Yaeji is back with a new song. Listen to “Booboo” below. The single, her first of 2024 and second since releasing debut album With a Hammer last year, interpolates her 2017 breakout “Raingurl,” using its hook to reflect on her rise from playing small parties to bigger stages.
As she elaborated in a press release:
I think with anything—a little breathing room, a little break—distance makes the heart grow fonder. With the overpowering attention that came from “Raingurl,” I took a break from clubbing, dance music, and the underground scene, but, in that time away from it all, it’s allowed me to gain new perspective and a deeper appreciation for it. This year is the 10-year mark for many of the parties my friends and I used to go to, so “Booboo” coming out now feels like full circle moment. And with my closest friends—who I’ve witnessed grow as DJs and start their own labels, throwing parties and having fun, all while creating a radical and safe space, it’s been so fun being their cheerleader and now rejoining them in the club, front right!
Yaeji debuted “Booboo” last month during her Boiler Room set at at Brooklyn Mirage. Her last single was “Easy Breezy.”
Revisit Cat Zhang’s profile “Yaeji Gets Ragey.” Plus, read the new review of “Booboo.”
