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After wanting to record an album that was rooted in Southern country music, used more live instrumentation and was inspired by frontman Paul Klein's upbringing in Oklahoma, LANY released their third studio album, Mama's Boy on October 2, 2020.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bandwagon.asia/articles/it-s-definitely-our-best-album-ever-paul-klein-of-lany-talks-about-new-album-mama-s-boy-release-interview-covid19-2020|title="It's definitely our best album ever": Paul Klein of LANY talks about new album, Mama's Boy|date=October 2, 2020|website=Bandwagon}} Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, the band were unable to tour to support the album. This resulted in the trio facing the decision to either take a break or start writing and recording sessions for a fourth studio album.{{Cite web|url=https://flaunt.com/content/lany-frontman-paul-klein-is-ready-for-his-close-up|title=Paul Klein {{pipe}} LANY Frontman Is Ready For His Close Up|website=Flaunt Magazine}}

In December 2020, Klein began writing material for a fourth album which was teased on social media. The band began recording sessions at Conway Studios in Los Angeles with producer Andrew Goldstein.{{Cite web|url=https://www.instagram.com/p/CMvg23HDVzr/|title=LANY on Instagram: "album 4 🍉🧿🧊🍭🍋📱💿"|website=Instagram}} In May, the group concluded recording sessions. gg bb xx was announced on July 12, 2021 along with pre-orders and the announcement of the album's second single "Up to Me".{{Cite web|url=https://www.instagram.com/p/CRO9Y6xsYew/|title=LANY on Instagram: ""gg bb xx" - our new album - out september 3, 2021. and fiiinnneee we'll drop 2 new songs in like 60 hours. LOVE YA!!!!"|website=Instagram}}

Gg bb xx was preceded by five singles. On June 25, 2021, the lead single "Dancing in the Kitchen" was released accompanied with its music video directed by Matty Peacock.{{Cite web|url=https://www.udiscovermusic.com/news/lany-dancing-in-the-kitchen/|title=LANY Shares New Single 'Dancing In The Kitchen' From Upcoming Album|first=Larisha|last=Paul|date=June 25, 2021}} The second single, "Up to Me", was released on July 15, alongside a demo recording of the album's fourth track "DNA".{{Cite web|url=https://music.apple.com/us/album/up-to-me-dna-demo-single/1575765168|title=up to me / dna [demo] - Single by LANY|via=music.apple.com}} A third single, "Never Mind, Let's Break Up", was released on August 19.{{Cite web|url=https://variancemagazine.com/sounds/12357-never-mind-lets-break-up|title=LANY's new song 'never mind, let's break up' is deceptively catchy|first=Jonathan|last=Robles|website=Variance Magazine|date=20 August 2021 }} "Roll Over, Baby" was released as the album's fourth single on August 25.{{Cite web|url=https://www.totalntertainment.com/music/roll-over-baby-the-new-track-from-lany/|title='Roll Over, Baby' the new track from LANY|date=August 26, 2021}} A music video for the song "Ex I Never Had" premiered on September 2.{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxJYbjUf0x4|title=LANY - ex i never had (official video)|via=www.youtube.com}}

Through the months leading up to the album's September release, LANY also released two collaborative singles. On June 9, 2021, the band released "I Quit Drinking", a collaboration with American country pop singer-songwriter Kelsea Ballerini, with a music video premiering on June 15.{{Cite web|url=https://wincountry.com/2021/06/10/i-quit-drinking-kelsea-ballerini-and-lanys-new-song-looks-at-heartbreak-with-sober-clarity/|title="I Quit Drinking": Kelsea Ballerini and LANY's new song looks at heartbreak with sober clarity}}{{Dead link|date=June 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}{{Cite web|url=http://www.cmt.com/news/1835047/premiere-kelsea-ballerini-lany-reveal-rain-soaked-i-quit-drinking-video/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210616194205/http://www.cmt.com/news/1835047/premiere-kelsea-ballerini-lany-reveal-rain-soaked-i-quit-drinking-video/|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 16, 2021|title=Premiere: Kelsea Ballerini, LANY Reveal Rain-Soaked "I Quit Drinking" Video|first=Jessica|last=Nicholson 6/15/2021|website=CMT News}} On the same day, LANY frontman Paul Klein and Ballerini debuted the song live at the 2021 CMT Music Awards.{{Cite web|url=http://www.cmt.com/news/1834781/cmt-music-awards-kelsea-ballerini-lanys-paul-klein-debut-i-quit-drinking/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210610013614/http://www.cmt.com/news/1834781/cmt-music-awards-kelsea-ballerini-lanys-paul-klein-debut-i-quit-drinking/|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 10, 2021|title=CMT Music Awards: Kelsea Ballerini, LANY's Paul Klein Debut "I Quit Drinking"|first=Jessica|last=Nicholson 6/9/2021|website=CMT News}} On August 6, LANY and 220 KID released the single "Stupid Feelings".{{Cite web|url=https://music.apple.com/us/album/stupid-feelings-single/1577868787|title=Stupid Feelings - Single by 220 KID & LANY|via=music.apple.com}}

In support of gg bb xx, the trio will embark on a world tour beginning in the United Kingdom on September 23, 2021 and continuing with a 25-date run in the United States and Canada in October and November.{{cite tweet|number=1417125129125916675|user=thisisLANY|title=PRESENTING U THE “GG BB XX” TOUR - UK, USA, AND CANADA YOU’RE UP FIRST. 30 SHOWS AND PLAYING SONGS FROM ALL ALBUMS.…|date=19 July 2021}} The band performed a sold out headlining album release show at the Troubadour in Los Angeles on September 3, 2021.{{Cite web|url=https://thescenestar.typepad.com/ss/2021/08/lany-album-release-show-at-the-troubadour.html|title=LANY Album Release Show at the Troubadour|website=The Scenestar}}

