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How UPSAHL Ended Up Writing for Dua Lipa and Became ‘Lady Jesus’
For Taylor Upsahl, pursuing anything other than music wasn’t an option. “We had a band room instead of a living room in our house,” she recalls over Zoom on a break from the studio in Los Angeles. Growing up with a dad who performed in punk bands, that was life for the singer known simply as UPSAHL. “There was never really a moment where I was like, ‘Oh, I want to do music.’ There was never another option for me.” After graduating from high school, the Phoenix native relocated to Los Angeles, where she spent all her time in sessions. It wasn’t long before she landed her first record deal. In 2018, she became the first artist to sign to the reopened Arista Records. What followed were two EPs — 2019’s Hindsight 20/20 and 2020’s Young Life Crisis — as well as a handful of singles. It took her...
Upsahl Announces Lady Jesus Album, Concert Event
Taylor Cameron Upsahl (A.K.A. Upsahl) is only 22, but she’s co-written some of the buzziest songs in pop, including “Good in Bed” for Dua Lipa and “Boyshit” for Madison Beer. Now, the Phoenix, Arizona-native is releasing her own debut indie-pop album, Lady Jesus, which arrives October 8 via Arista Records. In 2020, Upsahl released her first EP, Young Life Crisis. You also might have heard her song “Drugs” on TikTok. During the pandemic, it went viral and was used in more than 2 million videos. “Lady Jesus is an energy — a way of life,” Upsahl said in a statement. “Lady Jesus is unbothered, fiercely independent, and generally, a badass. Lady Jesus can be dressed to the nines, the life of the party, or can be chilling in sweatpants, hanging with friends. Lady Jesus can be anybody.” In c...
15 Minute Live Performances
Welcome to SPIN’s newest element, an intimate, self-filmed, 15 minute set by some of the greatest new musical artists surfacing, and some of the more interesting folks who’ve been around for a while. It’s not a livestream, a mini concert or a “session”. It’s not an Insta Story or a Tik Tok moment. It’s something else. It’s stripped down, unfussed, definitely, deliberately unproduced. It’s just the artist(s) and us. In their bedroom, living room, a park or (next episode) literally on the back of a truck. It could be at a bus stop. I really hope someone does it at a bus stop! I’ve asked several new musicians and some more established to do this, play a few songs they like, their own and other people’s, new and old. I asked them not to worry about lighting, or setting, or getting particularly...
SPIN First Look: UPSAHL Brings Her Bad Bitch Vibes to the Stage
Although we’re thrilled to say deuces to 2020, some epic music came out of a not-so-epic year. UPSAHL dropped her EP Young Life Crisis in the middle of the pandemic, and now she’s bringing her powerful vulnerability and edgy attitude to the stage. Check out SPIN’s exclusive live performance video of UPSAHL’s five-track EP below, plus a special performance of her viral track “Drugs”. Still can’t get enough UPSAHL? Her new “Drugs” remix featuring blackbear is out now. You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a dating should be. It begins with giving you back power. Get to meet Beautiful people, chat and make money in the process. Earn rewards by chatting, sharing photos, blogging and help give users back their fair share of Internet revenue.
UPSAHL Is Kicking Ass and Taking Names
At only 20 years old, Taylor Upsahl (known professionally as UPSAHL) has made female empowerment and being unapologetic her personal brand. Bold and brash, she holds nothing back. Her songs exude both dark and sexual vibes, with lyrics about having sex on her mind, only attending a party for the drugs, and all the people she doesn’t like. This type of free expression is more associated with male artists (and more accepted by the industry) — but UPSAHL is breaking down those stereotypes “I feel especially now in music, women are starting to own their shit a lot more and be a bit more unapologetic and do whatever the fuck they want,” she says when we speak after her newest single “MoneyOnMyMind” just came out. “I mean, the #1 song in the world is called ‘Wet Ass Pussy” — we’re just owning it...
