'I knew the artwork would get attention, but I never anticipated it would spark a raging firestorm among right-wing trolls and racists.'
It was great having my husband’s steady income after I left the music business six years ago, but I never thought that I would fall into the traditional role of homemaker ― something I enjoyed at first but eventually found myself stifled by. With two young children, an incessant school run and constantly nursing, I felt like I was losing sight of myself.Inevitably I began to reconnect with my musical roots.
The next day Sensible J sent me 40 tracks, which I immediately began to play. I blasted them at full volume in my car as I waited for my daughter at the school gates. I remember feeling incredibly self-conscious around those perfect parents who watched me dancing manically as they walked past with their middle-class hiking jackets and middle-class smiles.As I continued to listen throughout the next day, something began to stir within me.
I began to see the way forward as both a creative person and a wife and mother. I never had to face this combination before, but I opened my laptop, ready to wrap myself up in music again. Time evaporated, and I felt a profound sense of rediscovery, as if I was tapping into an unexplored level of my identity.
As we sent “Black British” into the world, there were feelings of the past stirring within me, yet it was a new era and I was not the same artist I had been the last time I released music. I knew I no longer needed to be fearful, hold my tongue or withhold my truth. So, to the millions of people who have wondered what the artwork for “Black British” means, let me explain:
However, no matter how captivating it is, I cannot. I retch because I am unable to swallow what it provides people like me. Despite my desire to be accepted, seen and acknowledged within the atomic structure of British society, I am compelled to vomit out of necessity rather than choice.
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