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RuPaul's Drag Race was my religion. It actually changed my shit and helped me get out of the band because I was, like, I could lip-sync to pop songs in a dress and be happier Moore, Sam (29 March 2022). "Self Esteem announces 2023 'I Tour This All The Time' UK and Ireland tour". NME . Retrieved 1 February 2023. It is about, for example, ignoring record execs and simply saying no to going to a barbecue she is not keen on, nailing a particularly millennial state of constant anxiety: “When I’m buried in the ground I won’t be able to make your birthday drinks but I will still feel guilty.” She has since been everywhere (if you watch Later with… Jools Holland and listen to 6Music, at least). At that point Slow Club had dominated Taylor's life since she was a teenager in the northern English town of Rotherham. She met the band's cofounder Charles Watson on the Sheffield gig circuit, where she was playing with her high-school outfit the Devlin Project. "I could die thinking about how cringe it was," she says. "I'm in skinny jeans oversinging the f*** out of a Smiths song." In her late teens, Slow Club won a small indie record deal: cue a decade of critical praise, moderate success and frequently miserable touring.

Self Esteem: Sheffield singer 'lost her tiny mind' over Meadowhall". BBC News. 28 June 2022 . Retrieved 7 March 2023. Murphy, John (18 October 2021). "Self Esteem – Prioritise Pleasure". musicOMH . Retrieved 29 October 2021. a b c Self Esteem talks ‘Prioritise Pleasure’ | 2022 Mercury Prize with FREE NOW , retrieved 22 March 2023 Self Esteem - LOVE ME LOVE MY PSORIASIS. Self Esteem. 27 October 2015. Archived from the original on 4 February 2023 . Retrieved 10 February 2023– via YouTube.AK: What is the difference in terms of writing alone and in collaboration? How does the writers’ room in TV or working with a bandmate compare with writing for yourself? a b Snapes, Laura (21 October 2021). "Self Esteem: Prioritise Pleasure review – Britain's funniest, frankest pop star drums out her demons". The Guardian . Retrieved 29 October 2021.

Self Esteem, a pop singer who wants Britain to 'prioritise pleasure' ". WION . Retrieved 22 March 2023. Self Esteem is currently due to resume her tour in support of Prioritise Pleasure this weekend (November 6) after being forced to postpone this week’s dates due to illness. LP: A lot of your songs tend to be quite short and sometimes end abruptly. I’m always worried about overstaying my welcome in lengths of plays, so what’s your approach?Self Esteem's music is characterised by its prominent drum rhythms, female choral elements [7] and powerful, precisely articulated lead vocals, often alongside organs, distorted guitars and string arrangements. Taylor has said "I love heavy beat and heavy bass, I love strings, I love choir, and I love big, cinematic sounds". [7] Self Esteem has been described as pop, art pop, experimental pop and indie/alternative pop; Taylor herself has said that she dislikes it being described as "indie". [5] Her lyrics and vocal delivery are central to the songs: she has been described as "one of the best lyricists of her generation" [68] and as having live vocals "so clear and pure they could wake bears from hibernation". [68] She writes songs on guitar before arranging them with other musicians. [19] Taylor has described herself and her producer Johan Hugo Karlberg as being "obsessed" with Kanye West, [69] and she has cited a range of other influences including Madonna, Destiny's Child, Rihanna, Outkast, Queen, Fleetwood Mac, Neil Young, Kate Bush, Max Richter, Arctic Monkeys, and Lady Gaga. [2] [70] [71] [72] [73] Although she has worked with other musicians on Self Esteem, Taylor has used the project to channel her own undiluted ideas, in constrast to her experience with Slow Club where she felt she constantly had to compromise, saying "I hate this idea that compromise and collaboration is the only way to make something good". [5] [19] Self Esteem - The 345 (Jools' Annual Hootenanny). BBC Music. 1 January 2023. Archived from the original on 11 January 2023 . Retrieved 10 February 2023– via YouTube. Summer 2022 saw Taylor play a mammoth 30 festivals, teeing up her biggest run of shows to date: the 2023 I Tour This All The Time tour included a huge three nights at London’s Eventim Apollo, three nights at Manchester’s Albert Hall, and two nights at her hometown’s O2 Academy Sheffield. Self Esteem also supported Blur at their huge Wembley Stadium show and performed with the Royal Northern Sinfonia at the 2023 BBC Proms. Gathering a passionate and vast legion of fans, Taylor is one of a handful of artists to have been playlisted across BBC Radio 1, 2 and 6 Music simultaneously. She has appeared on numerous iconic television series including The Graham Norton Show and Jools Holland (including the NYE Hootenanny) and has graced the covers of magazines from Grazia to NME to The Times Magazine and Sunday Times Style. In a comedy sketch that was released to promote her 2019 debut, Compliments Please, Rebecca Lucy Taylor is grilled about the imagined impact of the album 20 years on. (It was so great that it "destroyed music as we know it".) With a transatlantic accent, impeded facial movement and wearing a tiara over a turban , she faces a hostile male interviewer who attempts to sum up her revolutionary sound: it is "melodic complaining", "poor-me periodcore" and "menstrual madness set to music".

a b Hunt, El (20 August 2021). "Self Esteem: "I want to use the palatable nature of pop to Trojan horse in my agenda" ". NME . Retrieved 26 March 2023. Helm, Dan Cairns, Jonathan Dean and Jake. "25 best albums of 2021". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460 . Retrieved 13 December 2021. {{ cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list ( link)

Self Esteem I Interview I Music-News.com. MusicNewsWeb. 6 April 2022. Archived from the original on 10 February 2023 . Retrieved 10 February 2023– via YouTube. 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. 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.

a b "Self Esteem: The bigger I get, the more threatening I become". BBC News. 20 July 2022 . Retrieved 22 March 2023. Dean, Laura (21 October 2021). "Self Esteem – Prioritise Pleasure". God Is in the TV . Retrieved 29 October 2021. 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 says, grinning. “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.” 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] Rebecca Lucy Taylor said: “I’ve never made a secret of my love of theatre and I honestly couldn’t be more excited about getting to make my stage debut as one of the greatest leads of all time. I’ve joked for years that there’s no need for a Self Esteem musical really because Sally’s story covers most of the points and here we are. I am both artistically and emotionally raring to take on this challenge. Pinch me!”

a b Richards, Will (23 August 2021). "Green Man festival 2021: there's magic in the mountains, and a sense of renewal". NME . Retrieved 8 March 2023.