Euphoric Sad Songs (mini-album)

* Euphoric Sad Songs
* Dance Edition

## Singles

1. Love Me Again 2 August, 2019
2. Secrets 24 April, 2020
3. Natalie Don’t 10 July, 2020
4. Love of Your Life 6 November, 2020
5. Regardless 20 November, 2020

**"Euphoric Sad Songs"** is the first mini-album by RAYE released November 20, 2020 through Polydor Records.

## Background

In July, 2020, in the middle of lock down, in an interview with BBC News, Keen announced that her new project, which at the moment was going to be her fifth extended-play, would be titled **Her Heart Beats in 4/4**, and that it would be released later that very same year, with it being centered around the "seven stages of grief", which are shock, denial, anger, bargaining, depression, testing, and acceptance. With this concept, every track would represent one stage so at the end of the record the artist would have healed her broken heart.

Later, it was confirmed that the previously released singles "Love Me Again" and "Please Don't Touch" would have an appearance on the project.

With the release of "Love of Your Life", as the mini album's fourth single, it was revealed that the album had changed its named and would be re-titled to *Euphoric Sad Songs*, and would not have seven track but nine.

On November 19, 2020, at night, RAYE hosted a ZOOM call party as a way to promote the release of the new record that dropped the day after.

On December 17, 2020, a mini documentary premiered on MTV, which showed and focused on the process, creation and making of the album.

## Release and promotion

### Singles

* "Love Me Again" was released as the lead single of the album on August 2, 2019. A remix of the song with Jess Glynne was later released on August 30, 2019. The single peaked at Number 55 on the UK Singles Chart and has since been certified Silver.
* "Please Don't Touch", was released on December 13, 2019 as a promotional single.
* "Secrets" with Regard was released as the second single on April 24, 2020. The single achieved commercial success in Europe, as well as reaching the top 10 on the US *Billboard* Dance/Electronic Songs chart. In the United Kingdom, the song peaked at number 6 on the UK Singles Chart and topped the UK Dance Chart, as well as later being certified Gold.
* "Natalie Don’t" was released as the third single on July 10, 2020 and would top the Russian Airplay chart as well as peak at number 35 in Scotland.
* "Love of Your Life" was released as the fourth single on November 6, 2020. A music video for the song was premiered on *Glamour Magazine*’s website on November 12, 2020.
* "Regardless" with Rudimental was released as the fifth single alongside the release of the album on November 20, 2020. A music video was released on January 8, 2021.

### Physical formats

In order to promote mini-album, Keen released several CD, vinyl and cassette variants, which are compiled on the following galleries.

#### CD Release

1/1

#### Vinyl Releases

* Pink vinyl
* Pink vinyl signed
1/2

## Tracklist

### Cut songs

* Blue
* Better Things To Do With My Time
* Call It Even
* Chocolate Whip
* Lonely Too
* R U Sad
* Supermarket
* Thank You
* Treat U Right

## References

1. ↑ *How updating Dolly Parton's Jolene helped Raye find her voice* https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-53403474
2. ↑ https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/grieving-process#:~:text=There%20are%207%20stages%20of,resolve%20after%201%E2%80%932%20years%20.
3. ↑ *RAYE reveals how her new EP helped heal her broken heart* https://uk.news.yahoo.com/raye-new-ep-helped-heal-broken-heart-060147193.html
4. ↑ *RAYE shares new disco anthem "Love Of Your Life"* https://www.thelineofbestfit.com/news/latest-news/raye-shares-new-disco-anthem-love-of-your-life
5. ↑ *RAYE on Instagram: "𝓘'𝓶 𝓮𝓾𝓹𝓱𝓸𝓻𝓲𝓬, 𝓸𝓿𝓮𝓻 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓶𝓸𝓸𝓷. 🌙 💘 𝓕𝓲𝓻𝓼𝓽 𝓬𝓸𝓶𝓮, 𝓯𝓲𝓻𝓼𝓽𝓼𝓮𝓻𝓿𝓮𝓭. 𝓘'𝓵𝓵 𝓼𝓮𝓮 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓸𝓷 𝓣𝓱𝓾𝓻𝓼𝓭𝓪𝔂.⁠"* https://ghostarchive.org/iarchive/instagram/raye/2444605423431343248
6. ↑ *RAYE on Instagram: "☁️💕 JUST DROPPED A MINI ALBUM EUPHORIC SAD SONGS 💕☁️ 🥺🥺 my darlings this is something i wanted to surprise u with in this dreadful time so…"* https://ghostarchive.org/iarchive/instagram/raye/2446507730631056804
7. ↑ *RAYE Talks Heartbreak; 'Euphoric Sad Songs' Exclusive Documentary* | MTV Music - YouTube*https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3FO\_1u4Z3w&feature=youtu.be%7Caccess-date=2020-12-17*
8. ↑ *RAYE Taps Jess Glynne For "Love Me Again" Remix* https://www.idolator.com/7867145/raye-taps-jess-glynne-for-love-me-again-remix
9. ↑ *Raye Gets Her Solo Moment in "Please Don't Touch"* https://musictalkers.com/latest-news/6226-raye-gets-her-solo-moment-in-%E2%80%9Cplease-don%E2%80%99t-touch%E2%80%9D
10. ↑ *City & Country Radio – Top Week Hits – Tophit Music Charts* https://tophit.ru/en/chart/russia/weekly/2020-09-04/all/all
11. ↑ *Here's your first look at RAYE's new music video 'Love of Your Life' - the glam AF escapism we need right now* https://www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/article/raye-new-music-video-2020