MollieOnATrip: Music Around Paris

Calle Lehmann is a songwriter who lives in Stockholm, Sweden and has come to visit Paris several times to work on music. In our chat, he explains what a “topliner” is in the music business and what song briefs are. Hint, it’s not underwear. He tells us about some of the stark differences between Sweden and France, my favorite one relating to beer vs wine! Socials: https://www.instagram.com/callele...

Rachel is head of Because Music’s film and television team for the United States. Because is one of the foremost French independent music companies and home to Justice, Christine and the Queens, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Breakbot, among many others. Rachel gives us her insights into working with a French music company, what you really need to bring when if are coming overseas, and what she thinks o...

Grace Lee is a Korean-American music executive who was employed at Youtube, Columbia Records MTVin New York City YouTube, Columbia Records working with artists from Daft Punk to J. Cole to Bruce Springsteen before moving to Paris full time. She is an artist and brand connector, an influential music industry executive, and an “artist relations guru”, as dubbed by Rolling Stone. In a career spanning...

LPX is a Swiss army knife of art, wild color, and enthusiastic, deeply-refreshing conversations. If you could bottle up some of what she’s got, you’d have the secret formula to creating joy. As for the nuts and bolts, this shenius co-founded the hypercool record label Neon Gold with her friend Derek Davies and has starred in (at least) two bands I love, MS MR and now as LPX. In this chat we talk a...

Leland is an artist and songwriter based in Los Angeles. He’s written for (and with) huge artists including Troy Sivan, Selena Gomez, Charli XCX, Daya and Muna amongst many others. He also works on RuPaul’s Drag Race as a co-writer for some of the songs and guest stars on a few episodes! We got chatting in a corner of a Grammy party in 2023 where he told me about his deep love for France and Paris...

Flavia is a singer, artist, creator, dancer, imaginer, cacao ceremony-host and world traveler, amongst many other things. I caught up with her about her passionate affair with the city of Paris and we discussed how she fell in love with the city, and the ways that it continues to draw her back. She helped me understand in new depth why creatives love this place. how to be comfortable being vulnera...

Eugenie is a très cool French pop artist who also sings in English. You can check out her most recent single MTQ on all platforms. She taught herself English partially through her love of listening to American and British pop music. On the show, we talk about her first show in Paris at an early Ed Sheeran tour, how to be comfortable being vulnerable, and how to make a solo pop performance cool. ht...

Singer-songwriter, hearthrob and current world nomad who tends to land in Stockholm for parts of his year. In this Music Around Paris session he talks about why he doesn’t live anywhere permanently at the moment, why he loves to be in European cities, and interestingly, what his special 10 times over ritual has been in the city of Paris. https://open.spotify.com/artist/7omzannyG2lfDqP5xyZo34?si=VF...

Woody is an emerging French artist who has a big room voice and loves Beyonce, Adele and Celine Dion. She came to chat about what moved her away from a law degree and started her music career, where to find recording studios in Paris, what shows she’ll be going to this year, what she recommends for people visiting France, and more. Woody is playing June 15th, 2023 at Les Etoiles and has her debut...

Charlotte Cardin is an enigma: a Rubik’s cube of intelligence, humor, talent and inside-and-out beauty, and I also call her friend. While she’s massive in her hometown of Montreal, she’s moved to Paris and is making her second album for Atlantic Records, which will come out later this year. We chat about Paris museums, clubs, restaurants, art of all kinds, and where she personally likes to hang ou...