KeiyaA is again along with her first new track in years. “Stupid Prizes” follows 2022’s “Camille’s Daughter,” and it comes with a black-and-white music video co-directed by KeiyaA and Caity Arthur. Watch it beneath.
“I wrote, recorded, and produced ‘Silly Prizes’ multi function sitting, at dwelling late at evening in my front room in Brooklyn,” KeiyaA stated in an announcement. “I sampled Percy Religion, an orchestral composer identified for creating wealthy and luscious scores and present tunes, serving to contribute to this basic ‘American’ sound. I sought out to create this kind of mattress of irony, to talk and sing about being depressing on prime of this stunning, dreamy, and romantic music. Which speaks not solely to what it will probably really feel like navigating my inside and exterior worlds, but additionally what it appears like being a marginalized particular person in America.”
KeiyaA—a Chicago-born singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer who’s now primarily based in New York—launched her debut album, Forever, Ya Girl, to nice acclaim in 2020. Her first full-length stage manufacturing, Milk Thot, premiered at New York’s Abrons Arts Heart earlier this 12 months, and, in keeping with a press launch, she plans to launch her sophomore studio album in 2025.
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