Charlotte Lawrence

Charlotte Lawrence for Schon Magazine in 2020, photographed by David OD

**Charlotte Sarah Lawrence** (born 8 June 2000), is an American singer, songwriter, producer and model. She is featured on the song *"Falling Skies"* with YUNGBLUD, which appears on the soundtrack to the Netflix series *13 Reasons Why*.

## Early life

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## Career

### 2017 — 2018: *Young (EP)*

On 12 January 2017, Lawrence independently released *"You’re The One That I Want"*, a cover of John Travolta's song. The cover was produced by Leven Kali.

On 12 May 2017, Lawrence independently released her first original single, *"Seventeen"*, written by herself and Leven Kali, produced by Louis Schoorl and MAG. In an interview with Galore, Lawrence stated *"The whole song in general is about reminiscing on something that used to be. Like, you and I were seventeen and this is what we used to be. But it’s kind of a contradiction because I’m trying to look back on something that I wanted so it’s kind of like a whole dreamy song, if that makes any sense whatsoever."* In another interview, Lawrence also talked about working with Leven Kali, stating *"I met this producer named Leven Kali around August, and we met and just instantly clicked and fully vibed. We were at my house and my whole family just loved him instantly. We just started writing this and weirdly enough, I was just messing around on my phone humming a melody and we made a voice memo and that was the whole base of the song. And we wrote the song in like a good hour—so quickly—magic was just created instantly. He’s such a talented guy and such a talented songwriter and producer."*

On 20 October 2017, Lawrence released her second single, *"Sleep Talking"*, through Human Re Sources. The single premiered on Wonderland Magazine. *"Sleep Talking"* became her first single released through a record label. Almost three years later, during an Instagram Live, Lawrence explained: *"Everything about ‘Sleep Talking’, every single lyric in that song actually happened. I was dating a dude and he got drunk one night and called me by the wrong name. And then I found out that he was also dating her at the same time he was dating me."*.

### 2018 — present: *TBA*

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## Collaborations

*This section includes only collaborations involving herself and YUNGBLUD*

### "Falling Skies"

On 10 May 2018, YUNGBLUD announced that a collaboration between himself and Lawrence was going to be on the soundtrack. On 18 May 2018, the second season of 13 Reasons Why's soundtrack was released.. The song was not played during the show, like some of the other songs on the soundtrack. A visualiser video for the soundtrack version of the song was uploaded to YUNGBLUD's YouTube channel on 28 May 2018. The video depicted YUNGBLUD and Lawrence sat on a couch with an apocalyptic scene behind them, things were burning and crashing in the background, YUNGBLUD's black shirt was blurred out in the video, but in a behind the scenes photo, the words *"Psycho Killer"* can be seen on his shirt. Subsequently, an official music video for the song was uploaded on 14 August 2018, to YUNGBLUD’s official YouTube channel. The song was not originally supposed to have Charlotte Lawrence on it, nor was it planned for the soundtrack, YUNGBLUD noted in an interview that he had originally wrote the song but was unsure of what he wanted to use it for, 13 Reasons Why producers approached his label about using the song for the second season soundtrack and both YUNGBLUD and the record label said yes, YUNGBLUD then decided to get Charlotte Lawrence on the track.

## References

1. ↑ Schon Magazine — "interview". Published 17 January 2020. Written by Ewan Waddell. Retrieved 1 July 2022. Archived
2. ↑ iTunes Store — "You're the One That I Want - Single by Charlotte Lawrence" (Retrieved 6 October 2020)
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Milk XYZ — "Premiere: Charlotte Lawrence's Debut Track: "Seventeen"" (Retrieved 6 October 2020)
4. ↑ iTunes Store — "Seventeen - Single by Charlotte Lawrence" (Retrieved 6 October 2020)
5. ↑ Galore — "Charlotte Lawrence is creating a pensive pop career out of viral fame" (Retrieved 6 October 2020)
6. ↑ TIDAL — "Sleep Talking / Charlotte Lawrence - Charlotte Lawrence / TIDAL" (Retrieved 6 October 2020)
7. ↑ Wonderland Magazine — "Premiere: Charlotte Lawrence - "Sleep Talking" | Wonderland Magazine" (Retrieved 6 October 2020)
8. ↑ YUNGBLUD on Twitter: "so this is happenin ... “Tin Pan Boy” and “Falling Skies” ft. @charlottelawr are gonna be on the new @13ReasonsWhy soundtrack 😱 this show is so fucking important and I’m so excited to have my music on it! pre order starts tomorrow 9am 🖤🤪 smarturl.it/13ReasonsSound…" (Retrieved 6 October 2020)
9. ↑ YUNGBLUD on Twitter: "falling skies is out now on all platforms with ma gyaaaal @charlotteslawrence . im so humbled to have my music on this soundtrack. this show is so fucking important for young people. 🖤" (Retrieved 6 October 2020)
10. ↑ YouTube — "YUNGBLUD - Falling Skies ft. Charlotte Lawrence" (Retrieved 6 October 2020)