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We had the pleasure of interviewing LP over Zoom video!\xa0
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There\u2019s this girl in the corner and she\u2019s small, really small, and she looks like a boy, and she\u2019s seething with emotion, with rage and love - because she\u2019s alone, because we\u2019re all alone, because our parents didn\u2019t get it. She just found out faster.\xa0

Her skin is thinner because her heart is bigger. Her heart pushes against the skin, stretching it, sometimes too much.\xa0

She is a bloodletter, this girl. \u201cA bloodletter of emotion,\u201d she says. I think, given the right or the wrong moment, you are too.\xa0

Born Italian. New York. You\u2019ve got to understand that; the hottest blood, the toughest city, the smallest girl.\xa0

Today she is 5\u2019 3\u201d and just over a hundred pounds but her sound is anthemic, maxed out. You don\u2019t believe your ear-eyes when you see-hear, pealing from the body of one fighting with not enough, the music of so, so much. It is the music of emotional emergency, a prayer sung loud into a bottle and cast out to sea.\xa0

I think of Judy Garland, Bjork, Freddie Mercury if he had to deal with being a fucking girl. From a little match, a conflagration.\xa0

LP is the medicine. She is good for heartbreak, which she knows, and in a way, lives in.\xa0

She writes from that, sings from that. The annoyance, the grain of ocean-floor sand troubling the oyster. It\u2019s loss. It\u2019s always there.\xa0

Her mother died when she was a teenager. She sang too \u2014 a voice, LP remembers, that \u201cwas very operatic, kind of like Maria Callas with a Julie Andrews cleanness to her tone.\u201d\xa0

She\u2019ll never recover, but there is the mounting hope, the certain knowledge, hard earned, that \u201cyou can wield suffering, which is strength and power.\u201d\xa0

Church, no church. Gay, not gay.\xa0

The bloodletting\u2019s the same. The blood-pearls of a poet-oyster who has hit songs and record deals and plays sold out shows all over the world and goes to bed saying to herself, \u201cI love, I love, I love, I love\u2026\u201d\xa0

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