{"id":732437,"date":"2026-06-09T22:45:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T19:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/ravyn-lenae-says-blue-island-will-be-more-rambunctious-than-birds-eye\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T22:45:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T19:45:20","slug":"ravyn-lenae-says-blue-island-will-be-more-rambunctious-than-birds-eye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/ravyn-lenae-says-blue-island-will-be-more-rambunctious-than-birds-eye\/","title":{"rendered":"Ravyn Lenae says Blue Island will be \u201cmore rambunctious\u201d than Bird\u2019s Eye"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a36a87becc27\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" 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id=\"The_FADER_caught_up_with_the_Chicago_singer_on_Day_2_of_Governors_Ball\"><\/span>The FADER caught up with the Chicago singer on Day 2 of Governors Ball.<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"content_blocks\">\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-281281\" class=\"content_block paragraph image triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_760,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/A7400474_aaxa73\/ravyn-lenae-backstage-at-governor-s-ball.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_220,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/A7400474_aaxa73\/ravyn-lenae-backstage-at-governor-s-ball.jpg 220w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_300,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/A7400474_aaxa73\/ravyn-lenae-backstage-at-governor-s-ball.jpg 300w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/A7400474_aaxa73\/ravyn-lenae-backstage-at-governor-s-ball.jpg 400w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/A7400474_aaxa73\/ravyn-lenae-backstage-at-governor-s-ball.jpg 600w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_750,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/A7400474_aaxa73\/ravyn-lenae-backstage-at-governor-s-ball.jpg 750w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_840,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/A7400474_aaxa73\/ravyn-lenae-backstage-at-governor-s-ball.jpg 840w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_960,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/A7400474_aaxa73\/ravyn-lenae-backstage-at-governor-s-ball.jpg 960w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1260,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/A7400474_aaxa73\/ravyn-lenae-backstage-at-governor-s-ball.jpg 1260w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1800,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/A7400474_aaxa73\/ravyn-lenae-backstage-at-governor-s-ball.jpg 1800w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/A7400474_aaxa73\/ravyn-lenae-backstage-at-governor-s-ball.jpg 2400w,\" sizes=\"60vw\" alt=\"Ravyn Lenae says &lt;i&gt;Blue Island&lt;\/i&gt; will be \u201cmore rambunctious\u201d than &lt;i&gt;Bird\u2019s Eye&lt;\/i&gt;\"><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"img_caption\"><\/p>\n<p>    <span class=\"caption\"><br \/>\n      Ravyn Lenae backstage at Governor&#8217;s Ball.<br \/>\n    <\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <span class=\"credit\"><br \/>\n      \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      Tommy Maidment \/ The FADER<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-281277\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            Ravyn Lenae will release her third album <i>Blue Island<\/i> on August 7, and we\u2019re looking forward to whatever she has in store for us. When we caught up with The FADER cover alumnus at Governors Ball over the weekend, the Chicago singer-songwriter was in high spirits, wearing an Isabel Marant dress adorned with sequined fringe and a minimalist bolo tie.\n          <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            Speaking broadly on her upcoming album <i>Blue Island<\/i>, Lenae says, \u201cWith every album I push myself a little bit more out of my comfort or what\u2019s expected; you\u2019re never going to get the same song from me twice. If fans are looking for that, I&#8217;m not the artist for you.\u201d\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            That might come across blunt, but Lenae says it with a laugh, even if she has plenty of reason to be curt: following the 2024 release of her genre-defying sophomore album <i>Bird\u2019s Eye<\/i>, Lenae faced increased scrutiny online about whether her music was catering to white audiences. In a press release announcing the album, Lenae said, \u201c<i>Blue Island<\/i> is a point of arrival, and feeling set in my ways and in who I am, and feeling free of any of those preconceived notions about Blackness or what I had to be in the past.