Self Esteem - Prioritise Pleasure
On Prioritise Pleasure, her second album as Self Esteem, Rebecca Lucy Taylor builds on the promise of Compliments Please to deliver a proper modern classic. At face value it’s a multifaceted pop album, but listen properly and it’s a treatise on contemporary culture, particularly the parts of the current day that are less palatable, less spoken about, and mostly endured by those in society other than straight men. If that sounds a bit “hard going” - and it really isn’t - then you can ignore the lyrics and just lose yourself in the music. But that really isn’t the point, so I wouldn’t bother.
“I’m trying to do a Trojan horse thing. You think you’re getting this sugary injection of a pop song but it’s going to leave you with something more.”
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