I’m like, ‘Oh my god! Thank you!’”Ĭonfidence newly restored, Connie Constance 2.0 truly feels like a fresh start. Two years later, they called and were like, ‘Yeah, we’re gonna put this on the album’. Mentally I wasn’t in the best of places, but it meant that I had real stuff to say. “So they built me this small room in the studio: I had a glass of red wine, mic, pen and paper, and just locked in and wrote the tune. “I went in there, and the guy who linked us up could tell that I was a bit overwhelmed,” she laughs. When a friend suggested Swedish House Mafia, she threw herself in. Bruised from the situation, she decided to “use the last bit of Ps” to decamp to LA and seek out potential collaborative sessions. Though it was the outcome she ultimately wanted, Constance was still crushed. So that was it, really – they didn’t get it, didn’t hear that it was the right thing for me, and my manager managed to get us out.” “I already hadn’t had the best time at the label and wanted to go, but it really was like, ‘If we play this song and they don’t vibe with it, we can’t do this any more’. “When I made that tune, I was like, ‘This is it this is the start of the sound that I’ve been trying to get this whole time,’” she recalls. Privately, she wrote ‘Monty Python’, and felt strongly enough about its angsty indie style that it became an ultimatum and a way to push back against label expectations. Early EPs and her 2019 debut album ‘English Rose’ showed intense promise, but Constance found herself being frustrated with the direction in which she was being pulled, encouraged down genteel singer-songwriter and R&B lanes. With her distinctive husky vocals and observational storytelling she was snapped up by AMF, an imprint of Virgin EMI. Her talent didn’t stay undiscovered for long. Completing the academic year for the sake of her mother’s stress levels, she soon pivoted to SoundCloud after being encouraged by her friends to upload her early ideas. Within six months, though, she realised that her passion was actually more of a hobby, outstripped by a growing affection for music. And then one kid came up to me like, ‘Yo, are you listening to the Monkeys album?’ I shared a headphone and thought, ‘Sick, this might actually be alright’.”Ī dancer since childhood, Constance was accepted into the prestigious Urdang Academy in her late teens with a view of pursuing the art form as a career. I remember sitting on the bus in my first year of school thinking, ‘I don’t know if I fit in here’. “ Arctic Monkeys were huge for me, obviously. But she threw herself into the sounds of the early noughties, drawn to lyricism that felt conversational and raw. Growing up in Hertfordshire as a mixed-race indie kid, representation wasn’t easy to come by. It felt like a once-in-a-lifetime experience - until now, I guess!”įorever proving herself wrong, the artist born Constance Power has learnt to adjust to life’s ever-evolving plot twists. I won’t ever perform in Ibiza without doing something like this. “It was just like, this is not where my music usually goes. “ was absolutely ridiculous,” she says with a laugh. Having quietly worked her way through the pandemic, the Watford artist is now mere weeks away from releasing her second studio album ‘Miss Power’ – a record that truly cements her earthy indie sound.Īs she chats to NME, Constance has just received some very good news: two days after we speak, she’ll perform ‘Heaven Takes You Home’ with Swedish House Mafia in front of 20,000 people at London’s The O2, following a very successful surprise appearance in Ibiza this summer. The witching season may be fast approaching, but Connie Constance is bursting with the joys of spring.
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