Video: Liv Slingerland, ‘An Entire Lifetime’

Kevin Bronson on April 8th, 2022

0

Liv Slingerland has been racking up the bona fides ever since she moved to Los Angeles to attend USC a decade ago, juggling her own aspirations with work as a side player and/or collaborator with the likes of Lauren Ruth Ward, Alex Lahey, Your Smith, Caroline Kingsbury, Olivia Rodrigo and, most recently, Halsey. (Sometimes she has even multi-tasked on the same night.)

The singer-songwriter and guitarist has released two solo EPs, but they’ve been expunged from the usual digital portals since she is starting fresh with a project for Ani DiFranco’s aptly named Righteous Babe Records. And quite a start it is.

Released this week, “An Entire Lifetime” is a crush-worthy pop-rock number driven by the emotions Slingerland felt upon learning that she was adopted as a newborn. The song, a collaboration with Math Bishop and Wolfy, harbors a nifty slight-of-hand, as it interpolates part of Fleetwood Mac’s “Little Lies,” a song she heard often as a child.

“The chorus made its way into my head while I was writing one day and it felt so natural to turn it into something more,” Slingerland says. “The process of finishing this song helped me find a way to work through the surprise and upset that I was experiencing at that time by coupling those feelings with a memory of a sound that was so reminiscent of growing up.”

Christian Tyler directs the “Kill Bill”-inspired video.

||| Watch: The video for “An Entire Lifetime”