néomí, aka Surinamese/Dutch folk-pop singer-songwriter Neomi Speelman, recently returned with her new single “your girl.” It’s a hint for what is to come for her debut album, which will be released next year.
“your girl” is a sprawling and lush slice of dream pop with a hypnotic presence and atmosphere, one with a feeling of enduring a loving relationship in the moment.
Or more specifically as Speelman details:
“‘your girl’ is about people (whether known personally to you or not) painting a picture ‘you’ using their own words, their stories, their interpretation of who they think you are today, or you should be tomorrow or how you were in the past. It is about realising that you are no longer playing yourself in your own ‘movie’ but instead find yourself trying to fulfil how others see you in their own ‘movie’. You lose yourself to another ‘you’ and become another character because of that. I noticed I was playing up to a character of how others around me saw me and had to work very hard to find myself again.
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