She has been openly bisexual since 2013. [2] [71] [109] Discography [ edit ] Studio albums [ edit ] Self Esteem: Sheffield singer 'lost her tiny mind' over Meadowhall". BBC News. 28 June 2022 . Retrieved 7 March 2023. Taylor was made an honorary Doctor of Music at the University of Sheffield on 17 July 2023 "in recognition of her success in the music industry and public championing of inclusivity and diversity". [65] [66] She has also been recognised with a photographic portrait hung in the National Portrait Gallery in London. [67] Style and influences [ edit ] Snapes, Laura (25 June 2022). " 'I took a job as a fairy in a panto': Self Esteem interviewed at Glastonbury". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077 . Retrieved 23 March 2023.

Beaumont-Thomas, Ben; Snapes, Laura (17 December 2021). "The 50 best albums of 2021". The Guardian . Retrieved 17 December 2021. Self Esteem has appeared on major TV entertainment shows in the UK and the US including Later...with Jools Holland, [95] the Graham Norton Show, [96] Jools' Annual Hootenanny [97] and The Late Late Show with James Corden. [98]Such honesty is typical of Self Esteem, the name of the solo project Taylor launched in 2017 after leaving the indie-pop duo Slow Club. Currently, the 34-year-old musician is gearing up to release her second album ‘Prioritise Pleasure’, and has been playing for her largest crowds yet thanks to the runaway success of her poppy and powerful recent single ‘I Do This All The Time’, which is now in regular rotation on 6 Music. It will no doubt receive a rapturous response at the upcoming Green Man festival in Wales’ Brecon Beacons, where she’ll play before headliners Teenage Fanclub on the weekend’s second-biggest second stage. Self Esteem's Rebecca Lucy Taylor on Prioritise Pleasure – The Skinny". www.theskinny.co.uk . Retrieved 26 March 2023.

a b Hunt, El (20 August 2021). "Self Esteem: "I want to use the palatable nature of pop to Trojan horse in my agenda" ". NME . Retrieved 26 March 2023. With that slow beat opening it, me and my producer were like, ‘This would be an amazing first song…’ I’d wanted to write about something that’s happened to me. I wanted to reclaim my independence and my sexuality and my right to live my life however I want after that had been taken in a traumatic way. It has become this sort of mission statement at the top of the record for the thing I’m singing about. But for anyone who feels like they have to live their life because of the way society is—it’s for you.” Finally free after more than a decade in folk-pop duo Slow Club, Rebecca Taylor has since spoken of feeling creatively and emotionally stifled for large portions of these formative years. With this aptly-titled solo project she’s finally shooting from the hip, delivering a defiant declaration of self-love and the most adventurous songwriting of her career. In an interview for the podcast series Talk Art in July 2022 Taylor discussed the demo for a new song that contains the refrain "I can't be arsed", a phrase also included in the video for "Moody", stating that "essentially, album three has begun now". [51] Speaking about the budget constraints she has faced as a new artist, she has said that "I'm so glad I haven't achieved what I want to achieve quite yet, because imagine if I had access to an orchestra or a full choir. That's what excites me about album three". [52] Taylor in January 2023a b Richards, Will (23 August 2021). "Green Man festival 2021: there's magic in the mountains, and a sense of renewal". NME . Retrieved 8 March 2023. Self Esteem: Rebecca Lucy Taylor on university honour". BBC News. 17 July 2023 . Retrieved 18 July 2023.

Singh, Surej (26 July 2022). "Mercury Prize 2022 shortlist revealed". NME . Retrieved 26 July 2022. a b c d BBC Introducing X Abbey Road Studios – Self Esteem. Abbey Road Studios. 13 December 2019. Archived from the original on 24 January 2023 . Retrieved 10 February 2023– via YouTube.

a b c "Self Esteem: The bigger I get, the more threatening I become". BBC News. 20 July 2022 . Retrieved 7 March 2023. Self Esteem talks singing Arctic Monkeys while "spangled" and meeting Mr Blobby". NME. 19 October 2022 . Retrieved 27 July 2023. Mostly, I’m excited that the song isn’t a poppy sure-fire breakthrough,” she points out. “I still love that song; I think it’s the best thing I’ve ever made in my whole career.” Snapes, Laura (21 October 2021). "Self Esteem: Prioritise Pleasure review – Britain's funniest, frankest pop star drums out her demons". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077 . Retrieved 23 March 2023.

Compliments Please is the first studio album by the British musician Self Esteem, aka Rebecca Lucy Taylor, released on 1 March 2019.

Taylor was previously a member of folk duo Slow Club, which formed in Sheffield in 2006. The band consisted of multi-instrumentalists Charles Watson and Taylor, with Watson on the piano, Taylor on the drums, and both performing guitars and vocals. [8] [9] The band paused working in 2017, [10] following an extensive tour to support their last album, owing to differing musical interests and Taylor feeling unfulfilled. [11] [4] Slow Club's final tour in the winter of 2016, and Taylor's dissatisfaction and unhappiness with the band, was captured in the documentary Our Most Brilliant Friends, directed by Piers Dennis and released in 2018. [12] [13] 2015–2020: The appearance of Self Esteem and Compliments Please [ edit ]