With more than a billion Spotify plays, I Like Me Better is a classic from indie streaming giant Ari Leff’s growing canon as Lauv. Here, he reveals what hits mean to him, and explains how a sparse break-up song propelled him towards pop’s big leagues...

I wrote I Like Me Better when I first moved to Los Angeles. I was living in a house with three other friends in North Hollywood and it was a pretty simple set-up in my ...