{"id":220148,"date":"2025-10-23T11:25:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T11:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/220148\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T11:25:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T11:25:09","slug":"listen-to-new-single-from-shrewsburys-angry-sparkly-pop-girl-samira-who-tells-how-shropshire-has-been-safe-place-on-her-trans-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/220148\/","title":{"rendered":"Listen to new single from Shrewsbury&#8217;s &#8216;angry, sparkly pop girl&#8217; Samira, who tells how Shropshire has been &#8216;safe place&#8217; on her trans journey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Samira Hills, from Belle Vue in <a href=\"https:\/\/dai.ly\/x9sgo7o\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shrewsbury<\/a>, recently headlined her hometown Pride festival and has followed it up with her new single, Nice Catch.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/36bb7377-2ced-49d0-bd55-e63ab8530d1c.jpg\"   alt=\"Samira Hills has just released her new single, Nice Catch\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"w-full max-w-none\"\/>Samira Hills has just released her new single, Nice Catch<\/p>\n<p>She describes the synth-pop track as \u201cas a bold anthem for the death of true romance and the aching desire for something real\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s plenty of fish, but if you\u2019re fishing out the same bucket, you\u2019re gonna catch the same one.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was starting to feel quite sad about the fact that true romance is dead. I feel like there&#8217;s so much pressure to look as hot as you possibly can and to get your social dating profiles to look as pristine as they possibly can.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Then there&#8217;s the whole thing with ghosting, and not replying too soon, and it&#8217;s just exhausting. So I wanted to write a song about the death of true romance and yearning for something real.&#8221;<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Samira Hills, from Belle Vue in Shrewsbury, recently headlined her hometown Pride festival and has followed it up&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220149,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,2652,128,50,25009,94096,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-220148","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-local-hubs","10":"tag-music","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-shrewsbury","13":"tag-shrewsbury-entertainment","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}