Rina Sawayama shares euphoric new single ‘This Hell’ and UK tour dates
nme.comRina Sawayama has shared the first single from her forthcoming album ‘Hold The Girl’.Produced by Paul Epworth, ‘This Hell’ is described as a “joyous and roaring slice of pop-meets-country” which is “awash with glam rock riffs and lyrics that are peppered with tongue-in-cheek one-liners shouting out a pantheon of gay icons – Britney [Spears], Whitney [Houston] and Princess Di,” in a press release.“I had so much fun writing ‘This Hell,’ said Sawayama. “The past couple of years I’ve been listening to lots of female country singers and wanted to write a euphoric and tongue in cheek country pop song.
Country music at its core to me represents comfort, brilliant storytelling and authentic expression of the writer’s reality.
I put in as many iconic pop culture moments as I can, but the song is more than that.”She added: “It’s an important song for me given the human rights that are being taken away from minorities at a rapid rate in the name of traditional religious beliefs, more specifically I was thinking about the rights being taken away from the LGBTQ community when I wrote this song.
When the world tells us we don’t deserve love and protection, we have no choice but to give love and protection to each other.
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