RUEL
Debuts New Song
‘DAZED & CONFUSED’
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Since the debut of Ruel’s official music video for ‘Don’t Tell Me’ last week, 15-year-old multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter Ruel has dropped yet another soulful pop-gem titled ‘Dazed & Confused’ via RCA Records and Sony Music Entertainment Australia.
The track comes alongside an announcement of Ruel’s debut EP READY set to be released worldwide on June 1. Listen to ‘Dazed & Confused’ the first track reveal from his forthcoming EP HERE.
“I wrote ‘Dazed & Confused’ in the front room of my Air BnB in LA last November and the song has come so far with the help of my good friend and collaborator M-Phazes (Eminem, Logic, Kimbra, Zara Larsson, KYLE), who also produced my upcoming READY EP. The song started with some simple, light-hearted piano chords and has since become the toughest track on the EP. Having wrote over 30 songs for this EP, it has been really hard deciding which ones should make the cut, but the decision has been made and I’m really excited for everyone to hear what I’ve been working on.” – Ruel, on the new track and forthcoming EP.
Since the release of ‘Don’t Tell Me’, the track has garnered an impressive 15 million+ streams worldwide and solidified the young singer-songwriter as one of the most exciting recording artists and captivating live performers to emerge in 2018. Last week, ‘Don’t Tell Me’ also won first place in the International Songwriting Competition in the Pop/Top 40 category.
Compared to the likes of Frank Ocean and James Blake by NYLON Magazine who hailed the track as a “musical declaration of his self-assurance,” ‘Don’t Tell Me’ was written by the 15-year-old London born, Australian raised artist and was inspired by an evening spent sitting at the dinner table telling his parents and siblings about a girl he had a crush on. “My whole family was like, ‘Ruel, you don’t know what you’re talking about, you’re way too young to think about that sort of stuff,‘” he recalls. “And that really frustrated me. I thought ‘they can’t tell me how to feel’, so I wrote a song about it. I never thought it would lead to all of this.”
Introduced to soul, blues, and jazz by his music-loving father, Ruel counts Stevie Wonder, Dave Brubeck and Amy Winehouse as major musical influences growing up. After picking up and learning to play the guitar at 8 years old, Ruel graduated onto the likes of Frank Ocean, Childish Gambino and James Blake and started to write songs of his own, drawing inspiration from these ground-breaking acts and writing from his own experiences as a teenage boy. “All my songs are about personal experiences,” Ruel says. “Songwriting helps me get through things, feelings that I don’t understand myself. When I write about something, it helps me figure it out in the process. But I want people of all ages, whether they’re 15 or 50, to be able to relate to my songs.”
Buy or Stream ‘DAZED & CONFUSED’ HERE!
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