Lauv Announces ~how i’m feeling world tour~ With 2 stops in Canada

Support From Maisie Peters, Charlotte Lawrence, Role Model And Alexander 23 In Select Cities

 

21 Track Debut Album ~how i'm feeling~  Set For Release On March 6, 2020

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: (Toronto, ON—January 24, 2020) PLATINUM-certified independent singer, songwriter, producer and pop visionary Lauv announces dates for his “~how i’m feeling world tour~” today! The 65+ date world tour will mark Lauv’s largest U.S. shows of his career and hit iconic venues in the US such as Radio City Music Hall in New York, NY, Red Rocks Amphitheater in Morrison, CO and The Greek Theater in Los Angeles, CA. Artists Maisie Peters, Charlotte Lawrence, Role Model and Alexander 23 are set to join as support on select cities. Lauv will also be making stops in Canada, including Toronto and Vancouver. See full routing below and click HERE for more info!

Last week, Lauv dropped his newest single “Tattoos Together.” In conjunction, he also released the music video that was all filmed in one shot, directed by Declan Whitebloom (Taylor Swift, Demi Lovato, One Direction). “Tattoos Together” is the latest release off the artist’s 21-track debut album, ~how i'm feeling~, set for release on March 6, 2020.  Click HERE to view!

Over the past few months, Lauv has released his much anticipated collaboration “Mean It” with LANY (HERE), his surprise 2020 track “Changes,” in addition to the video for album track “Sims.” The video was directed by Phillip Lopez (Kygo, Selena Gomez, Liam Payne), which serves as the proper visual introduction of the “Little Lauv” characters that adorn his debut album artwork for ~how i’m feeling~ and make up Lauv’s “one-man boyband.” Click HERE to view!

In October, Lauv was also notably featured on the radio version of powerhouse K-Pop group BTS’ “Make It Right (feat. Lauv)” which can be heard HERE!

Lauv’s last single “fuck, i’m lonely” with Anne-Marie has surpassed over 250 million streams to date and peaked at #30 at Top 40 US radio. The pair performed the song on Late Night With Seth Meyers (HERE). In addition, the track was also included on the current 3rd season of the popular Netflix show 13 Reasons Why, as well as this seasons soundtrack.

