{"id":513311,"date":"2023-01-14T15:14:05","date_gmt":"2023-01-14T19:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=513311"},"modified":"2023-01-14T22:22:04","modified_gmt":"2023-01-14T22:22:04","slug":"raye-is-the-new-patron-saint-of-sad-girl-dance-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/raye-is-the-new-patron-saint-of-sad-girl-dance-songs","title":{"rendered":"Meet RAYE, The New Patron Saint Of Sad Girl Dance Songs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is an excerpt from BuzzFeed News&#8217; culture newsletter, Cleanse the Timeline ! You can subscribe here . RAYE Vevo via Youtube In I Like the Sound of That, a staffer goes deep on a song they&#8217;re currently obsessed with. I can&#8217;t stop watching this video of RAYE, the British singer behind the song &#8220; Escapism ,&#8221; which reached #1 on the Official UK Singles Chart last week. To celebrate, she posted an eight-second clip of her clutching the award and sobbing. She keeps trying to speak but gets overwhelmed. Eventually, she manages to sputter, &#8220;Thanks!&#8221; and breaks into a teary laugh. It&#8217;s adorable. Her victory is extra sweet because she&#8217;s spent the last year and a half as an independent artist. In July 2021, she decided to split from her record label, Polydor, and bet on herself. RAYE&#8217;s debut album My 21st Century Blues comes out on Feb. 3. I&#8217;m probably a little more excited for her than I<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve probably heard &#8220;Escapism&#8221; on one of the million TikToks that has used it as a sound.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-513311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}