also piqued the public’s interest in Charlotte. At that point, she had yet to release a full-length album.  But she more than held her own on a star-studded tracklist, that featured Grammy-nominated artists like Halsey, Meg Thee Stallion, and Doja Cat. Charlotte Lawrence was introduced to the world in an epic, on-screen explosion of feminism, female empowerment, and dark-pop music. “Joke’s on You” will forever be a milestone etched in history and the launchpad from which her career in the mainstream began. 

Now that the pyrotechnic introduction is out of the way, it’s time to get down to the nitty-gritty of who is Charlotte Lawrence really is. She’s an introspective singer-songwriter mixed with the boldness of a maverick. She’s a little bit country, she’s a little bit rock n’ roll. She’s a pop princess who doesn’t care what you think. And more importantly, she seems totally willing to deliver pop songs to the mainstream that are not riddled throughout with happy endings and cliché love stories. She named her brand-new EP, Charlotte. It’s a collection of songs that kind of feels like a coming-of-age story about reveling in heartbreak, inevitable breakups, love/hate relationships, and the perplexities of substance abuse. Overall, Charlotte Lawrence’s new EP is a joyride of emotional ups and downs. Her musicality and unconventional approach to songwriting made for standout tracks on the EP like “Cowboys.” A composition nearly two years in the making. “I was going through something and was feeling unloved by someone that I was seeing. So, I was like: How do we make this song sexy and cool, rather than just another sad song?” Said Charlotte “So, we made (Cowboys) interesting and alternative and we made it dark as fuck! And the production on that is so cool. Andrew Watt did it with Happy Perez, they did it together. I think it's so sick! All the weird sounds that they added fits the song. I wanted a really dark Western song to kind of take you back to old Hollywood like an old Western (film)…Because when I hear the song, I imagine the fucking cowboy kissing the girl and then just running away on a tour and never coming back, you know what I mean?” Her flair for dramatics is clearly evident in this alt-pop song.

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