Ego Ella May - Girls Don't Always Sing About Boys

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🗓️ 14 December 2020

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Ego Ella May - "Girls Don't Always Sing About Boys" from the 2020 album Honey For Wounds on UpperRoom Records.

On her debut album Honey For Wounds, South London-based artist Ego Ella May provides sweet relief from troubling times with her jazzy neo-soul sound. On today's Song of the Day, she asks listeners, "What if I wanna talk about suffering?"

“I will, of course, continue to write about love,” May said in an interview with Bandcamp. “But I’m also conscious of other things that happen in life, and I like to address them in song form. There are so many different themes on the album that it felt like a diary, even. ‘Girls Don’t Always Sing About Boys’ came about because I was sick of hearing songs about relationships on the radio. I wanted to talk about other things, and at the time I wasn’t thinking about love. Grenfell [the 2017 West London Tower fire that killed 72 people and injured just as many] had just happened, and my mind was awake. I was reading about sustainability and pollution, and training to be a counsellor — I just had lots to think about. I wanted to challenge myself to put it all into song form.”

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0:27.0	What if I want to talk about subway?
0:34.0	In the end about a sub-blade. me up the ocean plastic hair blade.
0:40.0	But anybody listen at all if I don't parade in a brawl only to get my point across I don't
0:49.3	always think about boys But I hear love is the only thing worth fighting for as well as
1:00.4	loving the same sex sanitary kids from homelessness
1:04.5	grand for mentor help for all
1:09.2	mental help for all I'll go to school and then get married and start a family and now go to school and get married and start a family and now go to school and then get married and start a family.
1:25.0	The cycle continues.
1:30.0	When we don't question what we're into
1:38.0	We'll go to school and then get married and start a family and now go to school and then get married and start a family.
1:50.0	The cycle continues
1:59.0	when we don't question what we're into
2:12.0	Girls don't always sing about boys even though it's what sells and what's relatable. I mean who doesn't want to cry to a song about getting your heart
2:18.8	broke because you'll sing all the words that you never spoke or couldn't.
2:25.0	I can't always think about boys
2:30.0	because I've been reading about air pollution, sustainable fashion,
2:37.0	blur behaviors, why it all happens.
2:40.0	So I guess I'll raise the issues with a nice be behind me singing it sweet so you're still
2:48.5	by me as I rethink the norm like I'll go to school and then get married and start a family
2:58.0	and they'll go to school and they get married and start a family, the cycle continues.
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