SELF-ESTEEM

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a b "Self Esteem: The bigger I get, the more threatening I become". BBC News. 20 July 2022 . Retrieved 22 March 2023. But there is nothing that terrifies a man more than a woman that appears completely deranged" - words from a voice note that appears at the end of "I'm Fine" 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 also spoke honestly about the realities of being a musician and what needs to change in the music industry. Negative experiences with sound engineers had prompted her to hire her own technicians, “which means I take home less money … It’s so unregulated and you have to spend a lot of money to make sure you’re gonna be alright. That’s the main thing for me. It’s not a well-paid job, you have to need to do it. But there could be changes made so I’m not paying to not have a terrible time.” When Taylor wrote her breakout single, last year’s I Do This All the Time, she knew she had “nailed it”, she admitted. In Slow Club, she had always tried to write hits and failed. When she first went solo, she investigated the world of cowriting with other songwriters and hated it. “With Prioritise Pleasure, forcibly, because of the pandemic, I was on my own. I wrote it with no end in sight, and that’s how this album happened. And, of course, as soon as you stop trying, the universe [hands you a gift]. Not to be all ‘live laugh love’ but … ‘live laugh love’ is important, isn’t it.”

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 is a glimpse into Rebecca Lucy Taylor’s personal and professional journey to becoming a solo artist. Part-diary, part-poetry, this collection of Rebecca’s thoughts, lyrics, drafts and notes is a look into the deepest corners of Rebecca’s mind – and her phone. I think about all those pop girlies a lot,” she tells me over video chat in the days before her second album, Prioritise Pleasure, hits the shelves. “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? Because I seem to still be doing that. And I wonder when that will change.”Her support acts all come from a community of like-minded, mostly queer artists. She has unofficially dubbed the dates “The Indie Survivors Tour” thanks to the inclusion of drag queen Ash Kenazi who also spent most of their twenties in jangle-pop three-piece Happyness.

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] a b Hunt, El (20 October 2021). "Self Esteem – Prioritise Pleasure". NME . Retrieved 29 October 2021. Believe Women" - worn on t-shirts by dancers Marged Siôn and Genesis Lynea in the video for "Rollout", [76] a statement in support of women reporting their experience of sexual harassment, abuse and violence Snapes, Laura (21 October 2021). "Self Esteem: Prioritise Pleasure review – Britain's funniest, frankest pop star drums out her demons". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077 . Retrieved 23 March 2023.Choir – Jacob Vetter, Marged Sion, Kelli Blanchett, Seraphina Simone, Sophie Galpin, Rebecca Lucy Taylor, Levi Heaton 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!” Self Esteem: Sheffield singer 'lost her tiny mind' over Meadowhall". BBC News. 28 June 2022 . Retrieved 7 March 2023. Richards, Will (25 August 2021). "Self Esteem talks basing her new live shows on Madonna's 'Blonde Ambition' tour". NME . Retrieved 8 March 2023.

The first time writer Lucy Prebble met singer-songwriter Rebecca Lucy Taylor, AKA Self Esteem, they both walked out of the West End play they had just been watching. “It wasn’t a bad play, we just wanted to talk to each other,” Prebble laughs as she recounts the story. “So if people leave my own plays from now on, I’m not going to assume that they hate it, I’m going to assume that life is more interesting.”I'm pretty f***ing selfish. I do it for myself.": An interview with Self Esteem". Varsity Online . Retrieved 26 March 2023. 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". My favourite pop star and soon to be my favourite poet. Rebecca Lucy Taylor is elevating the notes app to a high art form.” - Florence Welch Self Esteem members coordinate their clothing at live shows often wearing identical slogan t-shirts (see below) and on occasions in Sheffield Wednesday shirts. Taylor has worn notable outfits at Glastonbury performances - in 2019, a dress made from Boots Advantage (loyalty) cards, [80] and in 2022 a corset with a bra shaped like the domes of Sheffield's Meadowhall shopping centre. [81]