Låpsley’s Long Way Here: Walking the High Line With the U.K. Pop Star
“I should open up Tinder on here,” Holly Lapsley Fletcher, better known as the 19-year-old singer-songwriter-producer Låpsley, remarks as she steps foot on the High Line for the first time.
It’s a gorgeous spring afternoon, and Låpsley is in the middle of hundreds of people on what used to be a railroad line in Manhattan, and is now a converted linear park hunched over the West Side. There are young women in ponytails power-walking, and graying gentleman in suits slurping on ice cream cones. In the middle of the commotion is a hairless man standing totally still and wearing nothing but a leather diaper; people are gawking at what appears to be some sort of performance art.
As we gaze at the motionless man, I point out to Låpsley that, if she did open Tinder on the High Line, she could have ended up with someone like the Diaper Guy. She pauses, grimly nods, and we keep walking.
It’s mid-May, and Låpsley is finishing up the first major North American tour of her career, a headlining trek across the continent that included two Coachella performances and finished with two nights at Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn, following a U.S. television debut on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. The live run is in support of Long Way Home, her prodding, delicately unfolding pop debut, self-produced and released on the prestigious XL Recordings in March.
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