Soccer Mommy Dives Into ‘Sometimes, Forever’ With Intimate Solo Set at the Grammy Museum

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EJ Panaligan editor Sophie Allison, better known as Soccer Mommy in the music world, has always been fascinated with mixing beauty and ugliness in her songwriting.

On Aug. 22, Allison sat down with Los Angeles Times pop music critic Mikael Wood at the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles for an extensive conversation about how this method plays into her latest studio album, “Sometimes, Forever,” before playing a stripped-back guitar set of songs from the record. “Mixing things like love and all of these romantic feelings with harsher ideas, I think that’s come out in both my lyrics and the way that the production has gone,” Allison said during the conversation. “When I was 17 recording stuff in my bedroom, I don’t think it was going that way, but as I started doing albums, I got to play with that more.” Allison added, “The songwriting process usually comes once I’ve basically had all of these thoughts ruminating in my head for a long time and kind of gone through them over and over again.

And then, eventually, there becomes this clarity that you can sit down and write out an idea, and everything just starts flowing.” A key catalyst for taking Allison’s songs from the idea stage to fully-fledged production was Daniel Lopatin, better known as Oneohtrix Point Never, who produced the new record with her.

Lopatin has more recently been a favorite collaborator of pop megastar the Weeknd, whose recent alignments with synth-heavy pop throughout “Dawn FM” and “After Hours” have meshed well with OPN’s experimental electronic background.