Timur Gareev

LIL LOTUS BIO

When you see Lil Lotus, you don’t necessarily think he’d have the voice of an angel. You might think the tattooed, crazy haired guy might be nothing but trouble. But instead of being someone who yells through their pain, Lotus sings his. And when he does, the melodies are ungodly beautiful, even if the lyrics are not. Lotus has had his share of hard times in his short life. The cognitive dissonance between his heavenly vocals and his heavy lyrics is very much on purpose.

“I wish the words were as pretty as the melodies,” says Lotus. “But the words are the reality.” Its his take on life’s pain that has made him a pioneer of what some would call the Soundcloud emo rap scene.

When Lotus was a teenager, he locked himself in his room for hours learning music, writing, and playing guitar. In his early 20s, he decided to bet on himself and quit his day job to make music full time. He put a Lil Lotus song online, then another, and “it just skyrocketed.” He followed the music scene to LA, where he fell in with a crowd working on a new sound that blended rap, emo, pop, and pop-punk. In 2017, he released his Body Bag EP (featuring GothBoiClique collective members and friends Cold Hart and Nedarb), the beginning of a series of singles and EPs that have garnered more than 30 million streams to date.

ERRØR BØY is his debut album on Epitaph, a fully realized studio effort that amplifies the flawless songwriting he’d been creating on his own. The album was born with scars of addiction, toxic relationships, and everything else under the sun. The album is the synthesis of his best efforts and worst instincts. “ERRØR BØY is about how I’ve struggled with addiction, I've struggled with giving myself the credit I deserve, with loving myself, with loving the ones that love me, with not pushing people away, with not running away from people who are completely there for me,” Lotus says. That manifests in songs of romance and all its perils.

On the single “Think of Me Tonight,” Lotus comes out of the gate pining against the backdrop of a heavily strummed acoustic guitar, his bittersweet and broken vocal performance sounding crushingly earnest. “I miss your room. I miss everything about everything you do.” he sings before the song builds into a sudden explosion, huge drums providing the bridge between the sad and celebratory parts of the perfectly balanced emo song.

“Romantic Disaster,” features Chrissy Costanza, singer of Against The Current. Here, Lotus is in ecstatic pop mode as he spells out the trouble that will come later. “I’m a bad idea in the back of your head, crawling into your bed, telling you the same old story,” he sings. Costanza joins him for the hook: “This is a romantic disaster, the nightmare comes after.” The song is the good part of the bad idea and its soaring harmony lifts you out of any misery that you know may come after you make that mistake.

“Rooftop” is a perfect California pop-punk song. “Meet me on the rooftop, it’s my last night in LA,” Lotus pleads. The song’s acoustic guitar intro transitions into an electric solo, and Lotus sings in similar style, moving seamlessly from quiet to loud “We’ve got one last night to party, we’ve got one last night to dance,” “Rooftop” continues. Whether or not you’re in LA, you can’t help but celebrate when you hear the song. Really, the same goes for all his songs.

It’s clear listening to ERRØR BØY that Lotus is the new voice and face of pop-punk, ready to take center stage as the genre takes over the world this summer. Lotus worked closely on the album with a legend in the world of pop-punk and emo, John Feldmann of Goldfinger, who has produced for groups such as Story of the Year, The Used, Good Charlotte, Panic! At the Disco, All Time Low, and blink-182. Two tracks include another legend, Travis Barker on drums. Lil Aaron, a close collaborator, is featured, too. And while these guests and producers certainly beefed up his sound, they didn’t redefine it. So while ERRØR BØY may be the first album-length look at Lil Lotus, he’s always been headed in the direction of this massive debut. “From the day I was born, I wanted to see how much I could handle. I always push myself to a limit,” he says. “There's some damage that comes with it, but that's always the thing that made me stronger. That's ERRØR BØY.”

Career

For the first few years of her career, she had to keep her face hidden, as her school had a strict policy about their students being part of the entertainment industry.

