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In a comedy sketch that was released to promote her 2019 debut Compliments Please, Rebecca Lucy Taylor is grilled about the imagined impact of the album 20 years on (it was so great, it “destroyed music as we know it”). With a transatlantic accent, impeded facial movement and wearing a tiara over a turban , she faces a hostile male interviewer who attempts to sum up her revolutionary sound: it is “melodic complaining”, “poor-me periodcore”, and “menstrual madness set to music”. Self Esteem has appeared on major TV entertainment shows in the UK and the US including Later...with Jools Holland, [95] the Graham Norton Show, [96] Jools' Annual Hootenanny [97] and The Late Late Show with James Corden. [98]

Girl Crush" is critical of performative bisexuality and about Taylor's own experience of being approached by heterosexual women to experience homosexual relationships as a curiosity or a dare. [7] [8] It has been contrasted to Katy Perry's " I Kissed A Girl" which has been criticised for trivialising same-sex relationships. [1]Self Esteem's music is characterised by its prominent drum rhythms, female choral elements [7] and powerful, precisely articulated lead vocals, often alongside organs, distorted guitars and string arrangements. Taylor has said "I love heavy beat and heavy bass, I love strings, I love choir, and I love big, cinematic sounds". [7] Self Esteem has been described as pop, art pop, experimental pop and indie/alternative pop; Taylor herself has said that she dislikes it being described as "indie". [5] Her lyrics and vocal delivery are central to the songs: she has been described as "one of the best lyricists of her generation" [68] and as having live vocals "so clear and pure they could wake bears from hibernation". [68] She writes songs on guitar before arranging them with other musicians. [19] Taylor has described herself and her producer Johan Hugo Karlberg as being "obsessed" with Kanye West, [69] and she has cited a range of other influences including Madonna, Destiny's Child, Rihanna, Outkast, Queen, Fleetwood Mac, Neil Young, Kate Bush, Max Richter, Arctic Monkeys, and Lady Gaga. [2] [70] [71] [72] [73] Although she has worked with other musicians on Self Esteem, Taylor has used the project to channel her own undiluted ideas, in constrast to her experience with Slow Club where she felt she constantly had to compromise, saying "I hate this idea that compromise and collaboration is the only way to make something good". [5] [19]

Self Esteem – Wizardry (Live on The Graham Norton Show). Self Esteem. 17 October 2022. Archived from the original on 11 January 2023 . Retrieved 10 February 2023– via YouTube.Taylor appeared in series two of I Hate Suzie in 2022, which starred Billie Piper as the title character. [105] She has been announced to be appearing in a new comedy Smothered to be aired in 2023. [106] Dennis, Piers (2 November 2018). "Our Most Brilliant Friends" (Documentary). Riff Raff Films . Retrieved 4 February 2023. SELF ESTEEM – MY FIRST LIVE SHOW IS TOMORROW IN MARGATE | Facebook". www.facebook.com . Retrieved 4 February 2023.

It’s easy to forget about Taylor’s Slow Club days when she’s belting self-aware anthems such as the iconic "Rollout" and her recent single "The Best", but such self-awareness comes hand in hand with a touch of heartache and dysphoria. “What I might have achieved, if I wasn’t trying to please” muses Taylor over and over, as if the repetition of her observation will eventually release her from its constraints. With both singles bookending the album, Compliments Please journeys from the doubt and subsequent identity crisis that comes with the turmoil of a flailing relationship to the cumulative empowerment bestowed with time.Snapes, Laura (2019-03-01). "Self Esteem: Compliments Please review – sly, covetous pop". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077 . Retrieved 2019-03-20. Snapes, Laura (25 June 2022). " 'I took a job as a fairy in a panto': Self Esteem interviewed at Glastonbury". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077 . Retrieved 23 March 2023.