- 2025-01-22
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MUSIC
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Self Esteem Announces New Album “A Complicated Woman”, Premieres New Song “Focus Is Power” on BBC Radio 1
British singer-songwriter Rebecca Lucy Taylor, aka Self Esteem has announced her third studio album “A Complicated Woman” will be released on April 25, 2025 via Polydor Records.
This marks her first album in four years since the 2021 album “Prioritise Pleasure”.
The album comprises 12 songs, featuring guest appearances from Sue Tompkins and Nadine Shah.
The collection focuses on themes of taking back control of your own life and exposing the social inequities imposed upon women.
From the album, she premiered a new song “Focus Is Power” on BBC Radio 1's New Music Show with Jack Saunders.
The song is inspired by a phrase she wrote on a sticker while working in her parent’s shed during the pandemic.
It was written by Johan Hugo, Pale Jay, and Rebecca Lucy Taylor. Produced by Johan Hugo and Lorna Blackwood.- Self Esteem told Jack Saunders about the song, “Wrote it a long time ago. I think in the pandemic. I wrote it paper with my mum and dad's shed and stuck it up. It's still there, so we should get some security for that shed. But I felt very hopeless, and sort of the world keeps making it feel hard to be me or like my peers or anyone who's not a certain demographic. And the whole album is like, I'm defeated, but then I'm also defiant, obviously, because I always will be.”
The song features the choir. She said, “There's a choir that run by Angel Silver, who does lots of session work, and that was her choir. And then we had house gospel choir for a bit as well. So lots of different people, lots of different days of singing in a group.” -
Photo by Scarlett Carlos Clarke - source : BBC Radio 1
