I'm not sure you need to read any further with that one yeah I don't like it hey what's going on everybody for first we Feast I'm Sean Evans and you're watching hot ones it's the show with hot questions and even hotter wings and today we're joined by Lord she's a two-time Grammy award-winning singer
songwriter and she's back with her long awaited much anticipated third studio album solar power the latest singles stoned at the nail salon and solar power are available now as well as a multi-continent tour set to begin next year Lord welcome to the show thank you for having me what's going through your
head right now as you prepare to Chow Down this afternoon well I am hungry the wings look pretty good um but I just said to you before I feel like I'm inside the internet like it is a weird sensation to be here so I'm it's a little surreal but I'm I'm ready [Applause] [Music] oh the handle okay good to know [Music]
great M delicious [Music] wi this is yummy so as I touched on you have an album on the way and then feeding the fans in the meantime with your singles stone at the nail salon and solar power and I've heard you talk about threads that run through your albums like the house party Motif and melodrama is there a theme or
even a color that you can identify in this your most recent era of Music totally yeah well the um color of melodrama was this kind of violet this Egyptian Violet and this one was very much gold kind of sun sun golden hour type color I basically thought of the album as like a sun worship album I'm
not religious in any way but my experiences in nature in the last couple years were as close to what I had experienced as religion so it yeah it was like a a sort of devotional record for me that's how I thought about it and just very gold and [Music] joyful m nice flavor fruity so far hit and right M I like it I like
it it's so nice e the wing my God it's been too long just in the pop star life I feel like you're not like smashing wings that often you know you got to look for an excuse like this you know yeah yeah yeah what do you think about the genius ification of music like for music fans what do you see as the pros
and cons of an artist decoding their own lyricss wow I actually when like a big release comes out one of the first things I will do is go on genius because I'm such a lyric nut in the past I'd always sort of thought it's all open domain like I sort of wasn't precious about any details but as I get older I find myself saying no actually I'm not
going to explain that song not because I necessarily need it left up to interpretation but because it's about something that's very precious to me and that I feel weird about like commodifying via you know something like genius but there's also the sometimes the thing where the fans will annotate
it and they're like it has this many it's syncopated in this way which represents this number and I'm like oh no no no no it's too much like just it's not that deep all the time you know but I like [Music] it some little bits in it what are we talking here yeah and see how it's kind of clear but then shake up the bottle
ah so how often are you changing out these sauce so every season you know typically we'll do like a a 12 episode season and then uh put in our new symphony of hot sauces every time I love it well to the third wing and this is kind of interesting [Music] M yum Smokey big pepper bomb that one M really
different to the last one mhm really good and a little bit spicier even a little spicier nothing Lord can't handle we're only on Wing three you know I'm like do I keep double biting or do I save the scells do they layer on like how does it work with the oh there's definitely a cumulative effect as you work your way
through that's what I thought so to my knowledge you're the first person from New Zealand that we've ever had in the hot seat so feel humor so feel humor us we're hoping to get a guide to the Kiwi lifestyle directly from the source hokey pokei ice cream overrated at or underrated I like it but I'm more preferential to a cookies and
cream which I know you have here but I think of as like a very New Zealand ice cream I read that in New Zealand sheep outnumber people something like 10 to one for those of us who aren't lucky enough to live in a part of the world where that type of thing is happening how do you explain the Allure of
devotion cheese I don't know like I'm a bit of a cheese connoisseur I love cheese and kind of the Zia the better like I've never met a cheese that was too funky and crazy for me so devotion is actually pretty chill it's a sheep milk cheese um but it just has this yeah just this slight grassiness that I really
like I would bring you a lump but I think that's illegal oh really to like yeah bring it into the yeah the pasteurization I don't know might I got to catch a flight might not fly you know yeah come down and I'll I'll do a cheeseboard oh yeah I'll take you up on that all right Lord are you ready to
