Louis on listening to music in the car: It always sounds good through the car speakers. Also, it feels a bit nostalgic to have music in the car. Always a good move. 
Louis on inspiration for Lemonade: I think both lyrically and sonically, there’s a certain kind of weight to my songs previously. I was on a bit of a crusade of proving who I was as an artist. I definitely needed to make those choices to get here. but I think this is the most confident record I’ve made. So I think, without trying to worry too much about exterior opinion and just trying to make something that feels like pop and fun and happy. 
Louis on whether Lemonade fits the theme of the album: Yeah, I’d say sonically it’s a good advert for the way that the album sounds. I definitely tried to do something a little bit more melodic and more pop this time around. But still with... I think Nico, who’s the producer across the whole record, he really does well in — he worked in a lot of pop, but he also has an alternative way of thinking. So I think some of the sounds used are a little bit more interesting this time around. But the overarching thing in the record is I just wanted it all to feel fun and good, really, more than anything. And that's an obvious thing to say, but I think on previous albums, it's been more about pulling on the heartstrings, whereas now I just wanted to make something feel like really well-rounded and hopeful.
Louis on feedback from friends and family: It’s like a mildly rhetorical question when me as the singer puts on a song and goes, “Do you like the song?” and people obviously agree, you know. But this time around, it actually feels different. The reactions I’ve got from friends and family and people that work closer to me, this time it feels a bit different. So yeah, I’ve got my fingers crossed. 
Louis on his involvement with the writing process: Yeah, it's really important to me that I have a voice on the record. I think that's also important to my fans. It’s also been important to me since I started my solo career, really, and even in the band, as well. So most of this record, or at least half of it, was written in Costa Rica. It's something I've always wanted to do, is to go somewhere a long way from home and just try and tap into everything that, all the emotions that that provokes. We stayed in this little surfer town, and we stayed there for, like, 3 or 4 weeks, just really getting in amongst the environment and the atmosphere, and how that feels, and trying to give some of that off on the record. So I think Lemonade, once you hear that it was written in a place like Costa Rica, that kind of makes sense sonically. You can kind of hear and feel a little bit of that.
Louis on location affecting songwriting: A lot of the places I tend to write, maybe like London or LA… City life brings a different kind of feeling and energy. And also in England we don't have the luxury of good weather that often. So as cliché as that is, that definitely affects the writing. When you're in a place like Costa Rica, like— paradise— with the weather so bautiful and the surroundings so beautiful, subconsciously, that does something to you, definitely.
106.1 WBLI: Cat talks with Louis Tomlinson about his new song 'Lemonade' and more (01.10.2025), Part 1 of 4
Part 2 (Lemonade mv, which 1D album Lemonade fits into, AFHF25, Plain White T’s, his X Factor audition of Hey There Delilah)
Part 3 (emojis, Reddit, sweet vs. tart, when he started the album)
Part 4 (Louis + fans = we, his TikTok account)
