Becca James Shares New Single ‘Perfect Girl’
Atmospheric soulful pop songstress Becca James has just shared her sophomore single Perfect Girl, a stunning song about the expectations and pressure placed upon someone.
I am really enjoying her rich, deep vocals and how they effortlessly draw the listener's attention to her storytelling. Perfect Girl is a story of realising that one has ceded too much control to a partner and that understanding has lead to that person finally ending the relationship as they don't want to be their puppet anymore.
Centred around layers of reverb-drenched harmonies and a haunting piano piece, Perfect Girl incorporates elements of electronica, ethereal, electro-R&B to build a unique ambient soul sound. Check it out below!
Reflecting upon the inspiration for her track, Becca James explained the underlying frustrations that drove her to write it:
I wrote Perfect Girl because I was frustrated about the things I felt I had to be and had to change to “make it” in the music industry – much of which I didn’t have access to as a working class woman, and an image I didn’t want to portray anyway. It reverberated into expectations across relationships in my life, both platonic and romantic, with the expectations placed upon me and pressures I placed upon myself to live up to some kind of ideal.