Lauv Is Down To Learn Some Dance Pointers From BTS

It's well customary that Lauv is an one-man boy musical group. He's the hopeless romantic, the class clown, the existentialist, and more, all in an individual vessel. He streams that multiplicity — the ability to shape-shift and encompass an entire color palette's worth of emotionality — all over his debut album, How I'm Feeling (stylized, naturally, as ~how i'm feeling~, since it's 2020 and everything is online).


He's also channeled it for his extensive work with other artists, including Charli XCX, Julia Michaels, Troye Sivan, and quite fittingly, BTS. They're the largest boy musical group on the planet, and possibly even the largest musical group overall. So it's only organic that an one-man boy musical group would pick up a number of tricks on how to do the damn thing.


"I could probably learn some dance pointers," Lauv told MTV News correspondent Brian "B. Dot" Miller in the office earlier this week.


"The first time, while they invited me to do the remix for 'Make It Right,' they were super gracious and just requesting me to interpret my own version of what the original message of the song was," he said.


That group effort continued well into Lauv's creation of How I'm Feeling, which included another team-up with BTS. This time, it was for his song "Who," a silken ballad plagued by confusion and the haunting inevitability of change. "I just thought, for my song — I honestly wasn't necessarily expecting that it would happen," he mentioned. "I was sort of taking a shot in the dark, however they ended up loving it, and it's really cool. It's one of my preferred songs on the album."


While in Lauv's visit and efficiency for MTV News Office Hours, there wasn't enough time for every song on How I'm Feeling. Although armed with a keyboard, a bass, and an acoustic guitar, he strolled through rather charged renditions of "Changes," "Tattoos Together," and "Modern Loneliness."


It was also a chance to showcase Lauv the re-inventor: "Tattoos With each other a pulsating rhythmic track on the album, got a downbeat makeover in the absence of its percussion. Bar-closing sing-along closer "Modern Loneliness," meanwhile, noticed Lauv stripping away its vocal bombast to reveal an intimate, soul-searching skeleton underneath. It's enough to create you evaluate how you're feeling, by the time he puts down his guitar.


Watch MTV News's cozy Office Hours set with Lauv in full in the video above.