Yola follows receiving 4 nominations on the 62nd Grammy Awards — together with one within the all-genre Greatest New Artist class — with a powerful slate of latest bulletins, together with that of her second studio album, Stand For Myself, due July 30, and its lead single, “Diamond Studded Footwear.”
The countrified rocker’s easy-listening vibe and fanciful video stand in stark reduction in opposition to its extra profound message:
“The video is partially impressed by the Truman Present and is about being trapped in a false assemble,” the artist notes through a press launch. “It’s supposedly excellent, however you’re trapped in a life that wasn’t meant for you. I wished to convey the sensation that the whole lot you recognize to be true isn’t fairly working the best way it’s alleged to. The island on the finish is a paradigm of psychological conditioning, we’re all trapped on an island of our personal pondering, till we modify it.”
Even deeper, she provides, “This tune explores the false divides created to distract us from these few who’re accountable for the vast majority of the world’s wealth and use the ‘divide and conquer’ tactic to maintain it. This tune calls on us to unite and switch our focus to these with a stranglehold on humanity.”
Yola has additionally introduced that she will likely be one among few artists to carry out at each Newport People and Newport Jazz in the identical 12 months when she joins the lineup of each occasions this summer season. She will even be performing dates on Chris Stapleton’s rescheduled tour in 2021, plus will headline The Ryman Auditorium on March 3, 2022.
