Skunk Anansie return with new music that they will reveal throughout 2025. They have also announced a tour that will bring them to Madrid on March 3 and Barcelona on March 4. Details on their website. The single that they have just released is also newsworthy for many reasons.
‘An Artist Is An Artist’ is a formal vindication of the figure of the artist in which Skin, one of the feminist and LGTBIQ+ leaders, and, also, of the black community, which we met in the 90s, adds to the cause of ageism . It indicates that “an artist is an artist” regardless of how old she is, in a lyric that mentions “menopause.”
But even his verse about the times when everything is measured with “followers”, “comments” and “views” is even more relevant. According to the transcription of their own YouTube, they use the word “fartists” and remember that true artists, in contrast, “are not here to satisfy “the pleasure of the public”, who one day likes “mayonnaise” and another, the “fries”.
In this recipe, Skunk Anansie move away from the torn rock that characterized them and used in their two 2022 singles, such as ‘Piggy’. Now they are betting on a danceable and progressive sound, more LCD Soundsystem, which we can only link with producer David Sitek (TV On The Radio, Yeah Yeah Yeahs).
The group explains that they hired him because he has worked on many albums that they like: “but none of those albums sounded the same. All the albums sounded fresh, but without the artists stopping sounding like themselves. Although the reference is very obvious, they have more or less achieved it.
