By Joe Coscarelli Visuals by Lucia Bell-Epstein
It was a summertime Saturday in Paris, but Lola Young was about ready to go home.
The scene, by now, had become routine to the 24-year-old singer: a nondescript trailer behind layers of barricades, where, for months — from Indio, Calif., to Gdynia, Poland — Young had warmed up and waited before greeting growing music festival crowds that were increasingly singing along to her off-kilter pop songs.
I’m actually really excited to get back now.
I say that on my way to a show, but it sounds very unhappy








