Raina Sokolov-Gonzalez has performed for 3-time Grammy Award-winning singer Marc Anthony, and Jazz composer William Parker. She’s opened for artists such as Starchild and the New Romantic and performed at prestigious venues including Brooklyn Bowl, SOB’s, Rockwood Music Hall, and MoMA.
Delivering a cross-genre bravura of musical influences, her latest single “Better For You” centers on the experience of being objectified and the ambiguous response to this reality. The track successfully lures you into her inimitable ecosphere of choral nuance and lyrical poetry. It’s an encapsulating song that allows Raina’s soulful vocals and emotional attachment to work intricately with proficient pop-jazz and indie-infused instrumentation.
The song is most explicitly about sex and how heterosexual dynamics often prioritize men’s pleasure. “Better For You” highlights the ways in which women contort themselves physically and emotionally to be more desirable. Raina shares, “It also depicts the flip side of this, where we become or can become hooked on being the desired one; the way we come to need it, the way our identity becomes tied to this positioning. This is the ambiguity, the grey”.
“Better For You” is the first single to be released off of the upcoming album ‘If They’re Mine, due in the spring.
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