{"id":298282,"date":"2026-02-19T00:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T00:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/298282\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T00:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T00:54:09","slug":"yaya-bey-announces-new-album-fidelity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/298282\/","title":{"rendered":"Yaya Bey Announces New Album Fidelity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/yaya-bey\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Yaya Bey<\/a> is back with a new album. Fidelity, the Brooklyn-based singer\u2019s fourth LP, lands April 17 on Drink Sum Wtr, and she\u2019s shared the touching first single for the LP. \u201cI wrote it when I was rock bottom coming off the heels of Do It Afraid.\u201d Bey said of \u201cBlue.\u201d \u201cI realized I had to make a big shift mentally and emotionally or I was gonna drown.\u201d Watch the music video for it below.<\/p>\n<p>Fidelity delves into Bey\u2019s experience with grief following the <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/people.com\/music\/rapper-grand-daddy-iu-dead-at-54\/\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/people.com\/music\/rapper-grand-daddy-iu-dead-at-54\/&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/music\/rapper-grand-daddy-iu-dead-at-54\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">death<\/a> of her father, Juicy Crew member Grand Daddy I.U., as well as the loss of Black community due to the widespread gentrification of New York. The record also explores necessary renewal in the aftermath of heartache, as well as her commitment to remaining \u201creligiously joyful\u201d as society crumbles.<\/p>\n<p>Read Pitchfork\u2019s review of <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/yaya-bey-do-it-afraid\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Do It Afraid<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Image may contain Head Person Face Photography Portrait Body Part Neck Adult Wedding Accessories and Jewelry\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ResponsiveImageContainer-eNxvmU cfBbTk responsive-image__image\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1771462449_86_image.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Fidelity:<\/p>\n<p>01 Me and Mine [ft. Samantha G and Anastasia Antoinette]<br \/>02 The Towns (Bella Noche Pt. 2)<br \/>03 The Great Migration<br \/>04 Forty Days<br \/>05 Higher<br \/>06 Dream Girl (Lexapro Mix)<br \/>07 Freeze Flight Fawn<br \/>08 Slot Machines [ft. Deem Spencer]<br \/>09 Simp Daddy Line Dance [ft. Exaktly]<br \/>10 As the Ocean<br \/>11 Blue<br \/>12 Cup of Water<br \/>13 In the Middle<br \/>14 Egyptian Musk [ft. Nesta]<br \/>15 The Breakdown<br \/>16 Who Are You<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yaya Bey is back with a new album. Fidelity, the Brooklyn-based singer\u2019s fourth LP, lands April 17 on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298283,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[146,85,46,409,6440],"class_list":["post-298282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-music","tag-new-releases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}