Palestinian-Canadian artist Nemahsis is making ready to launch her debut album, and he or she’s shared her second single of the yr, “You Wore It Higher.” “Andy Warhol predicted that each individual will expertise 15 seconds of fame, however that’s solely doable if we share the highlight,” she says. “Accepting that I can’t all the time put on it finest will increase the likelihood of you sporting it higher. I imagine the ‘primary character’ expertise is barely doable if one settles for mediocrity, a minimum of as soon as. ‘You wore it higher’ is me residing by this fact.”
The monitor is accompanied by a one-take video directed by Jack Peros, which you’ll be able to watch under. “My good friend as soon as wore this T-shirt, and I wished to look as cool as them, so I purchased an identical one,” Nemahsis writes. “It took me years to comfortably put on it as a result of I had satisfied myself it didn’t look pretty much as good on me because it did on them. After I wrote this tune, I remembered this child-size low-cost Niagara Falls merch T-shirt, and I simply laughed just a little.”
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Nemahsis’ debut album hasn’t been formally introduced but, but it surely’s anticipated out later this yr. Keep tuned.
Again in November, Nemahsis wrote on social media that she’d been dropped by her file label for “talking up towards the occupation of my homeland Palestine.” She’s now releasing music independently by way of her personal Verbaithim imprint, together with “Stick of Gum,” which got here out final month and was her first monitor of 2024. Watch the video for that under, as effectively.
