BeatRoute Magazine ON Edition - November 2019
BeatRoute Magazine is a music monthly and website that also covers: fashion, film, travel, liquor and cannabis all through the lens of a music fan. Distributed in British Columbia and Alberta, Ontario edition coming Thursday, October 4, 2019. BeatRoute’s Alberta edition is distributed in Calgary, Edmonton, Banff and Canmore. The BC edition is distributed in Vancouver, Victoria and Nanaimo. BeatRoute (AB) Mission PO 23045 Calgary, AB T2S 3A8 E. editor@beatroute.ca BeatRoute (BC) #202 – 2405 E Hastings Vancouver, BC V5K 1Y8 P. 778-888-1120
BeatRoute Magazine is a music monthly and website that also covers: fashion, film, travel, liquor and cannabis all through the lens of a music fan. Distributed in British Columbia and Alberta, Ontario edition coming Thursday, October 4, 2019. BeatRoute’s Alberta edition is distributed in Calgary, Edmonton, Banff and Canmore. The BC edition is distributed in Vancouver, Victoria and Nanaimo. BeatRoute (AB) Mission PO 23045 Calgary, AB T2S 3A8 E. editor@beatroute.ca BeatRoute (BC) #202 – 2405 E Hastings Vancouver, BC V5K 1Y8 P. 778-888-1120
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MUSiC<br />
It’s such a great<br />
moment for pop<br />
music. I’m just really<br />
excited by all of the<br />
songwriting and<br />
production I’m<br />
hearing.<br />
LOUISE<br />
BURNS<br />
RETURNS<br />
TO HER POP<br />
ROOTS<br />
By CAM LINDSAY<br />
W<br />
hen a musician says they’re<br />
returning to their roots, it’s<br />
rarely in reference to a teenage<br />
pop group that was signed by<br />
Madonna and released a music<br />
video starring peak period Lindsay Lohan.<br />
But this is the life of Vancouver’s Louise<br />
Burns.<br />
“It sounds kinda cheesy. When most<br />
people say that they mean folk or punk or<br />
DIY, but for me it means corporate pop,”<br />
she says with a laugh. “I’ve been embracing<br />
all of the lessons I learned from when I<br />
started out as a kid in Lillix. I was like, ‘Fuck<br />
it. I’m just gonna write the most saccharine<br />
melodies I can and say some really emotional<br />
things.” Because I’ve never really<br />
been that open before with my lyrics.”<br />
Since leaving Lillix, Burns has made<br />
music on her own terms. Her first three<br />
solo albums were all well-received collections<br />
of synth-y indie pop, but when it<br />
came time to record number four, Burns<br />
felt a change needed to be made. She<br />
wanted to make unapologetic pop<br />
music again.<br />
“It’s such a great moment for pop<br />
music,” Burns says. “I’m just really<br />
excited by all of the songwriting and<br />
production I’m hearing. I think I was<br />
getting a bit bored of myself. I think<br />
C<strong>ON</strong>TINUED <strong>ON</strong> PG. 8 k<br />
NOVEMBER <strong>2019</strong> BEATROUTE 7
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