{"id":26851,"date":"2025-08-15T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=26851"},"modified":"2025-08-13T17:24:26","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T16:24:26","slug":"rudegrl-new-album-and-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=26851","title":{"rendered":"RudeGRL new album and video"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>RudeGRL + CC announce new album \u2018Living My Best Life\u2019 to be released October 17<sup>th<\/sup> Via Network Music<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/thumbnail_LIVING-MY-BEST-LIFE-ALBUM-ART.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/thumbnail_LIVING-MY-BEST-LIFE-ALBUM-ART-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26852\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/thumbnail_LIVING-MY-BEST-LIFE-ALBUM-ART-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/thumbnail_LIVING-MY-BEST-LIFE-ALBUM-ART-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/thumbnail_LIVING-MY-BEST-LIFE-ALBUM-ART-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/thumbnail_LIVING-MY-BEST-LIFE-ALBUM-ART-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/thumbnail_LIVING-MY-BEST-LIFE-ALBUM-ART-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/thumbnail_LIVING-MY-BEST-LIFE-ALBUM-ART-1140x1140.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/thumbnail_LIVING-MY-BEST-LIFE-ALBUM-ART-65x65.jpg 65w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/thumbnail_LIVING-MY-BEST-LIFE-ALBUM-ART.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>RudeGRL &amp; CC\u2019s rule-breaking power-pop, punk-hop finds strength in letting go \u2013 and letting loose \u2013 through an energetic union of rapid-fire rap, twanging surf guitar, fuzz-soaked bass and \u201880s industrial beats awash with euphoria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Connecting singer-songwriter and prodigious MC Jenna Dickens aka RudeGRL, multi-instrumentalist Chris Constantinou (The Wolfmen,The Mutants) \u2013 who started out as Adam Ant\u2019s bassist and has collaborated with Annabella Lwin (Bow Wow Wow), Sinead O\u2019 Connor, Lou Reed and more \u2013 and burlesque star Bunni Morretto, this trio of self-described outsiders share a mutual love of punk and a burning desire to get things off their chest. The urgency of the group\u2019s sound mirrors their production style; quick, fluid and instantly gratifying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For their latest work, found on the ten innovative tracks that comprise new album \u2018Living My Best Life\u2019, due for release October 17<sup>th<\/sup> via Network Music, producer James Young sent Constantinou a multitude of beats and rhythms to jam with, whilst Chris built up the tracks with bass and guitars, throwing the songs back and forth as they started to take shape and form. At this stage, Jenna Dickens starts to find the right words and melodies to fit the tracks, whilst Chris adds backing vocals and other embellishments, before James mixes each track to its best potential. It\u2019s a team effort that has led to RudeGRL &amp; CC\u2019s finest and most unrestricted work yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018Coming For The Win\u2019 is the first single to be lifted from the album and is, says Jenna \u201ca warning. We are coming to do exactly what it says on the song title, and we won\u2019t stop until we get there.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"COMING FOR THE WIN - RudeGRL+CC\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nvED1vYqv5I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFor the single\u2019s video, the main idea I kept thinking was \u2018what would I have loved to see growing up as a mixed-race kid in love with rock and punk?\u2019 Back then there wasn\u2019t as much representation of people of colour in bands on our TV screens. I\u2019d watch iconic bands I admired like Slipknot, Papa Roach, Blink 182, Linkin Park and see the odd one or two people of colour and just wish that there were more. I wanted to play on those aesthetics of the indie videos a bit that I loved growing up and also show our unique personalities as a band and what we\u2019re all into. I was reminiscing over the old Tony Hawk\u2019s Video games I used to play as a kid on my PlayStation 2 and the awesome bands of the 90\u2019s and noughties growing up as a kid like Blink 182, Limp Bizkit and No Doubt and wanted to bring in a bit of that vibe visually but in a fresh new way and make something that we all love and feels authentic to who we are as a band.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Watch the \u2018Coming For The Win\u2019 video <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nvED1vYqv5I\">HERE<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whilst the music displayed on \u2018Living My Best Life\u2019 is gloriously unfiltered and untamed, over-flowering with invention and energy, the lyrics crafted by Jenna equally match the positivity of the sound.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI wanted to create an album full of back-to-back smashes, in your face catchy melodies and empowering full throttle lyrics,\u201d admits Jenna. \u201cFor the lyrics I wanted to make them empowering and something I could listen to to get my mind set ready to smash the day. \u2018Coming For The Win\u2019 in particular was written in a time where I was juggling a bunch of stress with the events company me and Bunni run (an Award Winning queer women of colour striptease experience called JuiceBox Events), being at the intersection of being women in business as well as queer and black Caribbean heritage comes with its hurdles to jump and I think some of that absolute determination to break barriers regardless of push back made its way into the song. The message is to hold on to firm belief in yourself to honour your power and pour it into your passion regardless of what anyone else thinks.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/RudeGrlCC-TinaK-9065-Edit-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"747\" src=\"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/RudeGrlCC-TinaK-9065-Edit-1024x747.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/RudeGrlCC-TinaK-9065-Edit-1024x747.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/RudeGrlCC-TinaK-9065-Edit-300x219.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/RudeGrlCC-TinaK-9065-Edit-768x560.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/RudeGrlCC-TinaK-9065-Edit-1536x1121.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/RudeGrlCC-TinaK-9065-Edit-2048x1494.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/RudeGrlCC-TinaK-9065-Edit-1140x832.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhen writing the tracks for the album I wanted to make them as catchy as possible. I was studying all the timeless classic anthems in rock and indie music over a span of decades, bands like Blur (who I adore!), Oasis, Bloc Party, The Artic Monkeys, The Killers, Queens Of The Stone Age but also even pop classic song writing like early Madonna records and Blondie,\u201d she continues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All of these influences and so much more can be heard within the melting pot that is \u2018Living My Best Life\u2019. It fizzes with pop energy, independent attitude and rock n\u2019 roll strut. Album opener \u2018Live Wire (Fire, Fire)\u2019 ignites with a marching AC\/DC alike riff, before the huge hook of the chorus embeds itself into your brain, whilst \u2018Anything\u2019s Possible\u2019 really showcases Jenna\u2019s objective to use the music to promote and inspire empowerment in every way. With lyrics like \u2018we are so powerful, we are phenomenal, anything\u2019s possible\u2019, it\u2019s impossible to not feel uplifted by the song\u2019s pure good vibes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And really, that sums up \u2018Living My Best Life\u2019 best of all. It\u2019s good vibrations from start to finish, shimmering with pop melodies, joyful rhythms and musical discovery at every turn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We live in bleak times. RudeGRL &amp; CC could be just the tonic the world needs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Find RudeGRL &amp; CC online at:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/rudegrlandcc\">FACEBOOK<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/rudegrlandcc\/\">INSTAGRAM<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RudeGRLandCC\">X<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RudeGRL + CC announce new album \u2018Living My Best Life\u2019 to be released October 17th Via Network Music RudeGRL &amp; CC\u2019s rule-breaking power-pop, punk-hop finds strength in letting go \u2013 and letting loose \u2013 through an energetic union of rapid-fire rap, twanging surf guitar, fuzz-soaked bass and \u201880s industrial beats awash with euphoria. 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