\u201d\n          <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-281280\" class=\"content_block paragraph embed triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ravyn Lenae - Handle (Official Music Video)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/e2MS5f3Mnn8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-281278\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            For long-time fans, this statement would likely ring true about her last album as well. When asked how she and frequent collaborator\/ executive producer DJ Dahi are pushing their sound further on the new record, Lenae explains, \u201cWhat&#8217;s fun to me is finding different shit to geek about or to figure out. I like cracking codes, and I feel like music is that: cracking codes.\u201d\n          <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            The album announcement came alongside a new single \u201cHandle,\u201d which fuses Lenae\u2019s dreamy soundbuilding to an altrock palette that might bring to mind Prince (in that aspect, it reminds me just a little of \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_new\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lE6pVIIdDtw\">Dream Girl<\/a>,\u201d though the two songs are tonally distinct). \u201cWe just wanted to push the needle a little bit. We wanted it to feel a little more rambunctious, loud, a little aggressive,\u201d Lenae says of recording \u201cHandle\u201d with Dahi. \u201dIt was fun to channel that and be able to take that energy and pull it through the album.\u201d\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            In a press release, Lenae cited Santigold, Tracy Chapman, and Janet Jackson as influences for how their work, \u201cpushed back against confines placed on Black women artists.\u201d Speaking more specifically to her broadening musical styles on the album, Lenae mentioned Blondie, The Sundays, The Cranberries, and Martin Rev as sonic inspirations.\n          <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-281283\" class=\"content_block paragraph embed triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ravyn Lenae - Reputation (feat. Dominic Fike) [Official Music Video]\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AfI-pca8yHU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-281279\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            Speaking to her non-musical inspirations at Governor\u2019s Ball, Lenae tells The FADER she loves sci-fi <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">movies<\/a>: \u201cI love anything that has to do with existentialism or the <i>why<\/i>: why are we here, why are we thinking, why are we doing \u2014 so that\u2019s all I watch.\u201d A similar meditative line threads through her songwriting about relationships, whether with herself or with others.\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cHandle\u201d follows April singles \u201cBobby\u201d and \u201cReputation\u201d featuring Dominic Fike, which will also be included on the album. But Lenae\u2019s latest video incorporates choreography for the first time, which she tells The FADER is a larger <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">theme<\/a> for her upcoming record.\n          <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            \u201cI knew with this season and this album, I wanted to start incorporating the body into it. I&#8217;m such a fan of dance and I\u2019ve learned so much from Akira [Uchida], who&#8217;s been my choreographer throughout this album,\u201d Lenae says. \u201cFiguring out what my language is with my body has been so fun \u2013 discovering \u2013 and I think \u201cHandle\u201d was a good starting point.\u201d\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            <i>Blue Island<\/i> will release on August 7, ahead of a string of European festival dates. See a list of those shows below, and revisit The FADER\u2019s 2024 cover story with Ravyn Lenae.\n          <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-281282\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<h5 class=\"headline\" style=\"margin-bottom: 30px;\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Upcoming_Ravyn_Lenae_summer_tour_dates\"><\/span>\n        Upcoming Ravyn Lenae summer tour dates:<br \/>\n      <span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h5>\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            8\/13 &#8211; Copenhagen, DK @ Syd for Solen<br \/>8\/14 &#8211; Gothenburg, SE @ Way Out West<br \/>8\/15 &#8211; Oslo, NO @ Oya Festival<br \/>8\/20 &#8211; St. Poelten, AT @ Frequency Festival<br \/>8\/22 &#8211; Biddinghuizen, NL @ Lowlands Festival<br \/>8\/23 &#8211; Hasselt, BE @ Pukkelpop Festival<br \/>8\/25 &#8211; Lausanne, CH @ Headline<br \/>8\/26 &#8211; Paris, FR @ Rock en Seine<br \/>8\/28 &#8211; London, UK @ All Points East<br \/>8\/29 &#8211; Lisbon, PT @ Kalorma<br \/>8\/30 &#8211; County Laois, IE @ Electric Picnic\n          <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"author\">\n    <span><br \/>\n      By <span class=\"credit_name\">Vivian Medithi<\/span><br \/>\n  <\/span><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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