Chvrches' Lauren Mayberry Shares New Solo Single Change Shapes
Friday, 08 March 2024
Written by Jon Stickler
Photo: Scarlett Casciello
Chvrches' Lauren Mayberry has shared a new solo song, Change Shapes.
Arriving via EMI Records in the UK and Island Records in the US, the catchy track unfurls over a thumping, synth-pop soundscape. It follows the Scottish singer's 2023 singles Are You Awake? and Shame.
Penned by Mayberry, Matt Koma, Cleo Tighe and Evan Blair, with Koma also handling production, it explores traditional gender roles and how they have impacted her life and career. She said:
"I feel like I perform to the general public but also play a character inside the internal experience, because there is so much negotiation involved in my existence there. How do I keep people happy enough that they'll let me do the creative work that I want to? I feel quite fake and hypocritical sometimes because so much of the narrative around the band is "feminist", but my experience inside of it hasn’t been a lot of the time. I feel like I did all this work to make things function but when you DO adapt yourself in that way, it’s seen as manipulative, in order to get what you want."
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