SELF-ESTEEM

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Back then, it was widespread consensus the next time we'd see her in 0121 would be in a far larger venue. Taylor’s dispatches from the front line of millennial womanhood began life in 2017 as an Instagram account. I was so scared of pissing [Watson] off – not because he inspired that in me, that’s just what I’m like. Earlier this month a Broadway transfer of the production was announced, for the August Wilson Theatre in New York. A recovering indie kid, Taylor did not dumb down to pop dynamics: she smartened up to them, making arena-sized tunes out of the bleak, wry things women confess to one another in whispers.

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. You think you’re getting this sugary injection of a pop song but it’s going to leave you with something more. Its title is a rallying cry against a society that has convinced its female population they should put other people’s needs before their own. Her two albums as Self Esteem tell of how one woman shook off the torpor of a life wasted trying to please other people and decided to please herself instead. The wolf noises that break out tonight are an echo of recognition – of the lunatic things women have to do to cope with the craziness of male threat.I still find myself in so many scenarios that are quite humbling and I just think, do they ever have to do their make-up in a bog before going on stage? It’s terrifying to realise that the only power you actually have as an artist is the power to walk away.

Director Rebecca Frecknall’s intimate revival, which opened in 2021 and won seven Olivier awards, originally starred Eddie Redmayne as the Emcee and Jessie Buckley as Sally.One of the lines references sexist comments from a Slow Club tour manager who told her to put her dress on and stop complaining and said: "You’d be working in McDonald’s if you weren’t doing this". Taylor immediately outgrew the packed 2000-capacity venue, appearing atop a white staircase like a millennial Annie Lennox, before trading in power stances all night. Remember You Don't Owe Them Anything" - printed on the gatefold of Compliments Please; Taylor wears a t-shirt with this slogan in the video for "In Time"; [85] features in the lyrics for "Girl Crush"; and printed in the credits of Prioritise Pleasure.

The album was nominated for the 2022 Mercury Prize, the winner of which was Sometimes I Might Be Introvert by Little Simz. Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behaviour or unique IDs on this site. Most of the album was written before the COVID-19 pandemic but its recording was delayed by the subsequent lockdowns. She has been a professional musician for much of her life, and started building the foundations of her solo project, Self Esteem, around 2014. 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.

International pop stars Jake Shears (Scissor Sisters) and Rebecca Lucy Taylor AKA Self Esteem are set to star as The Emcee and Sally Bowles, from 25 September 2023. The singer's fans see themselves in her music, which outlines the absurd contradictions of modern womanhood: be strong but don't be threatening; be true to yourself but wear a nice dress; embrace sex but don't flaunt it. 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.