Bree doesn’t take herself seriously – and she takes herself as seriously as death. Elsewhere, her lines range from the funny – “Snatchin’ everybody wigs, now they look like thumbs” – to the all-out flex: “He only hit me with a tеxt when he want that goddess-level sex”. ‘4 Nicole Thea & Baby Reign’ is a brief but emotional tribute to a lost friend, while ‘Little Nokia’ bleeds together rap and crunchy guitar, Claire’s Accessories in grown-up song form, chains, spikes and all. The final minute of ‘Damn Daniel’ is possibly the most glorious minute of pop this year. The best song on the mixtape, it’s also a strong contender for best pop song of 2020, so dangerously catchy you’ll find yourself singing “if you fuck with him, he’ll fuck all your friends” aloud in the supermarket. Watch the ‘Damn Daniel’ music video and you start to believe she actually invented the eighties. Yet Bree’s songs are never trapped by nostalgia. The theatrics of Madonna and Kiss, the gated reverb of Phil Collins, a Grace Jones flamboyance, sitcom scenes, chunky pink phones, leather jackets and leg-warmers: eighties cues sit alongside rap and r’n’b wisdom from artists like Missy Elliott and Timbaland. By 2018, she’d signed to EMI.Ī dedicated scholar of MTV, Bree is steeped in the aura of past decades. By 2017 she was dancing on stage with Years & Years’ Olly Alexander.
Back then, her DIY creative spirit and visual edginess shone out from her Hackney bedroom. The nine tracks flaunt Bree’s hard graft in mixing genres and generations to invent something fresh, a mission the self-defined ‘alternative black girl’ first embarked on with a self-released debut EP in 2015. ‘2000And4Eva’ is more than a love letter to the year 2000 – the record illuminates a path between eighties/nineties pop and female pop artistry of today. Writing about Bree already feels like writing about a star like Gaga, and that’s not just because she recently covered ‘Paparazzi’, though her performance cements what we already knew: the pop kingdom is Bree’s for the taking. “ Bree Runway’s YouTube channel description reads: ‘it’s like Lady Gaga and Lil Kim had a love child”.
This is what The Forty-Five had to say about a fantastic release: I want to illustrate a positive review of Bree Runway’s incredible mixtape. I believe Bree Runway is planning an album next year, though she has released/appeared on songs since her mixtape came out.
The 2000and4Eva mixtape was released last year. I will come to a few interviews in a minute, so that we can find out more about her intentions, background and power. I feel she is a future icon and someone who is going to have an incredible future. Although she is a relatively new artist on the block. For this year’s Rising Star prize at the BRITs (the winner will be announced on 10th December), I wanted to shine a light on Bree Runway.
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