RuthAnne has released her new single, Remember This. We asked her the BIG questions . . .
Written and recorded in London with her main writing team, Future Cut, the song is her first release after she signed with new label AntiFragile Music.
Speaking about Remember This, RuthAnne says, "I had gone through some dark times and was finally getting out the other side when I wrote this song.
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"I looked around at my loved ones, the people I've overcome so much with and felt so grateful for everything in my life. Remember This is about coming through the dark times, stepping back into the light and fully embracing all that we have."
RuthAnne, who began her career began when she was 17, has written a string of hits for international recording artists, including Britney Spears’ Work Bitch, One Direction’s Where Do Broken Hearts Go, Pentatonix’s Misbehavin’, and Martin Garrix & Bebe Rexha’s In The Name of Love.
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In 2017 she co-wrote five songs on Niall Horan’s debut solo album Flicker, including US No. 1 hit Slow Hands. She also co-wrote Horan’s recent single Nice To Meet Ya.
Her most recent project has been back home with Irish Women in Harmony. RuthAnne brought together almost 40 of Ireland’s greatest female artists to remotely record a cover of Dreams by The Cranberries. All funds raised go to Safe Ireland, working to end domestic violence and coercive control in Ireland.
How would you describe your music?
I would describe my music as soulful, substance, singer/songwriter pop all mixed together.
Tell us three things about yourself?
I love giving advice to all my friends and just being someone people can come to, to be heard or listened to or for advice and I also get a lot of song material from those real and honest conversations, sometimes I think maybe I should be a therapist lol.
I am also a songwriter for other artists and have been doing that professionally for 15 years and have been lucky to be a part of some big songs which I am very grateful for.
I founded and produced the Irish Women in Harmony project this year during lockdown and we raised €250,000 for Safe Ireland and also became the first Irish female act to break the Irish top 20 in over ten years and the first female act to get No.1 on the homegrown chart.
Who are your musical inspirations?
I have so many but mainly, Lauryn Hill, Jeff Buckley, Alicia Keys, Fleetwood Mac, Carole King, Amy Winehouse.
How have you been occupying yourself during lockdown?
Normally I’m constantly travelling, so I took lockdown to really slow down and take some space to do things I never normally would have time to do so I took up guitar, I play piano but I’ve always wanted to learn guitar so this was the perfect opportunity. Myself and my fiancé got a puppy, Ruby, who, safe to say, has become our obsession. We love her so much and the Irish Women in Harmony project definitely kept me very busy and I gained all the girls as new friends from it so that’s been so lovely.
What is your favourite song right now?
Ooooh that’s a tough one. I love so many songs right now. Of new songs I really love Joel Corry’s Head & Heart. I think it’s the anthem we needed to keep us moving and dancing through what has to be the hardest year. That song makes me feel like I’m on holiday even tho’ I’m stuck at home! And I also recently discovered an old John Mayer song that I now love called In Your Atmosphere. I saw him live in concert last year and this song made me cry. So those would be my faves at the moment.
Favourite lyric of all time?
Wow that’s a hard one. I’m a huge lyric person, lyrics to me are everything and make a song. One of my faves would be from Love is a Losing Game by Amy Winehouse which truly the entire song is lyrically stellar!!
"Though I battle blind, Love is a fate resigned, Memories mar my mind, Love, it is a fate resigned, Over futile odds, And laughed at by the gods, And now the final frame, Love is a losing game".
If you could only listen to one song for the rest of your life what would it be?
Aaahh I honestly find this really hard to choose cos it truly depends what mood I’m in I have different songs for different moods and I actually could never pick one fave song of all time cos I have so many for different reasons but the mood I am in right now currently I would say Them Changes by Thundercat ‘cos that song is a masterpiece.
Where can people find your music/more information?
All my music is up on Spotify, Apple, amazon, Deezer and you can find more info on my Instagram: @thisisruthanne or Facebook: RuthAnne or twitter: @thisisruthanne or my website www.thisisruthanne.com
