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Japanese-American alt-pop star Rina Sawayama is explaining just how much trauma can influence an artist’s musical output.
Digging deep into the darkness of her past, the “John Wick 4” star, 33, stopped by BBC Three’s “In Conversation” series, where she revealed that she underwent sex and relationship therapy to alleviate experiences from her youth she now dubs as “grooming.”
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“This is the first time I’m talking about this, but essentially, through doing sex therapy – sex and relationship therapy – I realized that really something that I thought was a relationship that I had, when I was 17, was actually I was groomed. Then why that realization happened in my 30s was because I was finally his age.”
The troubling experience was so impactful that it led to the track “Your Age” from her 2022 album Hold the Girl.
Describing the therapy as “intense,” Sawayama says it helped her come to terms with the toxic relationship dynamic. To make matters more shocking, she revealed the perpetrator was a school teacher.
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“I was so badly slut-shamed, that I developed so much shame around my sexuality, and lost completely my sense of self, I detached from my skin like inside, I don’t know how to describe it. But I just felt so afraid of things. And I’d have anxiety attacks.”
Sawayama now recognized the entire ordeal as an “abuse of power.” Although writing the “Your Age” proved difficult, she says it was also “one of the most incredible experiences.”
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Rina Sawayama is opening up about trauma from her past.
Rina Sawayama has claimed that she was groomed by a school teacher when she was 17.The singer shared the revelation for the first time in a new interview with the BBC a few hours before she performed at New York’s Pier 17 last month.“I was groomed,” she said, now aged 33. “It was by a school teacher.”“Seventeen to me is a child.
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Empress Of has collaborated with Rina Sawayama on a new track, ‘Kiss Me’.Per a press release, the track is set to be taken from Empress Of’s upcoming fourth album, which will be the follow-up to 2020’s ‘I’m Your Empress Of’ and her 2022 EP ‘Save Me’.The track is a piano-led love song in which Empress Of expresses her desire for another person – “Just touch my lips and pull my hair/To come with you, I’d go anywhere,” she sings.The pair appear together in the song’s music video, which finds them “in an angelic setting in the English countryside with their hair blowing in the wind”.Check out ‘Kiss Me’ below:Empress Of is currently opening for Sawayama on her US tour, after which she will perform a headline show at Los Angeles’ Masonic Lodge on October 4.You can see Sawayama and Empress Of’s remaining tour dates below and buy your tickets here.SEPTEMBER26 – Denver, CO – Fillmore Auditorium28 – Seattle, WA – Paramount Theatre 30 – San Francisco, CA – WarfieldOCTOBER6 – Bentonville, AR – The Momentary9 – New Orleans, LA – House Of BluesSpeaking about her ‘Save Me’ EP last year, Empress Of said: “One of the biggest key things for me making music is being out of my comfort zone.“I think a lot of artists relate to that. Because when you’re out of your comfort zone that’s when innovation happens.
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