How Low Can You Go
by LP

Album: Churches (2020)
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Songfacts®:

  • In this song, LP pushes the limits with her lover, asking how low she can go in their pursuit of hedonic pleasure. They go on a lost weekend where "the days catch fire like gasoline," getting to know each other intimately.

    Speaking with Songfacts, LP explained: "I'm always obsessed with this. It's a bunch of stories about me moving from New York to Hollywood and always wondering if I'm getting out of control. I'm always like that. I always think about where your life can go if you let it... if you're not careful. Or, if you are careful."
  • LP wrote this song with her producers and longtime collaborators Mike Del Rio and Nate Campany, the same team who put together her 2015 scorcher "Lost On You."

    They started writing the song when LP hit on the first line: "Last time I saw you, we did coke in a closet." Campany loved it, so they used it as a launching point. Del Rio started playing a guitar riff he had kicking around from years earlier, and LP pulled out a title she had stored up: "How Low Can You Go." Her directive: a slinky beat and something that "felt really sexy."
  • LP started working on this song during sessions for her 2018 album Heart To Mouth, but it wasn't ready in time. It ended up being the second single from her next album, Churches. The song was issued on November 20, 2020, a year ahead of the album.
  • The music video, directed by Eric Maldin, was shot at the Hotel El Ganzo in Los Cabos, Mexico. Her co-star is her real-life love interest, Julieta Grajales.

    In the clip, they share some moments of ecstacy underwater, on the beach, and in a room full of candles.
  • The Churches album title conjures up those things that are sacred in our lives and in our hearts. "We have a church inside of us that holds all the things we hold dear," LP explained to UK newspaper The Sun. "That's what that word means to me. The whole record is the church of me and the things that mean something to me right now."

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