Rita Mae – My Bad: 13th Floor – New Song of the Day

Aotearoa Rita Mae has started with full steam and follows on from her big track ‘Kiss the sky‘ with today’s grunge single My mistake.

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Powerful drums and a distorted bass together create a relaxed, rocky musical framework and thus allow for a moving juxtaposition of the track with the lyrics. Rita I deliberately left sonic space to allow the lyrics to take center stage, reflecting a “new era of my artistry where I’m a little more honest and direct.”

“I used to think that I had to hide a lot of feelings. In the past, I tried to hide my emotions and made endless (mostly unsuccessful) attempts to keep cool instead of wearing my heart on my sleeve. And then I realized – why do I think that love and deep feelings are something to be ashamed of?”

“This song is kind of a tongue-in-cheek take on this tug-of-war in my head, like, I love you! Is that too much? Oops, my bad! I just loved playing with that, being completely confident and unashamed, feeling what I feel and saying it out loud.”

Co-written and recorded in LA with a regular collaborator Kyle Berzle‘my mistake‘ was then mixed by Aaron Short (LA) and mastered by Andrew Downtown in Vancouver. “I have Kyle much earlier,” says Rita“I feel like I felt totally comfortable with him from the first session and just wrote from the heart.”

“There’s something magical about working with someone who makes you feel so comfortable.”my mistake‘ felt intense and crazy to me, and I actually thought it was too much when I wrote it. But Kyle was so excited and gave me the confidence to finish writing it, and then it just felt like this sonically laid back and lyrically crazy song that felt so incredible to us. We knew it had to come out.”

Today’s release is the second single from Rita Mae this year, after the catchy song ‘Kiss the sky‘. The single received overwhelming local support; Rolling Stone AU/NZ, Sniffer, RNZ, Radio Hauraki, Tearaway and more. It reached number 14 on the Hot 20 NZ Singles Chart. The Music video had over 23,000 views in just three weeks; Spotify streams also reached 30,000.

Rita Mae has been making waves in Aotearoa’s alt-indie scene since she began releasing songs like the rousing ‘The secret is revealed‘ in 2021 and then the effortlessly cool ‘Candy’s House’ in 2021. In 2023, she unveiled her EP SUPER FEELING DELUXEwhich deals with “Candy’s House (Comedown Song)’In 2023Rolling Stone UK/US The magazine gave her the tip as “one of eight New Zealand artists who are being considered for the takeover”, “Music is in her blood, and Mae‘s future as an independent artist looks very bright indeed…”

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