name: Mode La Tour
Year: twenty two
home town: New York City
I’m alive now: In a four-bedroom apartment near Columbia University, she has the same four roommates she has lived with since her freshman year.
Claim Fame: Latour is a singer-songwriter who is constantly working on gorgeous indie pop. She wrote her own future self, cleaning her always cluttered bedroom, and in her recent single, “wood, “She mourns the loss of her grandmother looking for in the space between the branches.Latour shot this song Music video During her final semester as an undergraduate student in Colombia this spring, between Virginia Woolf’s lessons and the history of philosophy. “I’m finally majoring in philosophy, and life is fleeting,” Latour said.
Big break: Latour, a child of the self-proclaimed choir, started composing lyrics at the age of 15 and uploaded music to Spotify at the age of 17. In March 2020, during the early lockdown of the pandemic, Latour posted a video of her singing “One More Weekend.” Rendering of an early college heartbreak to TikTok, which has been viewed over 455,000 times. (Spotify has over 28 million streams.) In 2021, during her third year, when her record label approached her, Latour was applying for her summer job. She signed with Warner Music and released her EP.Forever stranger“October last year.
Latest project: Latour went on a North American tour this spring, doing six spring holidays and the rest of the show on the weekends. She said she cried on the stage at the Bowery Ballroom in Lower Manhattan, while Latour devoted her song “Laura” to a friend of the audience who was a survivor of sexual assault. (“Protect the girl / power on when respected,” she sings.) “Diderot says he can’t have real emotions on stage,” France said. With reference to the philosopher’s “paradox of actors,” Latour said. .. “I was like’what?’. All I do is go on stage, feel my emotions in front of people, and bleed.”
The following: Later this month, Latour will perform her first festival, Lollapalooza, on the same day as Metallica. “I’m on the same stage as them, so their drum kits and more are behind me,” she said. Latour is also working on an EP that she described as the arrival of a strange era set in the “Enchanted Forest” of New York City. “The mood at the age of 22 is much more complicated than it was at the age of 19,” she said. “I’m trying to grow with my music.”
Borrowed thread: Latour’s iridescent Y2K stage outfit is a collaboration between herself and her four roommates. The magenta corduroy, rhinestone belt and last orange Nike jacket she wore on the tour were sourced from her roommate’s closet. Dressing her friend’s clothes will help to soothe Latour’s nerves. “I feel embraced by their presence,” she said.