9 Years Later, Foxes Displays On Strain Following Grammy Win For “Readability” – EDM.com
For a budding musician, what could possibly be extra serendipitous than a Grammy Award proper firstly of their profession?
That’s the place singer-songwriter Foxes discovered herself in again in 2014, when her work on Zedd’s “Readability” nabbed the Grammy Award for Greatest Dance Recording. Practically 10 years after its 2012 launch, the generational anthem nonetheless manages to make crowds go gaga.
“I used to be like, ‘Oh, wait a minute. I’ve simply been writing in a bed room, and I’m instantly in LA holding a Grammy! I don’t actually know how you can cope with this!’” mirrored the Brit in a latest interview with the Philippine Daily Inquirer.
“I don’t actually suppose I used to be a pop act,” she remembered. “The key label I used to be with put me in a field…I used to be attempting to be the factor I wasn’t.”
At present, “Readability” has amassed a whopping 396 million streams on Spotify alone. Foxes’ acoustic model has garnered a further 12.5 million performs. However as a lot because the observe was a blessing for Foxes’ profession, it additionally turned a pressure-packed pigeonhole she simply could not appear to shake.
And so after two wildly profitable albums and a viral cover of Pharrell Williams’ “Completely happy,” Foxes determined to take a prolonged hiatus in 2016.
“Am I truly joyful like this?” she thought on the time. “For me, it’s extra in regards to the artwork you’re making, somewhat than the recognition you’re creating.”
Foxes was forward of her time. Whereas inventive breaks might now be wildly accepted—and even inspired—they had been actually not the norm seven years in the past. Nonetheless, Foxes took a pause together with her eyes large open, realizing that it very properly might have been the top of her profession, she stated.
Fortunately, in 2020, she emerged unscathed and renewed.
First got here “Love Not Loving You,” a dance banger interwoven with indie rock, dance-pop and disco. The tune was adopted by a slew of lyrically advanced singles, and now, Foxes is gearing up for the February eleventh launch of her third studio album, The Kick. The document’s most up-to-date single, the feel-good anthem “Absolute,” is out now by way of [PIAS] Recordings. Infectiously upbeat, it pairs a four-on-the-floor dance beat with bouncy drums, dazzling synths and a honeyed refrain.
But whereas the breathy, crystalline vocal tone of “Readability” stays, Foxes’ new work feels reinvigorated and contemporary.
“This time I feel I wanna lose management,” she sings on “Absolute.” “Is it shifting you, shifting you, shifting you?” And her followers are reacting higher than ever, as quantified by final yr’s Spotify Artist Wrapped figures.
“The stress’s been taken off, and I really feel like I am now writing songs that actually really feel actual,” Foxes added. “They’re coming from a spot that is the place I used to be initially at. It additionally allowed me to go off exploring totally different sounds and alternative ways of writing.”
You may pre-save The Kick now and purchase tickets to Foxes’ February tour, which kicks off in Glasgow on the eleventh, here.
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