But then everything flipped. Clips of crazed moshpits flashed everywhere, elite co-signs arrived weekly, and 2hollis’ monthly listener count quintupled. Lorde, after calling 2hollis’ music her “true addiction,” had him open the final two Ultrasound World Tour shows of 2025 at the Barclays Center. “This has been the biggest year of my life, and I’ve learned the most about myself,” 2hollis tells me, sitting in a car somewhere in New York a couple of days after the city’s first snowfall and a day before his first show with Lorde. Hollis grew up on the New Zealander’s music; it was “everywhere when I was a kid.” “She just reached out, showing love,” he says. “I, of course, was like, ‘Hell yeah, let’s do it.’”

Calvin Courjon and the F80 going wild in Paris. A year ago, was nobody. He got the opportunity to open for Opium prince on tour, and the black-clad hellspawn in the crowd initially booed his blenderized bursts of EDM pop. But then everything flipped. Clips of crazed moshpits flashed everywhere, elite co-signs arrived weekly, and 2hollis’ monthly listener count quintupled. Lorde, after calling 2hollis’ music her “true addiction,” had him open the final two Ultrasound World Tour shows of 2025 at the Barclays Center. “This has been the biggest year of my life, and I’ve learned the most about myself,” 2hollis tells me, sitting in a car somewhere in New York a couple of days after the city’s first snowfall and a day before his first show with Lorde. Hollis grew up on the New Zealander’s music; it was “everywhere when I was a kid.” “She just reached out, showing love,” he says. “I, of course, was like, ‘Hell yeah, let’s do it.’”