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\n\t\t\tHARMONY TIVIDAD IS NARRATING HER OWN HOLLYWOOD<\/span>
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Girlpool\u2019s former half is marking a return to her guitar-heavy roots after her redefining solo debut in 2024. Now, she emerges with her sophomore album, Lifetime<\/em>, showcasing her world of freedom and the fortune she\u2019s found from it.<\/h3>\n
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Stories born in Old Hollywood, from the streets of Sunset Blvd to Mulholland Dr, formed a Golden Age in cinema. This structured storytelling approach sees the sole desire of a character fuel plot development as it lunges towards a decisive conclusion \u2013 often the triumphant victory or \u201crunning off into the sunset\u201d happy ending. It built a foundation that impacted film narratives for decades to come, but fast-forward to the present, people are more interested in being fed complex, non-linear growth over idealistic tropes demonstrated in the late 20th century.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Harmony Tividad and her change-positive demeanour pursue present-day Los Angeles with a differing approach from Classic Hollywood. Born and raised in the City of Angels, the singer-songwriter could be considered to be what the modern Hollywood narrator represents, as she carries out her exploration of love and freedom.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Opposite to the fixed nature of Old Hollywood film, Tividad\u2019s world is unbounded, open, and receptive to the new and unknown, while remaining true to the essence of one\u2019s self. The proof is within Lifetime<\/em>, her second full-length release via KRO RECORDS, embodying the acceptance of life\u2019s equilibrium of transitions and constants. Select songs from the 12-track LP being recorded at Sunset Sound, the famed studio in the heart of Hollywood that has seen the likes of Prince, Elton John, and Janis Joplin, feel almost as poetic as the lyrics she spins from emotional intuition and balanced expression.<\/p>\n

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As she joins our Zoom call, Tividad is beaming after her Pilates class, carrying a radiance that seeps past my computer screen. We start having a true girl-talk right off the bat when she compliments my Hysteric Glamour shirt before heading onto their site to observe more from the brand for herself. Before I even start asking her about Lifetime, <\/em>it feels like our conversation could\u2019ve spanned the decades from Hollywood\u2019s Golden Age to her LP release this June 2026.<\/p>\n

I express admiration to Harmony for her affirmation-style Instagram posts that I\u2019d seen in passing, prior to learning of her past as one half of indie-rock band Girlpool and listening to former solo works Gossip <\/em>and Dystopia Girl.<\/em> \u201cI\u2019m glad it\u2019s a vibe,\u201d she grins humbly. \u201cIt was something that was coming to me naturally. Now it feels like I don\u2019t have as much striking my brain there in that way.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

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While it\u2019s fun to think of the next great philosophers using Instagram\u2019s Create Mode feature, it\u2019s exciting to hear of her desire to pivot into more long-form writing. \u201cI\u2019ve just started working on a diary-style book, and it\u2019s already long,\u201d Tividad explains. \u201cIt\u2019s more journalistic, direct, and moment-to-moment \u2013 but I\u2019m still exploring.\u201d Successfully completing the long haul process of conceiving a full body of work is a hurdle that Tividad hopes to overcome. \u201c[Songwriting] is so concrete. It\u2019s done, and it\u2019s contained. I think committing to a project longer in that way is a little more frustrating because the reward is less immediate.\u201d<\/p>\n

In its years of conception, Lifetime <\/em>became a long-term feat. Tividad and her friend\/Girlpool bandmate, Avery Tucker, disbanded in 2022 after nine successful years and four full-length albums together. That same year, the first two songs of Lifetime<\/em> were recorded with producer Yves Rothman. Despite its later release, the making of the album precedes her 2024 solo debut, Gossip. <\/em>The two LPs, although heavily contrasting one another, were workshopped around the same time. Tividad created a space to redefine herself as a soloist and intentionally decided against releasing songs from Lifetime<\/em> before Gossip<\/em>.\u00a0 \u201cEveryone was like, \u2018[Lifetime<\/em>] has to be the first thing that comes out post-Girlpool,\u2019 and I said, \u2018I don\u2019t want this to be the first thing because it sounds so similar.\u2019 It would set a pretence that everything I do after Girlpool will sound like Girlpool. I wanted [Gossip<\/em>] to be more of a definitive differentiation.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Gossip<\/em>\u2019s electro-pop and 2010s dance-inspired sound provoked a push away from what was expected of her, while Lifetime<\/em> prompts a return to the inner self, guided by the therapeutic writing between Tividad and her guitar. It\u2019s a cathartic process. \u201cEven if I\u2019m not putting out that music, it\u2019s my way of handling my feelings,\u201d she says. \u201cI like to be very self-contained, and I don\u2019t like to emotionally spill out.\u201d Lifetime<\/em> became a happy accident of enough demos to turn into an album. Initially, her belief in the songs wasn\u2019t enough to release them as her own. Harmony offered Lifetime <\/em>lead single \u201cI\u2019m Still Learning How To Leave You\u201d and album cut \u201cYour Strange Addiction\u201d to a friend she chose to keep unnamed, before ultimately deciding to keep them for herself. \u201cAt the time, it made sense,\u201d she admits. \u201cI was sick of myself and didn\u2019t want to function in the way that is classic to me anymore. I feel like I\u2019ve returned to what\u2019s native for myself.\u201d<\/p>\n