move on here to the fourth one I'm ready I'm ready hot ones Barbacoa here [Music] sick this is a really delicious lunch I'm not going to lie so far so far so far at number four yeah oh so I know that you love the growling tiger that's at the top of the bridge of your song Sober can you give us another
example of being drawn to an effect in the Jack antinoff library of strange sounds so this album features a lot of cicada yeah singing cicada music and solar power and solar power yeah and uh that was something that I just started um recording on my phone in New Zealand because the sound of cicas to me it's so
emblematic of New Zealand summer and I loved the idea of immortalizing that on this record so I did I just sort of go outside every time I would hear them raging and and get a little recording but uh I didn't realize that the is brood X which is this big kind of Boom of cicas once every 17 years the last
time it happened was in 2004 when um I guess JLo and Ben Affleck were together and now they're met together so people are like oh like brw EG like it's in the air so I guess I'm uh I'm I'm right on Trend with my cicada moment but I have been taking the recordings for a couple of [Music] years I'm intrigued by this yellow guy
Ginger goat pineapple and ginger yummy all right Lord we have a recan segment on our show called explain that gram we do a deep dive on our guest Instagram pull interesting pictures that need more context you challenge us a little bit with yours uh but we'll show you the pictures over here on the monitor you
just tell us the bigger story this is during your glast and Berry and your Coachella performances you ended up using this big glass box for dancers and I'm curious how seriously do you think about stage design I I don't know like making music is amazing but you can do that on a very small scale in your bedroom but designing a tour like that's
real [ __ ] you know that costs real money and I'm always like I always feel like it's such a privilege to be like let's make this thing out of steel and glass and then it shows up you know so super important to me um wao I just like touched yeah that was was close I saw the eyebrows gripping yeah I was
gripping the table um I am a little itchy I'm going to use like a pinky okay um so I'm pretty excited when I go to a show and it's something more real you know or more kinetic so the box was a really cool thing to get to make and you look down on the crowd like I remember it's very surreal and then when you have
all those different moving Parts you know and a multimedia presentation is there a time where the technology has failed you during a live show oh yeah um Yes actually oh my God we played this um festival called bonaroo and it was like roasted hot and our gear just started frying and I was just standing on the side of the stage
waiting to go on there was a comedian called um Hannibal buus he's done the show I know Hannibal yeah so he was there and I didn't know who he was at the time but he was like do you want me to go on and do a sit to like keep them and I was like no like who is this person like I was like I'm very stressed
out I probably should have taken him up on the offer cuz that was of legitimately funny person so thank you Han I feel like this is me fighting against evil you're not going to lose to a wing chicken [Applause] [Laughter] [Music] wing yum ti masal so like a little Indian energy yum you really get that um [ __ ] and
getting a real profile yeah check it out W coconut milk Ginger human G Masala love it speaking to you like it so you're an artist like Kendrick Lamar Frank Ocean somebody who actively avoids the spotlight when you're in between projects and then you have that line and solar power about throwing your cellular
device into the water can you reach me no you can't how do you think about creating that distance between yourself and public attention like is it just all about isolating yourself so that you can create without distractions or is it you yearning for a sense of personal privacy It's a combination of those two things I
am by Nature a very private introverted person so it's sort of suits me better but also I think there's a certain kind of Zone you can get in when people are gassing you up and telling you you're the [ __ ] all the time you know I didn't I felt you know obviously I sort of became well known super young 16 is a
time when so much is changing about yourself and uh I feel like I made a real choice at that age to uh not really let that validation change my day because who could be you know maybe not showing up for your loved ones and it's just a slippery slope I think I feel like I'm being boring I'm not like no no no I'm not sizzling out
like but it's delicious I'm loving the wings well this next one next one going to about to eat my words might change things sick sick so this is hotter than L hotter than [Music] LL M it tastes that Scotch bonnet wow fruity can you taste it though yeah but I like that you have a you have a a
