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Two years ago, Ruth B was a 19-year-old alive at Marshalls in Edmonton, Canada, aback she had an idea. Inspired by her adulation of fantasy novels, she wrote her aboriginal song, "Lost Boy," a spare, soulful piano carol about loneliness, arranged with Peter Pan references. She uploaded six abnormal of the choir to Vine, which she'd ahead acclimated to column clips of herself singing Drake and Lana Del Rey songs.

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"Lost Boy" denticulate 84,000 brand in aloof a week, and a few months later, she had a accord with Columbia. This summer, the song became a Top 40 hit. "If addition told me a year ago that bodies would ask me for pictures at Starbucks," she says, "I would've aloof laughed."

On a contempo summer afternoon, Ruth, 21, sits in a Laurel Canyon, California, studio, abysmal into recording her aboriginal album. She's abutting by Joel Little, the 33-year-old New Zealander who spent two years alive with Lorde, bearing and co-writing Pure Heroine. "There's absolutely burden – I can't abjure that," says Ruth.

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Little became absorbed with Ruth aback a acquaintance beatific a audience of her songs. "She had this astounding catalog," he says. He's additionally noticed similarities to Lorde: "They both accept these accurate voices, and they're cogent belief about what's happened to them."

But for Ruth, accepting acclimated to the pop music bold has been a struggle. She has a adamantine time with "the accomplished look-at-me thing." Aback bodies began commenting about her looks on Vine, she started abashing her face. She additionally abashed about entering the studio: "My better abhorrence was that I don't apperceive the able terminology."

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Those fears accept gone abroad lately. She's affirmed with Little over auto basketball amateur and has gotten adequate speaking up in recording sessions. She's aflame about hiring a bandage and abstraction its sound. "You'll accept no botheration with that," says Little. "Boss status!" Ruth adds with a grin. "You gotta apperceive what you want!"

Though she's shy in person, Ruth doesn't authority aback in her lyrics, which apprehend like a account of agitated adolescence. "Superficial Love" slams bank relationships ("I'm flawed/If you don't like that, get lost"). "If by Chance" is about accepting dumped for addition abroad – and again allurement to be taken back. Ruth says best of her songs are true: "I'm not abashed to accept my affection burst and go out and accommodated people," she says. Adds Little, "When I heard a brace of the songs, I was like, 'Holy shit, this babe is activity through some stuff!'"

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Ruth, whose aftermost name is Berhe, grew up in Edmonton. Her parents emigrated from Ethiopia in the Eighties, and Ruth is chatty in their built-in Amharic language. "It's a huge allotment of who I am," she says, abacus that her parents absolute "relentless ambition" in her. Still, she never absurd her accepted situation: active in L.A., gearing up for her aboriginal big bout in the fall. "I consistently anticipate aback to aback I acquaint that aboriginal video. Now, aback I advertise it, bodies go nuts. It's like, damn, activity is crazy!"

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