Older and wiser, McAlpine has gathered her thoughts into a musical journey designed through heartbreak, regret, and rebirth. According to a review by Dartmouth student Elle Muller, the album "builds upon raw lyricism and extends her storytelling through a longer exploration of heartbreak. I had whole pages of complex explanations about the meaning of the film", she said in a questionnaire after the screening of the film. There’s a lyric in the last song on the record, “orange show speedway” that goes, “When you’re racing headfirst towards something that’ll kill you in five seconds flat / When I’m racing headfirst towards something that I want back.

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Along with the album, McAlpine combined the strengths of her music and the cinematic visual art to communicate the journey she has been on with the release of ‘five seconds flat, the film’. I definitely made the conscious decision to go as far away from Give Me A Minute as possible, especially sound-wise. It just means that even though falling in love is terrifying and I’ve gotten my heart broken in the past, I still want it back because it’s beautiful. According to the collection of reviews on Album of the Year, the album received a user score of 77/100 and a critic score of 80/100.

In an interview with EUPHORIA, Lizzy McAlpine shared the inspiration of the album’s name, five seconds flat. Taylor’s Version) [From The Vault] Now That We Don’t Talk (Taylor’s Version) [From The Vault] “Slut! In a 4 out of 5 star review, Dork wrote that "the album is all flashes of clean white sheets, sunlight coming through the blinds, first stirring of your coffee in the morning. Following her first sold-out tour, McAlpine announced a second solo tour on November 7, 2022, on social media.

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With the release of the album came the tour that was announced on social networks on April 7, 2022, and took place from June 8, 2022, to November 25, 2022.

As the meaning behind their label name suggests (a rough translation from Spanish as 'hill view') Loma Vista has climbed to the summit of today's musical landscape, engaging and representing a sweeping range of the most popular scenes and genres of today. Because she feels that heartbreak is like a little death, McAlpine imagined the metaphor that every time she gets her heart broken, she is painted as a skeleton in the film. A 2022 artist to watch, Lizzy has crafted a deeply intimate and beautiful album featuring GRAMMY Award winners FINNEAS and Jacob Collier.