{"id":2581,"date":"2025-06-10T23:37:57","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T23:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/raye-mark-ronson-amy-winehouse-1235995582\/"},"modified":"2025-06-10T23:37:57","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T23:37:57","slug":"raye-mark-ronson-amy-winehouse-1235995582","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/raye-mark-ronson-amy-winehouse-1235995582\/","title":{"rendered":"RAYE Admits She Was \u2018Scared\u2019 to Work With Mark Ronson Over Amy Winehouse\u00a0Comparisons"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/raye\/\">RAYE<\/a> has a pair of collaborations coming out with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/mark-ronson\">Mark Ronson<\/a>, and the British singer nearly shied away from working with the esteemed producer due to his connection to the late <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/amy-winehouse\">Amy Winehouse<\/a>, whom RAYE has drawn comparisons to. <\/p>\n<div class=\"injected-related-story \/\/ lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-t-1 lrv-u-border-b-1 lrv-u-padding-t-050 lrv-u-padding-b-075 lrv-u-border-color-grey\">\n<div class=\"a-heading-border a-heading-border-background-color-grey a-heading-border-height-075 lrv-u-margin-b-075 lrv-u-margin-b-050@mobile-max\">\n<h3 id=\"title-of-a-story\" class=\"c-title  lrv-u-color-brand-primary a-font-primary-bold-s lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase lrv-u-padding-r-1 a-article-related-module-title a-article-related-module-title--color-brand-primary\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tRelated\t\t<\/p>\n<\/h3><\/div>\n<div class=\"o-card lrv-u-flex\">\n<p>\t\t\t<a tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/music-news\/raye-adele-cover-oscars-terrifying-james-bond-1235913551\/\" class=\"lrv-u-flex lrv-a-unstyle-link lrv-u-color-brand-primary:hover\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"o-card__image-wrap lrv-u-flex-shrink-0 u-flex-basis-144 u-flex-basis-96@mobile-max\">\n<div class=\"c-lazy-image  lrv-u-height-100p\">\n<div class=\"a-crop-3x2 a-crop-1x1@mobile-max lrv-u-height-100p\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/RAYE-oscars-performance-02-2025-billboard-1548.jpg?w=237&amp;h=147&amp;crop=1\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/RAYE-oscars-performance-02-2025-billboard-1548.jpg?w=237&amp;h=147&amp;crop=1\" alt=\"Raye\" data-lazy-srcset=\"\" data-lazy-sizes=\"\" height=\"\" width=\"\"><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"o-card__content lrv-u-flex lrv-u-flex-direction-column lrv-u-justify-content-center lrv-u-padding-lr-1 lrv-u-padding-lr-075@mobile-max\">\n<div class=\"o_category \">\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"c_title \">\n<h3 id=\"title-of-a-story\" class=\"c-title  a-font-primary-medium-m lrv-u-padding-b-050 u-letter-spacing-0028@mobile-max\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tRAYE Explains Why Covering Adele at the 2025 Oscars Was \u2018Terrifying\u2019\t\t<\/p>\n<\/h3><\/div>\n<p><time class=\"c-timestamp  a-font-primary-medium-xxs lrv-u-color-brand-primary lrv-u-order-100\" datetime=\"00:00-YY-DD-MM\"><br \/>\n\t03\/03\/2025<br \/>\n<\/time><\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe first collab is titled \u201cSuzanne\u201d and is slated to arrive on Friday. <em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/raye-responds-amy-winehouse-comparisons-new-music-mark-ronson-exclusive-11750989\">People<\/a><\/em> caught up with RAYE backstage at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/lists\/gov-ball-2025-best-moments-recap\/\">Governors Ball <\/a>in NYC over the weekend, where she opened up about her initial hesitancy to team up with Ronson, who predominantly produced Winehouse\u2019s final album, <em>Back to Black<\/em>, alongside <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/salaam-remi\">Salaam Remi<\/a> in 2006.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cHonestly, I\u2019m not gonna lie, I actually was quite nervous and scared to work with him,\u201d she admitted. \u201cI just do want to say that I know I can never, ever, ever, ever, ever attempt to replace or imitate Amy. I\u2019m in awe of her. We all are, and we miss her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tRAYE continued: \u201cIt\u2019s quite a tough thing to even allow myself to create so freely with him,\u201d she says. \u201cBut I really just wanted to be like, \u2018Do you know what? I just need to forget what anyone else is gonna say about this.\u2019 I absolutely love this producer. I\u2019ve always wanted to work with this producer since I was a little girl.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tTheir second collaboration is set to be released later in June, with \u201cGrandma Calls the Boy Bad News\u201d slated to land on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/music-news\/ed-sheeran-blackpink-rose-f1-soundtrack-1235959795\/\"><em>F1<\/em> soundtrack. <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cWe\u2019ve made music together that I\u2019m so proud of, and I love,\u201d she gushed. \u201cI play it, and it makes me happy and joyful, so I\u2019m proud.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe \u201cEscapism\u201d singer\u2019s next album is starting to take shape, but she\u2019s stuck without a title for the project, which follows her acclaimed 2023 LP, <em>My 21st Century Blues<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cI don\u2019t have an album title,\u201d RAYE said. \u201cI\u2019m like, \u2018What is it gonna be called?\u2019 It\u2019s stressing me out right now, I can\u2019t lie, because I\u2019ve got the music starting to really come there. I just don\u2019t know what this album\u2019s gonna be called. In my humble opinion,\u00a0<em>My 21st Century Blues<\/em>\u00a0is such a fire album title, and I can\u2019t hand in an album title that\u2019s less good than that.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAYE has a pair of collaborations coming out with Mark Ronson, and the British singer nearly shied away from working with the esteemed producer due to his connection to the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[108,96,94,97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genre-rb","category-music","category-music-news","category-rb-hip-hop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}