Prioritise Pleasure, the second album by Self Esteem - aka Rebecca Lucy Taylor - is one of the 12 albums shortlisted for this year's Mercury Prize, along with Supernova by rock duo the Nova Twins. Sky News caught both acts ahead of tonight's ceremony in London.
's best group win at the Brit Awards in 2021 turned out to be history-making - because no female group has ever won before in the ceremony's 40-plus years - there clearly is still work to be done generally in the industry.
Taylor's lyrics cover everything from self-acceptance to objectification and misogyny, and the expectation for women to have children; issues that have resonated with many. "It just felt like this penny started dropping and I was like, my whole life has just been this weird, slow trudge to the inevitable. I just refuse to have my life not feel like a success [if I don't have children]. Like, how dare you? They just do it to women as another way to keep you down."The Nova Twins are another Mercury-nominated act who have refused to listen when told what kind of artists they should be.
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