Lizzy McAlpine, a 25-year-old folk and indie pop artist, emerged into the music scene swiftly in 2020 with her debut album “Give Me A Minute.” Since this debut, each song she’s written has carried a level of harmonization, melancholia and astounding lyrics. In 2021, she released an EP titled “When The World Stopped Moving,” and in 2022, she released “five seconds flat.
” About a year after she released “five seconds flat,” she garnered a surmount of media attention for her beautifully heartbreaking song, “ceilings.” Until recently when she posted on her Instagram story saying how she would give herself more grace, she has publicly announced her disdain for this album. Either way, McAlpine is so much more than “ceilings” and “doomsday,” her other hit songs on this album.
In my opinion, her most moving songs are track 13 on each of her albums. On March 13, 2020, her father passed away and McAlpine said that randomly on her first album, the song about her dad ended up being track 13. After this, she decided to dedicate the 13th track on each album to her dad, her grief and her healing.
If being an incredible songwriter isn’t enough, McAlpine is also a film-maker, conceptual photographer and leads a transparent life on media platforms — such as YouTube — by uploading video diaries and vlogs of her tours. After “five seconds flat” was released, she directed a short film revolving around the story told within the album, smoothly incorporating .