Tiger La Flor Drops “BAD COMPANY” Single & Visualizer

Tiger La Flor announces her upcoming EP, ‘HOLLYWOODLAND’, plus shares a sneak peek with her flirtatious anthem, “BAD COMPANY”

Japanese-Korean-American indie pop artist Tiger La Flor announces her highly-anticipated EP, ‘HOLLYWOODLAND’, due out August 26th on Arista Records. Along with the announcement, Tiger is sharing a sneak peek of the EP with the release of coquettish single, “BAD COMPANY”, along with an accompanying visualizer.

‘HOLLYWOODLAND’ EP was the answer to a question La Flor had upon moving back to L.A. from Paris: What did she find romantic about the city? Certainly not being stuck in today’s traffic. “But when I thought about it through the lens of, ‘What if I was living in L.A. when ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’ took place?’ that was romantic to me,” La Flor says. To her, that looks like racing down Highway 1 in a top-down convertible at sundown, singing along to blaring ’60s and ’70s records in a pair of oversized vintage sunglasses and snakeskin cowboy boots. She dove deep, building chronological playlists from the era, researching the fashion trends, and shooting visuals on 16mm film.

‘HOLLYWOODLAND’ drapes that world in La Flor’s “Laurel Canyon Western” sound, meshing the shimmering chords of ABBA with the rugged California cool of Chris Isaak — in her words, “like if David Lynch and Quentin Tarantino made country.” Recorded with live orchestral elements and drums cut to tape, it’s the most maximalist music she’s ever made.

In her own words, Tiger describes, “‘HOLLYWOODLAND’ is more than an EP to me, it is a nostalgic golden era of Los Angeles I never lived; part fiction, part truth. I’ve always believed life ought to be lived cinematically, so I wanted to make a record that feels like the soundtrack to a lost film, a 1974 studio picture one might imagine Quentin Tarantino and David Lynch directing together. ‘HOLLYWOODLAND’ is the setting: a glossy, slightly cursed Los Angeles, where a glamorous variety-show star sings her way through her unraveling. She is a character, certainly, though like most characters she has borrowed heavily from her author. I wrote this EP as my own life in Los Angeles was unraveling in many ways, so beneath all the glamour there is real heartbreak, yearning, and the peculiar melancholy of chasing dreams in a city that sells them.”

The EP features last month’s “KODACHROMATIC”, which sets the scene in a rose-tinted haze as La Flor sings of a relationship built to last. But atop the sunbaked guitars of the title track, “HOLLYWOODLAND”, she laments the difficulty of the L.A. dating scene. On today’s “BAD COMPANY”, she’s the one waving the red flag — “I know I seem sweet but honey, I’m no honeybee” — while “IN COLD BLOOD” confronts a man she just can’t quit. The credits roll with “FOREVERMORE”, a delightfully unexpected mash-up of Motown’s Supremes and mariachi horns, when the relationship is over but no one wants to admit it.

Explaining a bit further on today’s look at the upcoming EP, Tiger shares, “BAD COMPANY” is a flirtatious anthem from the perspective of someone who knows they’re trouble and warns you with a wink. Built around the hook “I know I look good but I’m bad, bad company,” it’s a soundtrack for getting dressed up, driving with the windows down, and making questionable romantic decisions with confidence.

‘HOLLYWOODLAND’ joins a catalog that includes her 2024 EP ‘see me in hell’, which was a four-year battle to release, a period she calls “one of the darkest times” of her life: written in a tiny studio apartment in East Hollywood, La Flor running out of savings, struggling to find anyone to work with. Then came ‘Drugstore Cowgirl’ (2025), an Americana EP turned political statement. Despite growing up on Walla Walla county fairs and her dad’s Johnny Cash records, she’d never felt the genre was hers to claim.

La Flor’s music has garnered editorial support from Spotify, who chose her as a cover girl on the popular “Indie Pop” and “JASMINE” playlists as well as Amazon Music, who included her on a Times Square Billboard representing the Asian American Girl Club playlist along with her song, “AMERICAN DREAMS”.

‘HOLLYWOODLAND’ is what happens when both threads converge: the Old Hollywood obsession of her first project married to the outlaw Western feel of her second. As it turns out, La Flor’s restlessness serves a greater purpose: fueling her own resilience and creative spark as she works to create what she wants to see in the world, whether that’s bygone beauty reimagined for a new generation of listeners, or a reflection of herself, as an Asian woman, in the art she grew up loving. Stay tuned for more to come!

‘HOLLYWOODLAND‘ Tracklisting:

1. HOLLYWOODLAND (EP Focus Track)
2. KODACHROMATIC
3. BAD COMPANY
4. IN COLD BLOOD
5. FOREVERMORE

Tiger La Flor’s “BAD COMPANY” track is also available now to stream and cop on all major digital streaming platforms