God Forbid A Girl Spits Out Her Feelings

"God Forbid a Girl Spits Out Her Feelings" is the debut studio album by LØLØ — the stage name of Lauren O'Connell, a Canadian singer-songwriter from Ottawa, Ontario — released in 2026 on Hopeless Records. The album arrived after LØLØ had built a devoted following through a series of EPs and singles that established her voice within the pop-punk and alternative pop space, and it represents her most fully realized and cohesive statement to that point in her career. Produced with a sound that sits squarely within the early 2020s pop-punk revival — a movement that brought the genre back into mainstream visibility through acts like Olivia Rodrigo, Paramore's spiritual successors, and a wave of artists on labels like Hopeless and Pure Noise — the record balances crunchy, distorted guitars and driving rhythms with melodic hooks and deeply personal, emotionally direct songwriting.

The album's title itself announces its central preoccupation — the experience of being a young woman navigating emotions, relationships, and self-expression in a world that frequently dismisses or pathologizes female emotional honesty. LØLØ's lyrics throughout are candid, witty, and often sharply self-aware, moving between vulnerability and defiance with a naturalness that feels genuinely personal rather than calculated. Tracks on the record deal with themes of heartbreak, frustration, self-doubt, and the complicated dynamics of modern relationships, all delivered with the kind of melodic immediacy and emotional transparency that defines the best pop-punk songwriting. Her voice carries both sweetness and edge in equal measure, suiting the material's tonal range perfectly.