how i’m feeling is the debut studio album from Californian singer-songwriter Lauv. It will follow up his 2018 compilation album, I met you when I was 18. (the playlist).
Lauv released ten singles from the project, “i’m so tired…”–a collaboration with Australian pop sensation Troye Sivan, “Drugs & the Internet,” “Sad Forever,” “fuck, i’m lonely”–accompanied by British singer Anne-Marie, “Feelings,”, “Sims,”, “Mean It”–with pop-band LANY, “Changes,” “Tattoos Together” and finally “Modern Loneliness.”
In an October 2019 Instagram post, Lauv commented on the album concept:
~how i’m feeling~ is all about embracing personality and all its different aspects. the idea that we are not *one thing* and in fact we can be many different things on many different days. born out of a crisis of “who am i?”, i created 6 different characters: purple (existential lauv), blue (hopeless romantic lauv), green (goofy lauv), yellow (positive lauv), orange (fuckboy lauv), and red (spicy lauv™️)
Some songs were collaborations of different characters, denoted with (†).
Purple (Existential):
- “Drugs & The Internet” †
- “Who” (feat. BTS)
- “Changes”
- “Sad Forever”
- “Modern Loneliness”
Blue (Hopelessly Romantic):
- “fuck, i’m lonely” (feat. Anne-Marie)
- “Sims”
- “Feelings”
- “Canada” (feat. Alessia Cara) †
- “For Now”
Red (Spicy):
- “Mean It,” with LANY
- “El Tejano” (feat. Sofia Reyes)
Yellow (Positive):
- “Canada” (feat. Alessia Cara) †
- “Tattoos Together”
Orange (“fuckboy”):
- “Drugs & The Internet” †
- “Tell My Mama”
Green (Goofy):
- “Billy”
~how i’m feeling~ debuted at #16 on the Billboard 200 for the chart week of March 21, 2020 after selling 31,000 album-equivalent units during its first week.