palette that I love to C that's nice is it unwise to double bite at this point let's just go yummy hell yeah you just like dab my nose if I don't want to touch it okay yeah so I know that you led your middle school to a second place finish in the 2009 kids lit quiz World Finals oh yeah yeah I was like what's this
going to be my battle of the band's debut perhaps the literature literature finals so much yeah one of my finest achievements honestly and then recently you changed your Instagram bio to be a quote by Joan didan do you have a favorite literary reference from one of your songs or music videos M that's a really good question
definitely for this last album something a quote that I thought about a lot by a writer Annie Dillard was um how we spend our days is how is of course how we spend our lives um I've been thinking about the midsummer night dream recently actually that was something I read as a kid that I was so it was so evocative
the kind of depictions of being outside in the in the sunshine you know these like kind of fairies and and and centur and stuff sort of frolicking so I I I went back and read some of that and it you know obviously ly still holds up Shakespeare still holds up don't know if you know that about it but uh it's the
[Music] [ __ ] this one's pretty dark in a way that looks a little [Music] concerning sizing it up it's almost bitter there's not a lot of redeeming qualities you know I saw how you checked out the teot Masala ingredients I'm not sure you need to read any further with that one yeah I don't like
it no one does so that's been around for a while for this reason you know I feel it yeah the bitterness is really the overwhelming quality [Music] wow but your composure through this thing it's a sight to behold it's hot it's hot last month you published a photo book called going south which chronicled your trip to
Antarctica what's the most memorable experience you had with wildlife in the South Pole it's been kind of a theme throughout this season we had David Harbor on and he went to visit the Penguins oh that's right um you know about David Harper going to see the pen I actually do he went to antactica
because not many people go there so I think I saw him and I was like tell me more um well I had this crazy experience I went out uh with a whale scientist on this like midnight whale tracking Expedition and we went this helicopter and they had like all the doors and windows open which seemed insane to me but it is hot um and
uh yeah we just uh kind of along the ice shelf cuz you can't fly over open water in Antartica because it's so dangerous so uh hey this crazy surreal experience of it being midnight and we're like flying over this kind of Channel looking for these Orca still to this day like I don't think I have done anything cooler than
that and maybe never will like it's probably it I'm doing good it's uh I do yeah I feel it you know you said when you walked in you're like oh I feel like I'm in the in the Matrix you know seeing the seeing the black C and then yeah you're going to like the zings onto me the noise yeah I need to like do an
expression that you I'll be like and it'll look crazy yeah wait wait till you see what Colin does with that one oh [Music] wait I can imagine like people totally panicking like it's a high stress way to do my nose is just like pouring woo okay hi all right so this next one is the Scorpion disco I love that name n
spot yeah funkin [Music] hot that's nice that's a nice little way everything is a little bit easier it's almost a tub oh all right well if if you called tuiter [Music] I like it still my favorite flavor wise was this halap Pepper take it take it with you take it with you I think you yeah
[ __ ] thank you whatever you want whatever you want Lord we're hooking it up yum so a lot has been made about your undercover Instagram account where you review onion rings which was active at least as recently as last April as an afficionado of the art form what to you where the keys do a perfect onion ring
okay I want an onion that has been cut thickly I'm not you know I want like kind of like this I want a pretty toothsome vertical bite I want a pretty crisp yet thick crust you know I want it to have some substance I guess theyd probably more be into a battered than a crumbed um it forced to make a choice yeah it
forced to make a choice so that's maybe the way that my my bias skews um I like a white onion although I have had a few red onion rings that have you know caught my eye so but I feel like Chicago would be a good uh it's a good town I don't know why I get that Vibe it just seems like yeah Midwest on ring you know
what that that but that assumption it's not it's not misguided it's true it is it's an onion ring it's an onion ring town and what I find with an onion ring you know to me the minus points on an onion ring is when you bite in you need the onion part to break on the bite you know sometimes you'll pull out you'll
