RAYE returns with dancefloor smash ‘Black Mascara’
RAYE has returned with a brand new single referred to as ‘Black Mascara’ – watch the official video for the dancefloor smash right here.
The singer has been teasing her debut album throughout 2022, and describes the brand new monitor as “the one upbeat dance monitor on the album.”
RAYE mentioned: “This music is about one other story that has contributed to my ‘blues’. I used the juxtaposition of an upbeat dance monitor to inform this terrible story of being misled by somebody I actually beloved and trusted. Whereas it was a darkish low second, it was additionally cathartic for me. The lyric ‘when you see my black mascara run from me to my mom’s arms’ is me saying, ‘if solely you would truly see the injury that’s been performed.’
“However I don’t need the story to finish there, it’s meant to be empowering, to lend a voice to girls like me who could have skilled their very own blues on this twenty first century.
“That’s what my album is about actually – tackling all of these blues that we expertise as a era. Paradoxically, that is the one upbeat dance monitor on the album, however I used my voice this time to inform a uncooked unfiltered story.”
Watch RAYE’s ‘Black Mascara’ video beneath.
The singer made headlines when she parted methods with Polydor Data final 12 months after claiming that the label had refused to launch her debut album, regardless of signing a four-album deal in 2014.
Earlier this 12 months, she teamed up with Disclosure for the collaborative single ‘Waterfall’. Information of her debut album correct is predicted within the coming months.
Chatting with NME this month, RAYE mentioned her label troubles, saying: “If you signal with a report label, technically they be just right for you: you’re signing to an organization for them to work in your profession and take you to that subsequent stage.
“However as a girl, it simply doesn’t really feel like that. It feels such as you’re working for them. And you recognize, among the issues I needed to put my physique by to even have the ability to that… it’s actually fairly unhappy.”