Madonna’s Daughter Lola Leon drops debut single ‘Lock&Key’

August 25, 2022August 25, 2022 Editor

“I need a breeze / Whisk me away / I need to breathe / Nothing to say,” sings Leon on the dreamy, dance-pop single, released Wednesday alongside a music video

Lola Leon is carrying on her mother’s legacy!

On Wednesday, the 25-year-old model (born Lourdes) and Madonna’s oldest daughter officially debuted her music career as Lolahol with the surprise release of her dreamy, dance-pop debut track “Lock&Key” and accompanying gritty, yet hyperreal music video.

“Lock&Key” sees Leon, 25, seductively crooning via gentle, breathy vocals about a relationship with complex dynamics over club-ready production from Samuel Burgess, Hara Kiri, and Eartheater. In the chorus, she sings, “I need a breeze / Whisk me away / I need to breathe / Nothing to say.”

The second verse of “Lock&Key” — released via Eartheater’s label, Chemical X — seems to reference a quote from a pop superstar who’s had a complicated relationship with Leon’s mother: Lady Gaga.

“No sleep, next plane, no sleep / Makeup, next club, next car / Next plane, no sleep, no fear,” sings Leon — apparently nodding to a viral clip from the “Born This Way” icon’s 2011 interview with Fuse, in which she said, “No sleep, bus, club, ‘another club, ‘another club, plane, next place, no sleep, no fear, nobody believed in me.”

Leon postures and performs to the camera in ultra-stylized scenes taken throughout New York City’s outskirts in the Eartheater-directed, futuristic video for the tune. She’s been photographed wearing high-fashion looks in and out of cars, wandering through a cemetery with a man, and going for a walk with a large German Shepherd dog.

Leon breaks free from a larger-than-life locked heart on a beach at the end of the video before doing the splits in a bikini paired with a wearable net and another locked heart on a necklace. (Perhaps references to “Open Your Heart“)

As a model, Leon has worked with brands including Marc Jacobs, Swarovski, Mugler, and Calvin Klein. Last year, she starred in her first-ever music video for Eartheater’s Grand Theft Auto-inspired “Joyride.”

While “Lock&Key” marks her first official solo release, superfans of Madonna, 63, may remember when Leon — as a teenager — provided backing vocals for the MDNA track “Superstar” in 2012.

In an interview with Madonna’s longtime friend Debi Mazar about growing up with the Queen of Pop, 64, published last year via Interview magazine, Leon spoke about the idea of foraying into acting or music.

“To be honest, actors irritate me and I avoid being near them. In terms of music, I can sing. I’m just not interested. Perhaps it’s too near to home “She told Mazar, 57, how important privacy is in her life.

“I’ve been judged from a young age, but I believe privacy is the reason I was able to maintain my wits about me and avoid being sent to a mental institution,” Leon continued. “I want to figure out who the f—- I am before letting anyone tell me who I am, you know?”

You can watch the music video below-