Adia Victoria shares new single "Ain’t Killed Me Yet"
Adia Victoria is back with new single "Ain’t Killed Me Yet", marking her first outing of 2022.
"Ain't Killed Me Yet" is Adia Victoria's first new material of the year, following her 2021 album A Southern Gothic.
According to a press release, Victoria's new song is a "blues companion" to Lucille Clifton's "Won't You Celebrate With Me" poem.
Victoria explains, "There was little to celebrate in life the Spring of 2020 but living itself. With the live music industry shuttered to a close I was forced to find a new way to live. I took a job at Amazon to pay the bills and on the way to the warehouse for a red-eye 10 hour shift I considered my dilemma. Racing through empty streets at 2 am, trying to keep to steps ahead of a virus I couldn't make sense of, life was lived in barest of immediacy--one breath to the next. That Spring I would end every journal entry with "Life ain't killed me yet"."
""Ain't Killed Me Yet" is the blues existentialism pared down to its bones," Victoria adds. "It is the irreverent celebration of those who meet life on their own terms. When the future is uncertain, the immediacy of the pleasures and vagrancies of the now is all that matters. I wrote "Ain't Killed Me Yet" while behind the wheel on the way to work in a warehouse where death was a real possibility. The blues anchored me in the now so that I could not only survive but I could give the finger, and blow smoke in the face of my fear and anxiety."
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