SASAMI shares "Just Be Friends (Soccer Mommy Version)" ahead of US tour
SASAMI
Shares “Just Be Friends (Soccer Mommy Version)” – listen here
US Tour with King Princess kicks off this weekend
Praise for Blood On the Silver Screen:
"SASAMI hits pop out of the park.” Rolling Stone
"Speaks to her versatility and how comfortable she is bouncing around among wildy disparate genres while still always sounding like herself" NPR
“SASAMI is now a main pop girlie in the making” The Standard
"As a classically trained musician, SASAMI’s study of pop songwriting is precise and impeccable,with songs that swoop and soar in all the right places. Her heart-swelling anthems share DNA with her older music but with new and bold structures that would have teams of Swedish songwriters nodding in approval." The FADER
“The genre-bending musician fuses ballads, heavy metal and industrial sounds to create music dripping with emotion” Dazed
“She takes on the pop mantle with charm” The Face
“Epic, stadium-sized songwriting” Clash
“Vibrant, buoyant pop” DIY 4*
“Powerfully addictive… A highly polished electro-pop sound filled with dark corners that leave space for Ms Ashworth’s guitar.” Wall Street Journal
“Pleasure, pain and pop-star energy” Uncut 8/10
“A new shade of the fearlessness that Sasami Ashworth displayed on her 2022 album.” Billboard
“Sasami has proven she can pull from whatever sonic tradition she pleases to add textured, unexpected elements to her work” Pitchfork
"There’s pop music and then there’s pop as imagined by Sasami." PAPER
“Polymathic pop powerhouse” Wonderland
"Emotionally and sonically daring pop music… One of the most fearless feats in her discography thus far." Paste
“An all-out pop explosion” Dork 4*
SASAMI shares a new version of Blood On The Silver Screen standout “Just Be Friends” featuring Soccer Mommy titled “Just Be Friends (Soccer Mommy Version).” The track, which upon its release FLAUNT called “everything a sad pop song should be: chantable, relatable, and endlessly catchy,” finds a new groove with Soccer Mommy’s vocals anchoring it.
Of the collaboration, SASAMI says “When I was working on Blood On the Silver Screen, I found myself returning to country often. I listened to Dolly, Johnny, Patsy, Merle and even a lot of the modern country that I had previously dismissed. Country songs have to be some of the most effective and cutting examples of peak pop songwriting- wit, drama, humor, sadness, and the most human of all- horniness. My song ‘Just Be Friends,’ was definitely inspired by modern country, but I knew if I wanted it to be truly authentic I would need to enlist an actual southern princess. This new version featuring Soccer Mommy, pedal steel and all, delivers on the country magic that I had always wished could be in that song. That’s the best part about collaboration, all hat all cattle.” "Sasami is such an amazing artist - and person - and I’m so glad she asked me to be on this remix,” Soccer Mommy adds.
Hot on the heels of having wrapped up live dates with Wednesday, Toro y Moi, Mannequin Pussy, and Se So Neon, SASAMI will be supporting King Princess on the road on an US tour that kicks off this weekend in Nashville, TN. All dates below.
On Blood On the Silver Screen, released earlier this year, the California-based polymath combined her classical conservatory-trained skills as a player, producer, and composer with her fearless and bombastic stage persona to create her most realized music to date: the all-out SASAMI pop record. Working with co-producers Jenn Decilveo and Rostam, with SASAMI as sole writer, each Blood On the Silver Screen track viscerally captures a different thread of love, sex, power, and embodiment. “Pop music is like fuel,” Sasami says. “It’s just invigorating.” Eschewing today’s pop zeitgeist, Sasami gravitated towards late aughts and 2010s pop a la Britney Spears’ Femme Fatale and Lady Gaga’s Born This Way, plus Kelly Clarkson, Katy Perry, and Sia. She was influenced by modern country storytelling, mixing vulnerability with humor, and the mood board also included Prince, Japanese city pop, and the stadium-sized, denim-clad iconography of Bruce Springsteen.
Listen to “Just Be Friends (Soccer Mommy Version)” here.
Tour Dates:
10/25 - Nashville, TN @ Marathon Music Works ^
10/26 - Atlanta, GA @ Buckhead Theatre ^
10/28 - Richmond, VA @ The National ^
10/29 - Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Paramount ^
10/31 - Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club ^
11/1 - Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer ^
11/2 - Boston, MA @ House of Blues ^
11/4 - Toronto, ON @ HISTORY ^
11/5 - Detroit, MI @ Royal Oak Music Theatre ^
11/7 - Chicago, IL @ The Salt Shed ^
11/8 - Minneapolis, MN @ Uptown Theater ^
^ w/ King Princess
