Self Esteem - I Do This All The Time

"Stop trying to have so many friends."

Album: Prioritise Pleasure (2nd album)
Genre: Pop, Art Pop, Spoken Word
Recorded: 
Album Release: October 22nd 2021
Single Release: April 27th 2021 (lead single)
Length: 4:53
Producer: Johan Hugo Karlberg
Vocalist: Rebecca Taylor (age 35)
Label: Fiction Records (subsidiary of Univeral)

Official Video


Live on BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend

Charts, Streams & Sales

Spotify: Over 10 million
YouTube Music: Over 1 million

Instruments

Bass, drum machine, cello, guitar, violin [x2]

Details

• 'I Do This All the Time' is a confessional spoken word piece about doing what's expected of you when it doesn't make you happy. In the video, Self Esteem delivers her verses in a stream of consciousness style direct to camera. It's intimate, as if a page from her diary.
  
  The second verse takes the form of advice, given by the singer to herself, which addresses the expectations of women to be wives and mothers "getting married isn't the biggest day of your life" and "don't be intimidated by all the babies they have".
  
  The overall theme of the album Prioritise Pleasure is to learn love and self-acceptance of yourself for the way you are and not the way you're supposed to be. It's okay to not be perfect. This ethos can be seen in the unflattering image of Self Esteem used for the artwork on the single release of 'I Do This All the Time' (see below).  She deliberately depicts herself as a grotesqurie; it's everything a pop star isn't supposed to be.
  
  

Artwork