Self Esteem, aka Slow Club co-founder Rebecca Taylor, is back with her first new music since releasing her Mercury Prize-nominated 2021 debut. It’s a banger titled “Big Man” that’s a collab with South African artist Moonchild Sanelly.
“Me and Moon wrote a song from the perspective of a good boyfriend,” says Taylor. “The ones that are just chill and secure so they just leave you to it. The ones that don’t want a medal for doing the bins. The ones that see that you’re working your tits off so they go and get yet another thing you’ve ordered and missed the delivery of from the post office. The ones that don’t take your success as a direct threat to their existence. To me this is real masculinity.”
Moonchild Sanelly adds, “We were in the studio bonding HARD, having the deepest conversation about relationships and how it’s hard to be bold, loud female artists in a relationship. How you can be the baddest bitch on any stage, but if you have an insecure man he can’t support your success as a woman. Instead of celebrating and supporting you, he sees your success as a personal attack and uses it to pull you down and make you feel bad. And we thought… what would it feel like… to be ourselves, doing what we do, and have a man who properly supported all that we are. So Rebecca and I wrote from the perspective of our ideal partner. The song is from the hypothetical perspective of a man who supports their partner and is happy for their woman. A man that is fully secure. A big man.”
“Big Man” comes with a very fun, colorful video — concept by Self Esteem, directed by Piers Dennis — that tips a hat to Queen and other things. Watch that below.