Glasgow-based indie /alt multi-disciplinary artist Goodnight Louisa has dropped her new single “Grace Jones” alongside a video.
The song is out now and marks her first new music since her 2022 album, Human Danger. Grab it here.
The writing of Grace Jones marked the beginning of Goodnight Louisa’s forthcoming second album, which has resulted in a further 11 tracks. Whilst apparently prolific by that song count, the artist states that ‘this record took everything I had’, once again suggesting what comes next is an all-or-nothing account of ‘the now’ in which McCraw finds herself.
Weighing up thoughts of her own persona during fresh nights of solitude, Goodnight Louisa—also known as musician and actor Louise McCraw—was struck by the urgent vision of Grace Jones. The idea of the awesome, one-of-a-kind model, pop star, musician, writer and actor, who tore through the 80’s as a steely icon of non-compromise, took the place of confusion, loneliness and uncertainty. McCraw explains:
“I’d not long started living alone. Something I’d found very difficult to adjust to, a jarring combination of not knowing who I was anymore and having a lot of alone time. In my solitude, with a glass of wine, I sat at my desk, situated facing my tenement window that looked out onto Pilrig Street in Leith, and I wanted to create this bold persona. And right there and then, in one go, I wrote ‘Grace Jones’.
“The whole song was shaped around a pitch shifter that I used to create this commanding, other-worldy voice. It was so freeing to feel like I could become a different person. How could I invite someone over, anyone over, and kind of seduce them. Getting to know all about them, basking in this possibility I’d never had before. Make them mine. The more I sunk into this character, I realised the easier it was to get wrapped up in your own ego.”
Watch / listen below.
