Self Esteem shares vulnerable new B-side ‘Love Second Music First’
nme.comSelf Esteem has shared a reflective new track called ‘Love Second Music First’. Check it out below.Shared today (September 13), the new song by Rebecca Lucy Taylor arrives as a B-Side to her current single ‘Big Man’.It is available to buy and stream digitally ahead of a physical release of ‘Big Man’ on 7-inch picture disc vinyl on October 18 – visit here to pre-order.“This is a song I wrote about my long-term lover,” the Sheffield singer explained about the inspiration behind the B-side in a new statement. “Music is a difficult lover.
Controlling and toxic. I don’t recommend it. My heart aches but I can’t deny that nobody does it quite like them.”The track comes as a modern take on the traditional ballad – combining a melancholic piano melody with electronic-tinged vocals.“I look in the mirror and I see what I wanna see/ What would make me feel better?/ Is it being younger?/I look in the mirror and I see the real me,” Self Esteem sings, leading up to the defiant chorus: “Let me be, go/ Just some peace”.
Check it out below.For Taylor, both ‘Big Man’ and ‘Love Second Music First’ mark her first new songs under the Self Esteem moniker since the release of her BRIT and Mercury Prize-nominated 2021 album, ‘Prioritise Pleasure’.‘Big Man’ comes as a collaboration with Moonchild Sanelly, and explores motifs of modern masculinity and gender roles.Speaking about working with the South African musician and dancer Sanelly, Taylor explained: “Me and Moon wrote a song from the perspective of a good boyfriend.
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