First known as one half of the band Slow Club, she launched a solo career as Self Esteem with the single "Your Wife" in 2017, followed by the albums Compliments Please in 2019 and Prioritise Pleasure in 2021. In Succession and I Hate Suzie, you love someone who does something horrible, and that’s what life is like. Born in Rotherham, she was a teenage cricketer before forming the cult indie band Slow Club with fellow instrumentalist Charles Watson.

LP: The people working on Succession, particularly the men, are honestly some of the nicest people I’ve ever met. It may have been out the best part of two years, but rinsing it on Spotify hasn't lessened its impact. When Taylor realised she’d turned up to an awards show without her shoes, she wondered: does Rita ever have to consider going on stage in Crocs? It’s very hard to make a show with the resources you get in music,” she pointed out, her down-to-earth attitude best summed up when a thrilling costume change – grey suits stripped to crimson bodysuits and gimp masks – was soundtracked with a sample from Yorkshire-set (Taylor, who before Self Esteem fronted indie band Slow Club, hails from Rotherham) TV series Happy Valley.Before she became Self Esteem (she chose the name for this brave new feeling she was experiencing), she was one half of indie-folk duo Slow Club. I used to be very into the idea that someone would see something in me, but now I’m sure of what I’m doing. Taylor composed the soundtrack for the West End Production of Suzie Miller's play Prima Facie starring Jodie Comer, which was released on 14 June 2022.

Making the album with an “I’m just gonna please myself” attitude gave it the authenticity and vulnerability that people have connected with. Proms at Sage Gateshead review – festival goes north for euphoric weekend that moves from Brahms to barking like dogs". The wolf noises that break out tonight are an echo of recognition – of the lunatic things women have to do to cope with the craziness of male threat. The song is a powerful spoken-word note to self with a gospel-adjacent chorus that sounds like sun bursting through cloud. BBC Proms - 2023 - Proms at Sage Gateshead: Self Esteem and the Royal Northern Sinfonia - BBC Sounds".Women have been trained to be submissive and secondary, and all I'm doing with this is going, What if we're not?