Fleur East’s new music is “extra mature”.
The 35-year-old star – who was runner-up on ‘The X Issue’ in 2014 – final launched music in 2020 and after her current stint on ‘Strictly Come Dancing’, she is again with the brand new single ‘Depend The Methods’.
The ‘Sax’ hitmaker – who has launched the upbeat tune on her personal label Platinum East – is thrilled to be again to her “past love” and has acquired her “stride” again following the devastating lack of her father, Malcolm, who handed away in 2020, and the impacts of the COVID-19 on his music plans
She mentioned: “I am actually excited to be releasing new music. The final physique of labor I launched was my album ‘Fearless’, which was my first impartial album since leaving Syco in 2020. It was shortly after my dad handed away and simply on the time that the pandemic got here into our lives, and everybody went into lockdown, so I needed to cancel my tour, I needed to cancel all my promo, I needed to cancel all the things. It was such a disgrace that it was launched at the moment, and it was actually troublesome. Since then, and since dropping my dad, I am simply discovering my stride once more and getting again into music.”
Being on the BBC One Latin and ballroom present reignited her love of performing and she will’t wait to get again on the stage.
Fleur mentioned: “I began penning this yr and I simply felt so impressed and all the things simply got here again to me. It has been some time since I’ve finished my very own stay present and I completely love performing. After being on Strictly each weekend, the thrill of performing got here again. I completely adore it, and I can not anticipate folks to listen to this new music. It is coming from a unique place, it is much more mature – it comes from an actual place.”
Talking of her new music, she mentioned: “‘Depend The Methods’ is all about placing a spin on itemizing the issues that you simply love about an individual and it flips that narrative – it is itemizing the ways in which anyone misplaced you. It is fairly a playful tackle ending a relationship and speaking to that person who harm you from a place the place you have no ache left, from a place of energy. It is fairly tongue in cheek, but in addition from actual, actual emotion. I adore it as a result of it is much more mature and may be very musical. Matt Prime produced the music and I wrote it. All of it got here collectively, in a short time. In a matter of a few hours, actually. I simply felt so impressed as quickly as I heard him taking part in devices and I used to be similar to yeah, that is it.”
She added: “Music is my past love, and it all the time has been. Though I do presenting, health, and many different various things, music is my primary love and I all the time really feel fairly weak sharing my music with everyone as a result of it is actually a deep a part of me. So I all the time really feel a bit uncovered once I share music with everyone, however I simply really feel like I am in a spot now the place I am prepared for everybody to listen to it.”
Fleur performs a headline London present at Union Chapel March 16.
