RAYE has revealed that she wrote one of many tracks on Beyonce’s ‘Cowboy Carter’ album.
RAYE reveals she co-wrote considered one of Beyonce’s Cowboy Carter tracks
The BRIT award winner – who beforehand wrote songs for Beyonce together with 2019’s ‘Larger’ – has shared that she co-wrote ‘Riverdance’ on Beyonce’s new nation music file.
Sharing a clip of herself singing the observe on Instagram, she wrote: ““completely happy COWBOY CARTER day. What an honour it’s to having the ability to contribute my small piece to this stunning album, and to THE @beyonce who continues to encourage all of us. Observe 23 : RIIVERDANCE , co – written by me discovered my beat up cowboy hat I purchased on my twenty first birthday for this big day.”
The file additionally options collaborations with Miley Cyrus, Put up Malone and a canopy of Dolly Parton‘s ‘Jolene’.
Dolly shared: “Wow, I simply heard Jolene. Beyoncé is giving that woman some bother and she or he deserves it! Love, Dolly P.”
RAYE, 26, stop her personal label once they would not launch her debut album and went on to make historical past by profitable six BRIT Awards earlier this 12 months.
The star – who has written for Little Combine, John Legend and Rihanna previously – has beforehand shared her frustration with how songwriters are handled within the music trade.
She was quoted by the Each day Star newspaper’s Wired column as saying: “For an trade that income off songs, you bought these CEOs and massive label execs dwelling of their fats big Chelsea mansions, dwelling a lovely life, in the meantime songwriters you’re profiting off are broke, cannot afford lease and combating over scraps of publishing that’s sat in financial institution accounts for 2 years earlier than they obtain a penny, as a result of publishers have stored it in there to allow them to acquire curiosity and make a complete separate enterprise.”
The ‘Escapism’ hitmaker additionally mirrored on the breakdown of how singers and songwriters are paid.
She added: “Each single music that is launched on this planet, there are 100 royalty factors.
“The label will take, say, 80 factors. The artist, in deal, will take possibly 20, 15, or possibly 12 after which producers get 4 factors, however it has to come back out of the artist’s factors.
“And the songwriter does not even get one level. It is disgusting, the entire trade is disgusting. That is one little instance of what goes on behind closed doorways the place there isn’t any accountability.”