Lydia Evening, former frontwoman of The Regrettes, has launched her debut solo single “Pity Celebration.” Watch the track’s music video, directed by Evening and Ramisha Sattar, beneath.
“Pity Celebration” was produced by Alexis Kesselman, often known as Idarose, who has beforehand labored with Suki Waterhouse and helmed a lot of the writing and manufacturing on the soundtrack for Smile 2. Evening revealed in press supplies that this was the primary time she had ever labored with a feminine producer, noting that it was “game-changing.” Kesselman revealed in a video that she produced Evening’s forthcoming debut album.
“Stepping exterior of the band alone was spooky and felt like an enormous danger however one which I used to be able to make,” Evening mentioned. “I believe there’s quite a lot of humor and absurdity in the way in which we cope with darkish emotions and for me, a part of self-acceptance includes embracing the mess and laughing at it. Life typically seems like a efficiency, so why not make a present of it and personal the spectacle?”
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And Evening does certainly personal her flaws within the monitor’s music video, which options her in clown apparel, inflicting a scene on the grocery retailer, her native diner, and the laundromat. “Pity Celebration” ruminates on self-destructive habits and lays out Evening’s not so flattering traits in humorous style (“It’s loopy how I nearly died this 12 months and now I’m shotgunning my very first beer,” she sings within the second verse). The video ends with a license plate labeled “The Hearse” which can be a teaser for her debut album’s title, or one other track coming sooner or later.
The Regrettes disbanded in 2023 to pursue particular person endeavors, and performed their closing present in December 2023 in Los Angeles, CA. After listening to “Pity Celebration,” revisit our Observe By Observe interview with The Regrettes on their closing album Additional Pleasure.