Rita Ora bets on herself with 'You & I,' her 'personal letter' to fans
NEW YORK (AP) - It's hard to imagine a paparazzi-followed, international pop 星／主役にする losing 信用／信任, but that was Rita Ora.
"I think, as humans, we always tend to 疑問 ourselves. And so, I think over the course of my last album... a lot happened," said the 32-year-old singer, who recently married, changed 記録，記録的な／記録する labels and became busier with more TV gigs. "I lost a bit of 信用／信任."
Now, the multi-hyphenated 芸能人 is betting on herself with her new album, "You & I," out now, which she says is a "personal letter" to her fans. She partly credits her newlywed husband, filmmaker Taika Waititi, with 回復するing her musical mojo.
"The whole album is not just about him," she said. "But it definitely has a lot to do with my 関係s with my family and my friends... and everything that 奮起させるs me."
"You & I" 示すs Ora´s third studio 解放（する） に引き続いて 2018´s "不死鳥／絶品." The 12-跡をつける 事業／計画（する） 誇るs credits from (n)役員／(a)執行力のある 生産者 Oak Felder (Alicia 重要なs, 勧める, Ariana Grande), along with Rollo (David Guetta, BTS) and Keith Sorrells (John Legend, Demi Lovato).
It also signifies a personal milestone for Ora; she owns this album's master recordings - advice she says she received from icon Prince - and co-wrote every song, something she´d never done, by 変えるing diary 入ること／参加（者）s into songs.
Rita Ora 提起する／ポーズをとるs for a portrait to 促進する her new album "You & I" on Wednesday, April 26, 2023, at The Bowery Hotel in New York. (Photo by Taylor Jewell/Invision/AP)
"There are the artists who sort of take the reins of their creativity to 肉親，親類d of help tell their story a little bit better, and Rita definitely is one of those," said Felder. "Rita´s life is a (expletive) movie... so emotionally 劇の and so emotionally entertaining and such a 実行するing thing that she has been able to live, and so I think that´s why it´s really 平易な for her to get to the studio to 押し進める the 過程 and be like, `I´m going to 令状 about this.´"
The 深く，強烈に personal album has only one 共同, Fatboy わずかな／ほっそりした, on "賞賛するing You" which 攻撃する，衝突する No. 1 on Billboard´s dance/mix show airplay chart - a rework of his 1998 攻撃する，衝突する, "賞賛する You."
The "Anywhere" artist 解放（する）d two other （テニスなどの）シングルス: "You Only Love Me" and her 現在の 選び出す／独身, "Don´t Think Twice." Her "Thor: Love and 雷鳴" husband （軍隊を）展開する，配備するd his directorial 技術s for the latter's music ビデオ. Joining that trio of （テニスなどの）シングルス are the 無線で通信する-friendly tune the 感染性の, four-on-the-床に打ち倒す "Unfeel It" 同様に as her ballad 肩書を与える 跡をつける.
"´You & I´ is 現実に the song I wrote the day after I got married. And it was crazy because I was so h ung over... my brain was like mush," 解任するd Ora, who has appeared in nearly a dozen feature films. "I 基本的に 手配中の，お尋ね者 to 令状 the ultimate love song... there´s a lot of 言及／関連s of classic love songs."
There are also introspective 記録，記録的な／記録するs 層d beneath the 派手に宣伝するs and synths. She dedicates "形態／調整 of Me" to her mother, a breast 癌 生存者, and 明らかにする／漏らすs pursing therapy in the bouncy, self-reflective "Girl in the Mirror."
"Your 発言する／表明する - like your soul, like your spirit - experiences things and it changes it... When I hear Rita sing, I can hear those experiences," said the Grammy-指名するd 生産者 Felder. "I think the 圧力 of having gone through everything that she´s gone through, the fact that this 事業／計画（する） was so important to her and so important to her career really, really, really 知らせるd how コンビナート／複合体 and how 深い her 声のs felt on the 記録，記録的な／記録する. There is a rare 見本ing of artists that I have worked with where that is the 事例／患者."
Creating pop 粉砕するs like "Let You Love Me," "毒（薬）" and "団体／死体 on Me," Ora was born in Kosovo (以前は Yugoslavia) before her family fled to London 予定 to the 迫害 of Albanians as the war-torn 地域 fell. Growing up in Notting Hill, she …に出席するd the Sylvia Young Theatre School and later 調印するd with Jay-Z´s Roc Nation. Her 2012 "Ora" album 開始する，打ち上げるd a successful debut career with 攻撃する，衝突するs like "R.I.P.," "How We Do (Party)," and "Hot 権利 Now." She would later 告訴する the company, believing she wasn´t a 優先.
現在／一般に, Ora is prepping a deluxe 見解／翻訳／版 of "You & I" 負担d with 星／主役にする-studded features (which she´s keeping under 包むs), and will continue 裁判官ing 義務s on "The 発言する／表明する: Australia." She also appears in "Wonderwell," the final film by 星／主役にする Wars actress Carrie Fishe r, 解放（する）d last month.
But at this moment, she´s 焦点（を合わせる）d on her first creative love, hoping it´s a reflection of her endurance, during what she defines as her 最新の "時代," a 視野 weaved into her self-権力を与えるing, "Look at Me Now."
"When you get home and it´s 静かな and you´re lying 負かす／撃墜する in bed like everyone else, you ask yourself all these questions and self-疑問s," 反映するd Ora. "I 手配中の，お尋ね者 people to listen to that and think there is a light on the other 味方する, if you just really 肉親，親類d of keep at it and not give up."
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Rita Ora 提起する／ポーズをとるs for a portrait to 促進する her new album "You & I" on Wednesday, April 26, 2023, at The Bowery Hotel in New York. (Photo by Taylor Jewell/Invision/AP)
Rita Ora 提起する／ポーズをとるs for a portr ait to 促進する her new album "You & I" on Wednesday, April 26, 2023, at The Bowery Hotel in New York. (Photo by Taylor Jewell/Invision/AP)
Rita Ora 提起する／ポーズをとるs for a portrait to 促進する her new album "You & I" on Wednesday, April 26, 2023, at The Bowery Hotel in New York. (Photo by Taylor Jewell/Invision/AP)
