Singer-songwriter Raye's smash hit "Where Is My Husband!" has sold 1.2 million copies in the U.K."That's cool, isn't it?" she said.Asked why she felt the song has resonated to such a degree, she replied, "The bit that connected first was that funny, tongue-twistery bridge":I would like a ring, I would like a ringI would like a diamond ring on my wedding fingerI would like a big and shiny diamondThat I could wave around and talk and talk about itTo watch Raye perform "Where Is My Husband!" click on the video player below: She may not have a ring yet, but "Where Is My Husband!" has more than a billion streams on Spotify.
Not bad consolation! "Now, it's like the wedding song, which is so hilarious, because it's actually a song about how single I am!" she laughed.That song is on Raye's second album, "This Music May Contain Hope," which Rolling Stone called "a hugely ambitious swing for the fences." She gravitates toward maximalism on stage, and at home, where her songwriting can start quite organically."I just, I don't know, play around something until I like it, and then it makes me feel something," she said.
"I do take notes, always jotting stuff down.I am creatively on strike at the moment though, which is quite nice." Meaning, what? "Meaning I poured out so much in this last album, I really, really, really went for it, and I think I'm in a place where I don't want to write about certain things anymore.
Being alone? I'm just over that, and expressing songs with, like, negative or frustrated connotations about la la la la la, this guy sucked and this was rubbish.I'm just done with that!" The 28-year-old artist, born Rachel Keen, grew up in London, and has been making music since she was a teen.
"I, at 14, had started my songwriting career.I was like, I want to work, let's do the work," she said.
Let's do the work, at 14? "I don't know why!" she said."I was like, 'Dad, I want to be a musician, I want to be a singer, I want to be a wri...