Katy J Pearson unveils new single, "Maybe"

"I’ve had this song with me for years now — it took a while to get there... When I was in the rehearsal room with Huw Evans [H. Hawkline], a few lyric tweaks happened. The chorus used to be maybe I need your love / to show me that I’m good enough and he was like why are you being like this to yourself? It should be the other way round! And I was like oh, ok, thank you, feminist ally in the room. When a man’s telling me what to do in a studio I can get my back up pretty quickly, so it was brave of him to suggest it, but he was right," Pearson explains.

"When we changed the sentiment of the song [now maybe I don’t need your love / to show me that I’m good enough] my whole feeling about it changed, and it meant that we managed to actually get a handle on what it was meant to be like sonically. It just shows that it’s really important who you choose to have in a room with you…"

The track is accompanied by a wonderful video directed by Edie Lawrence, who says: "The concept for this video is again about female empowerment. Throughout history, archery has had a link to female strength and empowerment. It is known as the sport that pioneered equality for women’s participation, being one of the first sports to include a women’s event in the Olympics in 1904. This video is all about celebrating sisterhood and women working together."

Katy J Pearson will perform a series of in-store dates throughout September in London, Brighton, Bristol Nottingham, and Liverpool. The forthcoming album, Someday Now, featuring previous singles, "Sky" and "Those Goodbyes", follows 2020’s Return and 2022’s Sound of the Morning.