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Rina Sawayama releases new single reflecting on the year just gone
By Andy Malt | Published on Tuesday 13 December 2016
Previously CMU approved Rina Sawayama has released a new track, ‘This Time Last Year’, the follow-up to her Michael Jackson rework ‘Where U Are’, which came out in February.
Sawayama has been working on her debut album for the bulk of this year, collaborating with the likes of AK Paul, Clarence Clarity, Tourist and Salute. Her two 2016 singles sit either side of that work, but they also sit either side of much of this year’s global political upheaval.
“‘This Time Last Year’ was originally written about how widely things can change in love, but now seems so apt in a year that took everything we knew, and turned it upside down”, she says of the new song.
“Outside of our newsfeed, an ugly truth became evident”, she adds. “And the truth bloody well hurt. After this year, we need to be ready to ask questions, to confront and even empathise, and try to make sense of it all. We thought we knew everything, but we didn’t”.
Listen to ‘This Time Last Year’ here:
