ELL A EYRE IS BACK WITH A BRANDNEW TRACK AND IT ’S ONE HELL OF A STATEMENT OF INTENT FOR 2020.
Not only is “New Me” a brilliantly crafted break-up banger, it also marks a new professional era for the pop star, who joined Island Records last June after more than half a decade at Virgin Records. The track’s dancehall inspired beat nods to this change in direction, with an evolution in sound she calls ‘more cultural’. Although a second album has yet to be announced (it’s been five years since her first), it seems unlikely fans will have to wait long, with a UK tour slated for May and June and, according to Eyre, a full bank of material that, like “New Me”, was recorded in Jamaica last year.
Eyre burst onto the scene in 2014 as a featured singer on Rudimental’s No. 1 mega-hit “Waiting All Night” and has since become a regular feature on the radio and the British celebrity circuit. With a big, bold vocal and a knack for writing catchy hooks, she’s behind some of the most inescapable songs of the past few years, from payday anthem “I Just Got Paid” with Sigala, to “Answerphone” with Banx & Ranx.
Here, the Brit Award winner covers everything from changing her team and how she moved on from her ex to the first time she got drunk and her first big spending spree.
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