Though Tividad is consistently in pursuit of growth, upholding essence is the principal value in her life. She is constantly experimenting with comfort, and the more we talk, the more her modus operandi sweeps over me. \u201cI love trying approaches to living that are not unique in the grand scheme, but new to me as a person,\u201d she explains. \u201cI don\u2019t think constants are a good thing to count on. I\u2019ve always been very fluid. I learned that there was nothing to hold me down at a very young age.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

It\u2019s common to not have a formal approach to emotional processing at that age \u2013 or any age, for that matter- but Tividad began to find hers through reading and analysing poetry in school. This led her to write more intuitively and resulted almost immediately in a shift in her psyche. Recognising her writing doesn\u2019t have to belong to anyone else introduced her to a sense of grounding found in her journaling sessions, where she inhabits the ability to be simultaneously present with and detached from her thoughts.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Tividad is a \u201cbig advocate\u201d for everyone to journal, emphasising her point with her \u201cthe more I say what I\u2019m thinking and the less I\u2019m thinking about my thoughts, the better it is\u201d experience. After all,self-honouring your emotions is an individualistic process. \u201cFor an accountant, running numbers is probably very therapeutic,\u201d she shrugs. \u201cWe all have different mediums that are manifestations of how we process our inner world, and it\u2019s about negotiating with our own process.\u201d<\/p>\n

The line that comes with expressing emotion on the internet is another topic up for negotiation. While Tividad comprehends it as a small source of strength to play with, it\u2019s not a means to fulfil internal dialogue. \u201cIt\u2019s really confusing and not helpful. We\u2019re taught to busy our minds and bodies in these ways, but we\u2019re not taught to reflect and process as much as we should be. It\u2019s so easy to get dysregulated now, into this vacuum of endless data and stimulation. I feel like I\u2019m dysregulated, but I have a good practice of trying to balance it.\u201d<\/p>\n

In reciting lyrics from the title track and \u201cIn The Light of The Sun\u201d, the songs that best represent the album thematically, Harmony\u2019s overarching message in Lifetime <\/em>is to embrace life\u2019s messiness and enjoy every moment of it. \u201cIt\u2019s painful, difficult, and unpredictable, but we keep going,\u201d she beams. \u201cPeople fall out of and into our lives. The beautiful part is embracing the moment you have with someone and when it\u2019s gone, accepting it with love and grace.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The flow of our conversation allows me to notice the subtle ways that talking to Harmony feels similar to my own journal sessions as we hone in on these key takeaways.<\/em>\u00a0 Something sparks when she touches on the multi-layered emotion of resentment, which doesn\u2019t find a place on Lifetime <\/em>\u2013 likely due to her skill of externalising safely in her journal. Intentionally, Harmony chooses to focus on sending well-wishes to those of her past in lieu of animosity. \u201cThere\u2019s definitely little touchy moments, but in general, [resentment is] not an emotion I try to put in my work.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lifetime<\/em>\u2019s correlation with Old Hollywood \u2013 beyond tracks like \u201cMulholland Drive\u201d and its recording studio location \u2013 lies in its differences. Tividad\u2019s storytelling evolves from the idealistic narratives led by definitive, goal-oriented characters. Instead, she submits to inevitable change and chooses to romanticise feminine loneliness. \u201cIt\u2019s a constant process, and I don\u2019t want to be someone who stagnates and decides \u2018I\u2019m right\u2019 at a certain age,\u201d she smiles in finality. \u201cI want to keep improving, and I think that should always be the goal of living \u2013 to be more compassionate and sensitive.\u201d Harmony\u2019s last anecdote perfectly wraps up our conversation, and with each listen to Lifetime, it\u2019s hard not to feel inspired to set the intention to channel its love, light, and openness to the unknown into my day-to-day life.<\/p>\n

Listen to Lifetime\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

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