Yola is all the way back for the first time in three years with new single “Future Enemies,” which is set to be featured on her just-announced new EP, My Way (shoutout Frank Sinatra, shoutout Paul Anka, shoutout that Sex Pistols guy). The patient, bubbling track features a four-on-the-floor kick drum that gives the song a dance-like groove, though Yola’s near-falsetto absolutely funkifies the cut into oblivion. The chorus is disco madness of the highest order.
“There is a moment when you realize you’re not going to get on with someone,” Yola shared regarding the track’s meaning. “They haven’t noticed yet, so you have a unique opportunity to disappear from their lives before they ever realize you were destined to be enemies. It’s a luxury to not have an endless supply of negative memories about someone cause you never made them. ‘Why don’t we just not!’ I choose to save my time for situations, spaces, and people that have no ticking timer of inevitable doom, because they don’t see me or center a reality that does not serve me or my wellbeing.
“Of course when you’re a woman, culturally Black (as well as physically Black), dark-skinned (and feminine in energy), plus-size (and willfully main-character in energy), from a whole different continent and living in the west—let’s say you’re going to have to be both vigilant and choosy in life, in love, in work. Oh, and if you also want to be real, girl!”
Check out the live performance video of “Future Enemy” below.
