LØLØ Stops Holding It In on “god forbid a girl spits out her feelings!”

The album opens by snapping into place mid-thought. “Call me bitter, call me weak,” LØLØ shrugs on the title track, like she has already heard whatever you were about to say. The line that gives the record its name comes back again and again, until the joke stops feeling like a joke. By the time she lands on “god forbid a girl spits out her feelings” for the fifth or sixth time, the sarcasm has worn down into something closer to confession.

That is the move the record keeps making. She introduces an idea with humor or a shrug, and then sits inside it long enough that the humor stops protecting her from it. It is a smart way to write about hard feelings, because it lets the listener arrive at the weight on their own time. Nothing about the writing here is asking for your sympathy. It is just refusing to keep it all in.

“me with no shirt on” is the song that explains the thesis fastest. The hook is one specific, painfully familiar moment: she sent a picture, the silence that came back was louder than anything she could have heard. The track does not resolve. It just stretches that anticipation out until it becomes its own kind of damage. From there, the album refuses to let any feeling stay quiet for long.

“the dumbest girl in the world” watches a mistake unfold in real time without ever interrupting it. “hung up on u” turns a notification into a collapse in focus. “delusional darling” is denial that has learned how to sound reasonable. “the punisher” loops fixation into a ritual. “007” leans into attraction with the warning labels still on. “the devil wears converse” lets the charm be exactly what makes it hard to walk away from. None of these songs are pretending to be over what they are about. They are sitting inside it, and they are loud about it.

By the time the album closes on “lobotomy & u”, exhaustion has softened into stillness without resolving anything. That is the right ending for a record built on refusing to dial the feeling down. There is no clean payoff, just the sense that everything is still happening, only quieter. Anyone who has ever waited too long to hear back from someone will recognize the volume of that.

Lauren Mandel has been LØLØ since 2018. Her first big moment was a series of bedroom POV covers on TikTok during the early 2020 lockdown (Taylor Swift’s “Betty”, Adele’s “Someone Like You”, The Kid Laroi’s “Without You”), which built the audience that signed with Hopeless Records by late 2021. The Hopeless years are a real run on paper: the “overkill” EP, the “debbie downer” EP with the Maggie Lindemann title track, a Sad Summer Festival slot, and her debut album “falling for robots and wishing i was one” in 2024.

The next two years did the rest of the work. She headlined her own U TOUR ME ON run across the UK, Europe, the US, and Canada from October 2024 into June 2025, and then opened for Simple Plan on the Bigger Than You Think tour through August and September 2025. Somewhere inside all of that touring, the writing for this record sharpened. The move to Fearless Records is the polish on it. “god forbid a girl spits out her feelings!” arrives as her first label-debut moment that does not feel like a reset, because the catalog has been pointing here the whole time.

What we hear most clearly on the new album is what years of stages do to a singer. The vocals on this record sit in a different place than the early bedroom versions of LØLØ. There is more body in them, more presence, and a confidence in the timing that you only get from playing in front of a thousand people who already know the words. Pop-rock edges sharpen into restless. Softer moments feel less like relief and more like exposure. Nothing here sits still long enough to become safe, and that is the point.

We feature a lot of records on Panda Press, and there is a particular kind of release that always makes us stop and listen twice. It is the one where the artist finally lines up with the version of themselves they have been describing in interviews for years. LØLØ has been telling us she feels things way too hard since the very beginning. “god forbid a girl spits out her feelings!” is the album that genuinely sounds like that.

If you have been with her since the “Dancing in the Dark” cover, the “debbie downer” era, or the U TOUR ME ON nights, this is the chapter you have been waiting for. If LØLØ is brand new to you, start here, play it in order, and let the back half do its work. She is also taking the album back to Europe on “god forbid a girl goes on tour!” from April 25 through May 13, 2026, with Ella Red on support, and we have a feeling those rooms are going to be loud in the best way. We will be paying attention to whatever she puts out next.