Raffaella has announced Live, Raff, Love (Act II), which is set to be released on January 26 via Mom+Pop. To celebrate the announce, the artist has shared a new single “Man of Your Dreams,” which features guest vocals from Samia and production by Jake Luppen of Hippo Campus. The new track is defined by sarcastic lyrics about being a woman in the music industry, which is highlighted by the music video, which features both songwriters sporting the biggest fake boobs they could find.
“This is a couple of secular city girls, with an unfounded curiosity for religion, singing as postulants for the holy order that is the Music Industry,” Raffaella shared. “Everything we say is a joke that we take seriously; our request that Mother Mary make us funnier and prettier is as impossible as the interminable expectations of femininity and all of its falsified ideals—we are praying as sincerely as we are trying. Favors, funding, patience, forgiveness, humor, beauty, selflessness…it’s a lot to ask for but it’s also something that we both really want to be able to provide.
“As women in the music industry, it can feel like we have to be as good and as resilient as Jesus Christ—which is OK sometimes, as long as you can make fun of the insane standards with language that is as hyperbolic as it is honest. It would be nice to be the man of your dreams. We just kinda wanted to see what it’d feel like to be able to make that promise out loud.”
Check out the video below, and pre-order Live, Raff, Love (Act II) here. You can also revisit our recent interview with Raff following Act I here.
