Interview
International Pop Underground: Hyper-Prolific Cult Songwriter Lily Konigsberg Just Knows She s a Popstar
Lily Konigsberg wrote her first song when she was 2 years old. She was in Florida, with her dad, holding his hand in a pool, and sung the melodic refrain: oooooh ooh-ooh-oooh, you really got baby/ohhhh ohhh ohh, you really got me .
Since then, the 28-year-old has written hundreds of songs, thousands perhaps. Bursting with melody and restless energy. Some of her early songs were ill-fated I wrote songs about September 11th when I was in 2nd grade and performed them on the street, Konigsberg recalls, which is somewhat inappropriate now that I think about it but more recently they ve hit the mark again and again.