Fleur East's massive new single now comes with remixes from the Wideboys

Friday 10th February 2023

Fleur East has today released her eagerly anticipated new single ‘Count The Ways’ via her own label Platinum East, distributed by INgrooves. The new single is a blend of buoyant and feel good soul and pop, and sees the celebrated multitalent truly in her element. Stream here. Fleur is currently on the Strictly Come Dancing UK tour, after placing as a finalist on the show last year - tickets available here. Fleur will be debuting ‘Count The Ways’, along with her hits and new material live at Union Chapel on 16th March

Speaking further Fleur says, “I’m really excited to be releasing new music. The last body of work I released was my album ‘Fearless’, which was my first independent album since leaving Syco in 2020. It was shortly after my dad passed away and just at the time that the pandemic came into our lives, and everyone went into lockdown, so I had to cancel my tour, I had to cancel all my promo, I had to cancel everything. It was such a shame that it was released at that time, and it was really difficult. Since then, and since losing my dad, I'm just finding my stride again and getting back into music.

I started writing this year and I just felt so inspired and everything just came back to me. It's been a while since I've done my own live show and I absolutely love performing. After being on Strictly every weekend, the buzz of performing came back. I absolutely love it, and I can't wait for people to hear this new music. It's coming from a different place, it's a lot more mature - it comes from a real place. ‘Count The Ways’ is all about putting a spin on listing the things that you love about a person and it flips that narrative - it's listing the ways that somebody lost you.

It's quite a playful take on ending a relationship and talking to that person that hurt you from a position where you don't have any pain left, from a position of power. It's quite tongue in cheek, but also from real, real emotion. I love it because it's a lot more mature and is very musical. Matt Prime produced the song and I wrote it. It all came together, very quickly. In a matter of a couple of hours, really. I just felt so inspired as soon as I heard him playing instruments and I was just like yeah, this is it.

Posted by Craig Jones