Seraphina Simone has pushed her music through to public consciousness with force and intention, straddling the great divide from her upbringing in London to regular trips to sunny California comes through in her music so immaculately that you can see why the hype around this one is real. Now, Simone looks inwards with her latest single “Milk Teeth” for an indie-pop banger which is the title track of her forthcoming EP.
The song addresses the complex topic of her physical and personal identity, where a young woman wants to get to the heart of who she wants to be, with a slow, pensive yet stunningly cool verse that breaks into an emphatic chorus that hits the apex when the dark bassline blends into bitter-sweet, for a truly moving pop anthem. Have a listen to the track in the video down below:
Seraphina Simone broke down the internal context at the core of this song, saying; “‘Milk Teeth’ is about growing up feeling ugly and invisible. Beauty standards were inextricably white, with the idealised woman being a gamine, long-limbed, milky-skinned waif. I was brown and short with frizzy hair and I dreamed of waking up one day looking like Alexa Chung or Cory Kennedy or Kate Moss. Rather than questioning the system and thinking how fucked up it was that I was made to feel like I wasn’t enough because of the colour of my skin and body shape, I internalised it and made it my mission to fit in, spiralling into self-loathing and self-denial about my own heritage because of some fear of being too Other. It’s ironic that as an indie kid that scene was all about a community of awkward misfits, except all the misfits looked the same. It’s taken me a long time to unpick all that bullshit and accept myself as I am.”
It might not come as much of a surprise to some, but music runs in Simone’s veins in many ways. With a heritage of black, Irish, Greek and Cherokee and a father of some considerable clout (Terence Trent D’Arby AKA Sananda Francesco Maitreya) in the late 80s. However, Simone has carved out a sound and story that is distinctly her own.
Simone has recently been out touring with SELF ESTEEM acting as support for the Sheffield-born megastar. At this time Seraphina Simone doesn’t have many dates set up although if you’re happy to wait, you can catch her at The Paper Dress Vintage in Hackney, London on the 28th of September 2022. Tickets can be found here.
