It seems that Self Esteem could also be teasing her return to music after wiping her social media and sharing a brand new put up.
Right this moment (January 16) the singer – actual title Rebecca Lucy Taylor – utterly cleaned her official Instagram account and shared a singular put up of a black title with the sentence “And now, I do know you’re feeling prepared in your bow,” written within the centre of it.
She shared that very same put up on her official X/Twitter in addition to on her Instagram tales. A sign-up hyperlink was additionally featured on her tales which directs those that click on to her web site and encourages all to enroll to her mailing record.
and now, i do know you are feeling prepared in your bow pic.twitter.com/K4pPZwBmiS
— Self Esteem (@SELFESTEEM___) January 16, 2025
The put up has left many pondering that the singer is now coming into her new ear for her upcoming third album. Again in September, Taylor revealed that she was about “70 per cent” into making her “trustworthy” third album.
Whereas talking to Nick Grimshaw as a part of his Sidetracked podcast with Annie Macmanus, Taylor shared: “I feel I’m 70 per cent via making the tough third album,” she started, including that she feels some strain to maintain up the momentum from her final studio launch. “Nobody has ever been that occupied with what I’m about to do. The final album had its little second, so I’ve received a pure quantity of stress from that.”
She additionally recalled how the brand new tracks have a unique supply of inspiration from her earlier discography, explaining that what served as a fundamental supply of inspiration for her was discovering herself at a crossroads in her profession.
“I used to have a really clear concept about what I wished… Now the thought isn’t that clear. I don’t know if it’s as a result of I’m burnt out or as a result of I’m 37,” she defined. “My mate the opposite day was like ‘Is there anybody who has carried out what you’ve carried out?’, and I used to be like ‘That’s the issue, in a method’. Everybody else did it of their 20s so there’s no blueprint. At 40 most girls disappear, and I’m simply getting began.”
Chatting with NME about her forthcoming third album in 2022, Taylor commented: “I’m nonetheless whinging about a great deal of different stuff. ‘Prioritise Pleasure’ was solely the beginning of the penny dropping.
“I’m nonetheless this hyper-emotional particular person, I discover all of it a bit onerous and that’s the place I’ll all the time write from. You understand how Ed Sheeran simply sings about loving his girlfriend? At some point I’ll simply be capable to try this. For now, I’ve simply received to combat injustice at each nook. It’s tough, however I’ll do it!”
‘Prioritise Pleasure’ went on to obtain a Mercury Prize nomination in 2022 and charted at Quantity 11 on the UK Albums Chart. In a four-star assessment of the LP, NME shared: “Assured and unapologetic, it’s charged with a darkish, smirking wit that’s inconceivable to show away from, and achieves an extremely spectacular feat: not solely does Self Esteem element the worry, uneasiness and anger of being a girl – keys clutched between our fists – but additionally manages to make us giggle on the sheer absurdity of being compelled to navigate a world that has, fairly unbelievably, normalised misogyny.”
Following the discharge of ‘Prioritise Pleasure’, the singer went on to launch the soundtrack to West Finish manufacturing Prima Facie. Directed by Justin Martin and starring Killing Eve actress Jodie Comer, Prima Facie is a one-person play that follows Comer as felony defence barrister Tessa Ensler.
In 2023, Rebecca Lucy Taylor went on to carry out the lead position of Sally Bowles within the West Finish manufacturing of Cabaret. She additionally teamed up with Moonchild Sanelly for the collaborative single, ‘Large Man’. Most lately, she teamed up with Tom Rasmussen on the collaborative monitor ‘Rescue Me’.