{"id":2179340,"date":"2025-11-28T01:09:40","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T01:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2179340"},"modified":"2025-11-28T01:09:40","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T01:09:40","slug":"may-a-announces-debut-album-shares-new-single","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/may-a-announces-debut-album-shares-new-single\/","title":{"rendered":"MAY-A Announces Debut Album, Shares New Single"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>MAY-A is ready to rewrite the rules with her highly anticipated debut album.<\/p>\n<p>After two years of travelling back and forth between Sydney and LA, the genre-defying singer-songwriter is entering an exciting new era of music with <em>Goodbye (If You Call That Gone)<\/em>, set for release on February 20th of next year.<\/p>\n<p>Fans have already been treated to tasters of the forthcoming record through recent singles \u201c(I\u2019m Here for the) Girls\u201d and \u201c[REDACTED]\u201d, the latter having launched MAY-A new chapter.<\/p>\n<p>MAY-A has today dropped \u201cClaws\u201d, the latest single from her debut album.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018Claws\u2019 was definitely me processing a lot of anger. It feels special because I wrote it from such a place of anger and mistreatment and betrayal and just looking back and being so mad at things that had happened to me,\u201d she told <em>Rolling Stone AU\/NZ<\/em> in a new interview.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe kind of kicked off the themes of the album, and thematically and sonically it\u2019s stepping into more of a harder space. I think that it\u2019s the perfect sort of bridging gap between something like \u2018Girls\u2019 and the rest of the album, it gets slowly heavier as you as you go along.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The music video for \u201cClaws\u201d will drop at 5pm AEDT today (November 28th).<\/p>\n<div class=\"observer-sub-form justify-content-center my-3 p-0 d-flex align-items-stretch bg-dark text-white\">\n<div class=\"observer-sub-form-info p-3\" style=\"justify-content: start;\">\n<h2 class=\"h5 mb-0 observer-title\">Love Music?<\/h2>\n<p class=\"observer-desc mb-2\"> Get your daily dose of everything happening in Australian\/New Zealand music and globally.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"spinner d-none\"> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"op-interactive\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-radius: 12px;\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/track\/4lOAlq0GpCLH7VqlFOmCVJ?utm_source=generator\" width=\"400\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-testid=\"embed-iframe\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n<p><em>Goodbye (If You Call That Gone)\u00a0<\/em>is a bold declaration of MAY-A\u2019s independence, power, artistry, and creativity, elevated through collaborators such as Carlos De La Garza (Paramore), Chloe Dadd, Chris Greatti (Yungblud, Willow), Robby De Sa, and Rock \u2018n\u2019 Roll Hall of Fame drummer Ilan Rubin.<\/p>\n<p>The album pushes boundaries and blurs the line between pop, rock, indie, and alternative genres, something MAY-A has become known for. \u201cI really didn\u2019t want this album to get tied down into any specific sound or genre. I think I\u2019ve kind of avoided that for my whole musical career thus far, because I don\u2019t really know where I want to go,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t want to lock myself too much into emo or too much into rock or too much into pop or soft pop or any of the other sub genres that there are, I kind of wanted that open slate for whatever I do next.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been a busy 12 months for the Australian artist. She opened for UK outfit Glass Animals on their Australian headline tour in 2024, played to a roaring crowd at Yours &amp; Owls in March, and was handpicked by Cyndi Lauper to sing \u201cGirls Just Want to Have Fun\u201d at her sold-out Sydney show.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DIN5Jj2To5-\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\"\/>\n<p>Next up, fans will be able to see MAY-A and the MAY-A band (Chloe Dadd and G on the Drums) perform some of new songs live next month at Rolling Sets in Tweed Heads on November 29th and the Central Coast on December 6th \u2014 see <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/rollingsets.com.au\/tickets\/?utm_source=Google&amp;utm_medium=Paid&amp;utm_campaign=SS&amp;gad_source=1&amp;gad_campaignid=22875109392&amp;gbraid=0AAAAApANat0HFoG3DxXld-b9KYaNEFNNf&amp;gclid=CjwKCAjwmNLHBhA4EiwA3ts3maz1_ay3JkzHCnbjzAY3USUIFa6SQuYiyE9wMFG-kLvUMvyyaJX4QhoCxNAQAvD_BwE\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> for ticket information.<\/p>\n<p><em>MAY-A\u2019s \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/may-a.lnk.to\/CLAWS\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Claws<\/a>\u201d is out now. Goodbye (If You Call That Gone) is out February 20th, 2026.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,document,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');fbq('init','243859349395737');fbq('track','PageView');fbq.disablePushState=true;<\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source au.rollingstone.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MAY-A is ready to rewrite the rules with her highly anticipated debut album. 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