{"id":803171,"date":"2020-01-17T09:15:19","date_gmt":"2020-01-17T16:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=939377"},"modified":"2020-01-17T09:15:19","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T16:15:19","slug":"rina-sawayama-announces-debut-album-shares-pulsing-club-track-comme-des-garcons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/rina-sawayama-announces-debut-album-shares-pulsing-club-track-comme-des-garcons\/","title":{"rendered":"Rina Sawayama Announces Debut Album, Shares Pulsing Club Track \u2018Comme Des Gar\u00e7ons\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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London-based pop star Rina Sawayama<\/a> announced on Friday that her debut album, SAWAYAMA<\/em>, will arrive April 17th via Dirty Hit.<\/p>\n

She also shared a new single from the LP, \u201cComme Des Gar\u00e7ons (Like the Boys),\u201d a club track that celebrates gay men and their rejection of traditional masculinity.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I was writing this song I wanted, on one hand, to lyrically explore the idea of people having to adopt negative male tropes to appear confident, whilst on the other sonically paying homage to the early 2000s dance tracks that made me feel confident,\u201d she wrote in a statement. \u201cThe idea that the socially acceptable version of confidence is in acting \u2018like the boys\u2019, otherwise as a woman you get called a bitch \u2014 but in the club, we reclaim the word \u2018bitch\u2019 as a sign of ultimate confidence (\u2018yes bitch\u2019, \u2018work bitch\u2019). I wanted to sit these two together and make a club fashion banger that makes you feeling like THAT bitch whoever you are.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sawayama added that her new album \u201cultimately is about family and identity. It\u2019s about understanding yourself in the context of two opposing cultures (for me British and Japanese), what \u2018belonging\u2019 means when home is an evolving concept, figuring out where you sit comfortably within and awkwardly outside of stereotypes, and ultimately trying to be ok with just being you, warts and all.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The singer released her RINA<\/em> EP in 2017 and shared the single \u201cSTFU!\u201d<\/a> last November. She\u2019ll be touring her new album in North America later this year, kicking off April 24th in Los Angeles and playing 11 shows before heading across the pond to tour in the UK. Presale begins Tuesday, January 21st and general on sale begins Friday, January 24th, both at 10:00 am local time.<\/p>\n

Rina Sawayama, SAWAYAMA<\/em> Tracklist<\/strong><\/p>\n

1. Dynasty
2. XS
3. STFU!
4. Comme des Gar\u00e7ons (Like the Boys)
5. Akasaka Sad
6. Paradisin\u2019
7. Love Me 4 Me
8. Bad Friend
9. Fuck This World (Interlude)
10. Who\u2019s Gonna Save U Now?
11. Tokyo Love Hotel
12. Chosen Family
13. Snakeskin<\/p>\n

Rina Sawayama North American Tour Dates<\/strong><\/p>\n

April 24 \u2013 Los Angeles, CA @ The Regent Theater
April 25 \u2013 San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music Hall
April 27 \u2013 Portland, OR @ Holocene
April 28 \u2013 Seattle, WA @ The Crocodile
May 1 \u2013 Minneapolis, MN @ Fine Line Music Cafe
May 2 \u2013 Chicago, IL @ Bottom Lounge
May 3 \u2013 Toronto, ON @ The Mod Club Theatre
May 6 \u2013 Washington, DC @ Union Stage
May 7 \u2013 New York City, NY @ Webster Hall
May 8 \u2013 Cambridge, MA @ The Sinclair
May 9 \u2013 Philadelphia, PA @ The Foundry at the Fillmore<\/p>\n

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London-based pop star Rina Sawayama announced on Friday that her debut album, SAWAYAMA, will arrive April 17th via Dirty Hit. She also shared a new single from the LP, \u201cComme Des Gar\u00e7ons (Like the Boys),\u201d a club track that celebrates gay men and their rejection of traditional masculinity. \u201cWhen I was writing this song I wanted, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-803171","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-25 14:54:13","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}