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Raye vows to not write more songs until finding love: ‘That’s my silent protest’

Raye vows to not write more songs until finding love: ‘That’s my silent protest’

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the inside track from Roisin O’Connor with our free weekly music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This She’s topped the charts with songs about her search for love – and Raye has now made a promise on the subject. It’s one that fans hope she won’t need to keep for long: Raye has sworn not to write any more music until she finds a partner. The singer – whose real name is Rachel Agatha Keen – has dominated the British music scene in recent years, and further solidified her position last month when her second album This Music May Contain Hope, and its hit single Where Is My Husband!, both topped the UK charts. In a new interview accompanying her place on The Sunday Times Young Power List, the 28-year-old shared that she is putting songwriting on pause in “silent protest” until she answers the refrain of her hit single and finds her man. Singer has publicly declared her desire …

New Music Friday March 27: Paul McCartney, Miley Cyrus, Charlie Puth, ZAYN, RAYE, Suki Waterhouse and More

New Music Friday March 27: Paul McCartney, Miley Cyrus, Charlie Puth, ZAYN, RAYE, Suki Waterhouse and More

Published by Daniella Wilson

Happy New Music Friday! The weekend is here, which means more streaming, new playlists and the best that music has to offer — and ET has you covered for everything in between. Paul McCartney has announced his first solo album in over 5 years, The Boys of Dungeon Lane, out May 29. The album is his most introspective album to date and takes listeners back to where it all began. Paul has released a new song, “Days We Left Behind,” which he says is “very much a memory song of me. I was thinking just that, about the days I left behind and I do often wonder if I’m just writing about the past but then I think how can you write about anything else?” Miley Cyrus celebrated the 20th anniversary of Hannah Montana with a star-studded premiere of Hannah Montana 20th Anniversary Special at the El Capitan Theatre earlier this week. The special is streaming on Disney+ and Hulu and takes a look back as Miley revisits her most memorable moments. Miley shared, “HM …

Raye: This Music May Contain Hope review – a wildly ambitious epic of unbridled self-expression | Pop and rock

Raye: This Music May Contain Hope review – a wildly ambitious epic of unbridled self-expression | Pop and rock

Published by Sam Flores

Last autumn, Raye was the subject of a lengthy profile in a major fashion magazine. In it, the singer told an anecdote that placed her in precisely the position you would expect following her successful debut album: ensconced in the studio with a very big name producer, the better to capitalise on its success. But the recording session was, she suggested, “fuckshit”: the producer simply turned up with a beat and expected her to sing over it. Raye declined to, as she put it, “do that dance … I was just thinking: ‘Get me out of here.’” The artwork for This Music May Contain Hope. Photograph: Human Re Sources This story seems telling in light of This Music May Contain Hope, an album that very much suggests an artist determined to go her own way. It’s about an emotional breakdown occasioned by romantic woe, online criticism, a troubling call from her grandmother and, she notes, “seven negronis”. And, like Lily Allen’s West End Girl, it flies in the face of perceived wisdom about how people …

Raye Shares Petty Story Behind Nightingale Lane Pub Blue Plaque

Raye Shares Petty Story Behind Nightingale Lane Pub Blue Plaque

Published by Sam Flores

Last week, Raye fans made an exciting discovery in London, where they found a unique blue plaque that had been put up in her honour. To coincide with the release of Raye’s new single Nightingale Lane, a commemorative British Heritage plaque appeared outside a pub in South London. “Raye experienced the greatest heartbreak she has ever known here,” the plaque, outside The Nightingale pub in Tooting, reads, in a nod to Nightingale Lane’s opening line. On Sunday night, the chart-topping singer opened up about the meaning behind the plaque – and it is actually a lot pettier than it might have first appeared. Posting on TikTok, Raye revealed that she and her team had “put a nice plaque on my ex’s fave pub so he’ll never forget”, while posing outside the venue clutching a pint. “My dramatic era,” she joked in the accompanying caption. Popping up in the comments, Raye’s sister, fellow singer Absolutely, joked: “Being the ex of a songwriter is not for the weak. Never mind the world’s best songwriter.” The five-minute ballad …

Raye’s property portfolio — from south London council estate to LA

Raye’s property portfolio — from south London council estate to LA

Published by Sam Flores

Brit-school graduate turned multi-award-winning powerhouse Raye is rewriting the pop rulebook but her property roots are grounded in south London. The Prada singer, who dreamed big in Croydon, now divides her time between the capital and Los Angeles. Currently in the midst of a 40-date headline tour, which includes several nights at The 02, she is getting used to life on the road again. However, there is no place like home and her London and Los Angeles residences are cosy sanctuaries for life off the tour bus. A south London girl at heart Raye has spoken about hanging out on Croydon High Street as a teen Daniel Lynch Raye, aka Rachel Keen, lived on a council estate in Pollards Hill, south London until she was around seven when her parents moved from Croydon to Purley. In an interview with Time Out, she said: “There’s an unspoken thing about the energy in south [London]…I would spend a lot of time up and down Croydon High Street: Primark at one end, McDonald’s in the middle. “I’d sneak …

Raye confirmed as final Brit Awards performer for Manchester ceremony

Raye confirmed as final Brit Awards performer for Manchester ceremony

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the inside track from Roisin O’Connor with our free weekly music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This Singer-songwriter Raye has been confirmed as the final performer for this year’s Brit Awards, set to take place at Manchester’s Co-op Live on February 28. The artist, whose real name is Rachel Keen, joins an already impressive line-up for the live broadcast, including Harry Styles and Grammy-winner Olivia Dean. Other musical acts scheduled to perform include rock band Wolf Alice, Mark Ronson, and American singer-songwriter Sombr, known off-stage as Shane Boose. Raye, who is nominated in the pop act category this year, expressed her excitement, stating: “We are so grateful to the Brit Awards for having us back on their stage. Me and the band are very excited. Lots of love, Raye.” Raye made history in 2024 by securing six gongs at the Brit Awards, the most ever won by an artist in a single night, including songwriter and artist of the year. …