The music industry does have a lot to answer for, and there are a lot of big music execs who’ve gotten away with real negligence, at the very least.” Everyone is having their moment really to be heard. “That’s one of the positive things that’s come out of social media. At the very least, we are living in a time of reassessment about the treatment of women, particularly in the late 1990s and early aughts.
With new documentaries in 2021, from Framing Britney Spears (presented by The New York Times) to Demi Lovato’s Dancing with the Devil, depicting the entire lead-up to her 2018 overdose, as well as an op-ed written by former child actor Moira Wilson, there seems to be a reckoning boiling over. “There is a relationship between the music industry and people becoming really unwell in different ways, and it ends in disaster.” “I do find it close to home, even though I’ve never personally struggled with any kind of addiction,” she says. Having watched a ton of documentaries through the years, including those on Amy Winehouse, Whitney Houston, and Avicii, Reid siphons pervasive misery and unchecked power into one of the set’s most visceral performances. Everybody’s got their own idea of right and wrong, the ones that get broken / I worry that one day you’ll go missing, she sings on the sorrow-tinged “Missing,” a soaring hymn mourning the many who’ve suffered at the hands of the music industry. With the band’s third studio record, Californian Soil, out this Friday (April 16), Reid untangles deeper and richer roots, knotted ones from years of toiling the earth in a man’s, man’s, man’s world. I can’t wait to go out and eat with my friends and have my food brought to me on a plate.” In terms of taking things for granted, one thing I realized I took for granted my whole life is eating out in a restaurant. So, I think I’ve appreciated it more than I ever have before, and I’ve realized that it is that ordinary life where I get all of my inspiration from. I do feel like I’ve laid down some really strong roots at home that I didn’t really have before and a sense of what it means to have an ordinary, happy life. I’ve not sailed through lockdown with a lot of grace to be honest. “My god, I’ve had my ups and downs this year. There’s much more balance to it now.”īut it hasn’t always been that way. “Time for me has really slowed down,” she says, “and I feel like I’m actually able to enjoy what I do for a living and my life at home. Or it means everything─it shape-shifts from one perspective to the next. With the world entering its second year of COVID-19, time, as many can attest, doesn’t really mean much these days. Reid, now 31, stops in her tracks for a moment. I actually don’t really remember any of it,” Reid tells American Songwriter over a recent phone call.
“Those early tours were five or six weeks long, and I’d come home for like five days and then go off again and do something else. “It’s a little concerning,” she admits with a laugh, “and it’s not like I was taking anything I shouldn’t have.” London Grammar, a three-piece formed in Nottingham, reached stunning success in the early 2010s, sparked by their 2013 debut record─leading to their American television debut on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, blockbuster album sales, and world-trotting tours. Hannah Reid actually doesn’t remember a lot of her early 20s.
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