Contrasting lush dream-pop haze with visceral, disarmingly truthful lyricism, it was a pop record out of time — glamorous and tragic, ultramodern and undeniably timeless, a queer answer to nihilistic, powerfully feminine pop heroes like Lana Del Rey and Lorde.

In 2022, Elizabeth returned with her Suite of Singles; three interconnected singles and videos that expand and complicate her richly alluring world. This time around, her music was animated by a jolting electronic pulse – a current of icy trap drums and unearthly vocal samples that firmly placed the indie ingénue in the world of contemporary pop music.

It was a dramatic, exhilarating change of pace that stood in stark contrast to a new wrinkle that’s emerged in Elizabeth’s music: A new understanding that anyone — including oneself — can change.

Although Elizabeth’s vices remain the same, the protagonist of these songs is far less willing to burn it all, more beholden to other lives and her own happiness, more instinctively aware that nihilism is a dish that only serves one.