She left when an obsession with Ru Paul’s Drag Race helped her to realise her dreams were actually maximalist: she had visions of huge pop choruses and dance routines that did not lend themselves to the gentle songs she and bandmate Charles Watson were making. Keep Lyrics Uncomfortable" - featured on the bass drum skin on Self Esteem live gigs in 2021 and 2022 [79] [6] Murray, Robin (17 October 2014). "Django Django's Dave MacLean Launches New Label". Clash Magazine . Retrieved 20 March 2019. Ahmed, Narzra (18 October 2021). "Self Esteem – Prioritise Pleasure". Clash . Retrieved 29 October 2021. 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.”

LP: It’s interesting, because it’s the first piece where I don’t feel like I’m trying to please somebody else.SELF ESTEEM - MY FIRST LIVE SHOW IS TOMORROW IN MARGATE | Facebook". www.facebook.com . Retrieved 4 February 2023. Earlier this month a Broadway transfer of the production was announced, for the August Wilson Theatre in New York.

Self Esteem - The 345 (Jools' Annual Hootenanny). BBC Music. 1 January 2023. Archived from the original on 11 January 2023 . Retrieved 10 February 2023– via YouTube. As an ardent pop fan, life in an indie band became stifling, she explained. “If you can’t be yourself, you go crazy, in any facet of life. I know it was just a band but I went crazy, I couldn’t be myself. It’s hard being from Rotherham and saying this but I’m an artist, I wake up every day and want to make art. I was having to make art through someone else’s lens.” I'm obsessed with harmony and choral stuff, and a lot of what I write I think, this doesn't sound great now but when it's got four or five harmonies on it, it will. And, yeah, I proved myself right!"SE: The gatekeeping in theatre is crazy, there’s so much in it that is traditional. I used to be very into the idea that someone would see something in me, but now I’m sure of what I’m doing. For the most part music is the best art form for me because I can have the idea in the morning and be playing it at the bar that night. I didn’t fully understand that when we met. LP: Theatre feels like something that you’d have to jump through quite a lot of hoops with, since there’s gatekeeping in it, whereas music strikes me as somewhere where you can purely express your craft without being overly controlled or corrected. Is that fair? 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 Episode 35: Rebecca Lucy Taylor (aka Self Esteem) - Listen - Seldom Differ's". chartable.com . Retrieved 25 September 2023. The record charted at No.11 on the Official UK Albums Chart, giving Taylor her first Top 20 record. This year has also seen her be honored with the BBC Music Introducing Artist Of The Year 2021 award and the trophy for the Attitude Music Award 2021.

Though it is hard to imagine Rita Ora happily perched on a grimy toilet seat applying fake eyelashes, it is less so to imagine Taylor, who has been a staple of the toilet-venue circuit for more than a decade. Before she became Self Esteem (she chose the name for this brave new feeling she was experiencing), she was one half of indie-folk duo Slow Club. Self Esteem performs during All Points East Festival in Victoria Park, east London (Photo by Burak Cingi/Redferns) Certainly, her days of perching on a toilet wondering what Rita Ora would make of it all are numbered.SE: I just have a laugh with it. It’s like a friendship that’s one-sided! I’m addicted a bit to saying what I think, and it also helps me feel less alone. Prioritise Pleasure was released on 22 October 2021. The UK Self Esteem tour started on 6 November 2021 in Edinburgh. [33] Jones, Daisy (14 January 2019). "Self Esteem and I Cheered Each Other Up at Winter Wonderland". Noisey.