RAYE has celebrated the discharge of her debut album ‘My twenty first Century Blues’ by constructing an set up of the construction on the duvet outdoors her former document label’s workplace.
The artist has had a hard-fought battle to launch her debut album. Regardless of signing a four-album take care of Polydor in 2014, she claimed in 2021 that the label prevented her from releasing an album, and three weeks later, was launched from her contract.
Now, together with her debut lastly out, RAYE marked the event by constructing an set up of the construction on the paintings of ‘My twenty first Century Blues’ outdoors the Polydor workplace. “Possibly I used to be petty and constructed this set up in entrance of my outdated document label,” she stated in a TikTok. The video was accompanied by the caption, “I discover myself in an amazing place,” in an inversion of the lyric “I discover myself in a shit place,” from her current Quantity One hit ‘Escapism’.
In a four-star overview of ‘My twenty first Century Blues’, NME wrote: RAYE just lately stated that [her] daring and courageous declarations wouldn’t have been launched had she nonetheless been signed to a significant label. Granted her inventive independence, although, the hard-fought ‘My twenty first Century Blues’ is unequivocally RAYE from begin to end.”
@raye I discover myself in an amazing place 😭🫀#my21stcenturyblues #m21cb #raye #escapism
♬ Escapism. – Tremendous Sped Up – RAYE
RAYE additionally just lately spoke out about her “harmful” expertise of substance abuse up to now, which stemmed from her experiences of sexual assault and her unhappiness about her profession. A lyric from her music ‘Ice-Cream Man’ revealed that she had been sexually assaulted by an unnamed producer.
“While you preserve issues in like that, they eat away at you from the within,” RAYE advised the BBC in an interview. “And for me, sadly, substance abuse was entangled with numbing the trauma that I had skilled.”
She continued: “I obtained fairly deep in and it obtained actually harmful at one level.”