{"id":51804,"date":"2019-08-02T11:07:29","date_gmt":"2019-08-02T10:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=51804"},"modified":"2019-08-02T11:07:29","modified_gmt":"2019-08-02T10:07:29","slug":"raye-returns-with-love-me-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2019\/08\/raye-returns-with-love-me-again\/","title":{"rendered":"RAYE Returns With &#8216;Love Me Again&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Fresh from amassing over 1 billion streams of her music and co-writing Beyonc\u00e9&#8217;s new single &#8216;Bigger&#8217;, the opening track from the new Lion King inspired album, RAYE returns to the music scene this August with the future smash hit single &#8216;Love Me Again&#8217;, released today via Polydor Records.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- Random Ad stuff --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-ad-slot=\"3107208401\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2076862002005673\"><\/ins><\/p>\n<p><script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Written by RAYE and Jin Jin, and produced by Fred Ball, &#8216;Love Me Again&#8217; is a beautiful ode to winning back a lost love. With an indelible pop melody, church keys and a stunning and emotional vocal performance from RAYE, this song can&#8217;t help but leave you moved.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Listen here:<\/p>\n<div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\">\n<div  style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto;\"  id=\"_ytid_59720\"  width=\"640\" height=\"360\"  data-origwidth=\"640\" data-origheight=\"360\"  data-relstop=\"1\" data-facadesrc=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/a5FR5uaS3Nw?enablejsapi=1&#038;origin=https:\/\/essentiallypop.com&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=1&#038;controls=1&#038;disablekb=0&#038;color=red&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;rel=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__ epyt-facade epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" data-epautoplay=\"1\" ><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-spai-excluded=\"true\" class=\"epyt-facade-poster skip-lazy\" loading=\"lazy\"  alt=\"RAYE - Love Me Again (Official Visualiser)\"  src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/a5FR5uaS3Nw\/maxresdefault.jpg?w=640&#038;ssl=1\"  \/><button class=\"epyt-facade-play\" aria-label=\"Play\"><svg data-no-lazy=\"1\" height=\"100%\" version=\"1.1\" viewBox=\"0 0 68 48\" width=\"100%\"><path class=\"ytp-large-play-button-bg\" d=\"M66.52,7.74c-0.78-2.93-2.49-5.41-5.42-6.19C55.79,.13,34,0,34,0S12.21,.13,6.9,1.55 C3.97,2.33,2.27,4.81,1.48,7.74C0.06,13.05,0,24,0,24s0.06,10.95,1.48,16.26c0.78,2.93,2.49,5.41,5.42,6.19 C12.21,47.87,34,48,34,48s21.79-0.13,27.1-1.55c2.93-0.78,4.64-3.26,5.42-6.19C67.94,34.95,68,24,68,24S67.94,13.05,66.52,7.74z\" fill=\"#f00\"><\/path><path d=\"M 45,24 27,14 27,34\" fill=\"#fff\"><\/path><\/svg><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">RAYE says:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI&#8217;m so deeply in it all, and this song is super vulnerable, but it&#8217;s really powerful in its own way. I don&#8217;t want to make plastic music. I&#8217;m trying not to listen to anything that&#8217;s on the radio right now because I don&#8217;t want to create anything that anyone else is doing.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">To date, RAYE has a double Platinum, Gold and two Silver singles under her belt. She has written songs for artists such as John Legend, Major Lazer, Charli XCX, Little Mix, Hailee Steinfeld, Quavo, Normani, Ellie Goulding, Jax Jones, Khalid, 6LACK and Jessie Reyez, and worked with the world\u2019s biggest songwriters and producers including David Guetta, Diplo, Bloodpop, Andrew Watt, Jin Jin, Kamille, Julia Michaels, Fraser T Smith, Fred Ball and Justin Trantor.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The most tipped artist of the 2017 Tips, including No.3 in the BBC Sound of 2017, she received a BRIT Award nomination for &#8216;Best Single&#8217; with Jax Jones in 2018. This was followed by a Top 15 charting single, the Gold certified &#8216;Decline&#8217;, a record that stayed on the Radio 1 A List for a massive 8 weeks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Later last year she released her second EP, &#8216;Side Tape&#8217;, a culturally relevant collection of music featuring a number of collaborations with her artist friends, all curated by RAYE herself.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">RAYE has performed sold out shows at KOKO, Village Underground and Heaven, and will support Khalid on his upcoming UK and Europe tour. She has previously supported both Rita Ora and Halsey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fresh from amassing over 1 billion streams of her music and co-writing Beyonce&#8217;s new single &#8216;Bigger&#8217;, the opening track from the new Lion King inspired album, RAYE returns to the music scene this August with the future smash hit single &#8216;Love Me Again&#8217;, released today via Polydor Records.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51805,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,9,21453],"tags":[3272,340,22321,22322,5050,77,370,16475,81],"class_list":["post-51804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","category-new-releases","category-new-singles","tag-audio","tag-beyonce","tag-bigger","tag-jin-jin","tag-love-me-again","tag-new-release","tag-new-single","tag-raye","tag-video"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yMhl-dty","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":52977,"url":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2019\/08\/raye-teams-up-with-jess-glynne-for-new-remix-of-love-me-again\/","url_meta":{"origin":51804,"position":0},"title":"RAYE Teams Up With Jess Glynne For New Remix Of &#8216;Love Me Again&#8217;","author":"Essentially Pop","date":"30\/08\/2019","format":false,"excerpt":"RAYE teams up with superstar singer\/songwriter Jess Glynne for a new version of her single 'Love Me Again', out today.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Music&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Music","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/category\/music\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Raye1.jpg?fit=1200%2C847&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Raye1.jpg?fit=1200%2C847&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Raye1.jpg?fit=1200%2C847&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Raye1.jpg?fit=1200%2C847&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Raye1.jpg?fit=1200%2C847&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":63658,"url":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2020\/07\/raye-returns-with-stunning-new-single-video-natalie-dont\/","url_meta":{"origin":51804,"position":1},"title":"RAYE Returns With Stunning New Single &#038; 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