The 26-year-old neo-soul pop star, like most artists, found her second album to be difficult – especially given the success of her Mercury Prize-nominated 2023 debut Messy – admitting to feeling “scared” by the “pressure”.<\/p>\n
The Art of Loving – which shot to number one in the UK – also required Olivia to get deeply vulnerable and she needed to feel “comfortable” doing so in front of her collaborators.<\/p>\n
She told Harper\u2019s Bazaar of the process: “[It was] Very tricky. I definitely think I took on that trickiness at the beginning of the process. I was scared. I felt the pressure. I made a lot of stuff that I didn\u2019t think was that good. Then I thought, ‘Okay, well, if I want to make an album about love and loving and my understanding of that, I need to be really comfortable. I need to be in a space where I\u2019m able to be vulnerable, not just with myself but with other people that I\u2019m working with; that must be done at home.'”<\/p>\n
On how she overcame the initial trickiness, she added: “So I stripped it right back. I went back to East London, where I grew up, and we rented this house, and I brought my piano in and just invited everybody to come to me. I think that made such a difference to the music. It brought such a warmth and comfortability and authenticity, which is what I was trying to achieve. It was a lovely process making this album: lots of cups of tea, lots of red wine, and just my favorite people in the studio.”<\/p>\n
This year has been huge for Olivia with the star set to play six nights at London’s The O2 next year in support of the record.<\/p>\n
As for when fans can expect her third studio album, Olivia might head back to the studio “soon”, but believes “every good album comes as the result of some living” – so that’s what she plans to do.<\/p>\n
She told the publication: “I have my own arena tour coming up\u2014which is ridiculous! I\u2019m excited to pour into that and make that a special experience for everybody. Maybe I\u2019ll get back in the studio soon; it\u2019ll be quite nice to express myself and make some new things. And travel! I\u2019d like to see the world, whether that\u2019s with touring or not. I think I\u2019ve got some living to do now. I think every good album comes as a result of some living.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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