Emerging Gold Coast singer/songwriter and producer Lyric is headling her debut show at HOTA this Friday.
The 19-year-old is already entracing listeneres with her relatable lyricism and innovative production quality.
One of her first singles, 'remember everything', was aired on Triple J Unearthed Radio, with Unearthed music director Dave Ruby Howe dubbing it a "classy and emotive track" that emulates "Olivia Rodrigo and Billie Eilish".
In mid 2022, she released '1985'. The song reached #3 on the AMRAP Regional Radio Charts, and received airplay on stations such as Radio Adelaide, Fleurieu FM, and a radio interview on 4ZZZ. Tongue Tied Magazine praised the song for showing "a staggering amount of artistic range" and dubbed it as "Lyric's way of telling us she is only getting started". She has now released her debut EP, 'every colour, every hue', a body of work that takes listeners through the different shades of emotions we experience as humans, making for an extremely relatable record and beautiful opportunity for self-reflection.
We hung five with Lyric ahead of her show.
What's your earliest musical memory?
One of my earliest musical memories is from when I was 6-years old staying in a hotel for New Years with my family. I had just gotten a journal for Christmas, and decided I was going to use it to start writing songs. So I wrote my first ever song, 'Flower Girl', with the most nonsensical lyrics you could ever think of (but pretty cute for a 6-year old) and performed it acapella for all of my family and cousins in the living room.
If you could design your own one day festival, who are the five artists you would put on the lineup?
I think Taylor Swift, Harry Styles, FINNEAS, 5 Seconds of Summer and Olivia Rodrigo would have to be a dream festival lineup of mine.
What's the best compliment you've ever received about your music?
When people tell me that a song I wrote means something to them or has helped them through something in their lives, that's really the best compliment I can receive. I just put out a song called 'one-sided love' and have had quite a few people tell me how much they relate to it or that it's helped them through a similar situation, which means the absolute world to me! Also one time someone commented on a Tik Tok of mine saying "go back to the 2000’s and find out what your parents were on when they named you Lyric, they must have been fortune tellers", and I still think that's the funniest thing in the world.
What was your inspiration for 'every colour, every hue'?
I started to realise that all of my songs had such different emotional palettes and hues to them, with some being joyful happy songs and others being heartbreaking ballads, and so I decided to just really lean into that idea and create a whole project based around a colour spectrum of emotions - which is how the EP came about!
What's your musical dream?
Well a crazy dream of mine would be to be able to play somewhere like Madison Square Garden, but honestly I just really want people to connect with the music and to be able to perform the songs live as much as possible - whether it's to 100 people or 10,000 people.
Catch Lyric's debut headline set at HOTA this Friday, 12 May. Tickets here.
