For FLOOD magazine, I had the pleasure of chatting with former Regrettes frontwoman Lydia Night about her fantastic debut solo album, Parody of Pleasure.
She was very open, discussing being a self-described “fuckboy” during a hot summer of singledom in New York City; the Regrettes’ split; the liberation of working with a female producer for the first time; love-bombers, unrequited crushes, and pansexuality; the workaholism that, for better or worse, she inherited from her father; her struggles with being in the music industry since she was a teenager; the fallout from her #MeToo revelation about her much-older ex-boyfriend, SWMRS’ Joey Armstrong; and “the existential dread of being an artist.”
We also discussed Night’s bold new pop direction, and the pop aspirations that she’s had since she was listening to Britney Spears and Gwen Stefani with her mom as a kid, and she declared: “If it doesn’t [succeed commercially] that’s fine, because I love what I’m doing, and that’s why I’m doing it. But do I want to play arenas and fucking headline festivals? Yeah, of course I do.”
I hope it happens for her!
