The half-decade wait for brand spanking new Teyana Taylor music is over. The R&B star and multi-hyphenate entertainer has launched “Long Time,” the lead single from her first album in 5 years, Escape Room, together with a music video.
Escape Room follows 2020’s The Album, a launch that, per Pitchfork, “deftly recontextualizes classic R&B” and “represents the fierce persona she has honed in public.” Taylor teased Escape Room final week with a trailer for the album’s accompanying brief movie co-starring Lakeith Stanfield and Aaron Pierre. Taylor wrote, directed, and produced the movie in cooperation along with her all-female manufacturing firm the Aunties.
The Escape Room movie is billed as a visible illustration of the album and an “enigmatic post-apocalyptic/futuristic, noir romance thriller.” Consistent with Taylor’s new music, it traces a journey via the darkness introduced on by many sorts of heartbreak into the lightness of therapeutic. It begins with Taylor and Stanfield on the altar exchanging vows, then follows them into darkish conditions represented by escape room eventualities. Ultimately she hyperlinks up romantically with Pierre in a steamy scene that has fueled rumors of a real-life romance with the actor. In a voiceover, she says, “The hard part isn’t losing you; it’s losing the version of me I left behind.”
The return to music follows a profitable pivot to appearing over the previous half-decade. Taylor’s many upcoming high-profile initiatives embrace Tyler Perry’s Straw, streaming through Netflix beginning this Friday, June 6. Later this 12 months she’ll star reverse Leonardo DiCaprio, Benicio Del Toro, and Sean Penn in One Battle After One other, the most recent full-length theatrical launch from auteurist filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson. She’s additionally set to hitch Matt Damon and Ben Affleck in The Rip on Netflix and is a part of Ryan Murphy’s All’s Honest alongside Kim Kardashian, Naomi Watts, Glenn Shut, and Sarah Paulson.
Hearken to Teyana Taylor’s “Long Time” now.