{{Track listing

| headline = Gg bb xx track listing

| extra_column = Producer(s)

| title_width = 27%

| writing_width = 42%

| extra_width = 31%

| title1 = Get Away

| writer1 = {{hlist|Paul Klein|Ian Pollack|John Ryan}}

| extra1 = {{hlist|LANY|Andrew Goldstein|Ryan}}

| length1 = 3:05

| title2 = Up to Me

| writer2 = {{hlist|Klein|David Hodges|Whakaio Taahi}}

| extra2 = {{hlist|LANY|Goldstein}}

| length2 = 2:48

| title3 = Never Mind, Let's Break Up

| writer3 = {{hlist|Klein|Goldstein}}

| extra3 = {{hlist|LANY|Goldstein}}

| length3 = 2:42

| title4 = DNA

| writer4 = {{hlist|Klein|Andrew Albert|Dan Smyers|Jordan Reynolds}}

| extra4 = {{hlist|LANY|Goldstein}}

| length4 = 2:57

| title5 = Roll Over, Baby

| writer5 = {{hlist|Klein|Jesse Saint John|Goldstein}}

| extra5 = {{hlist|LANY|Goldstein}}

| length5 = 3:27

| title6 = Live It Down

| writer6 = {{hlist|Klein|Hodges}}

| extra6 = {{hlist|LANY|Goldstein}}

| length6 = 3:19

| title7 = Dancing in the Kitchen

| writer7 = {{hlist|Klein|Goldstein|Ryan|Pollack}}

| extra7 = {{hlist|LANY|Ryan}}

| length7 = 3:29

| title8 = Ex I Never Had

| writer8 = {{hlist|Klein|Goldstein|Kevin Fisher}}

| extra8 = {{hlist|LANY|Goldstein}}

| length8 = 3:21

| title9 = Somewhere

| writer9 = {{hlist|Klein|Tobias Jesso Jr.}}

| extra9 = {{hlist|LANY|Goldstein}}

| length9 = 3:36

| title10 = Care Less

| writer10 = {{hlist|Klein|Ryan|Pollack}}

| extra10 = {{hlist|LANY|Goldstein|Ryan}}

| length10 = 3:19

| title11 = {{-'}}Til I Don't

| writer11 = {{hlist|Klein|Goldstein|Ryan|Pollack}}

| extra11 = {{hlist|LANY|Goldstein}}

| length11 = 2:59

| title12 = One Minute Left to Live

| writer12 = {{hlist|Klein|Ryan|Pollack}}

| extra12 = {{hlist|LANY|Goldstein|Ryan}}

| length12 = 3:13

| total_length = 38:13

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{{Track listing

| headline = Deluxe edition bonus tracks

| total_length = 60:01

| extra_column = Producer(s)

| title13 = I Die First

| writer13 = {{hlist|Klein|Jesso}}

| extra13 = {{hlist|LANY|Goldstein}}

| length13 = 2:56

| title14 = Remember That

| writer14 = {{hlist|Klein|Noah Conrad}}

| extra14 = {{hlist|LANY|Goldstein|Conrad}}

| length14 = 3:22

| title15 = I Didn't Lie

| writer15 = {{hlist|Klein|Ingrid Andress|Conrad}}

| extra15 = {{hlist|Goldstein}}

| length15 = 2:54

| title16 = They Don't Make 'Em Like You Anymore

| writer16 = {{hlist|Klein|Emily Weisband|Reynolds}}

| extra16 = {{hlist|Goldstein}}

| length16 = 2:35

| title17 = The Older You Get, The Less You Cry

| writer17 = {{hlist|Klein|Goldstein|John}}

| extra17 = {{hlist|Goldstein}}

| length17 = 3:22

| title18 = DNA

| note18 = demo

| writer18 = {{hlist|Klein|Albert|Smyers|Reynolds}}

| extra18 = {{hlist|LANY|Goldstein}}

| length18 = 2:35

| title19 = Stupid Feelings

| note19 = with 220 Kid

| writer19 = {{hlist|Will Graydon|Tom Hollings|Samuel Brennan|Klein|Jordan Shaw|Conor Blake}}

| extra19 = {{hlist|Billen Ted|220 Kid}}

| length19 = 2:47

| title20 = I Quit Drinking

| note20 = Kelsea Ballerini featuring LANY

| writer20 = {{hlist|Kelsea Ballerini|Nicolle Galyon|Klein}}

| extra20 = {{hlist|Jimmy Robbins|Conrad}}

| length20 = 2:51

}}

Notes

• All song titles are in lowercase

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LANY

• Paul Klein – lead vocals, keyboards, programming
• Jake Goss – drums, percussion
• Leslie Priest – keyboards, synthesizers, guitar

Additional musicians

• Andrew Goldstein – songwriter, composer, keyboards, guitars, programming
• Ian Pollack – songwriter, composer
• John Ryan – songwriter, composer, keyboards, guitars, programming
• Robin Schmidt – guitars

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Technical

• Producers – Andrew Goldsten, John Ryan, Paul Klein
• Writers – Andrew Albert, Andrew Goldstein, Dan Smyers, David Hodges, Ian Pollack, Jesse Saint John, John Ryan, Jordan Reynolds, Kevin Fisher, Paul Klein, Tobias Jesso Jr., Whakaio Taahi
• Engineer – Eric Eylands
• Mixing engineer – Andrew Goldstein, Paul Klein
• Mastering engineer – Robin Schmidt
• Studio personnel – Andrew Goldstein, Eric Eylands, Paul Klein, Robin Schmidt

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