Self Esteem Rebecca Lucy Taylor Prioritise Pleasure BBC Breakfast 2021

With a list of previous winners including Arlo Park Celeste and Tom Grennan, the BBC Music Introducing Awards have been responsible for launching the careers of many artists with Glastonbury performances already under their belt, a new album and a UK tour United about to begin. This year's winner. -

esteem

seems willing to follow the same path listen, be very careful, stop trying to have so many friends, don't be intimidated by all the babies they have, don't be ashamed that everything you've had is fun, well, you same. -

esteem

the winner of this year's bbc presenting artist of the year award aka

rebecca

joining us now tomorrow congratulations this is the first time we've said this out loud I know I'm so choked up It's just that I've always felt that way.

I'm an award winner, but being an award winner now you know feels right, that's really interesting. You say you've always felt like an award winner. That's really reflected in your music, isn't it very powerful? Yes, why not? Where does it come from? oh just years of not feeling like that and like you're in the music industry as a woman surrounded mostly by men and a real sense of like I don't know it's hard to be my

self

and then I realized I'm not thinking about nothing of my

self

. To make everyone else comfortable, continue with what you changed, I'm just tired, tired, yes, it's exhausting trying to shapeshift all the time and be what you think everyone wants and then I stopped, accepted myself and I surrounded myself with good people. and now I'm having the right life, it's such a positive message, I mean I think there will be a lot of people looking at you, maybe they're not involved in your business, it could just be in their normal workplace or whatever they do thinking.

You know, I know that feeling, yeah, I think it's a bit of a myth that we've been told that self-love is selfish or narcissistic or, um, you're bragging or something or thinking a lot about yourself and it's actually the key to To like having a happy life is to love yourself, but it is very difficult and people have different ideas about what self-esteem is, right? And some of it, I mean, I guess it's figuring out what works for you, yeah and it's what works for you, that's right, just self-acceptance and doing what I want, like the title of my album is a priority

pleasure

and I think people think it's some kind of exciting, exciting title and I say no, I just mean I want to go home whenever I want I don't want to go to the party or I don't want you to know that you really like to please yourself when you start to doing so makes you a better partner friend colleague it's like a true myth that we like should like dedicate ourselves to everyone else like loving ourselves and then the rest of you are just better everywhere I think you speak very wise words yes I am older than I look good, right?

Do you know that wisdom does not? it always comes with age, does it do it because you get no, you get very wise things coming out of you, you meet younger people, yes, but you're definitely in that category, thank you, I just dedicated myself, I just found my twenties to be very difficult? it was very miserable and yeah, I just dedicated myself to figuring out why and how to fix it and why it was that way, why it was miserable just the way the expectations are and I like and I'm careful to start talking about gender, but as you know, we're very Similar to saying you're stupid, be a good girl and life will be easy and you'll be safe, you know?

And I started to feel why and it's hard and it's very complicated and It's longer than what we have to discuss, but um, yeah, I don't know, I'm like you can only live one, but actually the music that you talk about You don't want to talk about gender, but your music attracts men. and women it's not, it's not like you're writing an anthem that should only be heard by women, it's a very broad appeal, no, no, and my point is that I think just being alive is very difficult, it's like existed, whatever you identify as difficult and um, but I think we've been taught a kind of stiff upper lip, keep going, you know, keep calm, carry on, that kind of thing and the big feelings, uh, They're not negative, like, yeah, I like it, I've always been very emotional and it's been a bad thing, but now I realize that it's a very normal thing and I put it in my music and I will do it, and if people get some I'm very happy about that, but yes.

It sounds like I'm trying to start a bit of a cult, but you won the BBC intro, which has been happening in some ways because you've already done a lot, you've already done a lot, you'll be new to a lot of people maybe watching now yeah, you already did, you play Glastonbury for example, which is, uh, there we are, oh yeah, this is your point, the breaking of the glass is so good, oh, it's a good feeling, what's that feeling like? I'm just laughing because I'm there in a booth advantage card dress, yes I had this vision and we made it happen.

Now tell me what the visual card was because you know there's a famous card dress that someone else for the Oscars is an American gold card and for me. true wealth is a full boots advantage card so the power of that was my thought and it got a little out of control and now I'm on national television but there you go what is it I mean what? How was the classic? before amazing yeah and I like it again every time I go out on stage there are people there I'm really excited and you know the fact that there's starting to be more people it's just brilliant but I took it as long as I can say what I need in my music and there's someone there saying I'm happy and yeah so now I'm riding the wave so you sound like you've been through a lot before this and when you go out on stage. and you see the audience there there's never that doubt, there's never that little voice doing more saying her voices here a little bit because it's like it's a numbers game, isn't it as soon as you're in front of more people?

The ratios of people who like you and people who don't are going to change and I'm getting used to it. You know you have to do it, right? What is some kind of dance routine going on here? That's another thing. music videos yeah, let's go dancing in the club look, but you know what all that tells me is that I love the way you talk about things 'cause that oozes confidence that oozes you know I am who I am and all those things I want to say, maybe I need to have more stress, I think I'm thinking about it too much more than I'm doing, no, but yes, you know I was tired of living in the background.

I'm still living like half a life because I'm trying to protect my safety or protect my what people think of me and yeah, well I guess that's it, it's wonderful I like the kind of fall green also very nice, yeah , coordinated green was today's memo, charlie, congratulations, thank you, the album is called prioritized

pleasure

like you said and it's being released later this week, congratulations, well done, it's amazing, thanks for coming, this is all coming from the power of us.