Let’s go, ladies. Rina Sawayama unleashes ‘This Hell’ : #NowPlaying : NPR

Let’s go, ladies. The primary single from Rina Sawayama‘s forthcoming album Maintain The Lady manages to pack a Shania Twain reference, an over-the-top guitar solo, a rebuke of paparazzi callousness, a kiss-off to haters and Paris Hilton’s iconic catchphrase into the area of a single tune. A glammy, country-pop impressed banger, “This Hell” is a celebration of group within the face of hardship — flippant in direction of self-righteous adversaries and earnest about the advantages of sticking collectively.

Sawayama says she wrote the tune whereas eager about current religiously motivated assaults on LGBTQ rights: “When the world tells us we do not deserve love and safety,” she mentioned in a press release, “we’ve no alternative however to offer love and safety to one another.” I, for one, stay up for listening to “God hates us? Alright then! / Buckle up at daybreak we’re driving” at Pleasure events all summer season lengthy.