RAYE opens up about feeling pressure to make new hits: “The bar is definitely high”

RAYE has shared that she is working on new material, but feeling a sense of pressure given the huge response to her last release.

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The London singer shared the update with fans in a new video on social media. In the clip shared to TikTok, she revealed why she has been keeping a relatively low profile online and confirmed that she has been back in the studio.

Plans for new music come on the heels of her 2023 breakthrough album ‘My 21st Century Blues’, which has gone on to see the artist break records for her number of wins at the 2024 BRIT Awards, perform at the 97th Academy Awards earlier this year, play on the main stages at both Glastonbury and Reading, and much more.

However, these milestones have seemingly led to a sense of pressure when it comes to writing new material, and RAYE has said that the expectations left her reduced to tears in the studio because she “couldn’t write anything”.

“I was overthinking everything and I definitely cried. So I’ve been offline because the bar is definitely high,” she said.

“I just want to trust my gut, hope I make the right decisions and, more than anything, just believe in it if no one else does because I do,” she added. “I have to think like that, that’s why I’m offline.”

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