„What about my reputation! I just can’t live in moderation - Can resist anything but temptation – blaiten - Should stay away from the lava on occasion, but I ́ve got a VIP invitation!“
(Fire - lyrics by Lulu Schmidt & Klumzy Tung)
The debut album BiPopularity will be released on 14/6/2019, and was sponsored by the Österreichischen Musikfonds. Press info & pre-listening: www.bit.ly/luluschmidt_en
The first single release "Happy and i hate it" (feat. Klumzy Tung) provided Lulu Schmidt with radio rotation at home and abroad (including Austria, Lithuania, Germany, and Italy).
In the lavishly staged video for her current single "Fire", Lulu Schmidt continues to rock the world. This time, her focus is on the common beauty ideals of the music business, and the "star moment" phenomenon of the pop industry. However, rather than serving or indulging in them, she deconstructs them. And so begins a game with unclear boundaries. She lives the pleasures of the star-cult, and parodies them in song. She celebrates icons, and laughs heartily at them. She shows distortions of beauty, and celebrates the beauty of distortion. The way of Lulu Schmidt is represented in Rupert Höller’s video as that of a kind of iconic anti-star; instead of lacy lingerie, she wears a man’s beer belly. It’s about irony, humor and playing with roles, in order to make the world more colorful and free! Director: Rupert Höller. www.bit.ly/luluschmidt-fire-video
„Hello pretty snake, welcome to the taste of the bosom you ́ve been chasing!“
Growing up in the Catholic Waldviertel region of Austria, where dancing out of step did not tend to receive much applause, the artist Carola Schmidt had to learn early to find ways of living out her uniqueness. In order to celebrate her desire for extravagance in public, and not only in secret, she began to cultivate her own brand of eccentricity. Early on, she created her own worlds, and swirled around the facets of self- expression like a moth around a light. Soon, friends were dressed in wigs, styled and photographed, the world became a bit more colorful, and finally, years later, her alter ego Lulu Schmidt had arrived...
It requires courage to take uniqueness and specialness, and cultivate it into something which is good to look at. The artist Carola Schmidt also conveys this in her film work, which includes regular art/film projects with young hip-hop dancers in prefabricated housing zones.
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The song fire is definitely hangover friendly. if you wake up after a night of hard partying with only fragments of memory left, and a slight feeling of shame, that’ s definitely the song you should listen to - it will make you feel better!
Lulu Schmidt is a one-woman-orchestra who uses a range of instruments: vocals, piano, violin, electronic, and interactive
sensors and wearable technology. She always creates contrasts; musically, textually, and through the choice of production methods.She builds musical bridges from classical to electronic and pop, to shredding noise....more