{"id":437711,"date":"2026-05-07T22:51:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T22:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/437711\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T22:51:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T22:51:09","slug":"raye-calls-out-amy-winehouse-fans-sending-her-nasty-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/437711\/","title":{"rendered":"RAYE Calls Out Amy Winehouse Fans Sending Her ‘Nasty’ Comments"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tRAYE<\/a>\u2018s star has exploded in the past couple of years \u2014 and with that, she\u2019s faced more scrutiny than ever. But one specific critique involving the late Amy Winehouse<\/a> has bothered her in particular, something she addresses on her song \u201cI Will Overcome.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn her Billboard cover story<\/a> published Thursday (May 7), RAYE told staff writer Hannah Dailey why she chose to sing about people comparing her to the British soul-pop icon \u2014 who died in 2011 from accidental alcohol poisoning \u2014 on the opening number of her March album This Music May Contain Hope. On the track, she sings, \u201cSome people say I remind them of Amy\/ Some spit through their keyboards, I\u2019ll never amount\/ And the evil in insults, the arrows from your tongue\/ [Are] the same devils you tortured her with.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt just strikes me as so funny, darkly funny, that someone can rip into me in the most evil, horrible way, \u2018defending\u2019 Amy,\u201d RAYE explained to Billboard of including the lyric. \u201cWhat you\u2019re saying to me is a microcosm of what Amy went through. Amy went through being berated and annihilated through words \u2014 by the press, by the public, by everyone.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s one thing to not like me, that\u2019s fine,\u201d she continued. \u201cIt\u2019s just the irony of someone being so horrible, so dark, so nasty. It\u2019s the same evil. I just wanted to say that, because \u2026 I get a lot of beautiful, lovely, kind things. Unfortunately, the negative things are just louder.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThis Music May Contain Hope debuted at No. 11 on the Billboard 200<\/a> and reached No. 1 in the U.K., RAYE\u2019s first LP to do so. The feat comes after a long uphill struggle to make her name as an independent artist following her split from her first label, Polydor Records, in 2021.<\/p>\n

\n\tElsewhere in her Billboard cover story, the musician touched on her experiences with mental health, sexual assault and finding light in her life again. She also shared her current mindset on dating, having declared her desire to find love on the hit single \u201cWhere Is My Husband!,\u201d which has so far peaked at No. 11 on the Billboard Hot 100<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s been genuinely so many years that it feels alien to me,\u201d she said. \u201cSometimes I\u2019m very assured and confident and happy with my life, and then some days I\u2019m watching a rom-com, and I\u2019m like, \u2018Where? Where?\u2019 But it\u2019s not serious. I\u2019m not crying myself to sleep every night \u2014 just some nights.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWatch RAYE address the Amy Winehouse comparisons below. <\/p>\n


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