Self Esteem is here to spice up February 14th – with sizzling new single ’69’.

UK pop’s foremost over-sharer is back, and this time love-making is firmly on her mind. The lyrics to new single ’69’ are essentially notes in the margin of the Kama Sutra, a catalogue of bendy limbs and sensual pleasures.

Alas, there’s one thing Self Esteem just can’t wrap her head – or anything else – around: yep, it’s ’69’.

The pulsating, muscular, lascivious electronics underpin a heady vocal, complete with guest parts from LA drag superstar Meatball. Self Esteem sings on the chorus:

“The one thing I hate, cos I can’t concentrate, no I just can’t abide, yeah I’ve never the time, to 69…”

“I always wanted to write a song that lists sex positions and rates them,” explains Self Esteem aka Rebecca Lucy Taylor. “A lot of my music is saying the things I struggle to say in real life. I like the idea of clearly communicating your needs in one quick, three-minute house song. It is also political – women still are expected to cater to others sexually; I can’t hear another discussion about ‘faking it’, it upsets me too much! There’s enough inequality in the male/ female dynamic as it is. Our bodies go through so much more pain and suffering, please god let us get the pleasure where we can!”

“I’d already written the song and then months later my all-time favourite drag queen Meatball said pretty much the same on her podcast Sloppy Seconds, and I knew it had to make the album!” 

The video is a group therapy session that winds up diving into a fantastical dance routine – all par for the course in Self Esteem’s wondrous pop vision.

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Self Esteem will release new album ‘A Complicated Woman’ on April 25th. Catch her performing A Complicated Woman Live at Duke Of York’s Theatre in London between April 16th – 19th.

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Photo Credit: Scarlett Carlos Clarke

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