This year the Californian singer scored his first US No 1 with Bad Habit and released his second album to acclaim. He talks about TikTok remixes, his true hidden vice and the genius of Weezer
Nobody has had a better year than Steve Lacy. Since we spoke to him on the release of his second album, Gemini Rights, in July, the 24-year-old Californian singer, producer and guitarist has scored his first ever US No 1, with Bad Habit – voted by our critics as the song of the year – and found himself performing to increasingly frenzied crowds. TikTok may have helped Bad Habit sail to the top of the charts, but it was the uniform strength of Gemini Rights that made Lacy the year’s breakout star: its mix of indie solipsism and funk sleaze was a hard combination to resist.
How did Bad Habit come about?
