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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. Self Esteem talks singing Arctic Monkeys while "spangled" and meeting Mr Blobby". NME. 19 October 2022 . Retrieved 27 July 2023. Taylor has said that "Wresting" is about the early stages of many relationships in which both parties try not to seem too enthusiastic. [9] "Rollout", with its refrain " What I might have achieved / If I wasn't trying to please you" has been described by Taylor as being the story of her 20s, trying to people-please in her music, her romantic relationships, her family and in wider society. [7] Release and reception [ edit ] Mostly, I’m excited that the song isn’t a poppy sure-fire breakthrough,” she points out. “I still love that song; I think it’s the best thing I’ve ever made in my whole career.” 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.

The Pop Star We Need + Deserve: Self Esteem At Hammersmith Apollo, 17/3/23 | Gigwise". www.gigwise.com . Retrieved 26 March 2023. Solomon, Kate (18 July 2023). "Call Me a Lioness: Melanie C, Self Esteem and more record song for Women's World Cup". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077 . Retrieved 25 July 2023. 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. Taylor was previously a member of folk duo Slow Club, which formed in Sheffield in 2006. The band consisted of multi-instrumentalists Charles Watson and Taylor, with Watson on the piano, Taylor on the drums, and both performing guitars and vocals. [8] [9] The band paused working in 2017, [10] following an extensive tour to support their last album, owing to differing musical interests and Taylor feeling unfulfilled. [11] [4] Slow Club's final tour in the winter of 2016, and Taylor's dissatisfaction and unhappiness with the band, was captured in the documentary Our Most Brilliant Friends, directed by Piers Dennis and released in 2018. [12] [13] 2015–2020: The appearance of Self Esteem and Compliments Please [ edit ]Keep Lyrics Uncomfortable" – featured on the bass drum skin on Self Esteem live gigs in 2021 and 2022 [79] [6]

SELF ESTEEM – MY FIRST LIVE SHOW IS TOMORROW IN MARGATE | Facebook". www.facebook.com . Retrieved 4 February 2023. Self Esteem's Compliments Please is an exhilarating statement of intent". The Line of Best Fit . Retrieved 2023-04-28. a b c "How Rebecca Taylor found her self-esteem | Interview". The Line of Best Fit . Retrieved 2023-04-01. a b Wadia, Helena (21 February 2019). "How Rebecca Taylor found her self-esteem". The Line of Best Fit . Retrieved 18 October 2020. Blur announce reunion gig at London's Wembley Stadium for 2023". Radio X . Retrieved 2 February 2023.

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In one such attempt to avoid conflict, Taylor laid out her reasons for bailing on her mate’s awkward barbecue on the spoken-word verse of ‘I Do This All The Time’: “If I went to your barbecue, I’d feel uncomfortable and not be sure what to say anyway”. Today she explains: “If I just be myself so openly and truly, it means you can’t send me a big text being angry that I didn’t come to your birthday – I put it in that song; you heard me! The nudes that could leak of me are unimaginable. But if I’m empowered by myself, and accepting myself for myself, then I’m free from the fear that I spent a lot of my 20s in.” I want to show, really authentically, what I look like in bed,” Rebecca Lucy Taylor announces, a couple of days ahead of her first-ever NME cover shoot.

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. She says that breaking away to do her own thing has been “the greatest joy”, adding: “Everything about that world was like, ‘Ooh – we just happen to be playing our songs quietly, don’t look at me, don’t make any sort of spectacle out of me; I’m just sort of accidentally talented. That’s something I never enjoyed about it. I want to put on a show – I want it to be too much!Official Vinyl Albums Chart Top 40 | Official Charts Company". www.officialcharts.com . Retrieved 2023-05-19. Beaumont-Thomas, Ben; Snapes, Laura (17 December 2021). "The 50 best albums of 2021". The Guardian . Retrieved 17 December 2021. a b c "Start showing off: in conversation with Self Esteem". Loud And Quiet . Retrieved 22 March 2023. Feelings)", the spoken word beginning to the record, features an American woman speaking about the frustrations and compromises of being in a band, something which Taylor experienced while in Slow Club. [6] The audio is Taylor's recording of Los Angeles Uber driver Kelly Jones, who was speaking about her own experience of being a singer in a band. [1]

Self Esteem has appeared on major TV entertainment shows in the UK and the US including Later...with Jools Holland, [95] the Graham Norton Show, [96] Jools' Annual Hootenanny [97] and The Late Late Show with James Corden. [98] Richards, Will (25 August 2021). "Self Esteem talks basing her new live shows on Madonna's 'Blonde Ambition' tour". NME . Retrieved 8 March 2023. Murray, Robin (17 October 2014). "Django Django's Dave MacLean Launches New Label". Clash Magazine . Retrieved 20 March 2019.Cairns, Dan; Dean, Jonathan; Helm, Jake. "25 best albums of 2021". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460 . Retrieved 13 December 2021.