LANY (/ˈleɪni/; stylized in all caps, an acronym for "Los Angeles New York") is an American indie

pop band from Los Angeles, formed in Nashville in 2014. The band consists of Paul Jason Klein,
Charles Leslie "Les" Priest, and Jake Clifford Goss.
Signed to Polydor and Interscope, the band have released two Top 40 albums: LANY (2017)
and Malibu Nights (2018). Additionally, they have released a slew of singles, their most successful
being the RIAA-certified "ILYSB" (2015), the Julia Michaels collaboration "Okay" (2019), and "Mean
It" (2019) with Lauv.

Contents

 1Music career
o 1.12014–17: Musical beginnings and LANY
o 1.22018–2019:  Malibu Nights
o 1.32020:  Mama's Boy
 2Band members
o 2.1Current members
 2.1.1Touring members
 3Discography
o 3.1Studio albums
o 3.2Extended plays
o 3.3Singles
 3.3.1Promotional singles
 4Tours
 5References

Music career[edit]
2014–17: Musical beginnings and LANY[edit]
LANY was formed in March 2014 when Paul Jason Klein, who had a small solo career, flew
to Nashville to meet up with friends Jake Goss and Les Priest. Previously, Goss and Priest had a
separate project by the name of WRLDS, but this was discontinued after the formation of LANY.
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 The following month they anonymously uploaded two songs, "Hot Lights" and "Walk Away",
to SoundCloud in order to differentiate between their old and new projects. Their
debut EP, Acronyms, followed later that year, with the song "ILYSB" generating significant interest
online. Singles "Made in Hollywood" and "Bad, Bad, Bad" soon followed, along with the reveal of
their identities.
LANY is an acronym for "Los Angeles New York". Klein addressed the name in an interview:
"We knew we wanted a four-letter word because of design and aesthetic purposes, but as you can
imagine, all the four-letter words in the entire world are taken. We moved to acronyms and for a
while we thought we would be TTYL, but then we decided we didn’t want to be 13 for the rest of our
lives. I eventually thought of the span across the country from L.A. to New York, and at first I was
thinking it would be L-A-N-Y, but people kept getting confused on how to pronounce it when I told
them, saying things like 'L-A-and-Y?' So then we’re like forget it—let's call ourselves LANY,
pronounced Lay-Nee."[7]