2020 TOUR DATES

3/21                Monterrey, Mexico             Tecate Pal Norte Festival Sideshow
3/23                Mexico City, Mexico           El Plaza Condesa
3/25                Lima, Peru                         Domos Art
3/27                Santiago, Chile                  Lollapalooza Chile
3/29                Buenos Aires, Argentina    Lollapalooza Argentina
3/30                Buenos Aires, Argentina    Lollapalooza Sideshow @ Teatro Vorterix
4/3                  Sao Paulo, Brazil               Lollapalooza Brazil
5/11                Lisbon, Portugal                 Lisbon Coliseum
5/13                Madrid, Spain                    La Riviera
5/14                Barcelona, Spain               Razzmatazz
5/16                Milan, Italy                        Fabrique
5/18                Lyon, France                    Le Transbordeur
5/19                Zurich, Switzerland          X-TRA
5/20                Vienna, Austria                Gasometer
5/24                Riga, Latvia                     Palladium
5/26                Stockholm, Sweden        Arenan Fryshuset
5/28                Oslo, Norway                  Sentrum Scene
5/30                Copenhagen, Denmark   VEGA
6/16                Bangalore                       Manpho Convention Center
6/18                Mumbai                           NSCI Dome
6/21                Beijing                             Exhibition Theatre
6/22                Shanghai                        Modern Sky Lab
6/23                Shanghai                        Modern Sky Lab
6/25                Taipei                              Legacy Max
6/27                Jakarta                           Istora Senayan
7/17                Charlotte, NC                Charlotte Metro Credit Union Amphitheatre
7/18                Nashville, TN                 Ascend Amphitheater
7/19                Atlanta, GA                    Coca Cola Roxy
7/21                Detroit, MI                     Meadow Brook
7/22                Toronto, ON                  Echo Beach
7/24                Indianapolis, IN             White River State Park
7/25                Cincinnati, OH              PNC Pavilion
7/26                Cleveland, OH              Jacobs Pavilion
7/28                Minneapolis, MN          The Armory
7/29                Council Bluffs, IA          Stir Cove
7/30                St. Louis, MO               Saint Louis Music Park
8/4                  Philadelphia, PA           The Met
8/6                  New York, NY               Radio City Music Hall
8/7                  Boston, MA                   Rockland Trust Bank Pavilion
8/8                  Baltimore, MD              MECU Pavilion
8/9                  Raleigh, NC                 Red Hat Amphitheater
8/11                Miami, FL                     Bayfront Park Amphitheatre
8/12                St. Augustine, FL         St. Augustine Amphitheatre
8/14                Houston, TX                 Revention Center
8/15                Dallas, TX                    Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory
8/16                Kansas City, MO          Starlight Theatre
8/18                Morrison, CO               Red Rocks Amphitheatre
8/19                Salt Lake City, UT        Complex (Outdoors)
8/21                Phoenix, AZ                 Arizona Federal Theatre
8/22                Las Vegas, NV             Chelsea at the Cosmopolitan
8/24                Vancouver, BC             Queen Elizabeth Theatre
8/25                Portland, OR                McMenamins Edgefield
8/26                Seattle, WA                  WaMu Theater
8/28                Berkeley, CA                Greek Theatre @ UC Berkeley
8/29                Los Angeles, CA          Greek Theatre
10/26              Oberhausen, DE         König-Pilsener-Arena
10/28              Munich, DE                 Zenith
10/29              Stuttgart, DE               Porsche Arena
10/31              Hannover, DE             Swiss Life Hall
11/2                Frankfurt, DE              Jahrhunderthalle
11/3                Antwerp, BE               Lotto Arena
11/5                Paris, FR                    Zénith Paris – La Villette
11/6                Amsterdam, NL          AFAS Live
11/7                Tilburg, NL                   013 Poppodium
11/10              Birmingham, UK          O2 Academy
11/11              Glasgow, UK                O2 Academy
11/13              Manchester, UK          Manchester Academy
11/17              London, UK                 O2 Academy Brixton

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About Lauv

For more than five years, Lauv has quietly and steadily become one of pop’s brightest rising stars. He has released his music completely independently with billions of streams to his name. He has written for some of the biggest stars in the world, performed on late night talk shows, played stadiums opening for Ed Sheeran, and sold out shows in 21 countries as a headliner. And he has done all of this without releasing an album.

That’s about to change, though, when Lauv’s official debut, ~how i'm feeling~, comes out in March 2020. A 21-song tour de force, the project marks a breakthrough, a real moment of arrival, from a young singer/songwriter/producer who Rolling Stone called “Pop’s Up-and-Coming Heartbreak King.” 

“This is the first time I’m showing the world different aspects of myself as an artist,” says Lauv. “At first I was a hopeless romantic—my songs were all about one relationship, one girl. This is so much bigger. The whole concept is born out of an existential, quarter-life crisis. I’m dealing with who I was supposed to be, what people expect from me—I’m learning to embrace all the aspects of my identity.”

Before Ari Leff became Lauv, he was just another Gen Z teenager trying to get his music noticed on Myspace. From his earliest efforts, his songs addressed his own experiences navigating the sometimes positive, often negatively distorted lens of social media. His music has come to serve as anthems for the millions of teenagers and twenty-somethings who share the same fears and insecurities. 

Accepting and celebrating the multiple facets of ourselves, the different personalities we carry with us, is a theme throughout ~how i'm feeling~ —even extending to the cover art, which displays six different “Little Lauvs” (each with its own color, representing one aspect of himself). It’s like a one-man boy band: there’s the class clown, the hopeless romantic, the existentialist, the fuckboy, positive and spicy Lauv.