just pull that thing right you don't want to get down with that no that to me is what makes an onion ring makes of the institution I completely agree yeah I want that separation to happen same page right there Lord this is is the last dab we call it the last dab because the tradition
around here to put a little extra on the last Wing you don't have to if you don't want to but I can see where this is headed oh you can see what okay we give a good shck oh that's a bomb unpleasant STI I feel bad for them that I've just out don't you know what don't sauce but don't by by the years in years of celebrities ACC
costing this sauce right right there you know what I mean it's it's press is good press in the hot sauce game so can I ask you do you have like a crazy amount of hot sauces at home or are you like GH so I just can't think about hot sauce when I go home so that's that's a good question so when it comes to Wings I'm
over Wings you know I don't want to eat another Wing if I'm off the clock and then everybody thinks of me as like a walking encyclopedia do you get like a wing sent over yes all the time onion rings it's love it's love I appreciate it you know but like every time I'll sit down it's like oh and this is from the
like present me wings and I'm like all right thank you it's very sweet but then also the other thing is like I'll have friends that are like I'm visiting Seattle like where's the best spot to get wings like I have this encyclopedic knowledge of every wing spot in the country like I'm an expert on wings so
Wings I'm over I've turned the corner but because of the show and perhaps counterintuitively I have gained a new appreciation and love for hot sauce cuz you meet all these different makers and you hear all these different stories and then I've tried so many different kinds and seen the way that it elevates food
and and changes things on a culinary level so to answer your question I now love hot sauce even more and I even have uh a whole uh just you open a cabinet in my kitchen it's just a Hall of Fame wall of hot sauce that goes like five shelves D I love that I love that view I just did a hearty last time that Cheers Cheers
Cheers m yum get that Bonnet just enjoying just out here having lunch Lord double bite oh no The Perils of wearing white on your wingshop disaster really delicious finally we've made it to the end here and if we've learned anything all along the way is that you're a stal word of pop music beautifully obsessed is evidenced by
this quot a lot of musicians think they can do pop and the ones who don't succeed are the ones who don't have the reverence who think it's just a dumb version of other music you need to be a struck it's a simple question but feel free to take it as deep as your hot sauce soaked brain wants to go what do
you find Sacred about pop music I'll put the wing down for that that's why seriously I take that question well ever since I was a kid even before I made anything I had the sneaking susp that it was more difficult to speak to a lot of people than it was to speak to a small amount there's something really special about that and
just like I love you know writing a pop Melody like there's nothing better you know for it to be simple but just secretly complex and to kind of trick the brain it's probably not disimilar to the you know you can't you can't fake it it's uh it's a it's a real experience so that's kind of what it is for me just uh
that feeling of being able to talk to a lot of people um and to make something that is kind of high brow but also you know can can be enjoyed in really in really simple ways drop the wing and drop the mic Lord taking on the wings of death and living to tell the tale toss the nap pleasure I really enjoyed this
thank you for having me I enjoyed speaking to you today this was such a lovely experience and now Lord there's nothing left to do but roll out the red carpet for you this camera this camera this camera let the people know what you have going on in your life oh this bit okay I have an album coming out it's
called solar power it's out on August 20th so uh check it out if you want to but uh mainly check out Hotes thank you thank you this was really fun I had a great time what was your second favorite I do like that Ginger goat and I really like that um scorpion dis that was nice and you like the name but is it funk and hot Funk and
hot I love that you like the high priest of this I know it's just Source Universe like could you ever have expected that this would be your life hey what's going on everybody Sean Evans here just wanted to say thank you so much for watching today's episode and it's happened the day has finally come
for the you's hot ones toy that's right the you's hot ones toy is available July 29th at 3 pm eastern time at shop. firstwefeast.com that's shop. firstwefeast.com to get your hands on the hot ones you chose toy look at this got the table got the sauces got the milk the wings on deck it's handsome if I do say so myself