Warts-and-all honesty ⦠Self Esteem. Photograph: Olivia Richardson
Once an earnest indie singer with Slow Club, Rebecca Lucy Taylor is now a take-no-prisoners pop diva. Can her patriarchy-smashing anthems conquer the charts?
Wed 21 Jul 2021 01.00 EDT
In a comedy sketch that was released to promote her 2019 debut Compliments Please, Rebecca Lucy Taylor is grilled about the imagined impact of the album 20 years on (it was so great, it âdestroyed music as we know itâ). With a transatlantic accent, impeded facial movement and wearing a tiara over a turban , she faces a hostile male interviewer who attempts to sum up her revolutionary sound: it is âmelodic complainingâ, âpoor-me periodcoreâ, and âmenstrual madness set to musicâ.
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