Tiger La Flor Unveils ‘HOLLYWOODLAND’ EP with Playful New Single “Bad Company”

Japanese-Korean-American indie pop artist Tiger La Flor has announced her new EP HOLLYWOODLAND, set for release on 26 August via Arista Records. Alongside the announcement, she has shared a first taste of the project with her new single Bad Company, accompanied by a visualiser that sets the tone for the EP’s cinematic world.

The idea behind HOLLYWOODLAND began after La Flor moved back to Los Angeles from Paris and started reconsidering what she still found romantic about the city. It was not the realities of modern LA life that inspired her, particularly the traffic, but an imagined version of the city shaped by film, memory and nostalgia. She pictured something closer to Los Angeles during the Once Upon a Time in Hollywood era, with sunset drives along Highway 1, vintage sunglasses, snakeskin boots, and music from the 1960s and 1970s playing constantly in the background.

To build that atmosphere, she immersed herself in research, creating chronological playlists from the period, studying fashion trends, and shooting visuals on 16mm film. This process helped shape a fully formed creative world around the project.

Musically, HOLLYWOODLAND blends what La Flor calls a “Laurel Canyon Western” style. It brings together the glossy pop influence of ABBA with the laid-back, cinematic feel of Chris Isaak. She has described it as sounding like “if David Lynch and Quentin Tarantino made country”. The record was recorded with live orchestral elements and drums tracked to tape, making it her most layered and ambitious release so far.

La Flor describes the EP as part fiction and part reality, built around a nostalgic version of Los Angeles she never actually lived in. In her own words, it is like a lost film set in a slightly distorted Hollywood, following a glamorous variety-show star as her life slowly unravels. While the character at the centre is fictional, she is closely connected to La Flor’s own experiences of living and struggling in Los Angeles, particularly during difficult periods in her career.

She has also spoken about the emotional core of the project, which sits beneath the glamour. Themes of heartbreak, longing and the pressure of chasing dreams in a city built on them run throughout the EP.

The tracklist reflects this narrative. KODACHROMATIC introduces the world with a soft, nostalgic glow, portraying a relationship that feels built to last. The title track HOLLYWOODLAND focuses on the challenges of dating in Los Angeles. The new single Bad Company takes a more playful approach, with La Flor warning a potential lover that she is not as innocent as she seems. She sums it up with the line, “I know I look good but I’m bad, bad company”.

Elsewhere on the EP, IN COLD BLOOD deals with an on-off relationship that is difficult to leave behind, while closing track FOREVERMORE blends Motown-inspired sounds with mariachi influences to capture the complicated feeling of a relationship ending without closure.

Speaking about Bad Company, La Flor describes it as a flirtatious track told from the perspective of someone fully aware of their own unpredictability. It is built around the idea of embracing that chaos, and soundtracks moments of dressing up, driving with the windows down, and making impulsive romantic decisions.

HOLLYWOODLAND follows a period of creative development for La Flor. Her 2024 EP see me in hell was written over several difficult years in East Hollywood, a time she has described as one of the hardest of her life. In 2025 she released Drugstore Cowgirl, an Americana-inspired project influenced by her upbringing and her father’s love of Johnny Cash, even as she questioned her place within the genre.

Her work has received support from platforms such as Spotify, which featured her on playlists including “Indie Pop” and “JASMINE”, as well as Amazon Music, which spotlighted her on a Times Square billboard as part of the Asian American Girl Club playlist alongside her track “AMERICAN DREAMS”.

With HOLLYWOODLAND, these different influences come together. It combines her fascination with Old Hollywood storytelling and her more recent outlaw Western sound, resulting in a record that feels both cinematic and personal. Through it, Tiger La Flor continues to shape her own version of Los Angeles, one that blends fantasy, memory and lived experience into something distinctly her own.