Video premiere: Lola Bates, ‘I’m Gonna Lose You’

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Lola Bates (Photo by Piero Gunti)
Lola Bates (Photo by Piero Gunti)

Lola Bates is but 17 years old, but she’s already passed one significant milestone in her music career: this month’s release of her debut solo album, “Red Hot.”

The album’s forays into matters of the heart showcase Bates’ burgeoning talents as a multi-instrumentalist capable of shifting between pop, rock and jazz while her bright vocals tackle her teenage terrors. For Bates, it’s a natural progression: The daughter of composer-producer Tyler Bates, she is classically trained on piano, having recorded for the films “Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 1 and 2,” and versatile enough that she contributed backing vocals on the latest Marilyn Manson album and even played bass for David Hasselhoff on his appearance on “The Howard Stern Show.”

Bates worked on the album with drummer-producer Scott Seiver (Tenacious D, among others), and saxophonist David Ralicke (Beck, Dengue Fever) is among the guests.

The video for “I’m Gonna Lose You” takes you back to Bates’ point of origin: the singer-songwriter, at the piano, doing the beautifully orchestrated ballad “I’m Gonna Lose You” — a 17-year-old, knowing and singing about the inevitable. She will, after all, go off to Nashville for college in the fall.

||| Watch: The video for “I’m Gonna Lose You”

||| Also: Watch the videos for “Still a Mess” and “Red Hot”