{"id":3638,"date":"2025-04-29T19:29:43","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T19:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pilotshopworld.com\/?p=3638"},"modified":"2025-04-30T10:20:35","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T10:20:35","slug":"self-esteem-is-a-complicated-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.pilotshopworld.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/29\/self-esteem-is-a-complicated-woman\/","title":{"rendered":"Self Esteem Is 'A Complicated Woman'"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cFor years my therapist has been trying to say that there is me and then there’s Self Esteem<\/u><\/a>, but I used to be like, \u2018No, it’s all me! It’s all me!\u2019” Rebecca Lucy Taylor laughs. But when you have as many different irons in the fire as the creative force behind the seismic new album A Complicated Woman<\/em><\/em><\/u><\/a>, the concept of \u201call\u201d takes on a different meaning. <\/p>\n

The English vocalist\u2019s early steps into the music world came as a member of the folk duo Slow Club, but her boundless imagination has led to an incredible array of expression since \u2014 most prominently as the explosive pop star Self Esteem. From her 2019 solo debut Compliments Please<\/em><\/em> to the critically and commercially adored 2021 album Prioritise Pleasure<\/em><\/em>, Taylor boldly swirls R&B, electronic, pop and more into an immersive, expressive blast. The latter record was an absolute revelation, dominating year-end lists both in her native UK and around the world, and led to nominations at the BRIT Awards and the Mercury Prize \u2014 solidifying her place as a vibrant touchstone for pop\u2019s grand future.<\/p>\n

As if that weren’t enough, Taylor branched out from that project, including working on the soundtrack for a Laurence Olivier Award-winning stage production and taking her own star turn in the West End as Sally Bowles in Cabaret<\/em><\/em>. And across it all, Taylor is unafraid to unravel the suffocating strictures of identity we all relate to in front of our eyes, to bring a downright religious zeal to her endless expression of self. Listening to A Complicated Woman<\/em><\/em> delivers a sudden clang of hope in an era defined by cataclysmic dissolution. Whatever expectations are put on her, especially those based on her gender, Taylor not only defies them, she obliterates them. \u201cI am not your mother, I am not your mother, I am not your mom,\u201d she grits on \u201cMother\u201d an undeniable, house-indebted highlight from A Complicated Woman<\/em><\/em>. \u201cEverything is all me, but I’m allowed more truth as Self Esteem,\u201d she insists.<\/p>\n

PAPER<\/em><\/em> spoke with the rising pop star about embracing control of her art, the pressures of time on women and balancing the two wolves inside of her: \u201cpretentious wanker\u201d and \u201cdeeply mainstream.\u201d<\/p>\n

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