skip to main content genre: pop/r&b label: dirty hit reviewed: september 16, 2022 seeking empathy for a younger self, rina sawayama’s second album pirouettes through pop-punk and power ballads, trance and stadium rock. it’s ambitious in the same way as putting on all the clothes in ...
One of the few bright spots of the early days of the pandemic was genre chameleon Rina Sawayama dropping her debut album “Sawayama.” As weeks became months while trapped inside, the genre-hopping LP gave listeners an audio passport, effortlessly jumping from Gaga-style pop to the late ’...
21 September, London: Stormzy and Rina Sawayama will be recognised for their outstanding achievements and ground-breaking work at this year’s Association of Independent Music (AIM) Awards. The final list of nominees are also unveiled ahead of the star-studded ceremony on 28 September at London’...
Yet genre-bending pop experiments only carry an album so far. The true star of the album is Sawayama herself. She fills the songs here with her own past, fears, and upbringing making the album, at its best, unmistakably her own. On several tracks, Sawayama draws upon her Japanese heritage...
Rina Sawayama has become one of the most exciting queer voices in pop. Now she’s making room for anyone else who feels like an outsider.
But nobody relayed the genre’s future uncoolness to the tweenage millennials who imprinted on it: Grimes, Poppy, and now Japanese-British artist Rina Sawayama, who “kind of [likes] making really uncool things cool.” SAWAYAMA, her debut album after years of retromaniac singles, does for ...
“I’m like, ‘Why the f–– does he want to speak with me?’” Sawayama said.“He was like, ‘So I’ve been trying to cast this role, and he described the character, and then he said, ‘What are you doing for the next three months?’” Sawayama, the 32-year-old genre-defyi...
Sawayama peaked at No. 44 on the Emerging Artists chart (also on May 2, 2020). But her album has found favor with critics, includingBillboardwriters. Related In a list ofthe 50 best albums of 2020 (so far), Nolan Feeney opined “In these genre-fluid times, even the most adventurou...