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Yaya Bey Announces New Album Fidelity<\/em><\/h1>\n
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Yaya Bey is back with a new album. Fidelity,<\/em> 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<\/em>.\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

Fidelity<\/em> delves into Bey\u2019s experience with grief following the death 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

Read Pitchfork\u2019s review of Do It Afraid.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Fidelity:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

01 Me and Mine [ft. Samantha G and Anastasia Antoinette]
02 The Towns (Bella Noche Pt. 2)
03 The Great Migration
04 Forty Days
05 Higher
06 Dream Girl (Lexapro Mix)
07 Freeze Flight Fawn
08 Slot Machines [ft. Deem Spencer]
09 Simp Daddy Line Dance [ft. Exaktly]
10 As the Ocean
11 Blue
12 Cup of Water
13 In the Middle
14 Egyptian Musk [ft. Nesta]
15 The Breakdown
16 Who Are You<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n

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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/media.pitchfork.com\/photos\/69973a8110012fd018d2bf96\/16:9\/w_1280,c_limit\/Ya%201.jpg”] News Yaya Bey Announces New Album Fidelity It arrives April 17 via Drink Sum Wtr By Kiana Mickles February 18, 2026 Yaya Bey (Photo by Michael Grant) Yaya Bey 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[226,54],"class_list":["post-1780727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-crawlmanager","tag-pitchfork-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1780727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1780727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1780727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1780727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1780727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1780727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}