Lizzy McAlpine is a singer-songwriter who was born outside of Philadelphia. She dropped out of the University of Berklee in 2020 to focus on her music career. McAlpine gained recognition when she began sharing her original songs and covers on SoundCloud and YouTube. In 2020, she released her debut album, “Give Me a Minute.” This amazed thousands of her fans. She then released a widely successful second studio album signed by Interscope Records, “Five Seconds Flat.” Two years after critical acclaim, in the spring of 2022, the album featured the Platinum-certified track “Ceilings”, which debuted at No. 75 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. McAlpine said, “Everything was kind of in a whirlwind.”
McAlpine has toured the world over, set to embark on an extensive international run this year in celebration of her latest project, older. Her work, “older and wiser”, revisits and builds upon her acclaimed album Older, showcasing McAlpine’s evolution as a music artist who doesn’t shy away from introspection and personal growth. With older and wiser, it channels the whirlwind of past relationships as inspiration. McAlpine offers fans a fresh take on her previous work, adding new layers of depth and meaning. Reality, relationships, and adulthood were all additions to the songs we already love. “I had the idea for a deluxe album early on while we were still making Older,” she reflects.
“There were so many songs I wrote for the album that didn’t quite fit into the main collection but still meant a lot to me.” Among many of these new additions are the tracks “Pushing It Down and Praying” and “Spring Into Summer”, each having a different and powerful testament to her creative journey and recent life experiences. These were written during breaks on tour. These songs were also McAlpine’s last pieces on the themes explored in older works, making the deluxe release a fitting conclusion to this chapter of her music.
When McAlpine was 20, her father, Mark McAlpine, sadly passed away. McAlpine stayed with her aunt in New Hampshire, which was when she started posting her music.
“That’s when my career kind of started to bloom, and it was a crazy time because the juxtaposition of […] seeing this thing that I’ve always wanted to come to fruition and then also like dealing with the death of my father, was so crazy,” she recalled.
On each of McAlpine’s three albums, the 13th track is a song about her father. McAlpine said the grief and healing from losing him proved she can get through anything.
“It kind of showed me who I am,” she said.
While coming of age is usually associated with adolescence, at 24, McAlpine has used her music to invite her fans into the realities she discovered transitioning into adulthood and the loss of her father. Her journey into her music career is encouraging to know what she has gone through to get where she is now. Her music has impacted many of her fans; people can’t wait to see what’s next on her musical journey!