Amaarae shares ‘BLACK STAR’ via Interscope Records, a genre bending album with global collaborators and the ‘Fineshyt’ visual.
Amaarae shares her highly anticipated album ‘BLACK STAR’, out now via Interscope Records. Known for breaking the mold with a boundary pushing blend of alternative, pop, R&B, and Afrobeats, Amaarae presents her boldest mix of global sonics yet with ‘BLACK STAR’, sending up her Ghanaian roots as a rallying cry for youth culture around the world. The diaspora hopping ‘BLACK STAR’ functions as a futuristic statement of cultural pride through an ever shifting palette of ghettotech, house, techno, baile funk, and African dance genres. It is stamped with Amaarae’s signature softness and hypnotic vocals and features contributions from PinkPantheress, Naomi Campbell, Bree Runway, Starkillers, and Charlie Wilson.
The project recontextualizes Ghanaian and African music with pop and club sounds across time and space, connecting them with the roots of modern day dance music, house and techno. Alongside the album arrives an official video for ‘Fineshyt’. Shot in Ghana, the visual trails a magnetic young woman moving through club scenes and city streets with sensual, self assured quiet confidence.
Amaarae shares about ‘Fineshyt’, “1998 had Blue by French Duo Eiffel 65, 1999 had Believe by Cher & at the turn of a new millennium Modjo gave us Lady. Now, we’re at the mark of a quarter century, and Fineshyt is my contribution to a sound and feeling that not only took over clubs but minds, bodies and souls alike. Music is such a beautiful and special medium and being an artist has been God’s greatest gift to me. I remember being a little girl in Ghana hearing Believe by Cher and immediately being entranced. The hard tuned vocals, the glittery dance beat, and that hook! Do you believe in life after love! What a sentiment. A true manifesto of life. My favourite thing to do as an artist is take an inspired concept and flip it on its head. In this case, Fineshyt is Believe’s bad ass play cousin or maybe its evil twin sister!” 
‘BLACK STAR’ is dedicated to the alternative youth of Ghana, who are finding their footing each and every day, as well as Black baddies all over the world. In July, Amaarae released the effortlessly sleek single ‘Girlie-Pop’, accompanied with a video, directed by Omar Jones. Visually, ‘Girlie Pop’ is a bold and sensual glimpse into the beat driven ecstasy when two souls collide and the music provides the necessary alchemy, in and out of the club. Just prior in June, she released the world building single ‘S.M.O’ alongside the announcement of ‘BLACK STAR’, exploring themes of sexual liberation and empowerment across a mix of highlife, kpanlogo, and zouk music. On ‘B2B’, she uses DJ lingo to make a playful song about “love that is taken but given back at the same time,” she explains. With its lilting melodies and cool girl energy, ‘Fineshyt’ is a soundtrack for women and femmes that highlights “the confidence of being feminine and feeling beautiful.”
