Starve

by LOTA

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With "Starve", LOTA tells a very personal story about aesthetic standards and the social demands on them. The catchy synth-pop song is about numbers and about expectations, about one's own demands and about social pressure - especially in relation to one's own body.
"I remember very clearly when I was in 3rd or 4th grade and I was standing in the bathroom with some primary school friends and a friend said to me, "How much do you weigh?". We started weighing ourselves and comparing. That's my first memory of my weight mattering in any way, and that number on the scale has stayed with me through my youth and young adulthood in all the years since." Cologne-based singer LOTA tells us in one of her posts on Instagram. Her song "Starve" is about exactly this time, when she was striving for an unhealthy ideal of beauty, which was exemplified to her by the media. And about the process in which she realised that her body is more than just a number on a scale.

Carried by spherical synth sounds, LOTA sings: "All I feel is the pressure, why do I measure my self-worth on a scale". The song's basic mood picks up on the disorientation with which those affected by eating disorders often have to struggle and the vicious circle in which they often find themselves; "We see the faces, We See big Screens, We see the faces, Big Screens So Bright".

lyrics

The days endless
Gotta Starve
till I’m empty and callous
Gotta Starve

We see the faces
We See big Screens
We see the faces
Big Screens So Bright
The vision skintight

All I feel is the pressure
Why do I measure 
my self-worth on a scale
My ribs feel pointed
the truth I avoid it
head in the clouds

For what purpose
Gotta Starve
surrounding soundless
Gotta Starve

Gotta Starve

We see the faces
We See big Screens
We see the faces
Big Screens So Bright
The vision skintight

All I feel is the pressure

Why do I measure 
my self-worth on a scale
My ribs feel pointed
the truth I avoid it
head in the clouds

Starve
The days endless
Gotta Starve
till I’m empty and callous
Gotta Starve

Gotta Starve

Starve
For what purpose
Gotta Starve
surrounding soundless
Gotta Starve

Gotta Starve

Starve
For what purpose
Gotta Starve
Till i‘m empty and callous
Gotta Starve

credits

released April 23, 2021
Music & Lyrics by LOTA 

Produced by Lotta Holtei & Lukas Streich
Vocal Production by Jasmina de Boer

Modular Synth by Tarek Zarroug
Mixed & Mastered by Lukas Streich

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LOTA Cologne, Germany

LOTA projects approachable stories under the sign of the zeitgeist onto spherical sound surfaces -
they deal with interpersonal relationships, escapism and longing, paired with the attempt to break free
from social conventions.

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