On April 25, 2025, Lyn Lapid released her new album, Buzzkill, and earlier that month, 1824 held a press conference with Lapid and a handful of publications to discuss the project.
Lapid talked during the press conference about different songs on the album and their stories (which I will get to later), but there seemed to be an all encompassing story to this album as a whole which is: her experience moving to Los Angeles and living on her own while struggling to find community in her new environment. The album tells this story chronologically, beginning with the title track, “Buzzkill.” In this song, Lapid discusses how she felt like she brought down the mood whenever she went out to parties in LA. She also didn’t bond with any of the people she was surrounded by; however, she would stay at the parties anyway in order to not be alone. “Coraline” is another song that fits with this theme of hanging out with people just for the sake of not being by yourself, but also touches on the fact that Maryland, where she grew up, doesn’t feel like home either as her hometown friends seemed to grow closer with others during her absence.
“Floater Friend” is the song Lapid mentioned as the most healing to write. It discusses how moving to LA brought Lapid back to her high school days of being the new kid and morphing your personality in order to be accepted by others. Lapid mentioned that the process of writing both “Floater Friend” and “Backup Plan” scared her because of how vulnerable she needed to be in front of other people (her co-writers and producers). Thankfully, Lapid realized how healing it was to write these feelings down and not keep them inside.
The song “Death Wish” is one that struck a chord with me on first listen. It is a song about losing friends to the romantic relationships they fall into. Lapid told the story about mentioning to a friend how she thought she would be alone forever. Her friend responded saying she didn’t see a problem with that because a romantic relationship would take Lapid away from her. This statement inspired Lapid to write “Death Wish” when she realized she agreed with what her friend said. As someone who has had many of her friends enter relationships with partners and had those friendships weaken because of it, I completely understand the mindset in which Lapid wrote this song from. It also solidifies the sentiment that platonic relationships are just as important as romantic relationships.
Buzzkill wraps up with the song “it doesn’t kill me anymore” which is exactly how Lapid knew she wanted to conclude the album. The journey of Buzzkill ends with Lapid singing about how she’s grown and changed since first moving to LA and has since discovered that she only feels like a buzzkill when she is with the wrong people. Lapid has found a community that values her in the same way she values them, and it’s a heartwarming realization for the end of this record.
If you’re loving Buzzkill, you need to make it out to a show on the Buzzkill World Tour. Lapid’s career took off during the Covid pandemic, and she mentioned that, because of this, she never thought about the live aspect when making music at that time. When creating this album, Lapid decided to keep that at the forefront of her mind when songwriting. There was a huge amount of focus on translating the emotional depth of the music to her live shows which is how I know this tour will be one you don’t want to miss!
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