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JASMINE RAE
releases intensely personal
and powerful new single
‘DON’T DO IT FOR THE HATERS’

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NEW ALBUM ‘LION SIDE’ TO BE RELEASED JULY 24

PRE-ORDER NOW

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“Being real is a superpower. It’s what heals us together.”

Singer songwriter Jasmine Rae has released one of the most powerful and personal songs of her career, ‘Don’t Do It For The Haters’.  Download/ stream HERE and watch the video HERE.

Written as an emotional response to the “hate” directed at her in response to a copyright lawsuit centred around her 2017 song ‘When I Found You’, Rae as co-writer was not a part of the litigation.  However she found herself the subject of extraordinarily negative emails, phone calls and social media commentary that left her reeling.

She explains, “Because I was the face of our song, I copped an enormous amount of hate anyway, from all directions.  It was a really  confronting and confusing time for me.

For a while, I didn’t want to co-write with anyone, didn’t want to put myself out there or be vulnerable and I was questioning everything. People around me actually thought that I would give up.

But later that year I did a short tour with US country artist Granger Smith and that experience was a wonderful reminder for me about why I love doing what I do.  I was reminded of how the love of music brings people together, the love I get from people who support my music and the love I get from performing my songs with my friends. 

I realised that I don’t do it for the haters. It’s the LOVE that does it for me!

I wanted to write something about that whole experience. I initially wrote some very angry songs but this one feels truer. This song is the one that sums up the real lessons learned by that experience and puts a full stop on it for me. It gives me closure. 

There are times when we face all sorts of roadblocks and setbacks. A lot of people are experiencing  soul destroying challenges right now. So I guess this song is a testament that sometimes it can take just one good moment to remind us why we do what we’re supposed to do.”

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Jasmine Rae’s new album ‘Lion Side’ will be released on July 24th and is available for pre order now.

‘Lion Side’ was recorded in Sydney and Nashville with producer Lindsey Jackson (Jessica Mauboy, Tori Kelly, The McClymonts) and is a culmination of several years of soul searching, rigorous and often tortuous self-assessment, indecision and the need to find greater inner-purpose and direction. Ultimately, Jasmine Rae has rediscovered that her true path to self-enlightenment is through her music.

The brutally honest songwriter and electrifying live performer said, “I took a long time to make this album, but ultimately I simply had to do it. Music has always been my way of thinking out loud and figuring things out. Writing and performing allows me to express those feelings… to be dramatic… be loud or be fragile… be emotional… and be real.”

‘Lion Side’ – released on July 24, 2020 – Pre Order Now

Download / stream ‘Don’t Do It For The Haters’ HERE

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About JASMINE RAE

Described as a “pocket-sized powerhouse” and “one of the best singers in any genre”, Jasmine Rae has an extensive list of accolades to her name. Her music has been streamed over 18 million times. 

Jasmine Rae is a three-time ARIA Award nominee for her albums If I Want To, Listen Here and Look It Up, a CMA Global Artist of the Year winner and being a grand finalist in the International Song writing Awards. She is the only female solo artist to ever win the prestigious fan-voted CMC Oz Artist of the Year award, as voted by Australian music fans. She has also won the inaugural CMC Female Oz Artist of the Year award and is a nine-time Golden Guitar finalist.

Jasmine Rae has recorded chart topping songs with US stars Joe Nichols and Kellie Pickler, as well as opening national arena tours for GRAMMY winners Brooks & Dunn and Alan Jackson. In 2018 she also toured across Australia with US star Granger Smith. 

Locally, Jasmine has ten #1 Australian Country singles and music videos to her credit, including the title track of her critically acclaimed 2015 album Heartbeat (produced by the GRAMMY award winning Luke Wooten). The album’s stunning second single ‘When I Found You,’ has been streamed over 9 million times. 

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Lyrics: Don’t Do It For The Haters

Oh you heard about it
So you called me up 
Yeah, I’m hurt about it
And you’re curious 
How’m I gonna pick myself up? 
And was it getting to be too much?

Ooh, ooh surely I have lost the love by now
You thought that I’d be givin’ it up 

But I don’t do it for the haters
All the broken heart breakers 
Always running their mouth
Bringing me down 
I ain’t hating on ‘em 
Cause it ain’t my problem 
I don’t do it for the haters 
It’s the love that does it for me
It’s the love baby

It’s like a sugar coated
Kinda bitter pill 
Nothing shows the good like a bad day will
I kept riding while the road was rough 
And found out I was strong enough

To hold on while I lost the light sometimes
Oooh, I thought I might have lost my mind

I don’t do it for the haters 
All the broken heart breakers 
Always running their mouth
Bringing me down 
I ain’t hating on ‘em
Cause it ain’t my problem 
I don’t do it for the haters 
It’s the love that does it for… 

Me me me 
It’s not all about “me me me” 
But I don’t need 
No approval from nobody

I don’t do it for the haters 
All the broken heart breakers 
It ain’t a weight on my mind
Just a waste of my time

Don’t do it for the haters 
All the broken heart breakers 
Always running their mouth
Bringing me down 
I ain’t hating on ‘em
Cause it ain’t my problem 
I don’t do it for the haters 
It’s the love that does it for me

It’s the love baby
Yeah ooh
It’s the love baby 
Yeah that does it for me 

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