- 2025-03-04
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MUSIC
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Rebecca Black Releases New Project “SALVATION”
American singer-songwriter Rebecca Black released her new project “SALVATION” on February 27, 2025.
This marks her first body of work in two years since 2023 album “Let Her Burn”.
The project comprises 7 songs, including pre-singles “Salvation” and “Sugar Water Cyanide”, produced by Chris Lyon, johan lenox, Marcus Andersson, Medium, Nightfeelings, NOVODOR and STINT.
Rebecca Black said of the project, “Major gratitude to all of the producers and writers who were crucial in piecing every song in this project together. I've never had so much fun creating + have ever been so fulfilled in making something I've believed in this much. I knew from the last days of February in 2023 that Chris, Lauren, Marcus and I wrote Tears in My Pocket + Do You Even Think About Me b2b that I was headed on a journey of discovering a kind of creative truth that'd never leave me the same. Come July of that year we sat down again in London to write Salvation - a word id been hyperfixated on reclaiming and spent the hour long tube ride over to the studio thinking about what it could mean as a big ol' gay anthem. Fast forward a year later when Jesse, Nick and I sat down to finish on American Doll and ended up writing Sugar Water in what felt like minutes - truly every single song on this project bleeds so much love and labor and passion for what we get to do.”- Rebecca Black told Apple Music about project, “SALVATION is based around this idea of letting some of the less-safe, less-poised, less-sweet versions of myself into my world. As I was letting these more dangerous parts of myself be shown, it almost felt like a protective mechanism. Because if I make it larger than it is, it feels less naked.”
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Rebecca Black explained about some tracks for the project via Apple Music.
“Salvation”
“It felt really energizing to explore this really sexy, really unafraid, very direct version of myself that I hadn't before. The song is all about taking ownership of the version of yourself you are, regardless of whether anybody else understands. I like juxtaposition. There's a bit of rapping happening—that, against a super melodic, ultra-harmonized chorus that feels to-the-bones of the pop that I grew up with in the mid-2010s, was really nostalgic for me. It felt right, given it's basically a song about being gay as fuck.”
“TRUST!”
“'TRUST!' felt daring. It felt like the least seriously I had ever taken myself. Genuinely, if I had known three years ago that I would have a song where the chorus is, 'Ooh, la la, get me going like ga ga ga,' I would've been so afraid that people would've gone, 'Is this bitch fucking stupid? She thinks she can do “Friday” and then do this, and we're going to treat it seriously?' That felt like a moment of freedom where there was something really exciting and invigorating. It felt like a banger instantly.”
“Sugar Water Cyanide”
“I forget what [co-writers Jesse Saint John, Nightfeelings] and I were listening to or how we landed on the idea, but it was the first time in a while that I had started writing a song without a lot of prior thought around it. I wanted to make something that felt really visceral, and really sexy, and really fun. I knew that I wanted to take a big risk sonically that day. We landed on this juxtaposition of this very sugary-sweet verse with this truly deathly chorus. It felt like the most emblematic version of me I could put in a song. Lyrically, it felt so fun to create an energy that wasn't the story of meeting someone or an experience. It was just about a feeling and trying to put words to that in the most Rebecca way possible.”
“Tears in My Pocket”
“'Tears' felt like such an informative first song for the rest of the project. Something else I wanted to explore was minimalism and space and silence in songs. It was the first time I felt like I had successfully done that without losing energy, because I didn't want [this project] to be soft. I wanted to create something bright and in your face, and that has the same level of impact—maybe even more—as a song that has a thousand elements of production. This was probably the first time I left a session on the day with an almost-finished song. That was also a big practice for me, learning not to touch whatever we first landed on.” - source : Apple Music
