SASAMI shares new song "Just Be Friends" + touring US now

SASAMI

Releases new single “Just Be Friends” – stream here
New album Blood On the Silver Screen out March 7th
On tour in the US with Destroy Boys

Early Praise for Blood On the Silver Screen:
"SASAMI hits pop out of the park on her latest single ‘Slugger’” Rolling Stone
"Where once she wrote music for sticky-floored rock shows, 'Honeycrash' feels purpose-built for much bigger venues. It's a bold and intriguing reinvention, the kind that makes you sit upright and pay attention" The FADER
“The genre-bending musician fuses ballads, heavy metal and industrial sounds to create music dripping with emotion” Dazed
"Emotionally and sonically daring pop music... 'Honeycrash' cements itself as one of the most fearless feats in her discography thus far" Paste
“Epic, stadium-sized songwriting” Clash
"SASAMI commands attention. With new single “Honeycrash,” though, there’s something particularly noteworthy about the contrast, where her delicate vocals sit in direct opposition to the heavy guitar chords and striking production" Consequence
 
SASAMI shares “Just Be Friends,” the addictive new single from her recently announced audacious and epic new album, Blood On the Silver Screen, out March 7th. On the album, the polymath combines her classical conservatory-trained skills as a player, producer, and composer with her fearless and bombastic stage persona to create her most realized music to date: the all-out SASAMI pop record.
 
Across Blood On the Silver Screen, SASAMI’s lyrics narrate the ecstasies and agonies of being a modern lover, “relenting to illogical passion, obsession, and guiltless pleasure,” SASAMI says, “leaning into the chaos of romance and sweeping devotion—romanticism to the point of self-destruction.” The irrepressible “Just Be Friends” bottles the dizzying longing that can overtake the in-betweens of modern intimacy.
 
“‘Just Be Friends’ feels like a really grown up continuation of themes/moods from my first two albums. I returned to some of the stream of consciousness, emotional lyrical writing style of my first album and kept riding the country wave that was in the fabric of Squeeze but with a bit more modern country influence,” SASAMI explains. “I love how country songs often tell a story. Longing, lingering, loneliness and lust. When I play this one live, I always dedicate it to anyone ‘sad and horny’ in the crowd… if that means anything.”
 
Watch the lyric video for “Just Be Friends” here.
Stream “Just Be Friends” here.
 
Working with co-producers Jenn Decilveo and Rostam, with SASAMI as sole writer, each Blood On the Silver Screen track viscerally captures a different thread of love, sex, power, and embodiment. “Pop music is like fuel,” Sasami says. “It’s just invigorating.” Eschewing today’s pop zeitgeist, Sasami gravitated towards late aughts and 2010s pop a la Britney Spears’ Femme Fatale and Lady Gaga’s Born This Way, plus Kelly Clarkson, Katy Perry, and Sia. She was influenced by modern country storytelling, mixing vulnerability with humor, and the mood board also included Prince, Japanese city pop, and the stadium-sized, denim-clad iconography of Bruce Springsteen.
 
SASAMI is currently on the road with Destroy Boys. Her explosive live show is not to be missed!
 
Tour Dates with Destroy Boys:
11/14 - Boston, MA @ Paradise Rock Club
11/15 - Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer
11/16 - New York, NY @ Webster Hall
11/17 - Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club
11/18 - Carrboro, NC @ Cat’s Cradle
11/20 - Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade
11/22 - Houston, TX @ Warehouse Live Midtown
11/23 - San Antonio, TX @ Paper Tiger
11/24 - McAllen, TX @ Cine El Rey
 
Now in her early 30s, Sasami didn’t grow up listening to much pop music, and even felt pressures to avoid it. “I was always a weirdo outsider and I didn’t feel like pop music spoke to me,” she said. “Being a woman of color, I’ve always felt this pressure or need to make something that’s mysterious or innovative, and always shied away from lightheartedness.” But she also sees Blood On the Silver Screen’s embrace of pleasure as a kind of personal reclamation. Raised in Los Angeles in the “conservative religious cult” of the Unification Church, her senses of herself and her sexuality were skewed. “My relationship to love and sex was so tied into these repressive, super restrictive definitions,” she says. The album is an extension of her process of coming into herself as part of a generation unbeholden to conventions around love, sex, or the nuclear family. “This album for me is about having deep, meaningful relationships within a new definition of what is good, what is right, and what is powerful,” she says. “We are still passionate beings.”
 
“I wanted to go all out with this album,” Sasami continues. “I wanted to, in my tenderness and emotionality, have the bravery to undertake something as epic as making a pop record about love. I hope it makes people feel empowered and embodied, too. It’s important to not box yourself in.”
 
Watch the previously releases “Honeycrash” and “Slugger” videos
 
Blood On the Silver Screen is available to pre-order at the Domino Mart on Blood Red and Standard Black vinyl, CD and digitally. Dom Mart | Digital 
 
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