Debby Friday is announcing The Starrr Of The Queen Of Life, her kaleidoscopic new album out Friday, August 1 worldwide from Sub Pop and in Canada from Royal Mountain Records.
In ancient Babylonia, stargazers looked up at the cloudless night sky and saw a blazing ball of light. Burning brilliantly, the celestial body appeared to be a luminous sign from the great beyond. They were looking at what we now call Vega, the fifth-brightest star visible from Earth. Debby Friday was learning about these heavenly bodies in between nonstop touring across Europe, following the otherworldly success of her thunderous debut album GOOD LUCK, which dominated dance floors and took home the auspiciously astrological Polaris Prize upon its release in 2023. She learned about Vega and the way its placement in a birth chart lends the gifts of creativity, acclaim and bravery—as long as its recipient is humble enough to receive them.
On The Starrr Of The Queen Of Life, Debby Friday defines success on her own terms. “I want to be a starrr, I can’t hide that desire,” she says. “But what I don’t want is to live someone else’s dream or to follow a pre-set path.” For the Nigerian-Canadian polymath, to be a starrr is to live at the extremes: public versus private, hubris versus humility, flying versus falling.
Part of being a starrr means embracing the apocalyptic hedonism of an all-night rave — like on the album’s epic pre-release single, ‘1/17,’ and new offering, the explosive dance pop anthem ‘All I Wanna Do Is Party.’
Co-directed with frequent collaborator Kevan Funk, Debby Friday stars alongside a troupe of dancers in the official “All I Wanna Do Is Party” video. Of the video, she has this to say, “The video is really about discipline and craft. It’s about the transformations that happen when you devote yourself to a process over time. The starrr is a metaphor for all these thoughts I have around fame, success, failure, love, power, god, death, life, everything. My starrr is in me, and your starrr is in you, and it’s just a matter of surrendering to it.
The Starrr Of The Queen Of Life:
- 1/17
- All I Wanna Do Is Party
- In The Club feat. HiTech
- Lipsync
- Alberta
- Higher
- ppp (Interlude)
- Arcadia
- Leave.
- Bet On Me
- Darker The Better
