Take heed to Rina Sawayama’s new pop ballad ‘Phantom’

Rina Sawayama has shared ‘Phantom’, one other reduce from her forthcoming album ‘Maintain The Woman’ which is launched subsequent month.

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‘Phantom’ is a pop ballad about Sawayama reassessing her wants versus different individuals’s. It follows on from final month’s ‘Maintain The Woman‘ in addition to ‘This Hell’ and ‘Catch Me In The Air’ which have been shared earlier this yr.

Talking about her new track, Sawayama mentioned: “I realised as an grownup that I've spent my complete life pleasing different individuals and never realising it – consistently pushing my boundaries and never realising the distinction between what I needed to do and what different individuals needed from me. Via the lyrics within the verse I’m attempting to inform this story after which within the choruses I’m morning the lack of my actual self.”

The one comes with a visualiser – watch under.

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‘Maintain The Woman’ is now due on September 16 through Soiled Hit, two weeks later than initially deliberate because of “production issues”.

In the meantime, Sawayama lately introduced a US headline tour for November – find any remaining tickets here.

A month previous to that tour she's going to embark on a UK and Eire headline run, the place a Cardiff present was lately added because of “phenomenal demand” (find tickets here).

Earlier this summer season the London singer-songwriter mentioned how she was impressed by the “faux tales” on Taylor Swift‘s ‘Folklore’ for her new album.

Sawayama, who's following up her 2020 debut album ‘SAWAYAMA’ with ‘Maintain The Woman’, instructed Rolling Stone UK that she was influenced by Swift telling different individuals’s tales on her 2020 lockdown album, transferring away from the autobiographical work of her previous.

“I keep in mind when Taylor Swift launched Folklore, I used to be like, ‘This bitch is writing about faux tales and she or he simply wrote a complete album. If she will do it, I have to do it,’” Sawayama mentioned, revealing that it was too painful to jot down songs about her personal experiences whereas going by remedy.