DAOKO received a large amount of attention for her vocal work in the music video "Me!Me!Me!" which was composed by TeddyLoid and released on November 21, 2014.

In 2018, she won Best Breakthrough Artist and Song of the Year with Uchiage Hanabi at the Space Shower Music Awards.

Profile

• Stage Name: DAOKO
• Birthday: March 4, 1997 (age 25)
• Birthplace: Tokyo, Japan
• Zodiac: Pisces.png Pisces
• Blood Type : O

Albums

• [2012.12.05] HYPER GIRL -Mukougawa no Onnanoko- (HYPER GIRL -向こう側の女の子-)
• [2013.12.11] GRAVITY
• [2015.02.04] Dimension
• [2015.03.25] DAOKO
• [2017.12.20] THANK YOU BLUE
• [2018.12.12] Shiteki Ryokou (私的旅行)
• [2019.10.09] DAOKO × Dragalia Lost (DAOKO × ドラガリアロスト) (collaboration with Dragalia Lost)
• [2020.06.24] anima

Mini Albums

• [2013.09.11] UTUTU EP

Singles

• [2015.10.21] Samishii Kami-sama / ShibuyaK (さみしいかみさま/ShibuyaK)
• [2016.09.14] Moshimo Bokura ga GAME no Shuyaku de / Daisuki with TeddyLoid / BANG! (もしも僕らがGAMEの主役で/ダイスキ with TeddyLoid/BANG!)
• [2017.08.16] Uchiage Hanabi (打上花火) (with Yonezu Kenshi)
• [2017.10.18] Step Up LOVE (ステップアップLOVE) (featuring Okamura Yasuyuki)

Digital Singles

• [2017.04.15] Haikei Goodbye Sayonara (拝啓グッバイさようなら)
• [2017.10.18] Kahlua Milk (カルアミルク)
• [2017.10.80] TOKYO-KICK-ASS
• [2018.09.26] Owaranai Sekai de (終わらない世界で)
• [2018.11.17] Bokura no Network (ぼくらのネットワーク) (with Yasutaka Nakata)
• [2019.04.24] Drama (ドラマ) (with Kobayashi Takeshi)
• [2019.07.03] Senkyaku Banrai (千客万来) (with MIYAVI)
• [2019.09.04] Hajimemashite no Kimochi wo (はじめましての気持ちを)
• [2020.01.15] Otogi no Machi (御伽の街)
• [2020.03.25] Ocharaketayo (おちゃらけたよ)
• [2021.06.30] the light of other days
• [2021.09.29] groggy ghost (with TAAR)

Plot

In 1972, the Apollo 17 mission found a hypergate to Mars on the surface of the moon. Upon landing, astronauts discovered a enchanted utility later referred to as "Aldnoah," giving the astronauts a status of superiority. Soon, many humans have relocated to Mars, and have adapted to the name "Martians." After Princess Asseylum, a royal Martian princess, descends onto Earth in an attempt to create a treaty between both planets, a war breaks out between Earth and Mars, and Martian soldiers begin to descend from the sky, riding steel giants, intent on exterminating humanity.

Characters

United Earth

• Inaho Kaizuka
• Inko Amifumi
• Nina Klein
• Calm Craftman
• Okisuke Mikuni
• Rayet Areash
• Yuki Kaizuka
• Koichiro Marito
• Soma Yagarai
• Yutaro Tsumugi
• Kisaki Matsuribi
• Darzana Magbaredge
• Kaoru Mizusaki
• Shigo Kakei

Vers Empire

• Asseylum Vers Allusia
• Eddelrittuo
• Rayregalia Vers Rayvers
• Wolf Areash
• Gilzeria
• Lemrina Vers Envers

Orbital Knights

• Slaine Troyard
• Harklight
• Cruhteo
• Saazbaum
• Keteratesse
• Trillram
• Vlad
• Femieanne
• Zebrin
• Yacoym
• Barouhcruz
• Mazuurek
• Klancain