Multi-Platinum Artist Lauv Releases New Single & Video “There's No Way” Featuring Julia Michaels

Set To Perform Single On The Late Show With Stephen Colbert On October 1 ​ Returning To The US In October For Headline Tour Dates & ​ Select Dates Opening For Ed Sheeran

“Pop’s Up and Coming Heartbreak King”—ROLLING STONE

"Well on his way up pop's ladder as a sensitive, keyed-in new voice." –TIME

“An artist to watch... While he lists Chris Martin from Coldplay as his biggest inspiration, it’s only a matter of time before he lands himself on a similar career trajectory” —COMPLEX

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Toronto,ON - PLATINUM-certified independent singer, songwriter, producer, and pop visionary Lauv releases new single and video “There’s No Way” featuring GRAMMY nominated artist  Julia Michaels today. They are set to perform the single on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on October 1st. Click here to view the new video for "There's No Way".

Listen to “There's No Way” here.

Julia Michaels said on writing the song, “Writing with Ari is equal parts funny and serious. He’s the kind of person that can tap into an emotion and then say something random to break up the heaviness in a room. I love that about him.”

Lauv added, “Julia is an absolute legend not only as a songwriter but just as a human being. The first time we met we didn’t even write a song, we just talked about life and emo bands and stuff. A few days later me, her, Justin Tranter and Ian Kirkpatrick got into the room and wrote There’s No Way. For me the song is about meeting someone and immediately feeling that connection where you can’t help but have crazy chemistry, and though your lives don’t quite line up in that moment, you know someday everything could go down between you two.”

“There’s No Way is about wanting to be with someone but sometimes the timing is wrong," said Julia.

The new single comes on the heels of the newly released fan inspired track “Superhero.” The inspiration behind the track “Superhero” came to Lauv in a unique way. On his tour earlier this year, he placed a blue box at the merch table at shows as a way for fans to get thoughts and feelings off their chest anonymously. Lauv later came across an entry that read, "I met a superhero. I lost her. I want her back." He wrote this song after being inspired by the entry and afterward, found the anonymous songwriter to credit him and learn more about his story.

This past summer, Lauv performed his hit single, “I Like Me Better”, on the Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon, as well as the 2018 Teen Choice Awards and 2018 MTV Video Music Awards. The single reached the Top 10 of Top 40 radio, is currently #4 at Hot AC and recently entered the Top 20 at AC. A highlight of his 2018 project I met you when I was 18., the song recently scanned 2x PLATINUM in the US and he has surpassed over 1 billion cumulative streams worldwide.

Lauv will be returning to the US next month to kick of the US leg of his Fall 2018 World Tour and open on select dates for Ed Sheeran’s stadium tour. Full routing below.

 

Oct 4               Chicago, IL                               Soldier Field**

Oct 6               Nashville, TN                           Nissan Stadium**

Oct 7               Louisville, KY                           Mercury Ballroom*

Oct 9               Cincinnati, OH                         Bogart’s*

Oct 10             Grand Rapids, MI                    The Intersection *

Oct 12             Indianapolis, IN                       Egyptian Room at Old National Centre *

Oct 13             Kansas City, MO                      Arrowhead Stadium**

Oct 14             Columbia, MO                         The Blue Note *

Oct 16             Omaha, NE                              Sokol Auditorium *

Oct 17             Fargo, ND                                Fargodome**

Oct 20             Minneapolis, MN                    US Bank Stadium**

Oct 21             Des Moines, IA                        Wooly’s *

Oct 23             Milwaukee, WI                        Miller Park**

Oct 24             Urbana, IL                               Canopy Club *

Oct 27             Dallas, TX                                AT&T Stadium**

Oct 28             Tulsa, OK                                 Cain’s Ballroom *

Oct 30             Mobile, AL                               Soul Kitchen *

Oct 31             New Orleans, LA                     Superdome**

Nov 1               Birmingham, AL                      Iron City *

Nov 3               Houston, TX                            Minute Maid Park**

Nov 5               Columbia, SC                           The Senate (formerly Music Farm) *

Nov 7               Tampa, FL                               Raymond James Stadium **

Nov 8               Orlando, FL                             House of Blues *

Nov 10             Atlanta, GA                             Mercedes Benz Stadium**

*Headlining Date

**Opening for Ed Sheeran

^Festival Date

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Lauv ft. Julia Michaels - There's No Way [Official Video]
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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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