Official Vinyl Albums Chart Top 40 | Official Charts Company". www.officialcharts.com . Retrieved 2023-05-19. a b c d Dean, Jonathan (12 December 2021). "Self-Esteem: 'I used to say I was younger but I can't pretend I'm 31 any more' ". The Times . Retrieved 13 December 2021. featured on a tie worn by Taylor on live TV shows including Graham Norton and The Late Late Show with James Corden, and on a pin badge worn on her suit during the 2023 tour. The statistic refers to a YouGov survey in 2021 which found that 97% of UK women aged 18 to 24 years old had experienced sexual harassment [86] [87] Don’t be intimidated by all the babies they have / Don’t be embarrassed that all you’ve had is fun / Prioritise pleasure,” goes one of I Do This All the Time’s most memorable lines. Women, she says, are not encouraged to indulge in “true mindless relaxation” in the way that men are, via video games and football, for example. “What’s the version of that for me?” (We agree that shopping and perfecting makeup techniques are too much like self-optimising work to count.) Has Taylor got any advice for an interviewer who is dangerously obsessed with productivity? “Have a bath with a nice candle! It sounds daft but it really is a good little intro to it,” she grins. “I’m really at the start of it as well, but saying prioritise pleasure every day for the next year is going to help me remember to.” All of my songs link to each other, because I’m always thinking about sex, sense of self, heartbreak or defiance. They’re always in there. Prioritise Pleasure is sexy and it’s about prioritising yourself in that way, but also it’s about prioritising just what you want every day. As a woman, I’ve people-pleased and shape-shifted and sort of begged the world to not be mad with me my whole life. The turnaround and the key to my happiness is to not do that anymore.”

Taylor has spoken about working regularly with a therapist for her mental health. [70] She has said that she used to lie about her age and say she was 25, and that it took her "a while to be proud" of breaking into the industry later in life. [4] With that slow beat opening it, me and my producer were like, ‘This would be an amazing first song…’ I’d wanted to write about something that’s happened to me. I wanted to reclaim my independence and my sexuality and my right to live my life however I want after that had been taken in a traumatic way. It has become this sort of mission statement at the top of the record for the thing I’m singing about. But for anyone who feels like they have to live their life because of the way society is—it’s for you.” Richards, Will (25 August 2021). "Self Esteem talks basing her new live shows on Madonna's 'Blonde Ambition' tour". NME . Retrieved 8 March 2023.I'm obsessed with harmony and choral stuff, and a lot of what I write I think, this doesn't sound great now but when it's got four or five harmonies on it, it will. And, yeah, I proved myself right!" Simpson, Dave (24 July 2023). "Proms at Sage Gateshead review – festival goes north for euphoric weekend that moves from Brahms to barking like dogs". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077 . Retrieved 5 August 2023. Beaumont-Thomas, Ben; Snapes, Laura (17 December 2021). "The 50 best albums of 2021". The Guardian . Retrieved 17 December 2021. a b c d BBC Introducing X Abbey Road Studios – Self Esteem. Abbey Road Studios. 13 December 2019. Archived from the original on 24 January 2023 . Retrieved 10 February 2023– via YouTube.

Self Esteem talks 'Prioritise Pleasure' | 2022 Mercury Prize with FREE NOW" . Retrieved 8 March 2023. Self Esteem's Rebecca Lucy Taylor on Prioritise Pleasure – The Skinny". www.theskinny.co.uk . Retrieved 26 March 2023.

Embley, Jochan (12 September 2019). "Stormzy, Dave and Little Simz nominated for 2019 Q Awards". Evening Standard . Retrieved 21 July 2020. Self Esteem is Rebecca Lucy Taylor, and a project which began with painting and prints and video alongside her day job writing and performing as one half of Slow Club. Since her musical divergence from the band, Rebecca has revelled in unleashing a whole version of herself with no compromises, no reducing herself, no hesitating. She would go on to write the songs that had been rising up inside her all through the years — big songs, that spoke of love and sex and chaos, that brought in huge basslines, gospel choirs, the kind of polished, provocative production she admired on the biggest pop records.

Self Esteem – Wizardry (Live on The Graham Norton Show). Self Esteem. 17 October 2022. Archived from the original on 11 January 2023 . Retrieved 10 February 2023– via YouTube.

a b c "Self Esteem: The bigger I get, the more threatening I become". BBC News. 20 July 2022 . Retrieved 7 March 2023. That’s a sister song to ‘She Reigns’ on the first record. I’m obsessed with acceptance at the minute and letting things just be. I’ve always been someone who wants to strong-arm reality into what I need it to be, rather than just letting it happen. I was a very convincing kid. I remember convincing my dad to get a dog by drawing a pamphlet that I pretended was from the RSPCA, where I listed the benefits of having a dog. That was cute, but I was just being a manipulative little shit. I’ve always been like, ‘I want this, why not?’ That’s how I was approaching a relationship that I wanted to continue and they didn’t. Finally, the penny dropped about letting things go with the flow and about acceptance and love.” Snapes, Laura (2019-03-01). "Self Esteem: Compliments Please review – sly, covetous pop". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077 . Retrieved 2019-03-20. Many of ‘I Do This All The Time’’s lyrics refer to Taylor’s own experiences – the voice creepily calling her a “sturdy girl” is based on a real-life tour manager, while many of the reassurances – “don’t be intimidated by all the babies they have / Don’t be embarrassed that all you’ve had is fun” – answer to the pressures that Taylor still feels. A band name that was coined ten years ago as a satirical quip upon Rebecca Lucy Taylor’s insecurities and self doubts has karmically proven itself to be a prophetic statement of intent in her new collection Compliments Please.

Girl Crush" is critical of performative bisexuality and about Taylor's own experience of being approached by heterosexual women to experience homosexual relationships as a curiosity or a dare. [7] [8] It has been contrasted to Katy Perry's " I Kissed A Girl" which has been criticised for trivialising same-sex relationships. [1] Goods that are faulty or sent in error must be returned to Crash Records Limited, 35 The Headrow, Leeds, LS1 6PU within 7 working days of the item being received by the customer. Compliments Please is the first studio album by the British musician Self Esteem, aka Rebecca Lucy Taylor, released on 1 March 2019. Taylor was made an honorary Doctor of Music at the University of Sheffield on 17 July 2023 "in recognition of her success in the music industry and public championing of inclusivity and diversity". [65] [66] She has also been recognised with a photographic portrait hung in the National Portrait Gallery in London. [67] Style and influences [ edit ]I was born in the ’80s, in Rotherham,” she says. “There was no way I wasn’t going to grow up thinking this is all well and good, but when I’m married and I have my children then I’m sorted. I still have that wiring. I start dating someone, and I’m like, ‘is this it?’ I have to go, hang on, is this what?’” Gradually undoing that same wiring, she says, has led her to some positive realisations – around the idea of a chosen family, for example. “I have a family and they’re not just people I’m related to,” Taylor says. “Humanity and connection and love doesn’t just have to be sexual. It’s all hard work, isn’t it?” Moore, Sam (13 October 2021). "Self Esteem shares new video for 'Moody' featuring Alistair Green". NME . Retrieved 13 November 2021.