Lauv has been open about his own struggles with anxiety and depression, and has taken action on the issue with his Blue Boy Foundation, which supports programs that help young people feel more comfortable reaching out for help with their mental health. He launched the “My Blue Thoughts” initiative, a community building mechanism for fans to anonymously write down or record whatever is on their mind, as a way to engage with people around the world who may be having similar experiences. Lauv is also donating 100% of the proceeds from his single “Sad Forever” to mental health charities, raising over $150,000 to date, as well as contributing $1 from each ticket sold from his world tour.  

Lauv first gained attention in 2015 when his Soundcloud single “The Other” went viral, peaking at number three on blog aggregator Hype Machine and hitting Spotify’s Global Top 100 before eventually being certified Gold. After concentrating on working with other artists, Lauv hit again with 2017’s “I Like Me Better,” which reached #7 at Top 40 and #2 at Hot AC and was certified 3X Multi-Platinum in the US and platinum in 12 other countries. “i’’m so tired...” Lauv’s duet with Troye Sivan, has also been certified Gold, with over 500 million streams worldwide.

After his songs were gathered up into the I met you when I was 18 playlist in 2018, Lauv was ranked as number one on Billboard's Emerging Artists chart for more than three months. And all of this was achieved without the support of a major label: He garnered the most spins by an independent artist on Top 40 and Hot AC radio in 2018, and held down the #1 and #2 most streamed pop songs by an independent artist in 2019.

Along the way, Lauv—who majored in music technology at New York University, and interned at the famed Jungle City Studios—developed a signature sound, a spare, percolating, keyboard-based electro-pop that mirrored his honest and vulnerable lyrics. But he doesn’t think of himself as having an identifiable style.

“I get surprised when people say that a song ‘sounds so Lauv’,” he says. “I don’t know what that means. I never thought about having a specific sound. What I do is usually more minimal, not a huge wall of sound, but then I add whatever interesting rhythmic or sonic elements.”

He points to “Drugs & the Internet,” a song written during a struggle with depression which became the opening track on ~how i'm feeling~, as a turning point in his writing. “That song was so different for me,” he says, “and it’s when I realized there’s so much more I want to say besides talking about love. 

“I used to look at everything really romantically,” he continues. “Like ‘all my songs have to literally be about my own life!” But as I keep writing more, I’ve really opened up to the idea that a song can be about capturing a feeling.”

A key part of Lauv’s triumphant rise has been his collaborations with other artists, both as a writer and a performing partner. He co-wrote hits including Cheat Codes and Demi Lovato’s Platinum-certified smash “No Promises” and “Boys” for Charli XCX. In addition to the duet with Troye Sivan, he released “There’s No Way” with Julia Michaels and, most recently, “fuck, i’m lonely,” with British singer Anne-Marie, which was featured on the soundtrack for the third season of 13 Reasons Why and quickly shot to more than 200 million streams. Also in 2019, he co-wrote “Imperfections,” a single for pop icon Celine Dion. (“It was crazy that she wanted something with my sound,” he says, “it goes to show that a lot of things in music can be so unexpected, and you can’t necessarily pin people down.”)

These creative partnerships have continued to shape Lauv’s perspective on making music. “With everybody I’ve worked with,” he says, “whether or not a song ultimately comes out of it or not, each situation shows me something new about the process of creation and how different artists work. With Ed Sheeran, I saw that it’s very much still about the song, where others get more involved in the visual world and the aesthetics.”

In today’s stream-driven, single-focused music world, you might wonder why a young pop artist needs to bother making an album. But even with platinum plaques already on his walls, Lauv believes that it’s still important to make a larger musical statement and reveal more of himself. “A lot of internet culture is pushing people to have a brand and stick to it,” he says. “But people are so much more complex than that. I was definitely intimidated making this album, though—fans are used to a certain side of me, so will people vibe with it and accept something different?

“But even just for my own mental health,” he continues, “I needed to do what I want to do, to grow as an artist without being cornered into any one sound or style. And if they’re along for the ride, then that’s great, too.” With millions of fans already on board for his music and his message, and a sound that’s built for a stadium-size audience, it’s sure shaping up to be a wild ride.

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