CHVRCHES vocalist Lauren Mayberry is again with one other solo single, “Change Shapes.”
Led by a fab, pulsating bassline, Mayberry rails towards the expectations placed on her as a lady, and the way her efforts as a feminist are always undermined by those that assume she’s doing each an excessive amount of and never sufficient. “I’m preachin’ to the choir/ I’m a physique for rent,” she sings, earlier than launching into the strutting refrain: “I alter shapes to get what I would like from you/ It’s your recreation now you’re mad that I realized the foundations.”
In keeping with Mayberry, the track revolves across the concept of efficiency — how she’s a performer throughout the context of being in CHVRCHES, but additionally performing the concept of what her viewers, her friends, and the music trade at giant need her to be. “How do I preserve individuals pleased sufficient that they’ll let me do the inventive work that I need to? I really feel fairly faux and hypocritical typically as a result of a lot of the narrative across the band is ‘feminist,’ however my expertise within it hasn’t been a variety of the time,” Mayberry says in an announcement. “I really feel like I did all this work to make issues operate however if you DO adapt your self in that means, it’s seen as manipulative, to be able to get what you need.”
“Change Shapes” was written by Mayberry, Cleo Tighe, Evan Blair, and Matthew Koma, who additionally produced the monitor. It follows Mayberry’s earlier solo singles “Disgrace” and “Are You Awake?,” which each arrived in fall 2023.
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