Best friends forever. A night in the life of future pop star Lia Lia and her #badgirlsclub girlfriends: the karaoke backpack glows, the gin flows, the Super Soaker is loaded. As seen in the video for Olymp. “This night summer was in the air,” sings the protagonist with her (note: trademark) ski goggles on her head. Big feelings in small spaces, character-defining moments, highly polished mega-pop straight from the teenage bedroom. Lia Lia moved to Shanghai at the age of 17, and soon went on to Santiago de Chile, Buenos Aires, Los Angeles, and finally, the last stop on the train: Berlin. Lia Lia’s steps are still only barely traceable via the litmus test of the internet, but those traces hold grand potential. In addition to her debut, Olymp, we’d recommend the video to Kids. It takes place in a hi-def digital world somewhere between Black Mirror and Kubrick’s 2001. Lia Lia floats in a water tank with VR glasses on, accompanied by a song whose refrain not even Robbie Williams and Guy Chambers could have written more beautifully. Hereby ends our hopefully-infectious Beginner’s Guide to Lia Lia. We’d now ask ourselves: where will this lead? NME? Top of the pops? Does that even still exist?

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