L Devine: "Young girls need to hear another young girl talking about the fact that she's horny and owning it"

But let's start at the beginning. As she puts it, Liv got into music by copying a friend. "I always thought he was really cool, and he picked up the guitar so I thought I should do it, too. Then I just kinda got the bug for it, and I got really into writing music. I'm pretty impatient. I didn't want to spend all my days looking at YouTube tutorials on how to learn other people's songs, so I just made my own up." Growing up in Whitley Bay, by Newcastle, Liv was surrounded by a culture that was very big on alternative and indie music, but her first songs were all very singer-songwriter. "That was all I had. Me and my guitar in my bedroom. Then I realised that I listened to so much music and I would get tired pretty quickly sticking to just one genre. That's when I became interested in production and a lot of electronic music. Because I had been playing guitar so much, I was so excited about weird sounds and unique beats. I guess I got into pop music, not because I listen to it more than other genres, but because pop music is the one you can bend the most. It doesn't really have any boundaries. You can constantly reinvent what it is and what it means to you."

This is most apparent on her most recent release ‘Naked Alone' that she wrote with Swedish producers INDIIA. It's a different sound from her two previous EPs. It's fun and fresh and a little more tongue-in-cheek. Unapologetically talking about being horny, it's a sex-positive anthem that Liv has been wanting to release for two years now. Talking about why it took her so long, she says: "I was super nervous releasing 'Naked Alone'. Especially off the back of 'Peer Pressure', where I was talking about, not heavier stuff, but there were always messages, and I felt like I had to say something in my music. But then I thought ‘You know what, fuck it. I'm 21, I wrote a song about sex, and it's cool as fuck, and I think especially young girls need to hear that. They need to hear another young girl talking about the fact that she's horny and owning it."

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