Lucy Tun is a musician from London. She has released music under her own name and under the name LCYTN, and is a member of Loud LDN.

Life and career

Tun grew up in North West London,^[1] and has an older brother, Daniel;^[2] their parents are of Myanma descent.^[3] As a teenager, she listened to classical music;^[4] when she was sixteen, she became interested in pop music, and became obsessed with Adele.^[3] She studied economics with Burmese at SOAS University of London;^[5] in 2018, during her first year, she released her first long-play, Good Nights Bad Stories, as LCYTN,^[2] a disemvoweled form of her own name,^[6] after which she promised her parents that she would quit music; on a family trip to Myanmar, they discovered that she had not done so after fans of hers approached her in the street after recognising her from billboards.^[7] In 2019, she released "Ride",^[8] which featured Daniel on guitar,^[9] and Bad Weather, Vol. 1, a beat tape.^[2] In July 2020 she released "Every Thursday Night",^[10] from her three-track EP Every Thursday Night / Spotlight;^[6] "Spotlight" featured Osquello and Yiigaa.^[11]

She then began releasing music under her own name. In July 2021, she released "Monarchy",^[12] a kawaii drill song written in August 2020 about people who adopt personas on dates;^[13] she wrote the song with Jakwob, and in the last twenty minutes of a recording session, having spent the rest of it working on another song.^[14] The following month, she and Ric Wilson featured on "Let Me Ride", a UK garage song by Bone Slim^[15] of the Nine8 Collective;^[16] she then appeared on a remix of Yiigaa's "Up", which also featured Eliza Legzdina.^[17] In March 2022, she released "314", which she wrote the day after moving out of the house she and strangers spent lockdown living in, and about saying goodbye to her former housemates.^[18] The following May, she released "Another Week",^[19] which she wrote while depressed following a breakup in lockdown; the song was produced by Usher Lavelle,^[6] and featured double handclaps.^[20] She then joined Loud LDN, a collective of women and genderqueer musicians set up in May 2022, that year.^[21]

In January 2023, she released "Kulture Klub", a song about feeling like an outsider,^[22] which she wrote with producer J. Ar J,^[2] and after attending Paris Fashion Week; the song referenced Bella Hadid, prompting her to shout out the single on TikTok,^[22] on which the song later went viral.^[2] In June 2023, she released "ADHD",^[23] a song named after the neurodevelopmental disorder she suffered from^[5] and which mentioned Norwegian Wood and flying to Norway,^[24] and in August 2023, she released "Rabbit Hole",^[25] on which Daniel played guitar.^[2] On 4 October 2023, she, Congee, Iamkyami, Jason Kwan, Josie Man, Tascha Jerawan, and Vishal Chopra all featured on "I Luv My Life", a song written at an ESEA Music Writing Camp, an attempt at congregating the various members of ESEA Music, a collective of UK-based East and Southeast Asian music industry professionals and artists including Rina Sawayama, Yunè Pinku, Andrew Hung, Matt Tong, and Sarah Bonito.^[26] In October 2023, she released "Airport Smoking Room", a song inspired by The Terminal^[27] and about unspoken bonds,^[28] and in November 2023, she released the EP Unreal,^[28] which had been delayed from October 13.^[25] In December 2023,^[29] she and fellow Loud LDNers Charlotte Plank, Caity Baser, and Venbee^[4] made Dork's 2024 Hype List.^[29]

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